No, it seems you still don't understand. A tournament isn't meant to prove anything to anyone! Especially not about how cool something is, or how cool a resource is. A tournament would be useful for making contact, which could lead to closer cooperation, personal connections, and finding mutual interests, etc. (if that's what you want). But it seems that the majority of both your group and ours haven't understood this yet. That's a shame. It means that all my efforts are in vain for now.

You see, the problem is that playing SoD after TE is like driving a "Moskvich" after a "Mercedes" (that's just my opinion). I would gladly participate in a tournament, but if it's SoD, I'm telling the truth, go ahead and criticize me, do whatever you want, but I just can't play SoD. I don't know what to compare it to – it's like going to the toilet outside in -35 degrees when you have the option of going inside where it's warm (sorry for the comparison, I'm just trying to express what I feel) :o

- is this just propaganda for TE and an attempt to lure people to your site, or is it a genuinely sincere proposal to popularize Heroes?

Please, read my long post. I'm being sincere. Why do we need to popularize it? What's the point for us? If you don't like TE, then don't play it. I just can't understand how anyone can prefer SoD. Give me just one reason.

but I was almost convinced, and even promoted it myself (although I never played it, but I had a pretty good idea of it from your reports).

Heh, you almost quoted me word for word. I said something similar about a year ago. :)
It's a shame that my "almost convinced" took longer than it should have