Top on HW

Right now, everything is being viewed through the lens of the Interportal (I've already played 7 games and that's not all), so I'll express my opinion from that perspective. I think that the discussion about new tournaments is also caused by our not-so-stellar performance. Nagan-4 has already raised the question of how we can win the next tournament. There are two components here. The first is organizational issues: team formation, rules, templates, versions... The second is improving the skill level of the players. The tournament being discussed is supposed to kill two birds with one stone – we'll get a team roster and improve our skills. But this creates a contradiction. To form a HW team, we need to hold a tournament that is closed to players from other resources. To improve the game, we need to strengthen the tournament roster. Regarding the first point. There is experience in forming teams in three ways: HW – voting, HP – voting + qualifying games, HB – the captain determines the roster. Our team was represented by a good roster. In the future, we probably need to change our method somewhat. For example: 30% – voting, 30% – the captain's decision, 40% – a qualifying mini-tournament. We don't know the dates of the next tournament where a team will be needed, nor the version, template, or opponent. None of the players can confidently say that they will definitely play at a specific time in half a year or a year, or what they will be playing, and there are many possible circumstances. Therefore, we need to form a team for a specific tournament. Tournament preparation always takes a certain amount of time – a month or so. During this time, everything can be done. The captain holds a vote, based on which and on his own opinion, determines 60% of the roster, and we hold a tournament among those who did not make the roster but want to defend the honor of HW. The vote will show the opinion of the people (they will vote for those who play well in the rating and tournaments), the captain will be able to invite strong players who, for some reason, are not actively playing on HW at the moment (as was the case with Alex R in the summer), and anyone who wants to can try to prove their abilities – Loy, Aldegyr, Vigo... Regarding the second point. We want to improve the game – we play with everyone, participate in strong tournaments, and attract the best players from other resources.

We don't need to borrow the negative aspects from other sites. First of all, this is the clumping together based on affiliation, etc. The world is becoming globalized, and this is the most progressive trend. Restrictions will only hinder development. Ideally, most players would not have a strong site affiliation. If you want team competitions, you can arrange them without inter-site squabbles, simply by dividing into groups based on who agrees with whom and playing. I don't see the point in dividing players into "ours" and "plays for us, but not ours." Playing benefits both the resource and the player.

+1 If we are so afraid of the arrival of top players from Baya (which seems unlikely to me), we can introduce a minimum number of games played in the rating over the past two seasons, for example, 12 (that's one game every 2 weeks on average). If a person plays on HW, why shouldn't they be able to participate in the best tournament? And not allowing Paladin, Vitalik, LeBron, Kebazavr, and Voland to play is both funny, sad, and very stupid. We are robbing ourselves.