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I don't have any problems with having enough time to do everything necessary
For a muscle to grow, it needs to be loaded with increasingly heavier weights. For the brain to develop, it needs to be given increasingly complex tasks. The same goes for the speed of playing Heroes — it only increases if the volume of actions a player wants to perform significantly exceeds the volume of actions a player is able to perform. Only under such conditions does a player start thinking about how to speed up their play, begin to notice which actions they perform too slowly, suboptimally, or unnecessarily.
If a player "has enough time for everything," then there will be no increase in game speed due to a lack of motivation. I recall, a couple of years ago, I dropped by the St. Petersburg M-200, expecting to see a StarCraft party, but instead saw the usual picture at most tables — a left hand propping up a chin, a right hand lazily clicking, periodically reaching for a bottle of beer. This isn't blitz, but some parody of it.
Players might not notice it, but as a regular viewer, I can clearly see that the game speed of HotA players has significantly increased over the past year and a half, even on long controls. Players have become faster at clicking, less prone to freezing on simple situations, more frequent in using hotkeys, not milking every move and gold piece from the template ala Indra-style, etc. Moreover, the main speed jumps occurred in the spring — apparently, having gotten a boost of energy from the winter Blitz Jebus Crosses, players began applying the skills they had acquired in other situations as well.
And let me note once again — this is all voluntary; I'm not dragging anyone here by force. So those who don't need any of this, who are satisfied with their game speed, can simply ignore the blitz and rapid tournaments silently, rather than starting a flood of off-topic posts here. OK?
