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Regarding the possible upcoming tournament: I am all for it. But unfortunately, the activity on HW regarding tournaments for Heroes 5 (and even for version 5 in general) is very LOW. There are currently only about 4-5 potential participants for this tournament... :( P.S. To participate in an intra-clan tournament, you probably need to join a clan. As far as I remember, Vip.rus is a member of the Haven clan. And judging by your statement, a tournament is not currently being held in the clan you are a member of. So, either you will have to wait for a tournament to start on HW, or it might be worth (as an option ;) ) joining another clan where regular tournaments are held. In our clan, tournaments are held on an ongoing basis... :smile03:

I've been quite busy lately, dealing with car and license issues, but I'm always happy to participate in a tournament. I hope everyone I usually play with, and even those I don't play with often, will join. And of course, new participants are welcome too.

So, it seems we have enough people willing to participate in the tournament; now we need to sort out a few issues: 1. Organizers/judges – we need to choose someone whom the majority trusts, someone who wants to do this and will bring the tournament to a logical conclusion (suggest candidates). 2. Tournament format – this is a very important point; many people don't have enough time to participate, so we need to come up with something – we could create something like an express tournament: limit the number of games, or limit the time per turn or per entire match – feel free to suggest ideas. 3. Game version, templates, etc., and whether we'll use custom maps – I think it's best to define this right away to avoid questions later. 4. We can introduce some kind of bonus into the tournament to add variety (feel free to suggest ideas).

Well, an idea for a tournament has already been suggested :)

I'm ready to help organize the tournament rules if needed ;)

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I suggest an idea for an online tournament with fictional heroes: you choose the specialization, race, skill, and ability, and the name. You choose several such heroes for the tournament. And then either a draft or something else. The game will be faster, it will depend on the composition of the heroes, but cheating combinations probably need to be excluded... although everyone is responsible for what they create :)

Since I'm a fan of templates, I suggest a tournament using the Rainbow template – it's quite a challenging, interesting, and generally well-designed template. I also like the idea of each faction being played once in the group stage, so I propose that. TE is up for debate (I'm in favor of it), and IRMG is a must.

Hello everyone, I was in Egypt, so I haven't been around. I think we should first decide what the tournament will be based on (TE, HoMM, maps, etc.), because the number of participants will depend on this – some might not like playing on maps, others might not like playing on templates, for example. It would probably be best to create a poll on this topic in a separate thread or a thread where everyone can express what they would prefer, and then do what the majority wants. We can decide on the format of the tournament itself once we know the approximate number of participants. Personally, I think we should do it on HoMM and TE.

Here's the only downside of Heroes of Might and Magic maps – on some, you can get lost searching for treasure, and not everyone can generate them – so the judge has to create maps for them – the last four tournaments had practically identical Heroes of Might and Magic maps, but they were still interesting. More balance would be nice, of course, but it's still good.

I'm all for it, but I have one significant drawback as an opponent – I can only play every day, but only after 11:00 PM Moscow time. Earlier is not possible...

Well, it seems summer has flown by, and the weather is just perfect for sitting in front of the monitor... I haven't played in ages, and now I really feel like playing! )

I can, in principle, take on the organization and the rules for the tournament, but not the judging...

YES, one template for all races, as Vip suggested.

I am also ready to play. TE is, in principle, more balanced than the original. Although, if you look at it from another angle, Inferno and Dungeon are chosen more often, which means the balance is still shifted... but I guess you can't please everyone))). I would like to draw special attention to the fact that the documentation is still incomplete. I learned some things about TE the hard way in the last tournament, and I doubt that all the gaps have been filled. Of course, creating complete documentation is a very... tedious task, but it's still worth it. And IRMG is also good. P.S. In the last tournament, due to its length, it became difficult for me to constantly allocate time for the game. The format itself was good. But maybe it would be better to give less time for each turn than the 8 minutes that were given? Then the balance would be slightly adjusted, and the game time could be reduced.

As I understand it, Immortal will handle the organization and judging? (that's good, KillAndAction could be a co-organizer). 8 minutes is a time limit that has proven effective, and I personally don't see any reason to change it. I suggest we express our opinions more quickly and start the tournament while the enthusiasm is still there; maybe we can even finish it by New Year's.

I suggest we start adding specifics. Here are my proposals for the regulations: 1) Play on TE + IRMG, and let players write down their preferences for which templates to use below. 2) On the group stage, we will divide players based on the results of previous tournaments: strong players with strong players, weak or unknown players with similar ones. The number of qualifying places in the "strong" groups will be 2-3 times more than in the "weak" groups. I want to do this based on my experience from previous tournaments, as unknown players usually drop out of the tournament, thereby ruining the group stage for the "strong" players. And I think it will be more interesting for everyone this way. 3) On the group stage, I suggest playing in a round-robin format, first random vs. random (with a checkbox excluding playing with the same race), and then mirror matches by race, i.e., there will be 2 games with each opponent. Accordingly, we will make the groups smaller. In the final stage, we can again do a check with the elimination of played races. Please express your agreement/disagreement and offer your suggestions. Based on the results, I will create the regulations.

finally, things are moving forward! I will rely on the opinion and support of the highly respected Immorial – it seems to me that he knows best how to organize the tournament.