Rules of the games & Templates:

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. The game version is SoD 3.2 (4.0) + HDmod or under the mutual agreement terms - WT.
When you play skirmish it is necessary to use 1.02 version of patch HW_rules_mod.
3. 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.
4. The template for the game will be chosen by elimination procedure from the list of 9 templates: 2SM4d(3), Balance, skirmish (200%), Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Diamond, 8mm6a, 6LM10a, Spider.
Blue player starts the procedure.
5. Rules for online games.
It is allowed to agree mutually for any rules changes except the change of favorite castle and Fair Play rule.
Additional rules for some templates:
Mini-Nostalgia. CPU castles are chosen starting from a player marked as "blue" in tables. After restarts and color change CPU castles remain intact (you should have the same neighbors).
Diamond. Player marked as "red" in tables eliminates the 9th castle. If favorite castles are the same then red eliminates first castle, blue - the second.
skirmish (200%) rules of M200 tournament, using patch.

The tournament is official, regular.

1. Tournament chief: Scorpiona (ICQ: 469326983), GoedenDag (ICQ: 649119136). Tournament judge: Gomunguls (ICQ: 499978341), Pit for LM (ICQ: 471401475).
2. Each game should end with a report and confirmation in this topic.
Please, make the reports about your games according to the following template:

Group. Date of a game. Player1 (color 1, starting town 1, starting hero 1, main hero 1) def Player2 (color 2, starting town 2, starting hero 2, main hero 2), template, last game day.

3. Saves of all games must be kept until the end of tournament and be presented at the demand of tournament chiefs. On play-off stages it is necessary to attach saves to reports.
4. All games will be taken into account at seasonal rating.
5. The winner и игроки, занявшие 2 и 3 место will be awarded with a medal under his avatar:


Awards credits: RAPER and ColdRain.

Drawings and tournament system:
Registration - 15 September - 9 October 2013.
Tournament start - 12 October 2013.

Groups. One game is played in 2 weeks. 12 Oct - 23 Dec 2013.
Each group gives 4 players for play-off which got the maximum number of points. 1-2 places (32 players) go into the winners part, 3-4 - go to losers part. If players got the same number of points then the places are distributed according to the following criteria:
1. Berger's coefficient.
2. The result of the direct game between players.
3. Points received in actual games are more valuable then technical results.
4. If it is impossible to determine the players who go into ply-off stage according to above criteria, the players should play additional games.

Additional games. 24 Dec 2013 - 1 Jan 2014.
https://forum.heroesworld.ru/showpost...&postcount=986 and https://forum.heroesworld.ru/showpost...&postcount=987

Play-off. From 1 Jan 2014. One game in losers part should be played in 2 weeks. Winners have 2 weeks for the games in 1st and 2nd rounds and 4 weeks after that.
1st place of one group plays with 2nd place from another in winners part, 3rd place from one group plays vs 4th place from another in losers part.
Drawing.
Final matches of losers and winners parts are plated until 2 wins.
To win the tournament in grand final match the winner of the winners part should win 2 games, the winner of the losers part shold win 3 games.

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
"The Battle of Favourites! - 4" (2011 г.) - Maretti (Castle) - Tournament history
"The Battle of Favourites! - 5" (2012-13 г.) - GoD (Rampart) - Tournament history