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Dirty_Player

9 years ago

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Favorites, to Battle! - 9

It is time to hold another tournament in the "Favorites, to Battle!" series, which is so beloved on our site.

I. General questions.
1. Throughout the entire tournament, each participant plays as their chosen favorite race.
2. Game version SoD 3.2 (4.0) + HD mod + HW_rules_mod patch. The latest stable version is current: ???
3. Bidding is used for the right to choose the Color.
4. The template choice is made by crossing out from a list of 11 templates: 2SM4d(3), Balance (L-U, 130%), skirmish (200%), Anarchy (200%) Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Diamond, 8mm6a, 6LM10a, 8xm12a and Spider. The right to cross out a template first is determined by a coin toss. The player who "wins the coin" chooses who will cross out first.
By mutual agreement, playing on any other template is permitted. This matter must be discussed in advance with the tournament judges.
5. If two identical races meet in a match, the template is chosen from the list: 2SM4d(3), Balance (L-U, 130%), skirmish (200%), Anarchy (200%) Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Diamond, 8mm6a, 6LM10a, 8xm12a, Spider, mir_diamond and mir_h3dm1.
In this case, bidding is used for the right to choose the starting hero. Players take turns (first the one who won the bid for color, then their opponent) crossing out one undesirable hero from the full list of heroes; thereafter, players inform each other of the amount of gold they are willing to transfer to the opponent for the right of first choice among the remaining heroes. The one who bids the higher amount chooses the hero first and transfers the gold to the opponent.
On mir_diamond and mir_h3dm1 templates, each player has one subjective restart at 111.
6. Rules are standard.
The default timer is chess, with parameters as specified in the rules.
Mage Guild rebuild is ENABLED on all templates. There are NO restrictions on using the library.
Any changes to the game rules are permitted by mutual consent of the players, except for changing the Favorite Castle and the Fair Play rule.
Additional rules per template:
Mini-Nostalgia. The tournament participant who received the blue color as a result of bidding begins the selection of computer secondary castles.
Diamond. The participant who received the red color as a result of bidding removes the extra (ninth) castle. If favorite castles are identical, then first red removes one castle, then blue removes the second.
Anarchy Difficulty 200%. Color for the first generation is chosen by coin toss; upon a subjective restart - change of color. Played without the HW_rulez checkbox. When playing with identical castles, heroes are chosen by agreement; if no agreement can be reached - randomly.
Skirmish Difficulty 200%. Starting heroes and bonus - random, color for the first generation is chosen by coin toss; upon a subjective restart - change of color. Played without Mage Guild rebuild.

II. Organizational questions.
1. The tournament is official and regular.
2. Tournament goals:
- to play as the favorite castle and attempt to prove its strength,
- to gain valuable experience, improve one's level of play.
3. The tournament is conducted according to the Rules for organization, conduct, and participation in tournaments.
4. Players listed in the Blacklist and Penalty Bench are not eligible to participate in the tournament.
5. Tournament leaders and judges:
Tournament leader: Dirty_Player (ICQ: 408722873).
Tournament judges: Злой_романтик (ICQ: 296524052), skd (ICQ: 593626431), Diabler (ICQ: 360429834) , Dark (ICQ: 303751774)
If a disputed issue cannot be resolved independently, the judges will seek help from the AK.
The leader has the right to make any changes to the regulations and rules during the tournament if necessary.
6. Maximum number of tournament participants - 128; if there are more than 128 applicants, qualification games will be held. The organizers reserve the right to refuse registration to any player without a public explanation of reasons.
7. For each played match, participants must submit a report and confirmation in this thread, created automatically.
Saves of all matches must be kept until the end of the tournament and presented upon the first request of the tournament leader or any member of the AK.
8. Information on the progress of the tournament is updated as necessary and is located at the beginning of this thread.
9. All tournament games go into the seasonal rating. The list of tournament reports is also located at the beginning of this thread.
10. The tournament winner earns the right to participate in the "Final Battle 11" tournament
11. The tournament winner and players who took 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded Medals under their avatar:

Award authors: RAPER and ColdRain.

III. Deadlines.
All tournament participants must strictly adhere to the announced deadlines:
1. Immediately after the start of a stage or round, contact your opponent(s) for preliminary agreement on games. To agree means to reach an accord after negotiations and discussion. A proposal without a response will not be considered an agreement.
2. Temporary problems (with internet, travel, personal) must be reported to the tournament leaders.
3. Preferred time for tournament games is daytime (12-24 MSK) on weekends and evening (19-24 MSK) on weekdays. If a participant is unable to play at this time, the leader interprets the absence of a game result in favor of their opponent.

Registration - October 31 - November 24, 2016.
Approval of the participants list - November 24-25, 2016.
Draw - November 25, 2016. The draw will be conducted taking into account the declared castle and the participant's level of play based on results from other tournaments.
Tournament Start - November 26, 2016.

IV. Regulations.
1. Group stage. 32 groups of 4 people. Mini-double system. 2 people advance from the group. Estimated timeframe: 5-6 weeks.
2. Group stage. 16 groups of 4 people. Mini-double system. 2 people advance from the group. Estimated timeframe: 5-7 weeks.
3. Play-offs. Single-elimination for 32 people. Two rounds of BO1, starting from the quarterfinals and beyond BO3. Estimated timeframe: 15-16 weeks.
Total tournament duration from start to finish is about 28 weeks. Thus, the tournament should be finished by the beginning of summer.

Winners of previous "Favorites, to Battle!" tournaments:

"Favorites, to Battle! - 1" (2008) - Dudge (Necropolis) - Tournament History
"Favorites, to Battle! - 2" (2009) - Pit for LM (Conflux) - Tournament History
"Favorites, to Battle! - 3" (2010) - Сатир (Fortress) - Tournament History
"Favorites, to Battle! - 4" (2011) - Maretti (Castle) - Tournament History
"Favorites, to Battle! - 5" (2012-13) - GoD (Rampart) - Tournament History
"Favorites, to Battle! - 6" (2013-14) - Pit for LM (Conflux) - Tournament History
"Favorites, to Battle! - 7" (2014-15) - Pit for LM (Necropolis) - Tournament History
"Favorites, to Battle! - 8" (2015-16) - HellLighT (Necropolis) - Tournament History

In the application, you must specify the castle you will be playing.

In reply to FireToSky

Antiplayer

9 years ago

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FireToSky

Bought a color for 1000
Nagas at home in the Citadel. Crag goes to the losers, because Rizza got Tactics, Earth, Wisdom, and Log
On 131 finished building the Mage Guild - there's Fly. On 132 Rizza with stats around 10 and Meteor at 325 takes, by overeating, a mini Dragon Utopia (8 Wyverns, 7 Nagas, and some fodder)
On 134 got Town Portal on the 3rd try
Thanks to Alamar arriving just in time, I leveled up Aina and got the chance to take Dragon Utopias without an army (and there was none until the end of the game)
On 137 got Dimension Door on the 4th try, and I plopped down several Dragon Utopias for stats in the treasure zone and boosted the number of Wyverns from zero to 30 and Angels to 6
On 141 I take the empty main, where a 5th Mage Guild has just been built, and one conversion follows the surrender. The post-mortem showed nothing from the opponent :confused:

During the game, I took 2 Hives for 10 Wyverns, 3 Dragon Utopias with wings and a Shield of the Damned, and managed to retrain Town Portal in town. The opponent has full control from the town, an advantage in meat, stats, and 2 leveled-up support heroes. No outs.
Thanks for the game!

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Antiplayer

9 years ago

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FireToSky

Started with +1800
A dirty necromancer arrived, had to play through him :smile42:

Over the previous ten games in the Tournaments - during the first week I always built birds, but in the deciding one for me, I couldn't place them after spending the first week with 4 heroes. Throughout the entire game, I fought the urge to "ragequit" - lack of money, awful roads, a main without earth, and a trash Dragon Utopia. In the end, I offered no resistance whatsoever. For the obviously idiotic decision to play XL+U against a library, and on medium roads to boot, the generator and my opponent punished me easily and without a chance.
Thanks for the game!

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Antiplayer

9 years ago

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Stable near the town, main base with a logo on the 2nd level, boots and gloves on the 2nd week, there's a path to the central camps, one of which is a tower - a teleport with immediate access, defeated the DD on the 4th attempt, but still relatively quickly. Took over my home town, collected ducks, and killed Tanta who came to the center. Opponent - no roads, meat-producing objects, and no air control.
Thanks for the game!

Antiplayer

Faction Сопряжение / Conflux

Start Hero Random

Main Hero Гундула / Gundula

Победа / Def

Grizvald

Faction Некрополь / Necropolis

Start Hero Тант / Thant

Main Hero Тант / Thant

Map Template: 8xm12a
Game Length: 136 days
Game Date: 8/17/2017
Reported: 8/18/2017 5:01 PM

Antiplayer 1920 → 1930 +10 ↑

Grizvald 1788 → 1778 -10 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 8/23/2017 3:58 PM

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Grizvald

9 years ago

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Antiplayer

Stable near the town, main with log on level 2, boots and gloves on the 2nd week, there is a road to the central comps, one of which is Tower - TP immediately, DD on the 4th attempt, but still relatively fast. Took over the home town, gathered ducks and killed Tanta who came to the center. Opponent - no roads, objects for meat, or air control.
Thanks for the game!

Dragon Utopia on respawn, gloves and Dragon Utopia together with the bone box lured [them] not to take re... Thanks for the game! Grats on bronze :smile54:

P.S. separate respect for the tournament system, it was really interesting to play (shout out to the group players)

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Dirty_Player

8 years ago

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I wanted to create a great finale with a live broadcast, commentary, and everything. I even gave them a lot of extra time. But it seems the finalists are abusing my trust too much. Therefore, I am setting a deadline for the finale: October 8, 2017, for two games. Play however you want; if you don't play, I will close the tournament and leave it without a winner. I'm tired of this!

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Dirty_Player

8 years ago

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Unfortunately, I have to state the disappointing conclusion. The tournament final never took place. The finalists were determined at the beginning of August (04.08), and in two months, they still couldn't find the time to even start the first game. Frankly, this is strange; I always thought that the playoffs and final games should, on the contrary, generate interest among the players. But no, it turned out to be the opposite. Moreover, the participants are taking advantage of my willingness to accommodate them, deflecting my requests to play with phrases like, "What are you going to do about it?". Even after the "final warning" on September 10th, there was no reaction. I have drawn conclusions from this situation. There is no need to accommodate the players. If they don't play, then goodbye. A maximum of 1-2 days, for a valid reason. And also, don't include problematic players in the tournament. I also ask other organizers to pay attention to this. Besides the final, Dark also forfeited a quarter-final match and a playoff round in the HL-only tournament. I consider this ignoring of the final as a personal insult! Thank you to all the other participants for the tournament. I apologize to the viewers who were waiting for the final broadcast...

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KobRa_RR

8 years ago

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I don't believe Vanya didn't want to play, especially in the final for the title. He'll pull out all the stops!!

Added 4 minutes ago
Although, on the other hand, the fact that there's still no drama from him in this thread is also a bit strange :) When I didn't respond in WhatsApp for a couple of hours, he immediately raised a fuss, but here, it's been two months :confused:

Added 1 minute ago
PS. I'm not judging Dark's behavior after our game in the CIS :)

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Sanin

8 years ago

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The Tower in the final – so disappointing for the favorites.

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Grando

8 years ago

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So, the Tower didn't win the Favorites in the first round?
And is it impossible to assign the victory to one of the sides based on the logs?

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FireToSky

8 years ago

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Of course, I wanted to and still want to play. For this, I was going to make a stream as an exception. But Dark would appear unexpectedly without prior arrangement and say he had 2-3 hours, and I wanted a full match. And then he would disappear again without any certainty. Through private messages, Kostya was, of course, aware of this. Either way, Ainusha and I are ready to prove in a fair match that we deserve our title, even if it's not within the framework of a tournament!
I won't let anyone take away Ainusha's and my honor!:smile13:

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Grando

8 years ago

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FireToSky

Kostya obviously knew about this beforehand, as they discussed it privately.

Then why wasn't there a disqualification from the judge? Why wasn't the player who was deliberately ruining the games disqualified?
Dark's style is known (almost) to everyone who has played against him. There was no need to debate – a disqualification should have been issued immediately. And a ban should have been applied after the first instance.

Kostya, what is the point of your behavior and decision?

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FireToSky

8 years ago

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Al Feyn

Then why wasn't there an ODD (Overtime Decision) from the judge?
Why wasn't the person who was disrupting the games penalized?

Pokachenu. Look how many games I played in September and don't ask stupid questions. And what good would an ODD have done me? Would I have gotten a technical foul?

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Grando

8 years ago

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FireToSky

I played a lot. Look how many games I played in September and don't ask stupid questions.

That's not a serious answer. I looked. It's not that many games. But there were some.
Besides, was there even one game more important than the tournament final?
In short, I looked. You had time to play games. So, what's the conclusion? You wanted to play, so Kosti's decision was fair?

Or the opposite. Did you mean that there were a ton of games (and the October reports are based on the September games)?
Then the main question remains - were there any games more important than the tournament final? How many such games were there?
Again, it's obvious that you had time to play games. And if there had been an ODD, you would have played.

Grando

8 years ago

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FireToSky

You seem a bit slow. I was against those times and I told Kostya that. And I'm saying it in the last, or second to last, post, if you even read, instead of just writing. And if 20-30 games a month is too few, well, I'm sorry I don't play that much.

1. The key question.
How many of those 20-30 games were more important than the tournament final?
(Could they have prevented you from playing in the ODD if it had been scheduled?)
Just a number.

2. Not a very important question, just to re-check my "stupidity."
Where should I have "looked" to see that you had 20-30 games "in September"?

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Gomunguls

8 years ago

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Dirty_Player

Unfortunately, I have to state the disappointing conclusion. The tournament final never took place. The finalists were determined in early August (08/04), and in two months, they still couldn't find the time to even start the first game. Frankly, this is strange; I always thought that the playoffs and final games should, on the contrary, generate interest among the players. But no, it turned out to be the opposite. Moreover, the participants are taking advantage of my willingness to accommodate them, deflecting my requests to play with phrases like, "What are you going to do about it?". Even after the "final warning" on 09/10, there was no reaction. I have drawn conclusions from this situation. There is no need to accommodate the players. If they don't play, then goodbye. A maximum of 1-2 days, for a valid reason. Also, I won't include problematic players in the tournament. I also ask other organizers to pay attention to this. Besides the final, Dark also forfeited a quarter-final match and a playoff round in the HL-only tournament. I consider this ignoring of the final as a personal insult! Thank you to all the other participants for the tournament. I apologize to the viewers who were waiting for the final broadcast...

This is how the final ends... when two players who need to be constantly pushed and prodded make it to the final... :D