Play-off round is held according to the Double Elimination system.
Top 4 players from each group join the winner net. The losers of winner net go to the loser net. The losers of this net, leave the tournament.
Each playoff round is played to 1 victory. The winner and loser nets’ finals are played to 2 victories.
The Grand Final game is played to 3 victories.

1. The Version of Heroes III SoD 3.2 (4.0) + HD mod + suitable for connection version of HW rules. By mutual agreement the players can use HotA 1.38 version
2. HW rules option defaults are following: 01110.
a ban of the fort on the hill, cartographer, tents locksmith is included;
a ban of the obelisks, constantly rebuilt 2 level is disabled
3. Restarts are the amount of 3 days (111+111+111 or 111+112 or 113).
4. The choice of color for the first generation gives the first player in a pair. After each subjective restart players change their colors.
5. Players eliminate towns until 3 towns are left. Then they choose the towns. Elimination of the towns starts the second player of the pair. He chooses his town first too.

Templates

1. Game templates for playoff rounds are: 8mm6a, Mini-Nostalgia, Panic and 4 of 5 templates from the group stage.
2. At the playoff stage the template of the game will be chosen by the elimination until one template remains.
3. The second player of the pair starts to eliminate templates.
4. The participants of the Grand Final choose the template of the game in turn. The winner of the winner net excludes 2 templates then determines who starts the choice of the remained templates.