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You guys are unbelievable, just stop using auto-save in tournaments. You're not newbies anymore, but you still ask for/give it.

P.S. If I were the organizers, I would make those guys replay (because of repeatedly using auto-saves and blatantly violating the rules). That's just my opinion.

Basically, about the auto-pick: I don't know why the opponent needed it; I gave it without hesitation.

Regarding my picks: the first time, I stepped away from the computer for a little longer than usual and missed 2.5 minutes out of 10, so I didn't have time to develop anyone, and they were loaded.

The second auto-pick: it was frustrating not to be able to split the Griffins and buy Archers in the last seconds (I had already pressed the maximum button, but I didn't have time to confirm it :)). Let's leave it to the tournament judges to decide.

I would have done it this way: waited until all the games were played and, depending on whether I pass or not, determined the result.

But seriously, it's not good to bargain for a pick, rudely violating the rules by the opponent taking one more auto-pick when you were the first to ask for a load.

There are situations that are debatable. For example, in a game with an unfamiliar person, I try to play without auto-combat and don't use it myself, only because I suspect that auto-combat is used to replay the battle and get a better result.

But very often there are situations when the AI seems to be mocking you, for example, not so long ago, it took the Diablo stronghold with two (!) Devils, a defensive unit, and a stack of 17 Gnomes. The hero had 0-1 combat skill, and one archer with 40 damage. So, what do you think, were the units Pixies? Anti-morale only triggered once for my Diablo stack, while morale triggered twice for the opposing Diablo stack. Obviously, this situation is extremely unfair for 90% of similar battles, so if you ask for auto-combat in such a case, it would be a sin not to help.
The same goes for "not having enough time." It's frustrating when you need to think things through, but you only have 10 minutes. Yesterday, in a game, we played for 10 minutes, and I had to use auto-combat twice due to time constraints; it was a very important turn.
If anyone is interested, I've attached the save file.

The point is that some "torments" or "gifts of fate" are balanced – in the form of additional conditions for use and are reflected in the rules, while other "torments" or "gifts" that introduce no less imbalance and are in no less need of balancing – are not reflected at all and are not balanced – by additional artificial conditions for use.

And wisdom is not actually needed for using scrolls, FYI. For adventure map scrolls you don't even need a spell book. Might as well just ban scrolls then, like on WCL.

Ariputra, level 4-5 scrolls have very low value, and their guards are absolutely insignificant, so allowing scrolls without a Mage Guild is out of the question. Or do you think 100 pokemon are equal to a Dragon Utopia?!

ariputra, and how do we know you're not just playing the innocent little flower? It's to avoid that dreary rehashing of dried-up arguments that certain judging standards were invented, and in this case, I completely agree with Mizrael.

As for the auto situation — I laid out general thoughts. SoD is by definition quite imbalanced, but that has its own charm: some like chess, some like backgammon. Personally, in this case, I prefer SoD precisely because it's the game of my childhood, not WT, for instance. It's clear that a number of quality improvements wouldn't hurt, but they would only be beneficial if those changes don't alter the core gameplay principle, strategy, and so on. There's no point in making chess a 20x20 board — nobody would play it.)

You're wrong; moreover, I think the debate isn't worth it,

so you can, of course, make excuses all you want, but personally, I wouldn't change my judging principles.
Tvardovsky, you should drop the "not" phrasing. ;-)

I apologize, but from the outside, it looks ridiculous: to sign up for a tournament, play a match, and then start a conversation about what rules are wrong and how they need to be changed.

The rules were known from the beginning; anyone could read them in the first post, and they shouldn't change during the tournament.

Otherwise, it's just a circus.

Previously, were scrolls allowed to be used in PvE without setting up the Mage Guild? If yes, when were the changes made?

Personally, I wouldn’t change the judges’ principled stance.