Favorites in battle! - 5 The Battle of Favorites! - 5

ariputra, how can we know that you're not just pretending to be some kind of innocent little angel? That's why certain judging standards were created to avoid this pathetic display of whining about dried-up strings, and in this case, I completely agree with Mizrael. As for the auto-pick situation, I've shared some general thoughts. SoD is inherently quite unbalanced, but that's part of its charm: some people like chess, others like backgammon. Personally, I prefer SoD because it's a game from my childhood, not WT, for example. Of course, some quality changes wouldn't hurt, but only if they don't change the game's principle, strategy, and so on. There's no point in making a chess game with a 20x20 board; no one would play it. You're wrong, and moreover, I don't think this debate is worth it, so you can justify yourself as much as you want, but personally, I wouldn't change the judging principles.

The point is that some "torments" or "gifts of fate" are balanced – in the form of additional conditions for use and are reflected in the rules, while other "torments" or "gifts" that introduce no less imbalance and are in no less need of balancing – are not reflected at all and are not balanced – by additional artificial conditions for use.

Tvardovsky, you should stop using so many "not"s. ;-)