Nagan-4
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Thank you very much, guys. I am very glad that you all came to the tournament. Here is my report.
Results:
Round 1:
1. Nagan-4 (blue, Fortress, Bron) def Pavel (red, Rampart, Kyrre), 136.
2. Lexa (red, Tower, Ain) def Vicing (blue, Inferno, Peer)
3. Tema (red, Rampart, Kyrre) def Yama-Dharma (blue, Dungeon, Shakti), 144.
4. Cannabis (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def Alexgrid (red, Dungeon, Shakti), 124.
5. PReDS (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Mizrael (blue, Castle, Caitlin).
6. Scorp (blue, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Reper (red, Tower, Nella)
7. Matrosoff (red, Fortress, Tazar) draw Flash (blue, Dungeon, Shakti).
Round 2:
1. Lexa (red, Dungeon, Shakti) def Tema (blue, Necropolis, Galtran), 222;
2. Yama-Dharma (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def Vicing (red, Castle, Valeska), 134;
3. Nagan-4 (red, Tower, Nella) def Scorp (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson), 124.
4. Flash (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson) def Reper (blue, Castle, Valeska), 122;
5. Mizrael def Alexgrid - tech. win.
6. Pavel (blue, Castle, Valeska) def Cannabis (red, Rampart, Kyrre), 144.
7. PReDS (red, Stronghold, Tiraxor) def MatrosOFF (blue, Conflux, Moner), TE.
Round 3:
1. Lexa (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def Nagan-4 (red, Fortress, Bron), 127.
2. Flash (red, Fortress, Bron) def Mistic (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson), 133.
3. Scorp (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) def Yama-Dharma (red, Rampart, Kyrre), 125.
4. PReDS (red, Fortress, Tazar) def LDmitriy (blue, Castle, Valeska), 124.
5. Stinger (red, Castle, Caitlin) def Tema (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson)
6. MatrosOFF (red, Tower, Ain) def Vicing (blue, Rampart, Kyrre)
7. Mizrael (red, Fortress, Tazar) def Cannabis (blue, Dungeon, Shakti).
Round 4:
1. Lexa (blue, Rampart, Kyrre)def Flash (red, Fortress, Bron), 132
2. Stinger (red, Conflux, Moner) def Scorp (blue, Necropolis, Galtran), 133.
3. Mizrael (red, Tower, Ain) def MatrosOFF (blue, Fortress, Tazar).
4. PReDS (blue, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Nagan-4 (red, Tower, Nella).
5. Yama-Dharma (?) draw LDmiriy (?).
6. Reper (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) def Mistic (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack), 146.
7. Vicing def Cannabis – tech. win.
Round 5:
1. Lexa (blue, Fortress, Peer) def PReDS (red, Inferno, Bron), 141.
2. Yama-Dharma (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Flash (blue, Castle, Valeska), 124.
3. Tema (red, dungeon, shakti) def LDmitriy (blue, Stronghold, Crag Hack).
4. Stinger (red, Inferno, random) def MatrosOFF (blue, Inferno, Peer), TE, 126.
5. Scorp (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson) def Mistic – replaced by Ta Kotoraya…(b, Rampart, Kyrre).
6. Mizrael (random) def Reper (random)
7. Nagan-4 draw Cannabis.
Final standings of participants.
1. Lexa (Michurinsk)___________ – 5 points out of 5.
2. PreDS (Podolsk)___________ – 4.
3. Stinger (Moscow)_____________- 4.
4. Mizrael (Tambov)_____________ –4.
5. Scorp (Tambov)______________- 3.
6-9. Flash (Michurinsk)__________-2,5.
6-9. Nagan4 (Michurinsk)_______ – 2,5.
6-9. Yama-Dharma (Moscow)_____ –2,5.
6-9. Tema (Michurinsk)_________ -2,5.
10. Reper (Novgorod)___________ -2,5.
11-13. LDmitriy (Stary Oskol)__- 1,5.
11-13. Marosoff (Saint Petersburg)-1,5.
11-13. Cannabis (Michurinsk)____- 1,5.
14-16. Mistic (Stary Oskol)_____-1.
14-16. Pavel (Michurinsk)_______ -1.
14-16. Vicing (Michurinsk)_______-1.
17. Alexgrid (Michurinsk)_______ –1.
Now about the tournament.
Essentially, the tournament began on the night between Wednesday and Thursday. Some of the local players couldn't play the entire tournament, so they played through the night as much as they could. I played with Pasha, who had escaped back to his hometown for a couple of days. Few people knew the templates from the local community; many hadn't played in a long time and were remembering the game now. My impression is that the swamp generates richer, the resps are different, and the distribution was simply gorgeous.
On Thursday morning Yama-Dharma arrived. I really love this wonderful man, wise and composed; a tournament with his presence always goes more calmly.
After chatting and having lunch, we went to the club—not "Legion," but "Phoenix," where Lekha and Tema already were. Vova sat down to play with Tema, and unexpectedly, an opponent was found for Lekha: one of the club visitors had heard about the tournament and really wanted to play—his nickname was Viking.
Obviously, he couldn't do anything against Lekha, but Tema unexpectedly held his own against the vice-champion of the Chaos League and won.
The players enjoyed it so much that by evening they decided to play the second round; specifically, the pairs were: winners Lekha – Tema, and losers Yama-Dharma – Viking.
Yama-Dharma won quickly, but Alexei and Artem had a heated battle. own same Lexa (Dungeon) had a good respawn and a large army against the Necro's quickly obtained gateway. Although Lekha skillfully pushed the opponent away from the towns, the game dragged on until week 6. I returned home with Vova well past midnight. I was woken up by a persistent call; Matrosov was on a train and was very worried about how we were feeling at half-past two in the morning. Naturally, we felt... m-m-m... deep gratitude to this man for caring so much about us.
In the morning, Yama-Dharma and I went to the club, met PReDS, shortly after the Novgorodians and Matrosov; the Tambov residents arrived, Flash showed up—we continued the first and second rounds with other participants. I don't know if it should be recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records, but Matrosov and Flash played for more than 6 hours, remaining at... 111 !!!!!
How? You just have to know how!
PReDS had a good game with Mizrael.
Something funny happened in the second round between me and Scorp (I was Tower, he was Barb). I quickly discovered that the secondary resource was barbarian and immediately rushed there, managing to arrive literally one turn earlier. The boss was already positioned on birds. One of the pawns reached Gurnisson with the last tile and immediately got an army—he attacked, smashed the cover of goblins and 2 birds, but Gurnisson managed to escape with the last bird.
And right then the barbarian army attacks the mages' force.
You don't see this often—the final battle of the main armies under the control of pawns. My hero Nella was far away, and Gurnisson was sitting in a tavern. We maneuvered for a long time, but without birds, the barbs had it tough. In general, one tile decided the game.
PReDS beat Matrosov, Flash beat Reper, Pavel beat Cannabis.
After 11 PM we left the club and went to my house; we were supposed to meet Stinger at night. Matrosov and I met Tema, brought him to my house—and then we stayed up as a company until half-past five in the morning.
For the 3rd round, we finally gathered in full force—Dmitry and Mistic from Stary Oskol arrived plus Stinger. Since all three missed the first rounds, we credited them with 50 percent of the points. They could have earned more, but they could also have earned less—because there were people who played 2 games and lost both.
I took Bron again; a pretty large respawn, but only one gnoll dwelling, though five external dwellings. I cleared everything I could reach quite confidently, although players noted that I should have been more careful spending the gnolls.
Unfortunately, the opponent also had a good respawn with numerous dwellings, and coming to visit me in the middle of week 2, he forced me into an unfavorable fight and to storm a city with a citadel, where the swamp army was lost. There was no other way; a hero without logistics couldn't keep up with Kyrre and all cities would have been lost.
At the end of the second—he took my capital, smashing the boss.
Mizrael and Cannabis had a stubborn fight. At one point, Cannabis gained a large advantage—a double build of Dungeons with an external dwelling of red dragons. Mizrael managed to turn the game around and win at the end of week 5.
What else? In the meeting of namesakes—Tema and Stinger—the strongest won. Scorp played a good game with Yama-Dharma. Matrosov beat Viking, Flash beat Mistic.
Overall, the level of play was quite high. There were no super-beautiful games, but breaking through stacks of level 6 creatures in week 1-2 was commonplace, as was cracking "cans." Taking Dragon Utopia on week 3 had long ceased to be a hit of the day and became more of a sign of good play. The school of play has long been detailed on resources; whoever was too lazy to read or didn't care—they were the ones who had problems in the game.
Round 4.
Quite unexpectedly, two young local players were leading—Lekha and Flash.
Essentially, PReDS should have had three wins, but there was a question about his game with Matrosov. Lekha and Flash beat him quite easily; Reper beat Mistic; the game between Scorp and Stinger was postponed, as was Mizrael's with Matrosov. Yama-Dharma and Dmitry agreed to a draw. Reper beat Mistic in a long and stubborn game.
I physically could no longer play normally: a hard start on the poorest resps for both, native secondaries, and the gradual unfolding of the game. I was Tower again against Barb.
Nella got expert logistics and expert slow, and with 150 caps, she took out quite strong monsters. Since I didn't set any goals for the tournament, I experimented until I ran into a stack of monsters that I couldn't break through: the cop-packs ran out of arrows.
After the round, the whole friendly team went bowling and had a good rest after the tense games; later, the most resilient ones came to my place, where we rested culturally until morning.
Given that the round was the last anyway—some participants started it at noon.
The deciding game was between Lekha and PReDS. Day 126 became key: PReDS's boss turned the wrong way, and as a result, the meat that Dima could have taken was taken by Alexei.
In the final battle, Lekha's army was led by 14 angels and about 36 wyverns.
Mizrael won two postponed games and caught up with PReDS; Stinger also had four wins. The calculation of additional indicators put Dima (PReDS) in 2nd place, Artem (Stinger) in third, and Misha (Mizrael) in fourth.
In general, a 5-round Swiss game implies that a player who suffers one defeat is not deprived of the chance to reach the final. I hope that Mizrael, who showed excellent play and lost only on additional indicators, will also be in the final after qualifying tournaments are held in all cities.
For now, congratulations to the top three winners—Alexei, Dmitry, and Artem—on reaching the final and for a wonderful game; thank you to all championship participants for creating a creative atmosphere at the tournament and to all forum members—the fans—for their active participation in this thread. Special thanks to the administration of the "Legion" computer club for the warm welcome and excellent conditions for playing.
Results:
Round 1:
1. Nagan-4 (blue, Fortress, Bron) def Pavel (red, Rampart, Kyrre), 136.
2. Lexa (red, Tower, Ain) def Vicing (blue, Inferno, Peer)
3. Tema (red, Rampart, Kyrre) def Yama-Dharma (blue, Dungeon, Shakti), 144.
4. Cannabis (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def Alexgrid (red, Dungeon, Shakti), 124.
5. PReDS (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Mizrael (blue, Castle, Caitlin).
6. Scorp (blue, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Reper (red, Tower, Nella)
7. Matrosoff (red, Fortress, Tazar) draw Flash (blue, Dungeon, Shakti).
Round 2:
1. Lexa (red, Dungeon, Shakti) def Tema (blue, Necropolis, Galtran), 222;
2. Yama-Dharma (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def Vicing (red, Castle, Valeska), 134;
3. Nagan-4 (red, Tower, Nella) def Scorp (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson), 124.
4. Flash (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson) def Reper (blue, Castle, Valeska), 122;
5. Mizrael def Alexgrid - tech. win.
6. Pavel (blue, Castle, Valeska) def Cannabis (red, Rampart, Kyrre), 144.
7. PReDS (red, Stronghold, Tiraxor) def MatrosOFF (blue, Conflux, Moner), TE.
Round 3:
1. Lexa (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def Nagan-4 (red, Fortress, Bron), 127.
2. Flash (red, Fortress, Bron) def Mistic (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson), 133.
3. Scorp (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) def Yama-Dharma (red, Rampart, Kyrre), 125.
4. PReDS (red, Fortress, Tazar) def LDmitriy (blue, Castle, Valeska), 124.
5. Stinger (red, Castle, Caitlin) def Tema (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson)
6. MatrosOFF (red, Tower, Ain) def Vicing (blue, Rampart, Kyrre)
7. Mizrael (red, Fortress, Tazar) def Cannabis (blue, Dungeon, Shakti).
Round 4:
1. Lexa (blue, Rampart, Kyrre)def Flash (red, Fortress, Bron), 132
2. Stinger (red, Conflux, Moner) def Scorp (blue, Necropolis, Galtran), 133.
3. Mizrael (red, Tower, Ain) def MatrosOFF (blue, Fortress, Tazar).
4. PReDS (blue, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Nagan-4 (red, Tower, Nella).
5. Yama-Dharma (?) draw LDmiriy (?).
6. Reper (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) def Mistic (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack), 146.
7. Vicing def Cannabis – tech. win.
Round 5:
1. Lexa (blue, Fortress, Peer) def PReDS (red, Inferno, Bron), 141.
2. Yama-Dharma (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack) def Flash (blue, Castle, Valeska), 124.
3. Tema (red, dungeon, shakti) def LDmitriy (blue, Stronghold, Crag Hack).
4. Stinger (red, Inferno, random) def MatrosOFF (blue, Inferno, Peer), TE, 126.
5. Scorp (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson) def Mistic – replaced by Ta Kotoraya…(b, Rampart, Kyrre).
6. Mizrael (random) def Reper (random)
7. Nagan-4 draw Cannabis.
Final standings of participants.
1. Lexa (Michurinsk)___________ – 5 points out of 5.
2. PreDS (Podolsk)___________ – 4.
3. Stinger (Moscow)_____________- 4.
4. Mizrael (Tambov)_____________ –4.
5. Scorp (Tambov)______________- 3.
6-9. Flash (Michurinsk)__________-2,5.
6-9. Nagan4 (Michurinsk)_______ – 2,5.
6-9. Yama-Dharma (Moscow)_____ –2,5.
6-9. Tema (Michurinsk)_________ -2,5.
10. Reper (Novgorod)___________ -2,5.
11-13. LDmitriy (Stary Oskol)__- 1,5.
11-13. Marosoff (Saint Petersburg)-1,5.
11-13. Cannabis (Michurinsk)____- 1,5.
14-16. Mistic (Stary Oskol)_____-1.
14-16. Pavel (Michurinsk)_______ -1.
14-16. Vicing (Michurinsk)_______-1.
17. Alexgrid (Michurinsk)_______ –1.
Now about the tournament.
Essentially, the tournament began on the night between Wednesday and Thursday. Some of the local players couldn't play the entire tournament, so they played through the night as much as they could. I played with Pasha, who had escaped back to his hometown for a couple of days. Few people knew the templates from the local community; many hadn't played in a long time and were remembering the game now. My impression is that the swamp generates richer, the resps are different, and the distribution was simply gorgeous.
On Thursday morning Yama-Dharma arrived. I really love this wonderful man, wise and composed; a tournament with his presence always goes more calmly.
After chatting and having lunch, we went to the club—not "Legion," but "Phoenix," where Lekha and Tema already were. Vova sat down to play with Tema, and unexpectedly, an opponent was found for Lekha: one of the club visitors had heard about the tournament and really wanted to play—his nickname was Viking.
Obviously, he couldn't do anything against Lekha, but Tema unexpectedly held his own against the vice-champion of the Chaos League and won.
The players enjoyed it so much that by evening they decided to play the second round; specifically, the pairs were: winners Lekha – Tema, and losers Yama-Dharma – Viking.
Yama-Dharma won quickly, but Alexei and Artem had a heated battle. own same Lexa (Dungeon) had a good respawn and a large army against the Necro's quickly obtained gateway. Although Lekha skillfully pushed the opponent away from the towns, the game dragged on until week 6. I returned home with Vova well past midnight. I was woken up by a persistent call; Matrosov was on a train and was very worried about how we were feeling at half-past two in the morning. Naturally, we felt... m-m-m... deep gratitude to this man for caring so much about us.
In the morning, Yama-Dharma and I went to the club, met PReDS, shortly after the Novgorodians and Matrosov; the Tambov residents arrived, Flash showed up—we continued the first and second rounds with other participants. I don't know if it should be recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records, but Matrosov and Flash played for more than 6 hours, remaining at... 111 !!!!!
How? You just have to know how!
PReDS had a good game with Mizrael.
Something funny happened in the second round between me and Scorp (I was Tower, he was Barb). I quickly discovered that the secondary resource was barbarian and immediately rushed there, managing to arrive literally one turn earlier. The boss was already positioned on birds. One of the pawns reached Gurnisson with the last tile and immediately got an army—he attacked, smashed the cover of goblins and 2 birds, but Gurnisson managed to escape with the last bird.
And right then the barbarian army attacks the mages' force.
You don't see this often—the final battle of the main armies under the control of pawns. My hero Nella was far away, and Gurnisson was sitting in a tavern. We maneuvered for a long time, but without birds, the barbs had it tough. In general, one tile decided the game.
PReDS beat Matrosov, Flash beat Reper, Pavel beat Cannabis.
After 11 PM we left the club and went to my house; we were supposed to meet Stinger at night. Matrosov and I met Tema, brought him to my house—and then we stayed up as a company until half-past five in the morning.
For the 3rd round, we finally gathered in full force—Dmitry and Mistic from Stary Oskol arrived plus Stinger. Since all three missed the first rounds, we credited them with 50 percent of the points. They could have earned more, but they could also have earned less—because there were people who played 2 games and lost both.
I took Bron again; a pretty large respawn, but only one gnoll dwelling, though five external dwellings. I cleared everything I could reach quite confidently, although players noted that I should have been more careful spending the gnolls.
Unfortunately, the opponent also had a good respawn with numerous dwellings, and coming to visit me in the middle of week 2, he forced me into an unfavorable fight and to storm a city with a citadel, where the swamp army was lost. There was no other way; a hero without logistics couldn't keep up with Kyrre and all cities would have been lost.
At the end of the second—he took my capital, smashing the boss.
Mizrael and Cannabis had a stubborn fight. At one point, Cannabis gained a large advantage—a double build of Dungeons with an external dwelling of red dragons. Mizrael managed to turn the game around and win at the end of week 5.
What else? In the meeting of namesakes—Tema and Stinger—the strongest won. Scorp played a good game with Yama-Dharma. Matrosov beat Viking, Flash beat Mistic.
Overall, the level of play was quite high. There were no super-beautiful games, but breaking through stacks of level 6 creatures in week 1-2 was commonplace, as was cracking "cans." Taking Dragon Utopia on week 3 had long ceased to be a hit of the day and became more of a sign of good play. The school of play has long been detailed on resources; whoever was too lazy to read or didn't care—they were the ones who had problems in the game.
Round 4.
Quite unexpectedly, two young local players were leading—Lekha and Flash.
Essentially, PReDS should have had three wins, but there was a question about his game with Matrosov. Lekha and Flash beat him quite easily; Reper beat Mistic; the game between Scorp and Stinger was postponed, as was Mizrael's with Matrosov. Yama-Dharma and Dmitry agreed to a draw. Reper beat Mistic in a long and stubborn game.
I physically could no longer play normally: a hard start on the poorest resps for both, native secondaries, and the gradual unfolding of the game. I was Tower again against Barb.
Nella got expert logistics and expert slow, and with 150 caps, she took out quite strong monsters. Since I didn't set any goals for the tournament, I experimented until I ran into a stack of monsters that I couldn't break through: the cop-packs ran out of arrows.
After the round, the whole friendly team went bowling and had a good rest after the tense games; later, the most resilient ones came to my place, where we rested culturally until morning.
Given that the round was the last anyway—some participants started it at noon.
The deciding game was between Lekha and PReDS. Day 126 became key: PReDS's boss turned the wrong way, and as a result, the meat that Dima could have taken was taken by Alexei.
In the final battle, Lekha's army was led by 14 angels and about 36 wyverns.
Mizrael won two postponed games and caught up with PReDS; Stinger also had four wins. The calculation of additional indicators put Dima (PReDS) in 2nd place, Artem (Stinger) in third, and Misha (Mizrael) in fourth.
In general, a 5-round Swiss game implies that a player who suffers one defeat is not deprived of the chance to reach the final. I hope that Mizrael, who showed excellent play and lost only on additional indicators, will also be in the final after qualifying tournaments are held in all cities.
For now, congratulations to the top three winners—Alexei, Dmitry, and Artem—on reaching the final and for a wonderful game; thank you to all championship participants for creating a creative atmosphere at the tournament and to all forum members—the fans—for their active participation in this thread. Special thanks to the administration of the "Legion" computer club for the warm welcome and excellent conditions for playing.