"Rookie of the Year 2012" nomination.

I want to briefly recall the history of our nominations, because few people remember what it all started with, what was implied, and I will list our winners. All were awarded in the Hall of Fame, the prizes are the Teapot, Golden Pegasus, and Handshake statuettes. The idea for the nominations arose in mid-2009 when we self-organized into the Tournament Committee to streamline our tournament life. Therefore, the first nominees for 2008 were determined in the summer of 2009. All subsequent contests – Best of 2009, 2010, 2011 – were held in January. In total, we have already chosen the Rookie of the Year, Player of the Year, and the one who made the greatest contribution to the development of Heroes 3 four times. Naturally, the game HOMM3 online is implied, and not tennis, football, poker, Heroes 3 offline, or Heroes 5. The nominee must be well known to the players in our section. The criteria for selecting candidates are quite flexible; the moderators are guided primarily by their own experience. Rookie of the Year. It is clear that you cannot be nominated here twice in a row, although the registration date on HW allows some to do so. Therefore, Amiloo should still be nominated for Player, and not Rookie (last year he was already on the Rookie-2011 list, how long can he be a rookie?), and kalababa and crzq have long outgrown their childhood. We have already discussed the issue of twaryna's "rookie" status when deciding whether or not to include him in the Rookie tournaments. Think about it: if, for example, I want to start playing Heroes 5 and enter the announced Rookie tournament there, and I am refused due to my registration date, would that be fair? The main criteria have always been the player's rapid growth from almost zero during the year (and this is different for everyone), and his successes in tournaments. Winners of the nomination: Rookie-2008 - Pit for LM won in a close contest against LeBron. Both joined Heroes 3 in 2008, and both grew significantly over the year, but Pit was more "one of us" at that time, played and won Interportal matches for our team, and won several tournaments, while Dima was still more active on HP. Rookie-2009 - an even more intense competition was between the eventual winner numOne (13 votes) and Van and Gomunguls, who scored 12 votes each. Andrey grew rapidly that year, taking 2nd place in Best. In 2010, there was a contest between RomarioGrom and Satyr, with Romario winning 24-22. He progressed very quickly, was one of the first to start streaming, and won the first tournament on sc2tv. And finally - Rookie-2011 - our Tanya Scorpiona, there were no questions here. It is gratifying that more and more of our players participate in the voting every year, and it becomes more and more difficult to choose the most worthy from our rookies. Therefore, there is no need to argue about who is stronger, taller, or better; the voting and your achievements over the past year will decide everything. PS.

...the autumn rating, if it is ever published :p

It will be published; I was overloaded in real life in December. The rating was preliminarily calculated on December 31, but I didn't have time to publish the list of unconfirmed and incorrect entries, and in January, I had to play almost around the clock.