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Look, if you come to negotiations in a suit and tie, it only guarantees that you will be heard. Whether your proposal is accepted depends on the proposal itself. But if you come in ripped jeans and a stained t-shirt, it's unlikely that the negotiations will even begin, no matter how good your proposal is.

It's the same here – a polite tone only guarantees that the host will listen to your proposal and give a polite answer. Whether it is accepted depends on what you are offering.

I believe that my opinion on a particular issue in Heroes is definitely more important and valuable than the opinion of a person who can barely make it out of the group stage in a "Novice" tournament.

2) The rule for substitutions in team tournaments. For many years, everyone played with the rule "player disconnected => technical loss." Until Vic came up with the idea to host his own team tournament, he read the OZV rules, thought "what nonsense," and introduced the substitution rule.

In the very next OZV, this rule appeared, although in a partial form. Now we just need to wait for Sanin to have a player disconnect from the last bracket so that he realizes the need for importing and the second part of the rule as well.

I saw this possibility from afar, and a couple of years ago, I suggested to Sava to introduce a feature that would reset fallen heroes, similar to what's in World Tree, but Sava refused.

And the brilliant idea of using players who have already lost and been eliminated from the tournament, restoring them to the same round in a different part of the bracket instead of the missing player.

Resetting, of course, didn't work and doesn't work, but I was ready to make it so that leveled-up heroes simply wouldn't come to the tavern at a certain point, and I considered (and still consider) it the right thing to do. But there are opposing opinions on this within the team, and players also expressed themselves on this issue without much enthusiasm, so it remained as it was.

Considering the prospects of the mirror tavern, one could have implemented a specific workaround for mirror matches. Either way, with the mirror tavern, this functionality will become irrelevant and will be removed.

calling it "interaction with non-systemic opposition"

I don't quite understand how this relates to the mirror tavern. In my opinion, such restrictions make sense to introduce in order to eliminate the "digging up" of main heroes from the game – a process that is lengthy, not very intellectually stimulating, and has a random result with high variance (which players can avoid by agreeing to a draw, etc.). This is present in all templates, and the mirror tavern doesn't save you from it (at most, it won't allow you to buy the opponent's main hero, but it still leaves the possibility of digging up your own hero, which remains just as random).

Well, with the Mirror Tavern, either both players will dig it up, or neither will.

Yes, thank you for reminding me, this is also, in my opinion, a very good idea – it encourages players to play matches sooner, gives a bonus to more motivated players (who don't give up after 2 losses), and reduces the number of technical results, leading to more actual gameplay results, thus increasing the prestige of the title.

For example, the Diamond:Survival final is currently underway, with De_Luxe playing, who went through 2 losses in the starting rounds and qualified as a replacement. I don't think anyone would say that he doesn't deserve to be in this final. After all, this is his second Diamond final in a row. I think he is the strongest opponent that Dave could have faced in the final.

1) The new rule of restarting on block on Jebus. I never liked Jebus throughout my entire gaming career, almost never played it and didn't hold tournaments on it. But when a couple of years ago I had to take on Blitz-Jebus, I immediately appreciated the scale of the problem - during that tournament I received about 5 requests to assign a restart on a block in layouts where formally there was none, but in fact there was.

Yes, thanks for reminding me, this is also IMHO quite a successful idea - it encourages players to play their matches earlier, gives a bonus to more motivated players (those who don't give up after 2 losses), and also reduces the number of technical results, gives more game results, thereby making the title's prestige higher.

For example, the Diamond:Survival final is currently underway, where De_Luxe is playing, who came through 2 losses in the starting rounds and a substitute entry. I think no one would dare say he is unworthy of this final. After all, this is his 2nd consecutive final on Diamond. I think this is the strongest opponent Dave could have gotten in the final.

Technically it's an abuse, prestige 0, a loser will never be worthy of winning a tournament, thank you for your attention :smile45:

Well, with a mirror tavern, either both players dig up, or no one does.

Yes, indeed, I hadn't thought of it from that angle.

3) The much-talked-about incident from Mirrors-2 about the mutual death of the "daddies". I saw this possibility from a long way off, and a couple of years ago I suggested Sav to introduce a reset of dead heroes by analogy with WT, but Sav refused. Then I wrote to Wizard and Baratorch to make such a possibility specifically for mirrors. But they ignored it.