So, registration is over. 68 applications have been submitted. Yes, I strongly invited Nestor86 to play in the tournament. Anton is not a judge, and Gomunguls and Pit are not participating, so players don't need to worry about biased judging. Now, about our next steps. We will carefully review each application. We will keep you informed about this process. Please follow the announcements during these 5 days. Yesterday, we managed to discuss less than half of the applications. Please, players Alexey-omsk and Rockmachine, contact me (ICQ 471401475) - on Tuesday and Wednesday, I will be online on ICQ periodically from morning until 6:00 PM Moscow time. Next, we decided to deny participation to the following players: Vatya (Registration: 03.12.2011, participation in Novichok-2012-Winter); hunter98 (Registration: 18.09.2011, participation in Novichok-2012-Summer, Novichok-2013-Winter) aka.Ward3n (Registration: 25.12.2011, Novichok-2012-Winter, Novichok-2012-Summer, Novichok-2013-Winter) ShadowManiac (Registration: 09.03.2012, Novichok-2012-Summer, Novichok-2013-Winter) + extensive tournament experience. I think that... ...this is not for you. Guys, do you really consider yourselves beginners????:confused: You could be beginners until retirement... We also denied GoD, although we are counting on his help. On the other hand, there are quite a few applications from users for whom it is clearly too early to play in tournaments (recent registration, no games played, no activity...): Hokusai Kirill Samoylenko Satirist Gameking2012 zGroh Saigon Aellie Simon5760 Born to be wild Dintra error27 Shuhart vanadium23 After all, you need to have at least some minimal experience playing online. Therefore, we suggest that you play in a season for at least a month or two, learn the rules, the basics, and then try to play in tournaments, of which there are many on our forum. The next Novichok tournament will be in six months. We look forward to seeing you in Novichok-Winter. Well, we continue to work, follow the announcements.