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and, by the way, the idea immediately arose – maybe someone will find it useful.
We could preliminarily hold a well-planned online qualifier (for example, not a single, but a double-elimination tournament) so that exactly 16 selected players would make it to the final, and backups would be chosen from the spectators (those who ranked higher in the qualifier).
But it may well be that this idea is not very suitable for Heroes.
Tournaments in Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2, and poker are held in this way: an online qualifier and a strictly regulated LAN final, but there are thousands of players; in our case, only 28 participants will gather, and 6 of them won't even be able to come, and to exclude someone from those who are coming to play through an online qualifier... yes, it seems like this idea is not very good.)
Well, let it lie until a suitable situation arises... let's say if we need to reduce the number of participants from 34 to 32, I think it's still a good idea.
Yes, if we need to reduce the number of participants from 34 to 32, then only in Novosibirsk. :)
Provided that the poles shift, the ice caps melt, the Ob River turns into a warm sea, and the city becomes Odessa.
If 16 people gather, that will already be great.
P.S. I just read that it's at the Olimpiyskaya arena... even better.