Very strong player in both betas and plays multiple civs well. I could be wrong, but pretty sure that’s the same guy. With him being able to play as much as he has id put him as one of the favs too. I’ll give my thoughts on who I think are players to watch. I know I’ll be entering, but not a lot of faith in how far I can get. As it stands, I think among these we have at least half of the top 16 for the event.
If you all know anyone else who is not listed here say it, and ideally source it, and I'll update the list. I am pretty sure there are more players who might have not joined the discord yet, but they might have spoken about it on their streams. These are some players that might do casting or play, they have not made up their mind yet. The best player I’ve matched with so far I would say is RecoN. (es) VortiX (Second Best Closed Beta player).(es) LucifroN (Best Closed Beta player).(pl) Matiz (Second at Storrn Stress Cup & top 15 in the Closed Beta).(ca) NyanRacingCat (Top 25 in the Closed Beta).(gr) TheMista (Top 10 in the Closed Beta).(de) StriKeR (Winner at Storrn Stress Cup & top 5 in the Closed Beta).(de) ZertoN (Top 4 at Storrn Stress Cup & top 4 in the Closed Beta).(us) SoldieR (Top 25 in the Closed Beta).
(fr) MarineLorD** (could be busy with ESL Masters if he qualifies).the irony is, sanctuary light have 100 against asura in the tournament. Obviously, this doesn't mean that they will for sure participate, or that people not listed here won't, but I think it's interesting to see who might. Considering 3/4 players in top cut are running asura, we can pretty much guarantee a nerf at this point, if you somehow didn’t think so already. So I've been going around looking at the people who joined the EGC discord to see if I could catch any interesting names in it, thus potentially confirming them as players for the event. Competitive Age of Empires IV Discord (Displays all events).