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If a miracle happens and you change the timer after the first round, please register me for the tournament again in advance. :D
(The key number now is the number of turns – Diamond is basically unplayable with less than 8 minutes per turn (in other words, it's "playable with a very significant loss of quality"), so there needs to be a large starting reserve).
This was proven (again, for those who are particularly slow to understand :smile14:) just tonight in practice with Lizard playing against Dave on mt-diamond in mirror matches (16-8-1). Lizard played incredibly well with the reduced timer. And even with those eight minutes in the late game, it wasn't enough for him. That is, he was barely able to do the main things. And even then, viewers were worried that he was barely managing it. And this is Lizard, a more or less unique player with very high skill and APM.