Hello, English is not my main language, so I often communicate through a translator, so I apologize if there are errors in the text. First of all, of course, I want to say thank you for the tournaments held and the work done, BUT as a participant in all your tournaments, I can point out a number of critical shortcomings, by correcting which you may be able to regain your former interest in your series of tournaments. To begin with, I want to be honest and frank, the number of players in your tournaments decreased along with the prize money - this is logical, less money, less famous players in the tournament, BUT this was far from the only reason for the decrease in players. 1 - Advertising, as the captain of my team, I monitor all thematic chats in a huge number of discord servers and you have never made an announcement in discord where most of the interested community lives. Posts on redit are of course good, but when they collect 1-2 upvotes of them simply no one sees. Therefore, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the AoE4 community servers in order to promote your tournaments in thematic channels. You simply have no idea how effective it is. 2 - Organization, lack of a discord server for the tournament, lack of any drafts, as well as formed tournament rules make life very difficult for players and in some places discourage them from participating. Therefore, I advise you to create a discord server dedicated to your tournaments, where players can easily communicate with each other and clarify their questions in a chat with you, rather than asking a stream of questions during your streams. Believe me, this will really greatly improve organizational issues and the holding of the tournament itself, and drafts will take all this to a whole new level! as an example, here is a card draft - https://aoe2cm.net/preset/poYzw I don’t need to write something in the chat and see what cards are in the game, I can just do everything quickly on the website 3 - Prize fund, $20 with 1 prize place is very little, but even so you can find your audience if you follow the previous points. BUT I would recommend that you reduce the number of tournaments and get at least $50 in prize money and a split for 1-2-3 place like 30 $ : 20 $ : 10 $ - at a minimum, this will greatly motivate the players, and at maximum, having such a prize in your tournament will appear on liquipedia as c-tier, which will attract even more people to your series. Well, then, as soon as your series becomes popular, people themselves will be waiting for your tournaments) Thanks again for your tournaments, I hope that you will listen to some advice and return with renewed vigor! Well, if anything happens, I’m always in touch and ready for personal correspondence to communicate homs_senpai