Moscow qualifying tournament for Shades of Darkness.

Eric, when you look at the Clans lineups, do you somehow relate them to players you know?

There's no need to take everything so seriously. Regarding the topic, I usually rely on the first post, the author's one. There, Querty writes: "There is an opinion about the feasibility of holding a club tournament in Moscow... let's discuss it."

So, I wrote that at the SoD tournament, players like
Pit, Keba, Rolpogo, Morpheus, Veland, Dimen, Rox, Phoenixes - PReDS, Vitalik, Vigo, as well as players from Portal and World, who don't play TE, could participate in the SoD tournament. Even our Michurinsk players would come, a couple of people, but they wouldn't go to the TE tournament.
After all, there are probably a couple of people from World or Portal who would like to hang out in Moscow, especially at a club tournament.

Therefore, with proper organization, such a tournament could take place. But for this, the potential organizer (presumably Querty) needs to reach out to old contacts on Portal, gather his players to represent the Clan, find old players from Moscow, agree with the club... in general, a lot of work, but no more than, for example, SAG.

Such a tournament is possible with proper organization. The lineup will not be inferior to other qualifying tournaments (well, maybe except for the top TE tournament in Moscow and potentially St. Petersburg), people almost don't overlap with the qualifying tournament in Moscow for TE.
That's all. There was a discussion, and I suggested a possible development of the situation.
A perfectly feasible task.

As I assume, Nagana's idea is to gather as many people as possible.

And since most of the true SoD players will not make it to the finals, they won't create any particular problems.

Is it bad to gather more people? It's the dream of any organizer, in any field, to gather more people. If, for example, 100 players come to all the qualifying tournaments, then next year, if they believe in us, there will be 200.
Some of the players who have already quit Heroes will return. Those who are still beginners will get involved. There will be some order in the Heroes community.