Hidden Cup V: Qualifier
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Hidden Cup V: Qualifier
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
Microsoft
Game & Version:
Game Mode:
Type:
Online
Location:
WorldFormat:
1v1, Single Elimination
Prize Pool:
$9,999 USD
Start Date:
2024-01-21
End Date:
2024-02-11
Links
Players
Number of Players:
96
Maps
Chronology
Hidden Cup V (abbr. HC5) is an Age of Empires II 1v1 tournament hosted by T90Official. After qualifiers are done, players are "hidden" until the end of the tournament. Neither the commentators, the audience, or the top 16 competitors know the real identity of the players in each match.
About[edit]
Broadcast Talent[edit]
Main Event Broadcast team is the group of commentators confirmed by the organizers to be part of the primary stream.
Alternative Broadcasters are content creators and/or notable players who live-streamed the games simultaneously to that of the Main Event team and surpassed an average of 50 viewers while doing so. Generally, the purpose of these broadcasts is to support different languages.
- English Commentators:
TWest (Travis Westura)- OrnLu (Matthew Soriano)
MembTV (Daniel Molina)
Daniela_AoE (Daniela)
grathwrang (Doug Ireland)
ShadowCrystallux- Dave (Dave Burchett)
JonSlow (Alexey)- Ellie4K (Ellie)
- French Commentators:
Ciskhan (Manu)- OGN_EMPIRES (Morgan Da Rocha)
- Sitaux (Arthur Alauzen)
- Margougou (Louis Margoulet)
- TheSniper_AOE (Mohamed)
- Mandarin Commentators:
Cloud- Sora Kuma (Hsu Chia-hung)
lyx- Yo (Gan Yangfan)
- Wayne Chang (Wayne Chang)
- Polish Commentator:
- Portuguese Commentators:
- Russian Commentators:
OLADUSHEK (Urii Gerashchenko)
Wanderbraun (Anton Nesterovskiy)
- Spanish Commentators:
- Pinch3Terneira (Manuel López)
Juan Perotti (Juan Perotti)- Pablito Aoe (Pablo Napolitano)
- Monoz (Leandro Salas)
- El_Ti_Rex (Gastón Gaviraghi)
- NunezKnight (Francisco Nuñez)
- Loco Ser (Sergio Contreras)
- TaToH (Roberto Jiménez)
Combi eSports
Mario Ovalle (Mario Ovalle)- ChasQuiiX
- Nicov (Nicolás Bruno)
- Capoch (Patricio del Olmo)
- Turkish Commentator:
Kasva (Yunus Özdemir)
Streaming Players are notable event participants who broadcast their point of view gameplay openly.
Schedule[edit]
- Round of 96: Jan 21st - Jan 26th
- Round of 48: Jan 27th - Jan 31st
- Round of 24: Feb 01st - Feb 05th
- Round of 12: Feb 06th - Feb 10th
- Round of 6: Feb 11th
- Ro12 & Ro6 Matches will be broadcast on Feb 9th - 11th but may be played privately ahead of time.
- Starting time for Ro12 & Ro6 is 14:00 GMT
Format[edit]
- 1 versus 1
- Single-elimination bracket with a Second Chance for the 6 losers from the Round of 12
- Round of 96 is Bo3
- Round of 48 & 24 are Bo5
- Round of 12 & Second Chance Ro6 are Bo7
Map Pool[edit]
Prize Pool[edit]
$9,999 USD are spread among the participants as seen below:
Participants[edit]
Signed-up players (96)
Results[edit]
Single Elimination Stage[edit]
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 | This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead. |
Round of 96 (Bo3)
Round of 48 (Bo5)
Round of 24 (Bo5)
Qualifying Match (Bo7)
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
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| This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead. |
Round of 96 (Bo3)
Round of 48 (Bo5)
Round of 24 (Bo5)
Qualifying Match (Bo7)
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
[edit]
| This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead. |
Round of 96 (Bo3)
Round of 48 (Bo5)
Round of 24 (Bo5)
Qualifying Match (Bo7)
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
[edit]
| This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead. |
Round of 96 (Bo3)
Round of 48 (Bo5)
Round of 24 (Bo5)
Qualifying Match (Bo7)
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
[edit]
| This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead. |
Round of 96 (Bo3)
Round of 48 (Bo5)
Round of 24 (Bo5)
Qualifying Match (Bo7)
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
[edit]
| This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead. |
Round of 96 (Bo3)
Round of 48 (Bo5)
Round of 24 (Bo5)
Qualifying Match (Bo7)
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
Second Chance[edit]
| This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead. |
Trivia[edit]
- Because of several unit pathfinding issues at the time of the tournament, the developers provided the participants of the Qualifying Match and the Second Chance with early access to a patch. The patch aims to improve unit regrouping and villagers getting stuck, among other things.
Additional Content[edit]
- [e] 2024-01-27 | T90 Talks 1st Round of HC5 Qualifier! by T90Official
- [e] 2024-01-23 | T90 Talks Hidden Cup 5 Qualifier! by T90Official