Open alpha testing of the 5.0 HD mod (online lobby).

Only-XL - I wouldn't recommend it; in my opinion, it's the most boring thing in Heroes.

Diamond - it exists, although this year it's in an experimental format; we'll see how it goes.

It's funny how your position has completely changed from when you were actively playing to now. Around 2009, you were convinced that HL+U was the most balanced thing in Heroes. In 2017, you're trying to push Diamond everywhere, even though there isn't a more dispersive template in this game. Although it might be good for viewers, players are complaining. I wanted to host a tournament on Mini-Nost, but I asked some people and realized that I would be torn apart.)))
By the way, I agree with you about OnlyXL, but public opinion says otherwise. That's why 6lm10a is currently the most popular template.

And there are specialized tournaments for different Castles. I don't really understand why there's so much criticism of the ramp-up tournament; you yourselves complain from time to time that the developers don't always listen to player feedback. In this tournament, the developers decided to listen - they offered one of the options for changing diplomacy, which could be implemented in HotA, so that players could try it out and express their informed opinion. In my opinion, the result has been more than achieved.

The idea with diplomacy was very good, but if it had been presented in the format of Adel-Ryland-Kira, it would have been better. Urfin Juice was just another test polygon. People are simply tired of playing mirror matches.

Excellent Company, 3 in 1, 9 Kingdoms, Path to Olympus, Charity - they are all roughly similar to OFB-FB, because they are played with a wide pool of templates according to standard rules. Maybe there just aren't enough of these types of tournaments?

Paradoxically, people are really asking for standard tournaments. They're even rebelling, saying that OFB is following these rules. I don't understand why either :smile32: Standard rules and templates with an original tournament format - that's what people like.