{"id":5208,"date":"2026-05-19T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5208"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:58:58","slug":"startfaltet-i-age-of-empires-ii-masters","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/news\/startfaltet-i-age-of-empires-ii-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"The starting field in Age of Empires II Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ready for the Glitched Age of Empires II Masters 2026 \u2013 Here\u2019s the line-up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The line-up for the Glitched Age of Empires II Masters 2026 is now taking shape, with a total of seven players already confirmed for this summer\u2019s tournament at Elmia in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Directly qualified<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Directly qualified via the Swedish Age League:<br>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Ganji \u2013 winner of the Swedish Age League Spring 2026<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From online qualifiers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Six players secured their spots through the online qualifiers:<br>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Barles<br>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Benanji<br>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Frost_9<br>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea GGOut<br>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 m0re<br>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 TaToH<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It's a strong mix of established profiles, international talent, and Swedish audience favourites. With names like TaToH and Barles, the tournament carries significant international weight, while Swedish players like Ganji, Frost_9, and GGOut give the home crowd several names to follow particularly closely during the festival weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last place reserved for the LAN qualifier<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The eighth and final spot will be decided via an open on-site qualifier held on-site during Glitched. This means that participants at the LAN event still have the chance to qualify for the main tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Glitched Age of Empires II Masters 2026 will take place from 12 to 14 June at Elmia in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping, with a prize pool of USD 2,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/news\/age-of-empires-ii-atervander-till-glitched\/\" data-type=\"news\" data-id=\"3475\">Read more about the tournament here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5209,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"event":[12],"news-category":[17],"class_list":["post-5208","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-gd26","news-category-gd26"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5208\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitched.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}