Freeman
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Well, in such a context, the key question must certainly be about priorities.
If the CIS tournament is held for the people - then it should focus specifically on the people. If the priority of holding the CIS tournament is for one's own sake (to make things "more comfortable" for oneself in certain aspects) - then indeed, there is no need to listen to anyone or ask anyone about anything. :smile31:
But in this case, there is a risk of not attracting enough players and spectators.
It should not be forgotten that during negotiations with the hotel - the preliminary price quoted was essentially based on conditions of full occupancy of the room stock with an approximate expected number of 35-40 people.
And in this regard, "Some kind of quorum will be there in any case" is an extremely dangerous phrasing. Because if only 20-25 people come, the final price could increase by one and a half to two times (I perfectly understand that Frisha and a few other people can handle it - but what about the rest?..).
And if, hypothetically, there are 10 players - then that is not a CIS quorum. A CIS quorum today is 20 players.
On the other hand, there is enough time ahead to campaign for an influx of "fresh blood" into the CIS from the HotA audience (only someone needs to handle this purposefully).
I would actually recommend conducting a survey on who generally intends to go (because so far we see about 7-8 people in this thread), look at the probabilities of arrival for those who specifically intend to play, - and then based on that create a pool of templates for different versions (Lizard's suggestion - just make three SoD and three HotA plus SoD-anarchy instead of random). Most current top-level players successfully play both versions, and they will somehow agree on HotA. But I see no point in acting rashly and immediately cutting off "true SoDers" and those who haven't yet trained their HotA to a tournament level (or simply want to play SoD).
On the contrary, a balanced solution in the form of having both SoD and HotA at the template level - will allow for expanding the CIS audience and not splitting the diaspora into two confrontational camps.:smile14:
"Do not split the army into 2 confrontational camps," said Kirill while sitting on a tank :D :D :D :D :D
But to get to the point, from a tournament perspective, HotA is more playable, and it seems there aren't really many people left who fundamentally refuse to play it among those who regularly attend the CIS event.
In any case, everything will be ready tonight; there just hasn't been enough time to format everything yet, and then we'll see how it all works out.
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