Heading towards CIS-2020.

What Kirill is writing seems to me like a typical attempt to manipulate the votes.

Why manipulate them when you can just take a stance, as was done this year? And after the majority voted for a mix, invent a "wheel" with an incomplete mix. But even here, a third of the games and a third of the participants played SOD.
Regarding regular viewers, let Romantic make the decision. I think that the opinion of regular viewers can be taken into account in some way, but it should not be decisive, that is, it should be valued lower than the opinion of the players.
Yes, I am more interested in observing the clash of versions. But this year I will come regardless of the decision that will be made - a mix or HOTA. Because this year it will be decided based on completely specific and reasonable criteria.

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the probability of viewers not coming due to the version is extremely low (there are only a few of them, and they usually don't come anyway)

This year, Georgia was missing at least 5 people because of that mess and confusion. And these were precisely the ones who "usually come" (among the players, for example, OsFaraon and, as a result, Preds).
But this is an absolutely fruitless and unproductive dialogue, because I am reasoning as a manager and organizer, and you are telling me that the absence of several people does not affect you personally, although in this specific case, it affected it by about 15 percent. Whether this is a lot or a little is up to each individual to decide.