[HMM III OFF TOURNAMENT] "Race for the Leader"

Hello.

Only 2 heroes should remain on the screen in this mission (from which we will choose the main one).

"What a stress, what a stress, I can't take it!" :) - Quaid from South Park

Explain it to the particularly gifted, that is, to me.:)

I don't understand anything. After all, it's clear from the beginning that the scripted hero will be the hero based on whose parameters the comparison will be made, right? And the second hero is explicitly written as an exception. That is, he is left only for the sake of winning, nothing more, or is there?

And now it turns out that the judges will choose between my heroes. So why did I torture myself, replay, so that the scripted hero would get more artifacts? It would be much easier for me to leave the artifacts on the additional hero, who is much stronger than the scripted one...
I don't understand anything, I'm just confused.

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p.s. with respect, Maximula