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«OFB - 13»
Registration is open for the qualifying tournament for the most prestigious online HoMM 3 tournament on heroesworld.ru – «The Final Battle»
Organizational Matters:
1. Tournament host – Sanin (ICQ - 423164784); judges – LuckyF (ICQ - 681350680), Antiplayer (ICQ - 666352823), Jelen117 (ICQ - 656490271).
2. The tournament is official, regular, and held according to the Rules for organizing, conducting, and participating in online HOMM3 tournaments.
3. All tournament games will be counted in the HoMM3 HW Player Rating.
4. Once tournament games begin, the tournament regulations will not change.
5. Disputed issues, if any, will be discussed outside the forum. To resolve them, contact the host or one of the tournament judges via ICQ and provide daily saves, ICQ logs, and other necessary information.
6. Tournament games must be played within the established deadline. Violation of game deadlines may result in penalties up to and including disqualification from the tournament at the discretion of the host and judges.
Player Requirements:
- Players with unconfirmed reports will not be accepted into the tournament.
- Applications from recently registered forum players will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
- The organizers reserve the right to refuse registration to players who have repeatedly withdrawn or been disqualified from other HeroesWorld tournaments.
Regulations
Rules:
1. Game version: The tournament is played on SoD + HD mod.
2. Individual rounds of the tournament use the Fresh mod 1.0 and HeroesBan plugins.
3. The tournament is conducted according to the rules of online Heroes 3 games.
Clarification to the rules: on all templates and in all rounds, the "Mage Guild rearrangement" option must be enabled, while the "Library rearrangement" option is disabled.
4. Restarts total 3 days (111+111+111 or 111+112 or 113), for mirrored templates – one day (111).
5. Templates:
Panic, Anarchy 160%, h3dm1, Diamond, Mini-Nostalgia, Jebus Cross, 6lm10a, 8xm12a, Spider.
The template is selected by a standard draft, the draft order is determined by a coin toss.
6. Roads on templates:
Panic, Anarchy, Mini-Nostalgia - all roads;
h3dm1, Diamond, 6lm10a, 8xm12a, Spider - medium roads;
Jebus Cross - fast roads;
For the fourth round: mt_Jeb - fast roads, mir_Diamond and h3dm1 - medium roads.
7. The tournament game regulations will vary depending on the round.
First round: standard rules.
Second round: games are played with the FreshMod 1.2 plugin (more about the plugin).
Third round: standard rules.
Fourth round: games are played on mirrored templates mt_Jeb, mir_Diamond, h3dm1 with the HeroesBan plugin, which removes Logistics heroes, Luna, Tante, and Galtran from the game. The template is selected by a draft from three templates. Trading is held for the right to choose color.
Hero selection:
- The red player removes 0-3 heroes. The blue player chooses a hero first from the remaining ones. Removed heroes may still be purchased and used from the tavern.
- It is forbidden to choose removed heroes or heroes banned by the HeroesBan plugin (Luna, Galtran, Tante, Dessa, Kyrre, Gunnar) as starting heroes.
(for an example, see the Mirrors - 3 tournament).
Please note: in other rounds, when playing on the h3dm1 template, using the HeroesBan plugin is not the default, and regular trading for heroes occurs without bans.
Fifth round: regular trading, standard rules.
Sixth round: games are played with the "Battle of the Mages" option enabled (more about the option).
Seventh round: standard rules.
Playoff matches: standard rules.
8. Regulations for playoff matches.
Playoff matches are played in a BO3 format.
The player with more points will have a slight advantage: for every two points by which the higher-ranked player leads the lower-ranked player, the player with the advantage can choose the game format: standard, FreshMod, or Battle of the Mages. If the advantage is 2 points - then for the first game, if 4 points - for two games, if 6 or more - for the entire BO3 series.
9. Color selection: trading is held for the right to choose color.
Tournament Format:
1. Registration from June 16 to July 6 (dates may be adjusted, check for updates).
2. Start of tournament games – July 7, 2019.
3. The tournament is conducted using the Swiss system in 7 rounds, each round lasting 14 days. After this, players finishing 1st-3rd place advance directly to FB, and players finishing 4th-13th place play playoff matches: 4-15, 5-14, 6-13, 7-12, 8-11, 9-10.
If players who took prize places in the FB-12 tournament decline to participate in FB-13, there will be more playoff pairs.
If the winner of the "Новичок - 2019. Winter" tournament does not have a rating of 1750 or higher at the end of the seventh round of OFB or declines participation in FB-13, there will be more playoff pairs.
If players who took prize places in the FB-12 tournament win the "Battle of the Mages 3", "Only XL-6", or "Favorites, Into Battle-11" tournaments, the right to participate in FB-13 passes to the finalists of those tournaments.
If the winners of the "SM-masters", "Battle of the Mages 3", "Only XL-6", or "Favorites, Into Battle-11" tournaments decline participation in the FB-13 tournament, the right to participate in FB-13 passes to the finalists of those tournaments.
If the finalists of the "SM-masters", "Battle of the Mages 3", "Only XL-6", or "Favorites, Into Battle-11" tournaments also decline participation in FB-13, there will be more playoff pairs.
In any case, only three players will advance directly (without playoff matches) from OFB-13.
At this point, it is not possible to foresee all combinations (e.g., winners of tournaments that end later than OFB – Battle of the Mages 3 and Only XL-6 may also be among the winners of playoff matches, and other complex situations may arise), so the organizer reserves the right to make situational decisions based on the specific situation, up to and including holding a small additional mini-tournament.
4. Within the round deadline, a report of the completed round game must be submitted in the tournament thread for the tournament result to be counted. Failure to comply with this rule will result in either a technical result or a score of 0-0 being assigned for the matches.
5. Round deadlines:
Round 1: July 8 – July 21
Round 2: July 22 – August 4
Round 3: August 5 – August 18
Round 4: August 19 – September 1
Round 5: September 2 – September 15
Round 6: September 16 – September 29
Round 7: September 30 – October 13
Playoff matches: October 14 – November 24
6. 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.
Placements are determined by total points.
In case of a tie, tiebreakers apply in the following order of priority:
1) Buchholz coefficient;
2) Number of wins;
3) Head-to-head result;
If tiebreakers fail to separate participants eligible for the final stage of the tournament, tie-breaks will be held.
Tie-break rules: template draft, random pair of towns + trading for town choice and color choice.
7. Draws and Buchholz coefficient calculations for the tournament will be done manually.
Each round's draw will only consider the number of points earned. Rating and current Buchholz coefficient will not be considered.
Buchholz coefficient calculation principle: the sum of all points earned by the player's opponents.
There will be no distinction between points earned in a game and points earned technically for the Buchholz coefficient.
If a player leaves the tournament, their opponents from previous rounds will receive one point added to their Buchholz coefficient for each subsequent round in which the departing player is not paired.
When, due to an odd number of participants in a round, one player is left without an opponent, they receive a draw result with themselves for the Buchholz coefficient for that round (receiving a technical win in the game table) according to the following formula:
n+1*x, where n is the player's number of points at the time of the draw for the round in which they were left without an opponent, and x is the number of rounds remaining until the end of the tournament, including the round in which the player was left without an opponent.
8. "Final Battle – 13" features 16 players:
FB-12 winner Antiplayer,
FB-12 runner-up FireToSky,
"SM-masters" tournament winner Vinceras,
Winner or finalist of the "Only XL-6" tournament,
Winner or finalist of the "Favorites, Into Battle-11" tournament,
Winner or finalist of the "Battle of the Mages 3" tournament,
Winner of the "Новичок - 2019. Winter" tournament with a rating of at least 1750,
9 players – from the OFB-13 tournament.
