You were a little ahead of me. I also wanted to organize a tournament with Adelaide using the TE version, but only on fixed maps (I hate randomness, or rather, an unbalanced random map generator). But we decided to wait so as not to have any conflicts due to the mandatory seasonal tournament.
To be honest, I was a bit surprised by the negative attitude towards the TE version:confused:. After all, it was created specifically for online tournaments. I myself have been playing TE recently and still don't understand many things (that's why I play with almost all options disabled), but I really appreciated a couple of moments. The author of the topic should have started not with the rules, but with explaining and describing the differences in TE. I want to note that what seems difficult to understand at first glance can be turned OFF, and you get the usual SoD. You can leave only chess clocks and quick operations with stacks (I will quote for clarity: 8. Many control buttons and various key combinations have been added. Now you can transfer the entire army from one hero to another with one click, just like that, artifacts are transferred with one click. With one combination of keys, you can separate units from a stack into all free slots, with another combination, conversely, collect them into one stack, with a third, distribute them evenly across free slots, etc.)
Well, I didn't expect such negativity towards TE either; last time /topic/1882/ everyone reacted normally, and a decent number of people registered.
Now regarding fixed maps, my opinion is that on a fixed map, the one who studies it better before the game wins (calculates all possible moves, etc.). This resembles an off-line tournament more than an online one.
We played one tournament on fixed maps, and most agreed that random maps are better. http://igronet.ru/forum//topic/452/
And yet, in order to somehow smooth out the factor of luck or bad luck with the map, there are two restarts, and the game is played until 2 victories.
Войны нельзя избежать, ее можно только отсрочить к выгоде вашего соперника.
(c) Револьвер