THE HUNGER GAMES

THE HUNGER GAMES is a tournament with lots of different strategical and tactical alternatives! Its goal is to determine the most skilled, lucky and cunning player. The tournament system is Double Elimination. 4 players will be fighting in each game, everyone plays for himself. After each game in winners part two players will continue in winners part, two others will fall into losers part. The final will be played among 2 players from winners part and two players from losers part. This final game will determine one winner who will become the best of the best.


Organization:
1. Game version: SoD 3.2 (4.0) + HDmod (no password protected saves!). PPS are not used here due to difficulties in continuing the game after any player resigns.
2. Tournament participants. The tournament chief Gomunguls will check all players personally. Any player can be refused to take part without declaring the reasons.
3. Time for a game: under discussion.
4. Templates. under discussion.
The basic is Jebus Cross (L-U).
If some others will be in game, the one for a specific battle will be determined by elimination procedure.

I. General
1. Each tournament game is played with 4 players (everyone for himself!)
(red vs blue vs brown vs green)
Important! The game is considered to be finished immediately after 2 players confirm their defeat. After the first player decides to resign he declares it to all other players, the same day he dismisses all his heroes and bought army in towns and he can't take part in the following game (capturing cities, mines, attacking heroes and neutrals or making any other actions). After he did it and gave the turn to the next player during his next turn he leaves the game.
2. Towns, colors and template is chosen by the drawing. 4 players are divided into 2 pairs (pairs will be indicated in tournament tables). Players in each pair make a coin-flip, then 2 winners and two losers flip again. This will result in four drawing places. If there will be two templates in the tournament, then the drawing winner chooses which one to play. If there will be more templates, then drawing winner eliminates one template, second player eliminates one more template and so on until we have one template to play. After that the colors and towns are picked. For every stage (template choosing, color choosing, town choosing) the new drawing should be made. The first player of the drawing chooses any color (or town), the second player chooses any from the remaining and so on. Towns available for picking are created randomly in WT chat (two pairs). All 4 towns must be different.
In the final players from winners part will have an advantage to define the first two drawing places among them (on all 3 stages of selection - templates, colors, towns). Two players from losers part will have 3rd and 4th drawing numbers!

II.Organization
1. Chief - Gomunguls (499978341), judge - Pit for LM (471401475)
If necessary, chief can ask AK to make a decision. AK decision is a final one and without appeal.
2. Chief has a right to make any changes in tournament system and rules during the tournament.
3. After every game players should make a report according to the template:

Date. Player1 (color, town, starting hero, main hero), Player2 (color, town, starting hero, main hero) [game result - def, lose] Player3 (color, town, starting hero, main hero), Player4 (color, town, starting hero, main hero), template, game duration.

The last game day is the day when the second player resigned!
No report = no game!
4. Players must make day-based savegames and keep them until tournament is finished. In the case of argument the player that has no savegames will have a great disadvantage.
5. The winner will get a prize!

III. Schedule:
Tournament starts 14.08.13 (minimal amount of players is 32, maximal is 64).
Each game should be played in 2 weeks. Players can agree to any convenient time for a game, but if they can't the critical time is an Saturday evening-night. If the game is not played in time, the chief can appoint the obligatory time and date.
P.S. If you can't play during the critical time - this tournament is not for you.

IV. Tournament system: Double Elimination

V. Files, settings and rules:
4 players, 0 teams, no water.
Turn time is under discussion. Cobalt roads.

The tournament is played according to the HW new rules.
Also:
1. Blue-rush and brown rush are forbidden as well as the red-rush.
2. No subjective restarts!
Restart must be taken if:
- you have a strong block that doesn't give to get out from your town;
– starting hero level is more than 1;
- you have no starting town;
- you have no roads.
In the case of bugged map that can't be played players can appeal the judge/chief. If the judge confirms that the map is bugged, it is a technical restart.
3. Broadcasting and streams: if a player agreed to play in alliance with someone else or due to some other reasons he allowed watching his broadcast then he is responsible for using this information against him during any stage of the game.
Example: player А allowed to watch his broadcast to player В, then due to some reasons player B decided to attack A. In this case no appeals from player A will be considered!
In all other cases the watching of other players' broadcasting will be punished severely!
4. Resigning - any player can capture towns, mines, dwellings and other things belonging to the resigned player.
Resigned player can make his last actions during only the turn when he gives up. During the turn when he leaves the game he can't do anything.

Additional info about the templates:

Jebus Cross (L-U):
- Monsters are WEAK.
- Restart by the will of a player who has only one road to the desert. Taken during the day when it is discovered.
- Restart by the will of a player who has no road to the desert. Taken during the day when it is discovered.
- Angel Wings, Fly and DD can be used to get to the opponent's zone only if both he and you defeated guards to the desert.
- In the case of bugged zone transitions they can be used only if desert guards from the both zones were eliminated.

VI. Registration:
During the registration it is necessary to write:
- nickname (only registered HW users can take part)
- ICQ number - obligatory,
- skype - if you wish,
- any suggestions about the tournament.