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Joint tournament of HeroesLeague, HeroesPortal, and HeroesWorld: "The Last Arena".
Tournament Rules:
1. General Provisions
1.1. The tournament will run from March 19 to April 19, 2013 (first stage).
1.2. The tournament will be held simultaneously on three online resources: HeroesLeague, HeroesPortal, and HeroesWorld.
1.3. The tournament will be played on the following game versions:
Heroes II: Price of Loyalty 2.1 (English), Heroes II: The Price of Loyalty 2.1 (Russian). Playing on earlier versions of the game, where many bugs have not been fixed, is not allowed. Playing in DOS and switching between versions is prohibited.
1.4. Any registered user of one of the three forums – HeroesPortal, HeroesLeague, HeroesWorld – can participate in this tournament. An identical final tournament table will be posted on all three sites. However, it is strongly recommended to register on the HeroesPortal, HeroesLeague, and HeroesWorld sites – this will allow you to receive bonuses on all three forums.
1.5. The winners of the tournament will receive rewards corresponding to each resource (rating, fiefs, arrob, except for mines on Heroes Portal) on each of the resources. In the League of Heroes, the winner of the Championship, the most important and final tournament of the year, will receive the title of Champion of the League of Heroes and will proudly bear it throughout the next season.
1.6. ATTENTION!!! Throughout the tournament, the player MUST save the game at the beginning or end (preferably both) of EACH game day and keep these saves on their computer! The judge has the right to request daily saves and explanations from ANY player, up to a description of the tactics of a specific battle. If the explanations are not satisfactory (from the judges' point of view), the player's result will be annulled. If the necessary saves are not available, the player will be given a loss. The statute of limitations (the period during which daily saves must be kept) is 7 days after the results of the round are announced.
1.7. The tournament organizers are:
HeroesLeague - Dust,
HeroesPortal - Sir Reanimator,
HeroesWorld - Qwerty.
1.8. The player must name their final save with their nickname and send it to: hmm2@mail.ru
2. Restrictions on Gameplay:
2.1. It is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN to use cheat codes, prohibited bugs, and game features in the final playthrough, to hack saves, or to manipulate computer players in hot-seat mode. The use of standard cheat codes is allowed for the purpose of initial save scouting. However, after the scouting is completed, the player must load the starting save and start the game again.
2.2. The rule for digging up the Ultimate Artifact (UA). The UA can only be dug up after visiting ALL obelisks. To prove this, the player must send the organizers, along with their final save, another save that shows that all obelisks were visited before digging up the UA. The name of such a save must end with "UA".
2.3. It is forbidden to use a redeemed, escaped/bought-out hero in battle on the day they escaped/were bought out. It is allowed to redeem such a hero on the day of the escape/buyout;
it is allowed to redeem and use your dismissed/killed hero in battle only on the day after their dismissal/death;
if a hero escapes/is bought out/dies in battle during a turn change, they can be redeemed and used immediately.
2.4. It is forbidden to visit graveyards, demon caves, and ghost ships. It is allowed to visit ships with skeletons.
2.5. It is forbidden to use the "Haunt" spell and the "feeding" of spirits, i.e., only one battle with a given group of spirits is allowed, and a save must be made before and immediately after the battle.
2.6. It is forbidden to buy spirits (ghosts).
2.7. It is forbidden to use weeks with +5 monster growth and months with doubled monster growth. If such a week or month occurs, the player must "rewind" until that week is no longer present. If significant difficulties arise, the player can write a private message to the tournament judge, and if the judge decides that this phenomenon does not distort the gameplay, further play is possible.
2.8. It is forbidden to take djinns and the "Sphere of Negation" artifact to the arena.
2.9. It is forbidden to take "Anduran" to the arena in its assembled form.
3. Tournament Goal:
3.1. The goal of the game is to prepare a battle hero.
Within the allotted time, the player tries to develop their hero in the best way, learns the best and most useful spells, recruits the strongest fighters into their army, and collects the most powerful and necessary artifacts, in order to then face a similarly developed hero in the arena. The player chooses whether to train a starting hero or another hero.
3.2. After the first stage of the game, the organizer creates a duel map – the "arena," to which the hero is transferred with troops, their arrangement, primary and secondary skills, luck and morale modifiers, mana, and artifacts identical to those in the sent save. All participants who reach the finish line will be sent "arenas" with their heroes.
The tournament participants will be divided into several groups (depending on the number of saves sent), in which they will fight each other, earning points. Then, according to the places taken, they will fight players from other groups, thereby determining the distribution of places in the tournament and identifying the winner.
Seven days after the arenas are sent, each player can write their verdict on the results in a reply.
3.3. The final awarding of arena results is carried out by the tournament organizer.
4. Preparing the Final Save:
4.1. The final save should be made on the first day of the fourth week (1-4-1) – day 22 of the game!
4.2. All heroes, except the main one, must be dismissed. The hero must be at least level 12.
4.3. The email with the save must contain:
-) the winning save;
-) the subject of the email – the player's nickname;
-) MANDATORY indication of nicknames on all three resources;
For example, the email subject: Arena - Alex_R,
the email contains an attachment with the save named "Alex_R arena", and the email says: nickname on the League - such-and-such, nickname on the Portal - Alex_R HW, nickname on the World - Alex_R.
Starting save and map for the tournament!
Have a good game!
