Without any issues, I placed the horses in the Citadel, upgraded them to 121 in the treasure zone. My opponent couldn't take a secondary due to a block, so the only path he found led him straight to me, where a mass Haste was waiting.
JustObserver (blue, Dungeon, Ciele) lose Sanin (red, Swamp, ?) 2sm2c 121
I ran through a shifted guard, which cost me 112, and without restarts, I got a short road to a teleport guarded by 5-9 bone dragons. I ran around the respawn, found an external dwelling of medusas, and on the 7th hero, Ciele showed up. At 117, I checked the construction in the castle, saw 1-4, and decided everything was fine, but when I wanted to upgrade at 121, I discovered the medusas hadn't been built :fp: In the end, without a solid chunk of meat, I went at the dragons and got wrecked. An autopsy revealed an external dwelling of ducks and 2 Griffin Conservatories on that side, so even a zero-loss breakthrough wouldn't have saved me.
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Zly got an unexpected free slot in the first round, and it broke him down ^^ poker and the banya crushed his fighting spirit, so he still hasn't been able to handle his second-round game, which means he'll probably drop to the losers bracket soon, maybe even lower ^^
Napalm decided to win the tournament quickly while everyone's still waking up and starting to drink; he's playing the semifinal with Sanin.