I. Regulation and schedule.
Qualifying Tournament will be conducted in Swiss-system tournament system
Tournament starts on 01 March 2013.
One round is played for two weeks.
Final part will accept 7 players.

II. Rules and templates.
1. The default rules are the same as Rules of online games for Heroes III and seasonal ranking tournament.
2. By default the game version is SoD 3.2 (4.0), by mutual agreement it can be WT or any other version of HOMM3.
3. The template for each game is defined by the tournament chief (or chosen randomly)
4. Towns are chosen by standard elimination procedure. The elimination is initiated by blue. Colors are defined in drawing tables.
5. The drawing will be made using SwissMaster software.
Victory gives 1 point, draw gives 0,5 points, loss gives 0.
The winner is defined by the number of earned points. In the case of equal number of points the additional criteria apply:
1) Buchholz chess rating
2) The head-to-head game between players


III. Organization.
1. The tournament is official, regular.
2. Tournament is played according to the Rules of organization, conducting and participating in tournaments.
3. Tournament chief - Dirty_Player (ICQ 408722873).
Tournament judge – Pit for LM (471401475) & АК.
4. Players should write a report and confirmation for every played game.
/Please, make the reports about your games according to the following template:
date 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.
For example:
01.05.2012. Maretti (red, Castle, Valeska, Solmyr) def Pit for LM (blue, Conflux, random Grindan, Monere), 8mm6a, 134./
5. Saves of all games must be kept until the end of tournament and be presented at the demand of tournament chiefs and judge.
6. For argument solution it is necessary to contact tournament chief or judge by ICQ and present day-by-day saves, ICQ logs and other necessary information.
The decision of the judge in first instance in made on the basis of tournament rules. If the argument is not governed by rules then judges use elementary logic and game ethics.
7. All games will be taken into account at seasonal rating.
8. The final part of the tournament will be conducted in round-Robbin system.
The winner of the tournament will be rewarded by the Cup under his avatar:


IV. Participants.
The winner and players who won 2-3 places in FB-6 CAN"T participate in qualifying tournament.
Tournament participation claim should be as follows:
- Nickname
- ICQ number (+ if possible, Skype login)
- time convenient for games