I invite all fans of Heroes 3 to take part in the first, JOINT tournament of two Heroes communities: HeroesWorld.ru and HeroesPortal.net General Tournament Rules:

1. To participate in the Heroes 3 Tournament, you must register on our website or on the HeroesPortal.net website. If desired, you can also leave an application in this thread. By leaving an application, you will be notified about receiving your save in the application table.

2. The tournament is held on the Heroes 3: The Shadow of Death version with patch 3.2 or 4.0.

3. The goal of the game is to obtain the artifact – “The Book of Air Magic” – in the shortest number of days. In case of a tie in the number of days, the second criterion will be the sum of the primary stats (Attack, Defense, Magic Power, Knowledge) taking into account the equipped artifacts!
Note: The sum of the primary stats is calculated directly in the final save (if the last action is a battle, the sum of the stats is calculated before the battle!)

4. Discussion of the tournament during its course is PROHIBITED!!!
If the organizer, or his assistant, has documented evidence of a discussion about the tournament, in any place on the Internet, he has the right to permanently disqualify such player(s) from participating in tournaments on www.heroesworld.ru. The results of such players will not be counted and will be annulled.
The tournament organizer also reserves the right to consider that the discussion of the tournament was between players if players from the same clan completed the tournament in exactly the same way.

5. This tournament is held according to the rules of HeroesPortal.net, which are practically no different from the rules of HeroesWorld.ru. You can find the rules by following the links:
http://www.heroesportal.net/land/rules.php?type=main
http://www.heroesportal.net/land/rules.php?type=off3
I would like to draw your attention to the following points:

1. All battles conducted in the tournament may be subjected to verification by the tournament organizers to confirm that they can be repeated on any computer, and participants may be asked to provide detailed descriptions of the battles they conducted.

If battles are repeated, the outcome of morale, luck, or abilities should not be a decisive factor in the victory (saving the army) and should not be necessary when the tournament organizer repeats the battle.

A player may deviate from these rules and build their victory on a single occurrence of morale, luck, or abilities, and ask the tournament organizer to replay their battle several times to confirm the repeatability of the results.

In the event of a deviation from these rules, as well as the inability of the tournament organizer to repeat any of the battles in the tournament within 25 attempts, the participant's final save will be annulled.

2. Prohibition of escaping from the sea and subsequent movement of the redeemed hero, using navigation bonuses on land.
In other words, this prohibition applies to the following cases:
1. Using the hero's artifact “Admiral's Hat” or its components;
2. The hero has the “Navigation” skill of any level;
3. The presence (construction or taking control) of a Lighthouse(-s).
In other cases, it is allowed to escape from the sea and move the redeemed hero.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizer in a private message!

6. In the event of suspicion of a player cheating, or other malicious intent when completing the map, it is necessary to make a save before each significant event (for example, before a battle, before hiring another hero). The result of a player who played unfairly, as well as one who did not send their description (saves) in time at the request of the tournament organizer, will be annulled, and their further participation in tournaments will be impossible. This will also affect their reputation, not in a good way.

7. The sequence of actions to participate in the tournament:

7.1. Download the save.

7.2. The downloaded save must be placed in the GAMES folder of your installed Heroes 3 on your computer.

7.3. Load it and start the game at any time that is convenient for you, while remembering to make intermediate saves (at least at the end or beginning of each game day, or better, both at once).

7.4. After completing the last action (after which the victory occurs), you must save again. The final save should contain two heroes (the remaining heroes must be dismissed): the one performing the last action and the hero whose stats are counted; if these heroes coincide, only one should remain.

Save name: The final save must be named after the participant's nickname.

Example: Dirty_Player.gm1

After receiving your save, you will see in the application table that:
save accepted - in bold Nickname.
save counted – in italic Nickname.

7.5. A complete description of the tournament map is encouraged (not required).

7.6. Send this save to the addresses nmr@bk.ru and sub-zero-mil@rambler.ru

7.7. Wait for the results.

8. The tournament starts on 02/16/2009 and will last until 03/16/2009 (inclusive, until 24:00 Moscow time). Only one final save is accepted from a player.
The results will be published no later than 03/26/2009.

9. Discussion on heroesportal.net
http://www.heroesportal.net/tavern/?id=264659

10. List of participants: