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    News Archive 1998 October – December

    December 11, 1998  

    3:30AM EST – Rumble for Rome Tournament Finals Today!
    Well, today the big day.  Place your bets.  Grab a cold beverage and head to the Zone Chat Roomat 9:00 PM (6:00 PM PST) to get the live coverage of the game.  Afterwards, you’ll be able to check AOE Heaven for the low down on the games.  Will one of the art Clan members, Seasianor The_Sheriff_ take the title of Grand Emperor?  How about Cases’s Ladder superstarmaimin_matty?   Or will it be Methos_ST of the Shai’Tan Clan and Gamers Extreme?

    I just got my free Zone T-shirt in the mail today for getting to Round 5 in this tournament.  Its black and says Zone Champ in white lettering on the front, Internet Gaming Zone on the back 🙂

    The MS Gaming Zone has some nice info on each of the contestants and even some pictures, although The_Sheriff_ and Methos_ST seem to want their faces hidden for the time being. 😉

    Here’s how the day will go (all times are PST):

    Battles are scheduled to begin at 7:00 pm (PT).

    Event Schedule

    6:00 PM Event begins!
    6:45 PM Opening Ceremony
    7:00 PM Final Championship begins
    9:15 PM Awards Ceremony
    9:30 PM Celebrity Tournaments begin
    10:00 PM Closing Ceremony (Recognition, etc)
    10:15 PM – Party continues until midnight!

    First Round Match ups:

    Maimin_matty
    vs.
    The_Sheriff_

    Seasian
    vs.
    _Methos_st

    Now you may be saying to yourself, “what if the games go longer than the time allowed?”  Remember, these games will probably be completely lag free 🙂 At 1.5 game speed, expect even these matchups to go by quickly.  Personally, I’d like to have seen a four player free for all game on a gigantic map.  Now THAT would have bee cool 🙂

    Angel Washizu

     December 10, 1998

    2:30AM EST – Rumble for Rome!
    Here is some info on the upcoming Rumble for Rome MS Gaming Zone tournament!  Check out down near the bottom, THRESH aka “the guy with John Carmack’s Ferrari” is going to be there!

    MICROSOFT’S MSN GAMING ZONE “FINAL FOUR” GET READY TO RUMBLE FOR “GRAND EMPEROR” TITLE

    Finals of No-Holds-Barred Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Tournament
    Convenes in Seattle; Four Finalists Compete for a Trip to Rome, $2,000 In
    Cash, and Bragging Rights

    WHAT:  The online gaming world elite will gather in Seattle for the finals
    of the “Rumble for Rome” tournament, sponsored by the MSN Gaming Zone
    (http://www.zone.com).  After a month of fierce competition among 700
    contestants, four finalists will gather in Seattle this Friday (courtesy of
    American Airlines) to compete for the title of “Grand Emperor” and the
    grand prize – a trip to Rome (courtesy of Canadian Airlines), $2,000 in
    cash and a replica of a Roman shield.

    The MSN Gaming Zone is the most popular online gaming site on the Internet,
    serving more than 3-million users.  Age of Empires has sold-in more than
    1.5 million units worldwide and is the most-popular CD-ROM-based game
    played on the Zone. The Rise of Rome is the expansion pack for Age of
    Empires that was released in October and has quickly climbed the sales
    charts selling in nearly a half million units worldwide.

    WHO:    Finalists from California, Tennessee, Minnesota and Toronto, Canada
    will compete for the Grand Emperor title.  In addition, more than 200 game
    industry notables such as Bruce Shelley (developer of Age of Empires and
    The Rise of Rome), Chris Taylor (of Total Annihilation fame), Dennis Fong
    (a.k.a. “Thresh”), Richard Garfield (Creator of Magic: The Gathering) and
    other VIP’s will be on hand to take in the tournament action.

    WHEN:   Friday, December 11 6pm – 12am  (final championships begin at 7pm)

    WHEREWizards of the Coast Game Center, 4524 University Way NE in Seattle,
    Washington (206) 675-1608

    2:30AM EST – ES Christmas Party!
    Looks like they had a pretty cool time at their annual Christmas Party.  Heaven’s former top Angel turned Ensemble webmaster Mike “The Archangel” McCart came away with a few nice gifts: The Star Wars Trilogy and some Gummi Savers.  Well, at least that’s better than Dog Food!   What they heck am I talking about?  Find out here.

    2:00AM EST – Omnivac Interviews Greg “Deathshrimp” Street!
    Head on on over to our sister site, Age of Kings Heaven and read the fantastic interview with the man known in our forums as ES_Deathshrimp.   Here’s a snippet that shouldn’t give away to much:

    Omnivac: In your opinion, what makes or breaks a good scenario or campaign? Can you give any advices to those who start designing them?

    Greg Street: Because the Random Maps in Age1 are so good, I think that a successful scenario has to be as unlike a Random Map as possible. A good-looking map that actually affects gameplay is great to see, as are AI opponents that behave like human players. Any computer opponent can do well given 99,999 gold, stone and wood. It’s when I find myself fighting with the AI over the last gold mine on a map that I really enjoy the single player game. A story (historical or not) that puts the scenario in some kind of context is useful as well. “Red called you a monkey–go destroy his town” is not the stuff of epic literature.

    Mark my words, “Red Called You a Monkey” will be the title of my next scenario. 🙂

    2:00AM EST – Heaven’s New Forum Art Contest!
    What do people like best about Heaven’s UBB forums?  The threads that load all replies? The easy access to the most popular posts?  The forum signatures?  No way!  It’s the smileys that people like the best.  Here are the current smileys and the keyboard characters to make them with:

      🙂
     😉
      🙁
     😛
     😀
     😮

    Thanks to the guys in the net campaign who give me easy access to the graphics since they like to make posts entirely made up of these things.  Oh yeah, the contest!  We here at AOE Heavenwould like a new smiley to add to our forum code, and we want you to design it.  Send in a 15 x 15 pixel graphic, along with what keyboard characters should make it appear.  You don’t have to stick to the smiley theme, but something similar would certainly be welcome.   Just make sure your entry is tasteful and can be viewed by someone of any age.   The winning graphic, chosen by some of theAOE Heaven staff, will be added to our forum the next time we update the code.  Send all entries to Angel Mack

    2:00AM EST – Still a Chance to Get into Braineysmurf_10’s Clan Wars!
    Got a letter from the smurf today:

    “One thing I changed was extended deadline to December 17 I also posted up
    teams signed up so far in tourney at
    http://www.angelfire.com/la/smurfclan/tourneyteams.html

    – Angel Washizu 

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