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Tournament Regulations.

This tournament is an official rated tournament.

Deadlines are determined based on the number of players registered for the tournament; 1 week is given per game.

Tournament dates 16.09-31.12.2019

Please report all difficulties or delays immediately in this thread.

Tournament Format:

The tournament is held in a ROUND ROBIN format. Each player plays TWO games against every other player. Participants determine the color for the 1st game independently; if difficulties arise in choosing a color, the judge must be contacted. In the 2nd game, participants swap colors. Players may play ahead for the entire tournament provided that opponents are available. The winner of the tournament is the player who scores the highest number of points.

General Provisions:

Map generation is performed using IRMG
version 1.8.0,
or version 1.8.2.
IRMG Templates as of August 2019.
Template Schemes.
IRMG Settings:
1."Zones Compatibility Factor" = 1.5
2."Monster Strength Factor" = 1.0
3."Portal Connection Only" - off (i.e., button not pressed)
3."No obstacles On Map" - off
4."Sigle Faction Guard" - off
5."Selected Faction guard only" - off
6."Different Faction" - off
7."Disable Intant Travel" - off
8."Chaos week" - off

Game Settings:
Turn time limit – 10 minutes.
Animation speed – 5.
Quick combat – enabled.
Simultaneous turns – enabled.
Dynamic combat – disabled.
Ghost mode – disabled.
Autosave – enabled.
Game difficulty – hero

Reasons for a player to be excluded from the tournament:
- failure to comply with the regulations, deadlines, and rules of this tournament;
- violation of tournament deadlines without prior notification to the tournament judge;
- fact of violating prohibitions in this tournament;
- rudeness, public insult of the organizer, judge, or tournament participants.

Replacing a player during the tournament is not permitted.

Games not confirmed by the end of the group stage are considered unplayed and no points are awarded for them.

Tournament Rules:

1. Games are played on the latest official version of the game. Currently – HoMM V: Tribes of the East 3.1; in this tournament, the Tournament Edition mod version 6.8_ test3 is used. Skill Wheel for viewing directly in-game.
Games can be played via GameRanger, Radmin, Hamachi, Remobo, COMODO EasyVPN and similar programs.

2. FACTION SELECTION IS MADE BY THE PLAYER DURING REGISTRATION FOR THIS TOURNAMENT.

3. Before the game, participants must choose a template. The template may be chosen randomly or by drawing lots. CHOOSING A TEMPLATE BY DRAWING LOTS IS DONE ACCORDING TO THE SCHEME 1-1-....1 FROM THE FULL LIST. The blue player draws first.
Template list - crown, letos, m3, mask, labyrinth, rainbow, spider, sun.

4. Use of any bugs, undocumented features, cheat codes, as well as unofficial programs and modifications is prohibited, except for the TE mod itself (and programs creating virtual networks).

5. In case of a connection drop or game crash, the last autosave is loaded; players are required to exactly repeat all their moves up to the moment of the connection drop or crash. If a connection drop or crash occurs on the first day of the game, heroes are randomly assigned again.

6. In cases of combat between players, a stalemate situation may arise (where neither player can win). In this situation, the attacking side must retreat or surrender (at their discretion). If the Shackles of War artifact is involved in the battle, then in case of a stalemate, the battle should be finished in AutoCombat mode.

7. Each participant for each game against every opponent has the right to 1 restart with map regeneration no later than the second day of the first week of the first month. The end of the day is considered the pressing of the turn-end button, regardless of whether the opponent has finished their current turn or not. Generating all 3 maps before starting the game is not mandatory: generate the first one, and then each subsequent one only after each player's restart.

7.1. Simultaneous turn drop or desync on week 1 - technical restart (except in cases where both players are ready to continue the game).

7.2. Simultaneous turn drop on week 2 and later - the game continues (except in cases where both players are ready to start the game over)

8. "Red-rush" is prohibited, meaning an attack by red on the first day of the week with purchased growth (the red player may attack on the first day, but without purchasing growth).

9. Joining neutrals is prohibited. As an exception, joined units can be taken to be sacrificed in a pit or sold at the market, but not put into battle. Goblins who joined the army after "Betrayal" triggers may remain in the army.

10. Use of the travel spell "Astral Gates" to jump from any zone into the opponent's starting zone is prohibited if the portal/garrison connecting them has not been breached. It is also prohibited to use the travel spell "Astral Gates" to jump into the opponent's adjacent zone and enter the opponent's starting zone on the same turn.

11. Pressing wait on Krag's first strike in battles with opponent heroes is prohibited; it is permitted against neutrals.

12. In each individual game in the group, 2 points are awarded for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.

13. When determining a player's position in the tournament table in round robin format or at the group stage, if points are equal, the following criteria apply:
- Berger coefficient (a 2-0 score is equated to a 1-0 score if the game between opponents in the group is played as bO2);
- result of the head-to-head encounter;
- number of wins;
- number of draws;
- number of losses;
- additional game.
The additional game is held between opponents according to tournament rules. Participants determine the color for the game independently; if difficulties arise in choosing a color, the judge must be contacted.

14. Attention! LOADS are PROHIBITED in this tournament!!
Exception: a mutual agreement on the number of loads has been reached by both players. If, despite the agreed number of loads, players have disagreements about the outcome of the game (win/loss) due to loads, the tournament judge reserves the right to decide the outcome of the game.

15.The application for registration for the tournament is made IN THIS THREAD. The message must include all available contact methods that the player deems necessary:
- Discord - primary method of communication;
- Viber, WhatsApp and similar;
- I.C.Q., qip, Miranda and similar;
- private messages on HeroesWorld;
- Skype, phone;
- email address.
Also do not forget ONE FAVORITE FACTION that you will play for the entire tournament.

WARNING: a player who has not provided Discord account information (#000NickName) is not admitted to the tournament!! Registration is open until September 15, 2019 inclusive.