"The Art of Strategy," a section for reports.

The ranking of the races quite accurately reflects the actual balance of power among the factions. It was interesting to observe. However, it's not entirely clear how humans ended up in such a low position:D.

First of all, there were 4 human mirror matches (out of a total of 10), which is more than any other race; some didn't even have any. Secondly, perhaps the human factor played a role here – humans often had worse luck with their opponents:D.
By the way, looking at the tables, we can see a pattern: Dwarves lost badly to Mages and Orcs, 0:4 and 0:3 respectively, and also lost 2:4 to Dungeon. At the same time, they won 3:0 against Haven and 3:1 against Inferno...
And indeed, Mages winning 4:0 against Inferno clearly indicated who the leaders are and who the underdogs are, but overall, the balance of power is fairly equal!!!
I won't go on about my subjective conclusions – I just want to congratulate all participants in this tournament, and especially the organizers; everything was practically as good as it could be, and even though this tournament has become more popular than all the Heroes 3 tournaments (at least those currently running), there is still room for growth.
Recently, I talked to "Immortal" in ICQ; we recently opened two topics in our Heroes 3 online section:
The first topic is dedicated to video recordings of online games (sometimes with commentary).
The second topic is about real-time online broadcasts using the "remote desktop" principle.
If the first topic is less relevant to us, since the main idea was to record battles (which can already be done in Heroes 5), then perhaps we should implement the second one.
In short, here's the gist:
There is a program called Mikogo (similar to Hamachi); one player creates a session and receives a 9-digit address. Then he can give this address to anyone who wants it, and one or more people, using the same program and entering the received address, will be able to connect to the broadcast, so that they see on their monitors what is happening on the monitor of the person broadcasting... There are, of course, a couple of nuances, such as the number of viewers being limited to 10 per broadcast, and also the broadcaster marks in the program settings which applications will be broadcast and which will be hidden. In general, read more yourself if you want, ask me or better yet, directly in those topics:
topic about recording/saving the game entirely or in parts
topic about online broadcasts