Dear friends! I invite you to take part in a traditional tournament:


To take part in the tournament it is necessary to provide the following information:
favorite castle
5 favorite templates that will take part in the templates election
icq number

Rules of the games:

1. During the whole tournament every participant plays for his chosen favorite town. If two similar towns meet then players can come to the mutual agreement about starting heroes. If they can't, heroes are set to random.
2. It is forbidden to start for Galthran in Necropolis (only for SoD version). If Galthran comes to the tavern, it is allowed to level-up him for any town.
3. Starting hero in Conflux must be set to random.
4. The color in the drawing tables is only for the first generation. After each no reason restart (only 111+111+111 or 111+112 or 113) colors must be swapped.
5. It is allowed to agree mutually for any rules changes except the change of favorite castle and Fair Play rule.
6. The game version is SoD 3.2 (4.0) + HDmod or under the mutual agreement terms - WT, ТЕ or ТЕ-Light. Time limit is 6 minutes, it can be changed by the mutual agreement.

The games play off games time will be 8 minutes/turn! By mutual agreement, may vary.

Templates.

During the registration every player chooses 5 (or less) his favourite templates.
The list of templates for the tournament will be determined after the end of registration according to the results of players election.

The template for the game will be chosen by elimination procedure from the list of 5 templates: 8мм6а, 2SM4d(3), Jebus cross, Balance, Mini-Nostalgia.
Blue player starts the procedure.
/Example:
Blue :
1. balance
Red :
2. 8mm6
Blue:
3. 2SM4d(3)
Red:
4. Jebus cross
Thus the game is played on the 5th remained template.

Rules for 2SM4d(3) is completely the same as the rules for seasonal tournament https://forum.heroesworld.ru/showpost...49&postcount=4

The description of 2SM4d(3)

Rules differences for templates other than 2sm4d(3):

8мм6а:
- Map settings: XL+U, 2 humans + 6 computers, difficulty 160%.
- Dirt road restart. It is taken by the will of any player immediately after map generation.
- It is allowed to move between zones without fighting misplaced guards.
- If there is an upgrade of 1, 6, 7 creature building in Conflux or 4 creature building in Necropolis, it is not allowed to upgrade your existing troops of these levels or buy an upgraded version of creatures. If there is Necromancy amplifier built it is not allowed to upgrade vampire estate and it is allowed to use additional skeletons coming from necromancy.
- It is allowed to use DD twice a day on expert air magic.

Jebus cross:
- Map settings: XL-U, 2 humans, no water, monsters - strong, difficulty 160 %, time limit 8 minutes.
- Restart by the will of a player who has the only road leading to the desert. It is taken on the day of the discovery of that fact.
- Restart by the will of a player who has no road to the desert. It is taken on the day of the discovery of that fact.
- Dirt road restart. It is taken by the will of any player immediately after map generation.
- It is allowed to use «Angel wings» and spells "Fly" и "DD" to move between zones only if the border guards between these zones were eliminated.
- If there are bugged zone transitions it is allowed to use them only if the guards from these zones to the desert are eliminated.
- It is allowed to use Galthran as a starting hero in Necropolis.

Balance:
- Map settings: L-U, humans - 2, computers - 0, no water, strong monsters, difficulty 130%.

Mini-Nostalgia:
- Map settings: L+U humans - 2, computers - 6.
- To avoid double-builds computer castles are chosen by the players. The blue players starts choosing, choses one castle for his computer (the one in the zone neighboring to blue's starting position), than red chooses one castle for his computer etc. There must be no repeats and computer castles must differ from players'. Computer castles are set by the host before the start of the game.
- It is allowed to move between zones without fighting misplaced guards. The exception is the strong guards to the central zone - they must be fought.

Organization:

1. Organizers:

Tournament chief: R55Max - icq 584985121
Refereeing and situations of argument solution: Dirty_Player - icq 408722873 and Pit for LM - icq 471401475

2. Other:

- Situations of argument between the players are solved by organizers.
- Organizers can bring up any changes in tournament rules and organization.


3. Drawings and tournament system:

Will be determined after the end of registration.


4. Tournament schedule.

1) The games in groups are conducted in round robin (all players of a group have the games between each other).
2) The winners of groups form the upper net of the next stage of tournament which is conducted in Double Elimination system.
3) Players who got second places in groups form lower net of Double Elimination system.
4) The main criterion of place distribution in groups is the number of gathered points (win brings 1 point, draw brings 0,5 points, lose brings 0 points). If some players got the same number of points than places are distributed according to the following additional criteria (listed in the order of priority):
a) Berger's coefficient
b) Personal encounter
c) Additional game on balance template (M, 200%, 4 minutes / turn)
d) Random.
5) Final game between winners of upper and lower nets are conducted up to 3 wins. The winner of the upper net must gain victory in 2 games, while the winner of the lower net must gain victory in 3 games.

Tournament starts on 01 october 2011.
One game is played in 2 weeks.

If you can't play for some reason during 2 weeks or more - it is necessary to let organizer know about it!

5. Technical results:
Will be set individually after discussions with players.

6.The tournament is official.
The winner will be awarded with a medal under his avatar:



Players who will take 2 and 3 places will also be awarded with medals.

Players who will take the first 3 places will receive diplomas with nickname and avatar or photo of the player who got the prize place. Diplomas will be shipped by postal service.


The winners of previous The Battle of Favourites! tournaments:

"The Battle of Favourites! - 1" (2008 г.) - Dudge (Necropolis) - Tournament history
"The Battle of Favourites! - 2" (2009 г.) - Pit for LM (Conflux) - Tournament history
"The Battle of Favourites! - 3" (2010 г.) - Сатир (Fortress) - Tournament history

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