Posts from 1st Underground Online Blitz Tournament (UOBT)!

14.04.2013 Defiant (red, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def KPD (blue, Stronghold, Crag, Crag) 2SM4d3 222

I took 2 rests, my opponent 1, and we started playing. The Lizardmen were built, near them their external dwelling was discovered, and they came in decent numbers, so on 112 I decided to take the Dwarf Cottage. It turned out to be a 15-stack. I lost my entire army except for 21 Lizardmen. On week 1 I built 12346 in the Citadel, broke through to a grassy secondary zone through ~90 Dwarves, but a block of 50-99 Lizardmen forced me to slow down. On 121 with the weekly growth, I break through the entrance to an underground treasure zone, but there's an immediate block of 10-19 Angels. I break through the Lizardmen to the secondary hero - turned out to be Rampart. I cleared that respawn; the interesting things there were Stables, Spirit of Oppression, Gloves, and a Griffin Conservatory for 20-49 Griffins, which ultimately turned out to be a 3-stack with Gorgons. Tazar still hadn't gotten Earth magic (and in the end never did), though Slow was found everywhere. I decided to go into a muddy treasure zone (guard 5-9 Fanatics), but after breaking through the first prison guard (42 Pit Fiends), only 5 Wyverns and 38 Greater Lizardmen remained, so I decided to retreat. Week 3 I cleared an underground secondary zone, where there was absolutely nothing interesting either, except I spotted a treasure zone. On 141 I buy troops and with an army of 9 Wyverns, 75 Greater Lizardmen, 18 Greater Basilisks, and fodder, I go into the Griffins-3-stack. Tazar's Blind and Armor carried it, 3 Angels - not bad already. I went for a second run into the muddy treasure zone, which I cleared all of week 4. The treasure zone turned out to be quite poor: only 3 Dragon Fly Hives (thankfully not the minimum ones), about 5 chests with small chunks of experience, Shield+4 and Boots, but there turned out to be a Griffins 4-stack. I also took a minimum-size Dragon Utopia there, which gave a Book of Air. Meanwhile, in the underground treasure zone, a Gladius was spotted with a guard of 1-4 Faerie Dragons. So after breaking through and doubling mana in the underground dungeon secondary, I flew there. There turned out to be 4 Faerie Dragons, and they unloaded their entire arsenal on the Angels, and even hit with Chain Lightning, resulting in -2 Angels :smile32:. I took the Gladius, another minimum Dragon Utopia (gave Manacles and some nonsense), and through my home town with a Wyvern upgrade moved towards the opponent's main hero. On 211 with the weekly growth I broke the opponent's main hero (~120 Wyverns with Gorgons) and stood right in front of the opponent's town. On my opponent's turn, with the army he holes up in the town. On 222 I attack. Tazar's stats are 21 17 9 10, army - 31 Griffins, 49 Dragon Flies, 36 Greater Wyverns, 23 Greater Basilisks, 5 Angels and 121 Lizardmen; Crag's stats are significantly behind, with only a strike stack of 39 Greater Birds + 3 Bears and singles. After Mass Haste and engaging the Birds with Wyverns and Dragon Flies, 12 remain. GG.

Thanks for the game!

14.04.2013 wariator (blue, Barbarian, Deesha) def Aiwe (red, Dungeon, Synka, Gunnarsson) ,124,2sm2c Nothing special to write about, played heavily, because it's SoD, I'm out of practice! And my opponent lacked the endurance to withstand the max morale in the Griffin Conservatory in SoD, damn it! Thanks for the game!

14.04.2013 Iamsamstan (red, Inferno, Feast) draw злой романтик (blue, Stronghold, Гоша), Jebus Cross 117
I don't remember what the restarts were like. But the distribution was good. 3 external dwellings of pit lords, by 117 I managed to upgrade 2, home efreeti in Citadel. However, domestic matters forced me to interrupt the game, so we agreed on a draw. Thanks for the game!

I officially declare: the Tournaments will continue until the draw for the 4th round, and if there are still no re-bets after the aforementioned draw, the Tournaments will be declared invalid, without a doubt. The Big Odds Battle (BOB) is based on the idea of betting, and without bets, there is no BOB. Currently, to enter (or continue) the Tournaments, you need to pay 100 rubles; after the draw for the 3rd round, it will be 200 rubles for those who played in the 2nd round and did not guess both pairs, and 100 + 200 = 300 rubles for those who want to join the game only from the 3rd round; after the draw for the 4th round, for those who want to join the game only from the 4th round, it will be 100 + 200 + 300 = 600 rubles, and they will have no right to make a mistake in the 4th-7th rounds; for the rest, it depends on the success of the predictions in the previous rounds, but it is impossible to pay more than 600 rubles in total.

I have a suggestion. Maybe we can set up a betting pool on HeroesWorld, there are many tournaments on HeroesWorld now. You pick a couple of contentious matches, say 10 of them. You win if you get 5 right, and if you guess all 10, it's a jackpot. Something like this example http://zenitbet.com/toto/

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There will be fewer fixed matches this way, and the stake isn't too high — 50 rubles. I think the TOTO could actually work then.