Red Bull Metropolis - Cities: Skylines Esports

[PJTierney]

What you need to know about Red Bull Metropolis

Bringing competition to Cities: Skyline for the first time, Red Bull Metropolis is a unique event you won't want to miss.

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Red Bull Metropolis takes Cities: Skylines, a game that was never designed to be competitive, into the world of esports. Featuring some of the most popular streamers in the community, some never-before-seen ways of playing the game and more than a few surprises, you won't want to miss this one-of-a-kind event.

Alongside developers Paradox Interactive and the Cities: Skylines community, a number of specially designed maps have been created for the event to present a serious challenge to some of the best players in the world. This is the game you know and love, but in a way you've never seen before.

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You'll have to wait until the event itself to see exactly what challenges we have in store for the players, but each features a unique set of rules and objectives designed to test certain areas of a participant's city building skills. This will range from reducing traffic in a busy city to saving an entire city from a meteor heading its way.

Throughout the day of the event, competitors will take part in five 30-minute challenges, with each being scored and the results forming a league table that will no doubt change a lot throughout the course of the day. After all five challenges have been completed, the top players will be invited to take part in the all-important sixth challenge, which will push their skills to the limit and crown the Red Bull Metropolis champion.

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[Shiz Padoo]

 

[PJTierney]

This is pretty neat, Cities: Skylines has always been a fun and relaxing game to play and watch so it'll be interesting to see how Paradox and Red Bull make a competitive spectacle out of it.

 

[Shiz Padoo]

Seems an unusual choice for a competitive game. Probably worth watching :D

 

[mutantmagnet]

City skylines has a playerbase large enough to make the attempt at making an esport but it is rare for esports to take off when initially pushed by the players challenging each other. Maybe I'm wrong and a scene already exists where people challenge each other.

 

[Klyka]

That is super unusual and that actually makes it interesting!

 

[Lumination]

Seems fun, but not telling us how it's going to be played until later feels a bit sus.

 

[PJTierney]

I'm just hoping this is the start of a hype cycle for a potential sequel. I'm ready to dump another 400 hours into this 🙂

 

[Thorn]

I love that idea, thanks for sharing this OP

 

[E.Balboa]

I'm really interested in watching this. Could be really nice

 

[Yiepekaiyei]

I'm just hoping this is the start of a hype cycle for a potential sequel. I'm ready to dump another 400 hours into this 🙂

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I just wanted more control to individual road lanes without mods, for ps4 users like me. :(

 

[Fisty]

I put in a ton of hours in Cities but I couldn't really wrap my head around efficient traffic. That challenge would wreck me!

 

[Kinthey]

Looking forward to a commentator screaming in excitement "And here comes the roundabout!!! Perfect placement!"

But seriously, will absolutely check this out

 

[Delio]

Funny I was just about to say how I follow all these Skylines players who just do tons of challenge builds and stuff and they might be into this. Then I go to the announcement comments and it's literally all of them commenting lol. Will be exciting to see.

 

[PJTierney]

Looking forward to a commentator screaming in excitement "And here comes the roundabout!!! Perfect placement!"

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"Oh he's going for it, he's making the Diverging Diamond Cloverleaf Interchange! This is unprecedented!" 😲

 

[aspiegamer]

"Oh he's going for it, he's making the Diverging Diamond Cloverleaf Interchange! This is unprecedented!" 😲

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God I cannot imagine how hard that would be to do quickly, and with no mods.

 

[Qasiel]

Given the fact that Town Planning used to be an Olympic event I find this charmingly amusing.

 

[PJTierney]

Looks like some practice streams ahead of the event.

 

[EagleClaw]

I just wanna say Cities:Skylines with the right mods is the best SimCity game ever.
But be prepared to fill your RAM.

That e-sports thing sounds like fun for people interested in it.

 

[BlackJace]

Hopefully at the end of this we get a teaser for Skylines 2. C:S is so bogged down right now, it's really showing its age imo. Still one of my favorite games ever tho

 

[PJTierney]

 

[rsfour]

Didn't know this was a thing, will watch. Haven't played c:s in quite some time, always hated managing mods, dependencies, and other shit breaking. Can't wait for cs2

 

[Delio]

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Thanks for bumping this! Cant wait to watch all of it.