I realized that Pred focused on Liches.
Nprf and Paladin focused on Heroes (AND THE ARMIES ARE STRIKINGLY SIMILAR!!!). Truly nose to nose, both in terms of army and stats.
It occurred to me:
I spent all my strength building units and decided to forget about the heroes.
They did the opposite!
And in the end, it turned out that I couldn't buy what I had been building! Meanwhile, by leveling up their Hero, they fully utilized him on the Arena.
Potentially, my army should be 30% larger.
The army I assembled is about 5 times stronger than those in 2nd and 3rd place, but their Heroes are about 20 times more solid!
THERE IS ONLY ONE CONCLUSION: in this situation, one should have leveled up the Hero, not the army.
I have only one question for NPRF: where did you get your bows?

Как много в жизни есть путей
Для добродетелей и мира.
Я вернулся...