On the 3rd day, I personally remembered the game =Stinger= - Roland from Gilead. Both are experienced TE players, but leaning towards SoD gameplay, so they played TE-lite SMK;) . There were just tons of daddy moments, nuances in the game: GO from grey bears on 127 - from Roland (1 external dwelling of caps, Griffin Conservatories for 6 angels, oil), a barrier of scout heroes in the path of the enemy daddy - a trick from Stinger, and also a tactic I had long suspected but never encountered in an actual game - knocking the enemy main hero out of his charge at the city gates by attacking with a stray scout hero, again by Stinger.
In general, a couple of nuances decided the outcome:) : 1 move (Artyom thought - even calculated, more precisely! - that Dimа's Gunnar wouldn't reach the castle), color (red Crag couldn't replenish mana at the night stop - and that with the Book of Earth!:eek: ) and - attention all "tactics-hating" newcomers!:D - TACTICS, which Gunnar had and Crag didn't:p (Dimon, as it happens, builds impenetrable barricades in the finals:cool: .
In short, respect to Roland, what can I say!.. Even though Stinger played just insanely strong! And made the impression of being, like, the most intelligent, well, for some reason...
There was also a benefit performance by Piterius,
who overcame the stubborn Napalm: the battle turned out truly Epic!:smile12: :smile12: :smile12: A detailed report was somewhere - I'll give the link later:).
It wasn't particularly lucky for, certainly not the least, the namesake hero players of today: the experienced veteran Wowa
and the winner of the last major tournament on TK3 - Volodimyr
The last of the present Ukrainian three bogatyrs of H3 dropped out of the championship fight -
Medium:(
the fight with Bayazet was the toughest, I decided to follow Alexey's actions and didn't regret it, despite the fact that it was essentially TE-full with experience etc., in the end the namesake from Simferopol couldn't oppose anything even with 15 angels to the "cheat"-leveled lower tier units of Lyokha from St. Petersburg, 160 butterflies seemed to take out 4 guys outright:D. But the chains the champion had were truly champion-worthy - I tell you!:smile12: :smile47: :smile41:.
Unfortunately, my true buddy Preds couldn't break into the fight, you just don't find guys like that every day, really.
And Lexa, winner of Michurinsk, switched over to Counter-Strike over time, although according to him he didn't have any particular ambitions either
By the end of the day, it turned out that Heroes is contagious, and even the younger generation doesn't just play all kinds of rubbish:).
On the morning of the 4th day, I said: "It turns out two finalists live in our apartment, apparently its aura is that positive:)" - to which Bayazet replied: "Such an aura here that they don't play poker.":D It's just that we didn't have a suitable table - otherwise we would've, just like here...:smile26:
There were few games left, since motivation was at zero for many, unfortunately:( . But Pit for LM fought knightly and nobly to the very end, so to speak, with a spark in his eyes:smile12: !
Roland, having received, frankly speaking, the most disagreeable layout, tried jokingly to avoid finishing, but Bayazet was adamant, he swore by the gods - I saw the meaning of this mysterious word firsthand;) , to take Gunnison against Shakti, on essentially SoD, which he hadn't played for god knows how many years and work absolute miracles - now that's a skill above all skills. For example, how do you like this, a not particularly leveled Gunnar, without even expert Artillery yet, on 116 with 6 birds, 11 gr. wolves and up to 20 gr. peasants kills 48 (!!!) gold golems, surviving with 4 birds, although many at the start of the battle thought it was a throw:smile34: . As a result, at the start of 117, Lyokha's main hero has 30 mana for Mass Earth with everything useful in the book and expert Armorer, and on the horizon are Conservatories and other goodies...:rolleyes: Then came the 2nd Conservatory and 80+ ice elementals, already mentioned by Sam. And a cunning rush of events, papist style: Bayazet broke through to the respawn, where he sparked the blue guys' movement and stood in a spot so that, if anything, he wouldn't be revealed too early, but at the same time setting a potential trap with the visibility of standing at the charge (1+11 gr. birds) - it was hard to expect oil etc. on 123, it wasn't possible to bring angels, but on the other hand, if they were there, Shakhtyor probably wouldn't have attacked anyway, in short it was something - a mix of intuition and some crazy calculation:smile47: !
Dima took over 5 minutes to arrange, apparently regretting in his soul that he had upgraded all the harpies and didn't separate any to remove the retaliation:mad: , but Lyokha thought over the first move for a total of 10-15 minutes! and was right, winners aren't judged;).
And Roland, like, says "well, is it soon?"
1st cast - Mass Shield (I thought so:cool: !:) ), Roland killed one bird unit, with whoever he could, and Bayazet still decided to peck the Troglodytes - and oh miracle! - the lightning worked, just as Kostyan sitting nearby had "prophesied":D (and I had already prophesied Gunnar without Ballista for him, and an upgraded stack of neutrals - successfully:rolleyes::o ...). In short, luck+skill=WIN!!!
Here he is - the happy Champion of the CIS.
And afterwards, not without regret, having said goodbye to everyone, I got on the train, already dreaming of new qualifiers and finals, no matter where:) .
