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Actually, let me jot down a few words about the games... The first match with Num, I gave him the right to choose any reasonable template, Num picked Mirror on HotA, we generated Infernos, he banned Marius, I banned Pyre, sold the color for one and a half, and bought Calh for 1900. The block setup was a bit poor, but 31 Magogs allowed me to attack 50+ Kakas without a guilty conscience (there were decoys for baiting), however the terrain let me down. In standard micro cases it would have worked fine, but because of it I couldn't properly move the Earth Elementals, which made me waste all the timer and almost all the growth, but got a lot of experience, a decent artifact market (though crappy ones). Then I ran along the road to the blocks made of Vases... but Sanya wiped on Diamond Golems, thanks for the game!)
The second match came only a day later, because Napalm and Falcon had an ultra-tight Jebus... we also rolled Jebus, my blue Conflux against the red Citadel. A lucky spawn with 2 heroes on Fish, and 2 Fish external dwellings with building gave a stack of 26. I found 4 Hives, Boots, and decided to play. However, on 113 I attacked 86 Griffins and fought a bit poorly, only 20 Fish left!) But I found a Phoenix external dwelling, started taking Hives on 115, eventually barely managed it — Tiraxor with 3k+ movement, 32 Wyverns, 9 Birds + growth. With Mass Haste on 122 I entered the treasure zone, used Scouting to check where the opponent was and took a move toward his GO to grab goodies lying near it. There were no goodies, but I was pleased by his double GO of Arch Devils and Sultan Efreets :D though the Devils could be bypassed. In general, while he was taking his home Dragon Utopia with control, I pushed through the curved road of the treasure zone, not particularly lucky with artifacts at first, but got a nice boost with Hives, raised the Ducks to 50+. On his 125, Lyokha goes through the Devils and flies over the Sultans with Flight, but doesn't get far. Stats show about 15 Attack/Defense and 7 Spell Power, 6 Knowledge. On my turn, I free a couple of strong heroes, take a Dragon Utopia without mana (5 All, KO, +12-2 Shield), pick up KV nearby, Dragon Fly Hive +6 All, and the chain goes back to the mage with 200 mana. Stats exceed 20, full Fire Magic + full Air Magic and army advantage. I equip Bracers — I attack; he turns out to have even more mana, but Spell Power doesn't let him fight properly. Victory!
And the third, the tightest little match with Vanya FTS. I think connoisseurs will watch the stream themselves, but for the especially lazy I can say in a nutshell that in the setup I went for Boots on 111 and Boots again on 112 + Log on the main; Gurni leveled up like a king, though had problems with computers that ruined the tempo. By mid-second month the opponent was already showing off Neela with stats around 18, while I was gathering my army piece by piece. Lucky that from the very first Dragon Utopia I got KV and on the same turn broke Vanya's chains in the last seconds, which allowed me to fend off Neela with Tactics and take 2 Dragon Utopias (though barely half the army was left after them). Then several turns in time trouble we ran around swapping towns, he with Town Portal, me with Dimension Door. At one fine moment Vanya reaches a Dragon Utopia in the middle of nowhere that I had my eye on and gets Fly (Wings) + upgrades 9 Archangels. Chances were close to 0, but I found all fragments of the Angel of Death + had a Crystal Sphere, managed to assemble everything + leveled up a bit on stat boosters, made 30 Monks + 12 regular Wyverns, bought whatever small stuff I could, and thought about how to catch the moment. Almost immediately Ivan gave it to me, leaving only Angels on his main hero, and taking all the rest of the sparse cannon fodder with Solmyr. He didn't have money to buy back, which allowed me to deal with him with acceptable losses. Thanks for the games!
The second match came only a day later, because Napalm and Falcon had an ultra-tight Jebus... we also rolled Jebus, my blue Conflux against the red Citadel. A lucky spawn with 2 heroes on Fish, and 2 Fish external dwellings with building gave a stack of 26. I found 4 Hives, Boots, and decided to play. However, on 113 I attacked 86 Griffins and fought a bit poorly, only 20 Fish left!) But I found a Phoenix external dwelling, started taking Hives on 115, eventually barely managed it — Tiraxor with 3k+ movement, 32 Wyverns, 9 Birds + growth. With Mass Haste on 122 I entered the treasure zone, used Scouting to check where the opponent was and took a move toward his GO to grab goodies lying near it. There were no goodies, but I was pleased by his double GO of Arch Devils and Sultan Efreets :D though the Devils could be bypassed. In general, while he was taking his home Dragon Utopia with control, I pushed through the curved road of the treasure zone, not particularly lucky with artifacts at first, but got a nice boost with Hives, raised the Ducks to 50+. On his 125, Lyokha goes through the Devils and flies over the Sultans with Flight, but doesn't get far. Stats show about 15 Attack/Defense and 7 Spell Power, 6 Knowledge. On my turn, I free a couple of strong heroes, take a Dragon Utopia without mana (5 All, KO, +12-2 Shield), pick up KV nearby, Dragon Fly Hive +6 All, and the chain goes back to the mage with 200 mana. Stats exceed 20, full Fire Magic + full Air Magic and army advantage. I equip Bracers — I attack; he turns out to have even more mana, but Spell Power doesn't let him fight properly. Victory!
And the third, the tightest little match with Vanya FTS. I think connoisseurs will watch the stream themselves, but for the especially lazy I can say in a nutshell that in the setup I went for Boots on 111 and Boots again on 112 + Log on the main; Gurni leveled up like a king, though had problems with computers that ruined the tempo. By mid-second month the opponent was already showing off Neela with stats around 18, while I was gathering my army piece by piece. Lucky that from the very first Dragon Utopia I got KV and on the same turn broke Vanya's chains in the last seconds, which allowed me to fend off Neela with Tactics and take 2 Dragon Utopias (though barely half the army was left after them). Then several turns in time trouble we ran around swapping towns, he with Town Portal, me with Dimension Door. At one fine moment Vanya reaches a Dragon Utopia in the middle of nowhere that I had my eye on and gets Fly (Wings) + upgrades 9 Archangels. Chances were close to 0, but I found all fragments of the Angel of Death + had a Crystal Sphere, managed to assemble everything + leveled up a bit on stat boosters, made 30 Monks + 12 regular Wyverns, bought whatever small stuff I could, and thought about how to catch the moment. Almost immediately Ivan gave it to me, leaving only Angels on his main hero, and taking all the rest of the sparse cannon fodder with Solmyr. He didn't have money to buy back, which allowed me to deal with him with acceptable losses. Thanks for the games!