Rules.
1. Registration period: January 3-17. Only forum users with at least 50 posts in the "Everything about everything" section as of the start of tournament registration are allowed to participate. To register, leave an application in this thread and indicate your ICQ number.
2. Tournament dates: First stage: January 17 - March 1. The scheme is at the bottom of the post.
3. Games are played on HoMM V: Tribes of the East version 3.1. The game is played on the Ubi server or via the Hamachi program.

Hamachi network
Name: FloodTournament
Password: HoMMpyat

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4. Game settings:
Game difficulty – Veteran / Hard
Turn time limit – 8 minutes
Animation speed – maximum
Fast battle – enabled
Simultaneous turns – enabled
Dynamic battle – disabled
Ghost mode – disabled
Autosave – enabled

It is recommended to make daily saves.

Map parameters - medium with a dungeon
Water - no
Creature strength - strong
Number of players - 2
Custom template - the following templates are recommended: S3-4P2-4Z4K1M; S4-6P2-8Z8K2L; S3-5P2-8Z8K2M (the first for a long game, the last for a faster one)
Hide mini-map - yes
Experience - 4
Resources - 4
Starting cities and heroes - either full random (random cities - "yes"), or by mutual agreement ([Вегтам]: Arko, I'll take Necropolis and Lucrecia, ok? [Арандор]: okay, then I'll take Humans and Axel x)).

5. Each player has the right to two restarts: one no later than the first day, and another no later than the second day (the end of the day is considered when you click the pass turn button, regardless of whether your opponent has completed their current turn or not).

Tournament scheme.
First stage.

Unfortunately, we ended up with a rather inconvenient number. Therefore, I remembered a pseudo-star from the previous tournament that I was trying to run. Here it is:


The lines connect those who play each other.

Using dice and randomness, I assigned each participant in the tournament a number:

List of participants
№	Flooder	ICQ	Result
1	Arandor	390439236	3
2	Lordesat	608847764	4
3	Aziral'	593797964	0
4	WisTrit	395073353	0
5	Imaris, the Moon Wolf	371075636	1
6	Zybr	386111321	2
7	Ment	nickelprog (skype)	0
8	Вегтам	403882055	1
9	Flandre	366816	1

Arandor def Imaris
Flandre def Imaris
Lordesat def Zybr
Lordesat def Arandor
Lordesat def Aziral'
Zybr def Imaris
Imaris def WisTrit
Zybr def Ment
Arandor def Zybr
Вегтам def WisTrit
Arandor def Flandre
Lordesat def Ment

Good luck in the battles!