Stage 5 of the John Van Caneghem Tournament

21 is a good result.
Personally, I couldn't have imagined that the map could be completed in less than 15 days, and it turned out that only 10 days were enough. I personally wouldn't have completed it without the Orcish ability "Protect Us All." Only with its help did I acquire goblins and eliminate everyone.

It seems that few participants are sharing their results.
And it's a pity that only a third of the registered participants have submitted their final results.
Dracon Mallasa - 10 days is enough to reach the excavation site (the entire game takes a minimum of 12 days).
I'm curious, has anyone else (besides us and Fireball) managed to achieve a result in 12 days??? (if so, what are the hero's characteristics?).
Honestly, I thought there would be a big competition for the prize-winning places - I assumed that several players would achieve 12 days, and it would be necessary to have good hero characteristics and a lot of mercury (I have 57 characteristics and more than 100 mercury - maybe it's not enough, time will tell).

Was the goblin reinforcement (from the ZNV - presumably an abbreviation for a specific game element) so important for completing the game? After all, they are just cannon fodder; sometimes you could throw single units into the fray!