Kyiv qualifier GO!!!

Really well done!
Congratulations to Aldegir and Forrest on making it to the final. And who's the third prize-winner?

And more reports on the subject, interesting to hear, you know...

Most people played only two rounds. Kostyan and I have 1 point each out of two, and a save on 123. Ideally, we should finish the remaining games online.

Impressions of the meetup are purely positive, the only disappointment being that it all ended very quickly :(. Ideally, such tournament meetups should take 4-5 days. Thanks to Sasha-Navuh for organizing, everything was smooth :). Finally got to see "in the flesh" those I had known remotely for a long time :).

A brief overview of my games:

Lost to Aldegir without any chance. I took a rest on a good layout — thought his was even better. And of course I was punished by landing in complete garbage. A small, gold-less respawn. One road to GO, on the second block of lotza eyes and a pack of snipers, on the third — lotza eyes again. I clear it, only 18 marks left. I push further — horde of halberdiers. Skip a day, bring up swordsmen, clear it — further lotza liches :(. Only built 4 levels in the Stronghold. On the second week things started to improve a bit, but my opponent had chocolate, and on 131 he came through GO and took my castle.

In the second game I played with Petya — Piterius. Gave him red Conflux, took blue rampart and Kyrre myself. Restarted for a long time, ultimately I got chocolate in the form of a huge respawn with two external elf dwellings, a Dragon Utopia on the respawn, Galtran in the tavern (he became the main hero), a secondary dungeon with an external dragon dwelling. In short, even I couldn't fumble such a layout (haven't played SoD for 4.5 years, TE for 1.5). At the end of the third week in a swamp treasury I found a chalice +6 all, on 141 I took a tier-3 Dragon Utopia with a sword all +5, cuirass +4+4, and a book of earth :eek: . Straight-up TE-style Dragon Utopia :). Petya took risks to catch up to me in stats, but couldn't beat the max Dragon Utopia and lost. Though, I think even if he had taken it, his chances wouldn't have been very high...