Reducing the number of battles per day due to the timer is a simplification and a degradation.

On the contrary, we have degraded with such unlimited battles. In the interportal, ХВ lost to almost all foreigners, not only to the fast-playing Chinese, but even to the Poles and the "slow" Balts ;)

And they already said that before, HL+U players used to play for 4 minutes, and those players wouldn't win against the current ones.
And phrases like "I want to defeat Maretti, no matter what"... are bad :(

When some Vik participated in tournaments with SOD players, he often tried to force them to use the TE version.
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He did it out of love...

Honey, do you have a child with Vik? Did he still force you and then fall in love with you? ;)
Seriously, you, Oelm aka Indra, have never participated in any personal club tournament, and Vik was a judge in all of them. And even in Kyiv - the 1st CIS tournament - he didn't favor anyone with TE. We played on 4 versions, whoever wanted to.