2024 | Age of Empires II Community Awards

The Age of Empires II Community Awards 2024 were hosted by paradox303.

Best S-Tier tournament

Pick you favourite from the S-Tier Tournaments of 2024.

Nominated for Best S-Tier tournament of 2024:

Winner of Best S-Tier tournament

Red Bull Wololo El Reinado

Congratulations to @redbullgaming for RBW: El Reinado coming home as the best S-tier with their LAN in Spain back in October. This proved to be the best tournament of the year, but only just! It pipped NAC V by ONE vote only so also very big congratulations to @Nili_AoE and all the organisers of NAC V doing a stellar job.

Best A-Tier tournament

Pick you favourite from the A-Tier Tournaments of 2024.

Winner of Best A-Tier tournament

Wandering Warriors Cup 2

This won't come as a huge surprise, and this tournament absolutely ran away with the voting, securing more than half. Wandering Warriors Cup returned for it's second edition after a break of a few years and really proved to be a hit with the AoE community with it's transport and nomadic style maps (even Houseboat). Well done to @T90Official and @Dave_AoE for bringing it back and the organisers for doing a great job. Wandering Warriors Cup 2, your best A-tier tournament for 2024.

Best B-Tier tournament

Pick you favourite from the B-Tier Tournaments of 2024.

Winner of Best B-Tier tournament

Town Center Tango

This goes to Town Center Tango! A 3v3 Sudden Death team game event with $1500 prizepool. Personally I think TCT got very good value with lots of eyes on the tournament with high level teams signing up because it was great stream content first and foremost. The games were good fun to watch and really something for smaller tournament organisers to emulate with their own tournaments. Great job by Jammin and the organisers!

Best C-Tier tournament

Pick you favourite from the C-Tier Tournaments of 2024.

Winner of Best C-Tier tournament

Stronghold Frenzy

Hosted by UnknownPlayer and Marintho, Stronghold Frenzy is your favourite C-tier tournament from 2024. Featuring some fun and new clown adjacent maps and many of the top clowns participating. AntagonisT from SalzZ ended up winning it all. Would love to see another edition in the future!

Best series

A lot of highly entertaining matchups this year. Which one was the best?

Winner of Best series

RBW Semis: TheViper vs Liereyy

Next award is for Best Series, which is quite a well contested one for this edition. This pairing had some great games in more than one tournament against each other, but the series during El Reinado semi-finals proved to be the best of the best in 2024. Well done TheViper and Liereyy! TheViper emerged victorious in this contest, but what will happen moving forward? The community is hoping to see more great games in 2025.

Best new map

There were a lot of new and wonderful maps in AoE this past year, which one was your favourite?

Winner of Best new map

Evacuation by HenkDeSuperNerd

Now, I'm sure there are plenty of people that thought 'Stranded' from WWC2 was a new map. Let me clear this up... well, it isn't. If you voted for it, your vote didn't count for anything. Do your research kids. Anyway, back to the winner... Producing a lot of great games in Hidden Cup V hosted by T90Official, some of these went super far in game... especially when ACCM dueled on the map. Evacuation by HenkDeSuperNerd is your Best New Map for 2024. It's really difficult to create new maps and also combine different map designs within one map that flow and interact very well together and Henk did a stellar job on this one. Very well deserved if I say so myself. Amazing job, Henk.

Tournament contributor of the year

This is an opportunity to shine a light on any individual that provided a huge amount of work to operations from tournaments this year. This may be an individual from a high level tournament or someone that is involved putting together community tournaments.

Winner of Tournament contributor of the year

Rbase96

We are approaching our individual awards now and we are going to start off with our award for Tournament Contributor of the Year. This award is designed to shine a light on any individual that provided a huge amount of work to operations from tournaments this year. This may be an individual from a high level tournament or someone that is involved putting together community tournaments. Rbase96 is your Tournament Contributor for 2024 who puts in a great deal of work putting on community events for T90 and also one of the top admins for Wandering Warriors Cup 2. Very well done to Eggbase, err sorry, I mean Rbase96! If you want to say thank you, you'll see him around T90 streams especially on Friday nights when community games are ongoing.

Map scripter of the year

Winner of Map scripter of the year

TWest

Map Scripter of the Year up next and we couldn't let these pictures not be used for this one... T-West is your map scripter of the year who works tirelessly in tournaments always constantly trying to improve maps for the tournament so that they are more fair, competitive and all round better. A really stand up guy and exactly who you want to have on your tournament organising team for making sure the maps are on point. Really well done, Travis Westura.

Up and coming streamer

Pick a streamer that has taken off in 2024 and is destined for bigger and greater things.

Winner of Up and coming streamer

Daniela_AoE

Up and Coming Streamer up next... this award is for a streamer that has taken off in 2024 and is destined for bigger and greater things. Been twice in a year that they have now won it! Big things are coming, be patient... and a big well done to @daniela_aoe for another VERY solid year. Keep on truckin!

Creative Award

The creative award will be open to nominations for people that you think do a fantastic job in providing amazing content to the AoE community in the most creative fashion. This can include streamers, YouTube editors, musicians, X (formerly known as twitter) accounts, podcasters etc.

Winner of Creative Award

Barles

For people that you think do a fantastic job in providing amazing content to the AoE community in the most creative fashion. This can include streamers, YouTube editors, musicians, X (formerly known as twitter) accounts, podcasters etc. There could have been many people worthy of winning this one, but the people have spoken. The Amigo, the Pole, another one of the Bald Alliance... very well done to Barles for his fantastically crafted meme and hilarious YouTube videos.

Unsung Hero of the year

The Community Contributor of the Year (Unsung Hero) - This award will be for outstanding work in the community. It can be for individuals that provide tools, admins, graphics etc.

Winner of Unsung Hero of the year

Rbase96

Not everyone is lucky enough to win TWO awards, but Rbase96 also walks with the Unsung Hero award on top of his Tournament Contributor of the Year. The Unsung Hero award '...will be for outstanding work in the community. It can be for individuals that provide tools, admins, graphics etc.' Once again, there were so many different people deserving of this which was reflected in the voting. I'd like to give a few of them a shout out for all their work and let them know that it's very much appreciated by the community, but once again a very well deserved recognition for Rbase. Thanks Rbase for the new photo! Zeta Two, Replay Packer. happyleaves, http://aoe2recs.com. chuptaburger, http://chuptaworks.com. CaptureAge. Anne_HK, pro modder. Vodka, expert spectator.

Most improved caster

Pick an individual that you believe has improved their casting the most in 2024.

Winner of Most improved caster

TWest

Most Improved Caster of the Year for 2024 goes to... @TravisWestura aka T-West. Making his LAN event debut just recently at the Noble Apartment Cup, it's been a great year for T-West who continues to leave a massive impact on the community in many different ways, but his casting is getting the recognition it also deserves. Seriously, well played sir. Onwards and upwards even more. Well done, T-West.

Caster of the year

Winner of Caster of the year

Dave

Our last 3 awards for 2024... One of the big ones, Caster of the Year goes to @Dave_AoE! Battling through health issues in recent months, Dave still made multiple journeys across to Europe for LAN events and performed at the same level that we have all grown accustomed to in recent years. One of the very best in the business for adapting to whoever else he is co-casting with and one of the most personable streamers we have in the community. If you like behaving like an educated degenerate, his stream is the place for you. Congratulations, Dave!

Most improved player

The player that you have perceived the most this year in terms of gameplay/results in tournaments.

Winner of Most improved player

Sebastian

Having a truly meteoric rise in 2024, @Sebastian_AOE had a truly great year. 1st in ShenAiXie Cup (A-tier) 🏆 1st in Thalassocracy Cup (A-tier) 🏆 1st in Copa Latino Americana (A-tier) 🏆++ 3rd in Warlords III (S-tier) RO16 in Hidden Cup V (S-tier) Sebastian really paid back the faith from @fox_aoe and I'm sure both parties are really excited for what lays ahead in 2025 and beyond. Very well deserved, congratulations to Sebastian!

Player of the year

Not much explanation needed here. Pick your best performer of the year!

Winner of Player of the year

Hera

Player of the Year 2024 up next. This won't be a surprise. Another year of complete and utter domination. 1st in Nili's Apartment Cup 5🏆 1st in Hidden Cup V🏆 1st in Warlords III🏆 1st in Red Bull Wololo: El Reinado🏆 1st in Noble Apartment Cup🏆 Like all sports/eSports, community and fans are always obsessed with discussing who the GOAT is... Another year of S-tier domination and I don't think it will be up for debate. Rewriting history, well done @Hera_Aoe. Thanks everyone for voting and taking part in the awards. I'll have posts on AoEzone and Reddit in coming days with the results and further voting details.