Hello, dear forum members and mapmakers!

Please accept my apologies for my prolonged absence from the forum.

Due to the fact that the workload increases several times towards the end of the year, I had to urgently go on a business trip, and upon my return, I had to focus on solving the tasks at my main job, temporarily leaving the forum. Unfortunately, the trend of a large workload at my main job will continue at least until the end of the year, so my presence on the forum during this period will be rare; please understand.

Of course, I do not relieve myself of my obligations to you regarding the topics and sections that I manage for the benefit of the forum. Therefore, in any case, one of the most interesting, popular, and long-running topics, such as the "Best HOMM3 map of 2007" topic, will be completed and finalized as it should be, with all the consequences, such as awarding prizes and holding the Best of the Best2 tournament!

At the same time, a significant number of maps have been submitted in recent days, so the workload on the judges evaluating the maps has increased significantly. Therefore, the final results may be delayed by a few days. Everything will depend on when I receive the final reports on all the maps from our esteemed judges.

I ask you, Sage and Kolb@zzer, to send all the missing materials for evaluating each map presented in the table, according to the categories indicated in the first post of this topic, as soon as possible. Also, please send a summary for each map.

A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OUR MAPMAKERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS CONTEST! ALL THE MAPS ARE INTERESTING, UNIQUE, AND DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER! EACH HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE FEATURE!

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about the maps that did not pass the selection due to the minimum requirements that were set. There were many such maps:
Durik1 and Durik 2 – maps that not only did not meet the requirements but also contained offensive language.
Fear – the author was unable to convert the map to the COD version.
Испытание - the author was unable to correctly convert the map to the COD version (the map crashes constantly, unfortunately).
Also, maps that were archived in incomprehensible archives, had a strange extension, maps that were taken from other Internet resources, as well as maps whose users are not registered on the site and did not leave an application in the contest topic.
All of them, unfortunately (although I tried to explain to the esteemed mapmakers what they needed to do to participate in the contest), were unable to join the competition for the best map.

HERE ARE THE MAPS THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE TABLE AND CONSIDERED BY THE JUDGES:
1. Lord of the Elements, author unknown (Kulichenov Ilya <azzazeloknight??? yarik_dolmatov??? if the author does not announce himself, then it will have to be excluded>
2. Ring, Three Kings, Princess, author Draco.
3. He who has eyes will see, author RAPER

P.S. At the moment, I have evaluated and finalized the results for 13 maps in 17 Word documents.

P.P.S. I also installed a high-speed internet connection, but it's of little use, as there is absolutely no time to figure out why something is being downloaded from an unknown source (Outpost doesn't see it, unfortunately). In a couple of minutes, 12 MB of something unknown is downloaded...
Maybe someone knows what this is, all Windows update services are disabled, programs are not being updated, what is the reason? Moreover, this invisible process starts within 10-12 seconds!

Sincerely, VDV_forever