The start of the semifinals is here! Both players have already met in Group B, ending up in a 3-1 win for Liereyy. The question today: Will Sebastian be able to utilize the crowd and turn the tides, use his experience and take the match home? The winner will bay in the great Royal Albert Hall!

Rampart

Both with an aggressive approach with a slight advantage for Liereyy. Bloodlines and forging, fully upgraded scouts in minute 5. Feudal age aggression. Liereyy goes into castle age at minute 7, sebastian nowhere close focusing on military. Sebastian moves fully into feudal age aggression now, while Liereyy just reached castle age. The castle age upgrades helped him completely getting rid of his army and Sebastian has to defend against light cavalary and CA now in Feudal. He is getting raided on multiple sides, Sebastian has barely any active working villagers other than those on gold, GG is called. 1-0 Liereyy after just 12 minutes.

Stonefront

Sebastian aiming for a full early wall this game, while Liereyy clicks up to castle age at 3:53! Fastest castle age timing! Both players exchanging mangonel aggressiveness, however Liereyy manages to push Sebastian off his gold. Behind all of this, Liereyy transitioned to triple town center. The game slowed down a bit, Liereyy already more than 20 eco advantage after 17 minutes. Second town center of Sebastian goes down, more than 40 villagers ahead and 5 mangonels after just 19 minutes, transitioning into imperial age. Sebastian called the GG. 2-0.

Vulpine

Both players opened up with the default Empire Wars early push. Sebastian going for full aggression, while Liereyy goes for the counter push. Liereyy on the way to castle age at minute 7 again, but Sebastian leads with 10 military. Sebastian upgrading his army, fully committing to Feudal Age. Liereyy has perfectly walled, great setup against Sebastian. Sebastian tries to keep the pressure up, but lost all of his scouts and his whole army. Sebastian clicks up at minute 11, but again, he is so far behind in updates and timings now.

Liereyy is now slowly massing cavalary archers again and starts raiding Sebastians base which is completely open. With an aggressive push, Liereyy managed to kill another 15 villagers, leaving him with only 33 left at minute 14. It currently looks like that Sebastian does not manage to get up to speed with the austrian. No chance for Sebastian, 3-0. After only 45 minutes.

Blue Wells

Both players going for Skirmishers with some slow aggression. Both players going to castle age at literally the same second, no early castle age for Liereyy here. Way less aggression. Both have constant skirmisher/mangonel fights in the center of the map while both transition to a triple town center boom.

Liereyy then picked up the speed a bit, initiating some raids with knights. Sebastian manages to clean up the Mangonels from Liereyy, but he is on his way to imperial age. Sebastian is far behind that time. Elephants may be the answer for Sebastian which he tries to utilizes to his best option. Both players are going for defensive castles. Upgrades are coming in, trebuchets are also produced. Once the castle falls, Sebastian will have issues.

3 minutes until Imperial Age for Sebastian. Trebuchets already hitting the castles and raiding the water. While the economy is steady for both sides, Sebastian slowly loses control over the ponds which means that there is no gold available in the late game anymore. Castle falls and GG is called. 4-0 for Liereyy, WITHIN AN HOUR!

Liereyy is now our first grand finalist.