King of the Desert IV
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King of the Desert IV
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
PinzTec • Microsoft • MsHuggah
Game & Version:
Game Mode:
Type:
Online
Location:
WorldFormat:
1v1
Prize Pool:
$75,020 USD
Start Date:
2021-11-18
End Date:
2021-12-12
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Players
Number of Players:
32
Maps
Chronology
King of the Desert IV (abbr. KotD4) is an Age of Empires II 1v1 tournament hosted by MembTV and is played on the map Arabia exclusively. It was announced on MembTV's 2 years special stream.[1]
About[edit]
Broadcast Talent[edit]
- Host, Main Commentator (English)
MembTV (Daniel Molina)
- Guest Commentators:
Dave (Dave Burchett)- Hera (Hamzah El-Baher)
LidaKor (Endre Zoltán Faragó)
Liereyy (Kai Kallinger)
Moonfaller (David)
NovaAoE
OrnLu (Matthew Soriano)
RLYKNGHT (Riley Knight)- Survivalist (Peter White)
Vinchester (Dmitriy Smirnov)
- Guest Commentators:
DauT (Darko Dautovic)
JorDan_AoE (Marco Bloch)
MbL (Morten Beite Levernes)- Winter (Evan Ballnik)
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:
- French Commentators:
ClemoL45 (Clément Hétier)- OGN_EMPIRES (Morgan Da Rocha)
- TheSniper_AOE (Mohamed)
- Polish Commentator:
Dziamdziak (Krzysztof Kołodziej)
- Spanish Commentators:
- Capoch (Patricio del Olmo)
- Juan Perotti
- Loco Ser (Sergio Contreras)
Mario Ovalle- Nicov (Nicolás Bruno)
- Pinch3Terneira (Manuel López)
- SilentTV (Franco)
- TaToH (Roberto Jiménez)
ValeriaHuesca
- Russian Commentators:
DontCallMeChris (Alexander Kamok)- Wanderbraun (Anton Nesterovskiy)
- Turkish Commentators:
AlperenAoe (Alperen Tekinay)- glx_rusher
- sedrias
- German Commentator:
- FlyLikeDjango (Joshua Fabian Briel)
- Portuguese Commentators:
GoKu (Paulo Henrique Vergani)- ObaTheGreatt (Roberto Oba)
- Paganini (Emerson)
- St4rk (Everson Alcântara)
- Mandarin Commentators:
Albis (Kang Chia-Wei)
Chrno- lyx
- Wayne Chang
- Cantonese Commentator:
marcusplacehk (Marcus LEE)
Format[edit]
- 1 versus 1
- Maps: Arabia only
- Single-elimination Stage: November 18th - 21st
- Round of 32 is Bo5
- Group Stage: November 25th - December 3rd
- Two groups, Swiss-system format (3 rounds)
- All matches are Bo5
- Players with two wins advance to the Quarterfinals, players with two losses are eliminated
- Tiebreaker rules
- Difference between series wins and losses
- Head to Head results
- Player Seed
- Seeding
- Invited players are seeded based on previous tournament performances
- Qualified players are seeded based on their highest-achieved 1v1 random map rating
- A winning player will inherit the seed of their opponent if it is higher than their own
- Playoffs: December 4th - 12th
- Quarterfinals and Semifinals are Bo7
- 3rd Place Match is Bo5
- Finals is Bo9
Prize Pool[edit]
- The base prize pool ($75,000 USD) was sponsored by Microsoft, PinzTec and MsHuggah. MembTV added $2,500 USD after reaching 5000 Twitch subscribers, making it a total of $77,500 USD. [2]
- $2,480 USD were spread among the players in the Qualifiers.
- $75,020 USD were spread among the players in the main event as seen below:
1st 
2nd 
3rd 
4th 
Participants[edit]
Seeding
1
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5
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7
8
9
10
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13
14
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18
19
20
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27
28
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32
| Invited player seeding | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Name | Total |  KotD3 |
 RBW3 |
 HC4 |
 RBW4 |
 TOC |
 RBW5
|
| 1 | Liereyy |
220 | 50 | 40 | 20 | 50 | 40 | 40 |
| 2 | TheViper |
150 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 50 |
| 3 | Hera |
150 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 40 | 20 | |
| 4 | Yo |
150 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 50 | |
| 5 | DauT |
130 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| 6 | JorDan_AoE |
110 | 40 | 10 | 30 | 30 | ||
| 7 | TheMbL |
110 | 40 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| 8 | Villese |
90 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| 9 | TaToH |
80 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 20 | |
| 10 | Vinchester |
80 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 30 | 10 | |
| 11 | ACCM |
80 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 10 | ||
| 12 | Nicov |
60 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 |
| 13 | dogao |
60 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| 14 | Capoch |
50 | 10 | 20 | 20 | |||
| 15 | Vivi |
50 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| 16 | BacT |
50 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | ||
| 17 | TheMax |
30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||
| 18 | Barles |
20 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| 19 | slam |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 20 |  PROject_Belgium |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 21 |  Vodka_L_ |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 22 | Sitaux |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 23 | SongSong |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 24 | Valas |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 25 | Daniel |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 26 |  chart |
10 | 10 | |||||
| 27 | StrayDog |
10 | 10 | |||||
| Note: Based on recent 1v1 S-tier tournament performances. Lowest score is excluded. Tiebreaker: Score in latest tournament regardless of participation.[3] | ||||||||
Results[edit]
Single-elimination Stage[edit]
Round of 32 (Bo5) BacT0 slam3 Qualified for Group Stage Liereyy DauT TaToH dogao slam Nicov Villese Yo |
Round of 32 (Bo5) TheViper3 saymyname2 Vinchester3 TheMax1 Qualified for Group Stage TheViper JorDan_AoE Vinchester Sitaux Kasva ACCM TheMbL Hera |
Group Stage[edit]
Standings[edit]
Group A[edit]
| # | Player | Matches | Games | GD | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Liereyy | 2-0 | 6-2 | +4 | slam3:0 | TaToH3:2 | |
| 2. | Yo | 2-0 | 6-0 | +6 | dogao3:0 | DauT3:0 | |
| 3. | TaToH | 2-1 | 8-5 | +3 | Villese3:1 | Liereyy2:3 | Nicov3:1 |
| 4. | Villese | 2-1 | 7-7 | 0 | TaToH1:3 | slam3:2 | DauT3:2 |
| 5. | DauT | 1-2 | 5-7 | -2 | Nicov3:1 | Yo0:3 | Villese2:3 |
| 6. | Nicov | 1-2 | 5-7 | -2 | DauT1:3 | dogao3:1 | TaToH1:3 |
| 7. | dogao | 0-2 | 1-6 | -5 | Yo0:3 | Nicov1:3 | |
| 8. | slam | 0-2 | 2-6 | -4 | Liereyy0:3 | Villese2:3 |
Group B[edit]
| # | Player | Matches | Games | GD | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TheViper | 2-0 | 6-0 | +6 | Kasva3:0 | TheMbL3:0 | |
| 2. | JorDan_AoE | 2-0 | 6-2 | +4 | ACCM3:1 | Hera3:1 | |
| 3. | Vinchester | 2-1 | 7-7 | 0 | TheMbL1:3 | Kasva3:2 | Hera3:2 |
| 4. | Sitaux | 2-1 | 8-6 | +2 | Hera2:3 | ACCM3:2 | TheMbL3:1 |
| 5. | Hera | 1-2 | 6-8 | -2 | Sitaux3:2 | JorDan_AoE1:3 | Vinchester2:3 |
| 5. | TheMbL | 1-2 | 4-7 | -3 | Vinchester3:1 | TheViper0:3 | Sitaux1:3 |
| 7. | ACCM | 0-2 | 3-6 | -3 | JorDan_AoE1:3 | Sitaux2:3 | |
| 8. | Kasva | 0-2 | 2-6 | -4 | TheViper0:3 | Vinchester2:3 |
Matches[edit]
[edit]
| Group A - Round 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| DauT | 3 | 1 | Nicov |
| Yo | 3 | 0 | dogao |
| Villese | 1 | 3 | TaToH |
| Liereyy | 3 | 0 | slam |
[edit]
| Group A - Round 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Liereyy | 3 | 2 | TaToH |
| Yo | 3 | 0 | DauT |
| Villese | 3 | 2 | slam |
| Nicov | 3 | 1 | dogao |
[edit]
| Group A - Round 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| DauT | 2 | 3 | Villese |
| TaToH | 3 | 1 | Nicov |
[edit]
| Group B - Round 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| JorDan_AoE | 3 | 1 | ACCM |
| TheMbL | 3 | 1 | Vinchester |
| TheViper | 3 | 0 | Kasva |
| Hera | 3 | 2 | Sitaux |
[edit]
| Group B - Round 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hera | 1 | 3 | JorDan_AoE |
| TheViper | 3 | 0 | TheMbL |
| ACCM | 2 | 3 | Sitaux |
| Vinchester | 3 | 2 | Kasva |
[edit]
| Group B - Round 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| TheMbL | 1 | 3 | Sitaux |
| Hera | 2 | 3 | Vinchester |
Playoffs[edit]
Quarterfinals (Bo7)
Liereyy4
Sitaux0
Yo1
Vinchester4
TheViper4
Villese1
Semifinals (Bo7)
Liereyy1
Vinchester4
Finals (Bo9)
Vinchester2
TheViper5
3rd Place Match (Bo5)
Additional Content[edit]
- 2021-12-15 | King of the Desert 4 Funny Moments by MembTV
- 2021-11-29 | KotD4 in numbers by DonDinardoni
- 2021-11-27 | KotD4 stats by Nerfox
- 2021-11-19 | King of the Desert Lore - full animations by MembTV
- 2021-10-10 | KING OF THE DESERT 4 | Who will be the NEXT KING? by MembTV
References[edit]
- ↑ MembTV (2021-08-31). "The Long Wait is Over - KOTD4". YouTube.
- ↑ MembTV (2021-12-16). "KOTD4 RECAP - Thanks.". AoEZone.
- ↑ Rorarimbo (2021-10-31). "KotD4 | Questions & Answers". AoEZone.