Favorites, to battle! - 6 - The Battle of Favorites! - 6

A little bit of nostalgia.
The “Favorites in Battle” tournament is the oldest one still running out of the three on HW. A year ago, the organizers prepared their memoirs and statistics for the entire series. If you are interested in our history, read it – in the Lub-5 thread, starting from post /post/654604/.

The very first tournament took place in 2008. Dirty_Player’s memories about it can be found here, and the player rating for Lub1 is here.

You can read about Lub-2 here.

numOne was the organizer of Favorites in Battle! - 3; he also shared his impressions, and the L-3 player ranking can be seen here.

R55Max reminisced about Lub-4; you can also see the L-4 ranking and photos from Denmark.

Favorites-5 took place with Rampart clearly leading, as evidenced by the final Player Rating table.

Traditionally, the organizers make various statistical calculations.
Valera (who is now Dagr) and I are preparing statistics for both Lub-6 and the entire series; we will gradually publish them in May.

I’ll start with the castle rating. As a reminder,

the rating includes the results of the best 16 players in each tournament. The winning castle receives 16 points, 2nd place – 15 points, 3rd place receives 14 points, etc. In cases where castles were eliminated in the playoffs at the same stage, everyone receives the maximum score for the highest possible position. For example, a castle that finished 5th-6th received 12 points, and one that finished 13th-16th received 4 points. In the Favorites-1 tournament, 17 castles received points (with 14th to 17th places receiving 3 points each).

This time, I added the number of players playing for a specific castle and the percentage of the total number of players in the tournament, as well as the top three results for each castle.
The table is, of course, not final; the positions in the top three have not yet been determined (there are ? instead, which will be replaced by either 14, 15, or 16 points in the final table), but this has little impact on the overall picture:

Yellow highlights the “gold” castle of the tournament.

L-1 took place with Necromancer having a significant advantage. There were no players willing to play Stronghold or Tower at all; Conflux was banned, and only Dirty_Player volunteered to play Inferno.

In L-2, Dungeon showed excellent results, but 1st and 3rd places went to Conflux (as a reminder, the tournament took place by default on CM).

In L-3, there were three favorites: Fortress, Rampart, and Dungeon with approximately equal results. It was then that Inferno from FireToSky achieved its best position ever (5th-8th), but as far as I remember, FTS played WT for the entire tournament except for the last match (which he lost).

The 4th Favorites took place with Rampart having a large advantage, but Castle won.

L-5 – a triumph for Rampart – 1st, 2nd, and 4th places, with 5 elf enthusiasts in the top 16.

L-6 saw Stronghold and Tower achieve their highest positions in history (before this, bRitvo4kA had the best Barbarian result with 5th-6th place in L-5, and rebellious with 9th-16th place in L-3 was the best player for Tower).

I will publish the personal table of “veterans” and the player ranking when the final results of the tournament are available.