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Hello everyone. We have a sponsor willing to invest around 50-60 thousand rubles in prize money to organize a team tournament. Each team represents a separate country. It is also allowed to create separate teams for autonomous regions and republics within other countries. The goal is to gather 16-32 teams. The format will include a group stage and playoffs. The number of games in each match depends on the size of the teams. Each game is planned to be streamed from all sides and uploaded to YouTube for archiving. To ensure games are played in one sitting, player substitutions will be allowed during the game. A player who has been substituted in against this team in this match cannot be substituted in again. Therefore, I have a question: How many such teams can we realistically gather from the portal, and how many people per team? If the minimum number is 3 people, it makes sense to organize a 2x2 tournament with one possible substitution. If there are at least 5-6 people, we can organize 1x1 games with 3-4 games per match between teams + substitutions. We can also create a separate women's team! Templates will be used partially or fully in a mirrored list. Games will be played exclusively on the SoD version. As usual, I expect a lot of criticism – that this is unrealistic, a utopian idea, another tournament that won't happen, or something like that :D And also constructive feedback. Please indicate which team you could gather and how many people, in the range of 3-7 people, if you are interested. Based on this, I will decide whether it is worth organizing such a tournament. If we don't gather the required number of teams, we may organize a different tournament. If the tournament takes place, we will urgently need assistants for streaming with commentary and referees. Everything as usual, but this time I won't be able to handle the streaming assistants on my own... :smile11: Registration in the tournament does not guarantee participation in it. Registration is to form an approximate list of players and is an indicator for the captain, who will see that the player is ready to play if needed. The captain is listed first in the team list, with the ICQ number indicated. All questions should be addressed to him.

Requirements for captains:
1. Decide with your team who will play the first, second, and third games in the match. In the third game, you can repeat players from the first or second game if desired. In case of any problems, have a backup player ready to substitute.
2. Resolve issues in your team regarding streams or demonstrations if problems arise.
3. If players cannot agree on a date and time for a game with a foreign team, try to arrange it yourself. Or at least involve me.
4. Be online at least once a day. Be present during your team's games online, or ask someone from your team to be there in case there are any issues to resolve.
5. Be ready to listen to complaints from players in your team about why they are not being put in the games or substitutions.
6. Ask the players who will be put in the game for their nickname, age, experience in the game, and achievements (prize-winning places in tournaments or simply won tournaments). And, if possible, 1 photo for the tournament overlays (this is not mandatory, but desirable). Provide this information to the tournament organizer.
7. You can invite even players who are not registered in the tournament and on the forums.

In my opinion, there will be too few countries represented – it would be better to organize teams by country and region (e.g., Siberia, Moscow, Ukraine, St. Petersburg, Poland, China).
P.S. A women's team is a disgrace and constitutes gender discrimination.

I fully support this idea. Overall, it's a great concept.
But I suggest making a few changes to increase the interest (although the money isn't mine, and this is more like "dad's advice" right now, but I really want this). The tournament could involve 5 teams: Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and if any other country wants to participate (perhaps Hungary or China?) and has a strong enough team, then one of the Russian teams could be replaced by them. With this many teams, the competition for victory would probably be more interesting.
And mutual matches in such a tournament are definitely a great idea; I really like it. :smile20:
In general, if the tournament is really good and organized at the highest level, I think a maximum of 5 people could be gathered in Poland, including the resurrected Tiamat. But I would be in favor of teams of 3 people. With 8 teams in the overall tournament, we could create 2 groups of 4 teams, and let all players play against each other; this would result in 9 games for each pair. Each player would play 9 games in the group, which isn't too many, followed by the semi-finals and the final. Or, 3 people, but each placed in their own tier, then games in the group with rematches, resulting in 6 games for each player, and then the same: semi-finals and the final. This is my opinion.
A tournament between countries is, in my opinion, the most interesting, and it will turn out well in any format. :smile12:

Russia definitely needs to be divided.

I don't understand, how else could it be done? There are a lot of strong players there. If some other country can gather more strong teams, then let them invite those teams; I also agree. But I don't know, maybe Belarus will have 2 top teams, but it's unlikely for Ukraine.

Siberian papashka's team: FireToSky HellLighT Dirty_Player Grizvald Team talisman: Dust_HL Reward them, and let's go. P.S. Almost forgot, the Siberian Champion is Amieloo.

reward, let's go our separate ways.

Who should I send the card number to? :D

Seriously though, I was just thinking about something similar yesterday, not a tournament, but a possible match between Russia and Poland, 10 vs 10.

We had a conversation with Wojtek about a show match between Belarus and Poland in a 4x4 format. Unfortunately, at the moment, it's impossible to gather more than one serious team of 4 people in Belarus.

P.S. The "SoD mirror" is nonsense, it ruins an excellent idea.

Games are exclusively on the The Shadow of Death version.

Hopefully, this endeavor won't fade away. If I can't participate, I'll try to join the streams (not for sure) :smile36:

Very good idea, I hope it will be implemented. First of all, it is necessary to survey not only Russian players, but also how many participants they can gather, and Russian players will be able to easily adapt. (However, implementing the game in one go is very difficult, in my opinion).

Tournament only for experienced players?

The idea is very good! Especially since the last interportal event was in 2011. And the World Championship was in 2012. And of course, it's worth considering the experience of past years regarding important aspects, so there aren't any unnecessary disputes.

Games exclusively on version SoD.

But why only SoD? The sponsor's wish?

Siberian papashka's team:
FireToSky
HellLighT
Dirty_Player
Grizvald
team mascot: Dust_HL

give them their rewards, and let's move on.

Are you still taking a break? ))

Is the tournament only for experienced players?

I had the same question! I would gladly participate in such a tournament!