Posts from [TOURNAMENT-SoD] Novice - 2020. Winter

Tournament "Novice – 2020. Winter"

Winners of past tournaments:

"Novice-2019. Winter" – Chainik
"Novice-2018. Summer" – Мирон
"Novice-2018. Winter" – kolianxxxxxx
"Novice-2017. Winter" – graalzzz
"Novice-2016. Summer" - caliban
"Novice-2016. Winter" - Antiplayer
"Novice-2015. Summer" - tun7gus7
"Novice-2015. Winter" – Socrat
"Novice-2014. Summer" - Falcone
"Novice-2014. Winter" - Aiwe
"Novice-2013. Summer" - The_
"Novice-2013. Winter" - высокий
"Novice-2012. Summer" - twaryna
"Novice-2012. Winter" - 7z
"Novice-2011. Summer" - Sky Pioneer
"Novice-2011. Winter" - Sevensan
"Novice-2010. Summer" - тенью бездомной
"Novice-2010. Winter" - Сатир
"Novice-2009. Summer" – Erdem

Requirements for Participants:

1. Players whose first rated game on HeroesWorld was after August 30, 2018 are invited to participate in the tournament.
2. A tournament participant must have played several official games in the seasonal tournament or another official tournament on HeroesWorld, or at least 3 games with detailed reports in the fan games thread on heroesworld (the games must be played and reports written before the end of registration for the tournament).
3. Semi-finalists of the upper and lower brackets of the Novice tournament, or those who have participated in more than two tournaments from the Novice series, are not allowed to participate.
4. Players with a permanent HeroesWorld rating of 1700+ at the time of submitting the registration application will not be accepted into the tournament.
5. Players with more than 100 official rated games on HeroesWorld will not be accepted into the tournament.
6. Questions regarding the admission of relatively experienced players will be considered by the organizers in coordination with the Tournament Committee (TC).
7. The participant must be able to play 1 game every two weeks - the priority time for playing is 19-24 MSK on weekdays and 12-24 MSK on weekends.
8. If it is discovered during the tournament that a player has provided false information, they will be disqualified from the tournament, and the materials will be forwarded to the Tournament Committee (TC).

Leave your applications in this thread:

There is a Detailed guide 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 if it is not there.
If it is in your profile, a little green daisy - the ICQ symbol - will be visible under your avatar. If it is not, you need to follow the algorithm.
2. Leave an application in this thread. To do this, click the Sign up for tournament button, which is located at the beginning of this thread and at the top of each page.
3. 2-3 days before the draw, you must get in touch with the host sir Davos Seaworth (ICQ 716748479) 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: sir Davos Seaworth (ICQ 716748479), judges: kamukag3e (ICQ 722535591), Xocenk (ICQ 703804372). 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 online HOMM3 tournaments.
3. The Regulations and Rules of the tournament will not be changed after the end of registration, during the tournament.
4. For each game played, participants must provide a detailed report and detailed confirmation in this thread. Only then will the game be counted. All tournament reports must be written using the automatic report writing system: Detailed guide with pictures FAQ18.
- To create a report, click the New report button located at the top of each page of the thread 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 manners to thank your opponent for the game.
5. All tournament games go into the player rating of HoMM3 HW.
6. The tournament winner will receive the right to participate in the FB-14 tournament, provided that at the start of that tournament they have a rating of no less than 1750.
7. In games not played within the established deadline, technical results will be awarded.
8. Saves and password files for all games must be kept until the end of the tournament and presented at the first request of the tournament hosts and judges, or any member of the Tournament Committee (TC). Forgetting or losing the password for a game may serve as grounds for awarding a technical loss in the game.
9. Disputed issues, if any, please discuss outside the forum. To resolve, you must contact the host or judge of the tournament via ICQ and provide daily saves, ICQ logs, and other necessary information.
The judges' 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.

RULES FOR GAME AGREEMENTS:
1. No later than 7 days after the start of each round, players must contact their opponents and agree on the date and time of the game between themselves.
- If postponing a game, agree on its resumption date.

2. If within 7 days the players cannot agree on a game date, or one player writes to the opponent and receives no reply, then you must immediately notify the host and provide the message history for that specific game. Mandatory dates for games will be scheduled. The host reserves the right to assign mandatory game dates (MGDs), primarily on weekends in the evening MSK time. MGDs are set within the deadlines of the specific round; MGDs are not set outside the round deadlines. If you miss the deadline and do not contact the host, arrange the game yourselves. In case of a no-show for two MGDs, technical losses will be awarded. In case of no information about the game from both players, technical losses will be awarded to both participants.

Regulations

Tournament Format.

The tournament is held according to the following scheme: Group Stage + Playoffs (upper and lower brackets).
Group Stage – 4 groups. From the group to the Playoff round in the upper bracket, players finishing in first and second place advance; third and fourth place advance to the Playoffs in the lower bracket.
The main criterion for leaving the group is the number of points scored (a win gives 3 points, a draw 1, a loss 0). If several players have scored the same number of points, additional indicators come into effect (in order of priority):
a) Berger coefficient;
b) Head-to-head result;
c) If it is impossible to give priority based on additional indicators a and b between players, a playoff game is held on the template Skirmish M 200% .

Playoffs – Upper and lower bracket.
In the upper bracket, games are played up to 2 wins. In the lower bracket, games are played up to 1 win until the final. The lower bracket final is played up to 2 wins.
A player who loses in the upper bracket moves to the lower bracket; a player who loses in the lower bracket is eliminated from the tournament.
The Grand Final is played up to 3 wins. The player advancing through the upper bracket has an advantage of 1 map.

Timeline.

Registration: November 01 – December 25, 2019 (until 00:00 Moscow time)
Draw and group formation: December 26, 2019
Tournament start: December 27, 2019
Group stage: December 27, 2019 - February 28, 2020
Playoff round: March 01, 2020 - July 01, 2020
2 WEEKS PER GAME

Tournament games must be played within the established time frame. For violation of game deadlines, by the decision of the tournament organizers and judges, a player may be penalized up to and including disqualification from the tournament.

Rules.

1. Game version. The tournament is conducted on game version SoD 3.2(4.0) + HD mod.
"HW Rules" checkbox is enabled.
Exclude objects: obelisk ban – disabled, ban on hill fort, cartographer – enabled.
Options: rebuild mage guild - enabled, rebuild library - enabled, rest disabled.
Simultaneous turns (ST) are enabled by mutual consent of the players. When playing with ST on Jebus Cross, ST is set to 121, on other templates 116.
Password protection for saves is enabled.
2. The tournament is conducted according to the rules of online games in Heroes 3.
3. Restarts: a total of 2 days (111+111 or 112).
4. Template selection is done by the second player (the one who did not start the agreement process). In a deadlock situation (cannot agree on who starts), we flip a coin and start the selection process.
5. Town selection: TORG (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: TORG
*On the Skirmish template, starting town, hero, and bonus are random. In a deadlock situation (cannot agree on which color starts), we flip a coin.

Templates.

1. Group stage and playoff round games are played on the templates: Skirmish M-200, Diamond, 2sm4d(3), Jebus Cross, 6lm10a, Mini-Nostalgia, and 8mm6a
2. In the playoffs, add: 8xm12a and spider
3. Information about the templates and recommended settings can be found in the corresponding section.
4. Games are played on a chess clock. For a more comfortable game, the chess clock settings options have been 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" checkbox sometimes gets disabled.

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 medal under their avatar: "Winner of the 'Novice' Tournament":