“Best Chronicle of 2010” contest, named after vbn & Dirty_Player.

Question: should these be reports exclusively from participants? Or are reports from spectators also possible?

In the Contest Terms, see clause
3) Every registered user on heroesworld.ru has the right to submit an unlimited number of reports (or better, links to them, for convenience), and they do not necessarily have to be their own (in this case, the author naturally becomes the participant - with their consent). It does not matter what the outcome of the game was for that participant — a win, a loss, or a draw.

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For the second year in a row and for the second time, we are choosing the best among our own reports.....:smile18:
You need to vote for someone else's, not push your own memoirs....

Igor, with all due respect, your stance is not quite right... Yes, it is good when a person's friends and comrades follow their reports and remember which ones were successful, but mostly it happens that the author themselves don't always remember when they wrote something noteworthy — there are a ton of tournaments + a multi-dozen-page season + various intra-clan events + more than one HeroesWorld resource with reports... Still, naturally, the chronicler themselves is much more likely to recall and find something truly worthwhile from their own reports than even 10 of their friends. IMHO. For me, reports sent by the author's friends and by the author himself are of equal value. I hope your post doesn't discourage those participants who haven't decided yet. Submitting your own report does not mean voting for it; voting should be done for one of the competitors, which adequate participants usually do.

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The contest would generate more interest if you provided a link to the winners of previous contests. At least we would know what to aim for.

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