1st annual offline tournament "Best Of The Best"

I played the map a second time (spent two evenings on it) and improved my result :). I was also looking for a specific useful artifact (was everyone looking for the same thing?), but it's not on the map. I perceive the ban on discussion as an attempt to make each player think for themselves about the map, rather than constantly asking others when and what to build, what to do here, and what to do in that place, and when and where to go. However, discussing "theoretical" questions probably shouldn't be punished. For example, the case of 5x2=10 Phoenixes: their number already contains some information about your playthrough (some will notice it, and some won't), but this is not a discussion; however, telling how you killed them would be a discussion. In addition, the absence of other players' results until the end of the tournament leaves some (perhaps small, but for some, large) hope that your result will be one of the best => you are less likely to give up playing halfway through. After the tournament, I would like to know how other players played (I hope they will tell), but now I am interested in finding solutions that help me complete the map in a shorter time than the first time. In general, I didn't check one location on the map for the artifact I was looking for because it's easier to finish the map than to go there.