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Tournament "Новичок – 2018. Winter"

Past tournament winners:
"Новичок-2017. Winter" – graalzzz
"Новичок-2016. Summer" - caliban
"Новичок-2016. Winter" - Antiplayer
"Новичок-2015. Summer" - tun7gus7
"Новичок-2015. Winter" – Socrat
"Новичок-2014. Summer" - Falcone
"Новичок-2014. Winter" - Aiwe
"Новичок-2013. Summer" - The_
"Новичок-2013. Winter" - высокий
"Новичок-2012. Summer" - twaryna
"Новичок-2012. Winter" - 7z
"Новичок-2011. Summer" - Sky Pioneer
"Новичок-2011. Winter" - Sevensan
"Новичок-2010. Summer" - тенью бездомной
"Новичок-2010. Winter" - Сатир
"Новичок-2009. Summer" – Erdem

Requirements for Participants:

1. Players registered on heroesworld after 30.08.2016 are invited to participate in the tournament.
2. A tournament participant must have played several official games in a seasonal tournament or another official tournament on HeroesWorld, or at least 3 games with detailed reports in the fan games topic on heroesworld (games can be played and reports written even after registration).
3. Players who have taken prize places or participated in 2 or more tournaments from the Новичок series are not allowed to participate.
4. Players with a permanent HeroesWorld rating of 1700+ at the time of submitting the registration application are not accepted into the tournament.
5. Questions about accepting relatively experienced players or those with an earlier registration date on heroesworld will be considered by the organizers in coordination with the Tournament Committee.
6. The participant must be able to play 1 game every two weeks - the preferred time for playing is 19-24 Moscow time on weekdays and 12-24 Moscow time on weekends.
7. If during the tournament it is discovered that a player provided false information, they will be disqualified from the tournament, and the materials will be transferred to the Tournament Committee.

Submit applications in this topic:

There is a Detailed instruction with pictures FAQ17 on the forum on how to do this.
You need to do the following:
1. Check if an icq number is entered in your profile, add it there if it is missing.
If it is in your profile, a little green daisy - the ICQ symbol - is visible under your avatar. If it is not there, you need to follow the algorithm.
2. Leave an application in this topic. To do this, click the Sign up for tournament button, which is located at the beginning of this topic and at the top of each page.
3. 2-3 days before the draw, you must contact the host Sevan_80 (ICQ 581706700) and confirm participation. Players who have disappeared from the forum (no user activity for a week) will not be allowed into the draw.

Organizational questions:

1. Tournament host: Sevan_80 (ICQ 581706700), judge: Dima Surmay (ICQ 263293484) in the most extreme case, contact Dirty Player (ICQ 408722873).
2. The tournament is held according to the Rules for organizing, conducting and participating in HOMM3 online tournaments.
3. The regulations and rules of the tournament after the end of registration will not change during the tournament.
4. For each game played, participants must provide a detailed report and detailed confirmation in this topic. Only then will the game be counted. All tournament reports must be written using the automatic report writing system: Detailed instruction with pictures FAQ18.
- To create a report, click the New report button, which is located at the top of each page of the topic, and fill in all necessary fields according to the template. After that, you need to write your detailed comments on the game.
- To confirm the report, the second player needs to find the game report, click the Confirm report button, and also write a detailed report.
- It is considered good form to thank your opponent for the game.
5. All tournament games count towards the HoMM3 HeroesWorld player rating.
6. The tournament winner will receive the right to participate in the FB-12 tournament, provided that at the start of that tournament they have a rating of at least 1750.
7. In games not played within the set time limit, technical results will be assigned.
8. Saves and password files of all games must be kept until the end of the tournament and presented at the first request of the hosts and judges of the tournament or any member of the Tournament Committee. Forgetting or losing the game password may serve as grounds for assigning a technical defeat in the game.
9. If controversial issues arise, please discuss them off the forum. To resolve them, you need to contact the tournament host or judge via ICQ and provide daily saves, ICQ logs, and other necessary information.
The referee's decision is made primarily based on the tournament rules. If the situation is not regulated by the rules, the judges are guided by basic logic and game ethics.

Regulations

Tournament format.

The tournament is held according to the following scheme: Group Stage + Playoffs
Group stage – 8 groups. Players who take first, second, third, and fourth places in the groups advance from the group to the Playoff round.
The main criterion for advancing from the group is the number of points scored (3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss). If several players have the same number of points, additional indicators come into effect (in order of priority):
a) Head-to-head result
b) Berger coefficient;
c) if priority cannot be given based on additional indicators a and b between players, a play-off game is held on the template Skirmish M 200% .
Map options settings:
players – 2; computers – 0; teams – 0; map size M; no water; monsters medium; difficulty 200%; time limit per turn – 4 minutes, with a chess timer - (08:00+04:00+01:00).
Choice of castles and bonuses random.
Additional restarts:
- Restart of generations with identical castles. Taken at the request of at least one of the opponents immediately after map generation.
- Restart at the request of a player whose stone or wood mine is guarded by monsters of 3rd level and above or archers of 2nd level.
Additional rules.
- After each subjective restart, players switch colors. (112 restarts in total)
- It is forbidden to move from one zone to another through bugged passages.
- It is forbidden to use the External Market.
- It is forbidden to use the spells Fly, Town Portal, Dimensional Door, as well as the artifact Angel Wings.
- Heroes Solmyr, Dimer, and Aislinn can use their signature spell against opponent heroes only in the following cases:
a) if the player has built a Mage Guild level 4 in one of the cities or captured a city with a built Mage Guild 4. If your castles do not have the corresponding level of the Mage Guild, then you must fully build Mage Guilds of all levels in any two castles that belong to you.
Visiting these castles with a hero is not mandatory. It does not matter whether the castles with the built Mage Guild levels will be controlled later.
b) if the corresponding spell is obtained by any of your heroes from a Pandora's Box (even if that hero does not have the sufficient Wisdom skill to learn this spell);
c) if a Spellbook of the required school is found.

Well, if a, b, and c do not help, then the universally respected random will decide everything.

Playoffs – held in a BO3 format (best of 3).

Deadlines.

Registration: December 2 – December 28, 2017 (until 00:00 Moscow time)
Draw and group formation: December 29, 2017
Tournament start: December 30, 2017
Group stage: 30.12.2017-30.03.2018
Playoff round: 31.03.2018 - 31.10.2018
2 WEEKS PER GAME

Tournament games must be played within the set time frame. For violating game deadlines, at the discretion of the organizers and tournament judges, a player may be penalized up to disqualification from the tournament.

Rules.

Rule changes from 20.05.2018:
/post/1098996/
Games that were started before the introduction of the new rules are played according to the old ones.

1. Game version. The tournament is held on the game version SoD 3.2(4.0) + HD mod + HW_rulez.
When using the HeroesWorld rulez mod, the default option settings are: 01110.
That is, ban on obelisks – disabled, ban on fort on the hill, cartographer, key tent huts – enabled, permanently built level 2 in the city – disabled.
2. The tournament is held according to the rules of online games in Heroes 3.
3. Restarts total 2 days (111+111 or 112).
4. Template selection is done by cut. In a deadlock situation (cannot agree on who starts), flip a coin and start the cut.
5. City selection: Trade (two castles are generated), if identical castles are generated (mirror), at the request of one of the players, it must be regenerated.
6. Color selection: Trade
*On the Skirmish template, the starting city, hero, and bonus are random. In a deadlock situation (cannot agree on who starts with which color), flip a coin.

TEMPLATES FOR PLAYOFFS: Skirmish M-200, Diamond, 2sm4d(3), Jebus Cross, 6lm10a, Mini-Nostalgia, 8mm6a, 8xm12a and spider

Templates.

1. Group stage and play-off round games are played on templates: Skirmish M-200, Diamond, 2sm4d(3), Jebus Cross, 6lm10a, Mini-Nostalgia and 8mm6a
3. In the playoffs, the following are added: 8xm12a and spider
2. Information about templates and recommended settings can be found in the corresponding section.
5. Games are played with a chess timer. For a more comfortable game, the chess timer option settings are increased.
Skirmish - 10:00+05:00+01:15
2sm4d(3) - 21:00+08:00+01:30
Diamond - 24:00+08:30+01:30
Mini-Nostalgia - 24:00+08:30+01:30
6lm10a, 8mm6a, 8xm12a and spider - 24:00+09:00+01:30
Jebus Cross - 28:00+09:30+01:45

Please note, when loading saves, the "save every day" checkmark sometimes gets unchecked.

I wish all participants to gain as much useful gameplay experience as possible and enjoy the tournament competition!
The tournament winner will be awarded a "Tournament "Новичок" Winner" medal under their avatar: