“Two Seasons: Winter-Spring 2016” Tournament. Online games for rating (reports, discussions).

Terrible surrender with a one-road block for mages that cut off both of my mines. I went down the second road, barely scraping together resources and gold. Almost immediately I hit a castle, but I saw a couple of hives behind impassable (at the time) guards. I turned back, went to break the block, taking bulls from the external dwelling and building them in the castle. I broke through and immediately hit a second block on the same road of 5-10 giants guarding a Pandora's Box (later revealed to be 10k) and an artifact. Glumly, I wandered off-road, on a whim took a Tier 1 Griffin Conservatory and the first mini-ultimate. I spent almost the entire second week slogging through swamps, took three more hives. Tempo was lost forever; the opponent, judging by the stats, was already in the center by then. Out of desperation, I upgraded my ducks and went into a Dragon Utopia. Triple. I lost half of my already pathetic army, and all I got was +3 morale. At 132 I went into the center, which was already picked clean. Immediately got deservedly beaten up by Kirr with 60 ducks and magic.
Thanks for the game!