Moscow qualifying tournament for Shades of Darkness.

Eric, why are you constantly replacing TE-lite with TE? Why can't Sod players play on the lite version? At the qualifier in Kyiv, the TE players (Volodymyr, Forrest, Piterius, and I) came and played on a version and template that wasn't ideal for them without any questions. Why are the orthodox Sod players creating tension with their ultimatums, like "we don't like this, we don't like that"? Does pride prevent them from learning three buttons and two differences between the lite version and Sod in fifteen minutes? Or what prevents Pete from opening the 8mm6 template scheme during the game to get his bearings? I haven't played CM for ages, I opened the scheme in a browser and played, and I didn't die.

Zhenya, let's go through this step by step. You probably accepted Sod in Kyiv because you were a strong player in Sod. At least in 2004 (I think you played against Antal and you were close to winning).
I assume that Forrest and others also started playing Sod, and they liked it so much that they stayed in Heroes... but I won't get into a discussion about TE and Sod.

Regarding the pride of Sod players. Don't TE players have pride? The question is different. To accept or not accept TE (especially TE-lite), you need to understand it. A player who left Heroes, after receiving an offer to learn TE-lite (it's kind of like Sod, only better), will draw the following conclusions:
1. That TE is probably some kind of cobbled-together thing, like WoG, on which you can't play tournaments in clubs, which means the tournament offer is not serious.
2. That even if they say it's similar, it will definitely be different, and I'll mess things up...

This is the reasoning of a person who left. But he can return to Sod, pleasant memories of Chaos tournaments will surface, as will memories of the Krasnodar tournaments. Look how many people have returned, who left a long time ago - Pasha from Michurinsk, Dima from Oskol, Mystic from there too. In the end, you and Vova also left, but now you've returned. The difference is that you left when TE already existed.

Therefore, let as many people as possible return, and then we can introduce them to TE if they have time.
I'll say it again, our arguments might create the impression that there are a lot of us. In reality, although the community is growing, there are few of us.
Therefore, ideally, we need to attract everyone we can to the tournaments, even if it's just for Sod.