Posts from [2x2 Tournament] Resurrection

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It’s no longer possible to continue the game; we’ve submitted the save files for the tournament judge to review.

As a tournament judge, I was asked to determine the winner based on the available save files from the match "KostoWar" vs "FISH'енебельные," as the players were unable to complete it.
I hereby declare that the team "FISH'енебельные" wins, due to their significant advantage in position and troops.
All questions regarding the organization and the decision to award the victory without finishing the game should be directed to the tournament organizers.

StickyFingaz(barb, Tiras, Tazar) + Redwhait HP(Taver, Iona) def Albert@s(bog, Broghild, Nimuss) + Sup (rampart, Ivor, Mephala) 122 Jebus

It turned out to be a tough game, one of the toughest in the tournament.
The coin flip wasn't in our favor, and on top of that, the towns we got weren't really equal in strength.
For the first draft, I'm still thinking whether I should have played it; there were 30 ogres, a Pandora's Box at 111 — a minimal Griffin Conservatory was visible, and a Dragon Fly Hive, but I had worse stuff. Just an external dwelling of giants.
The second draft, which was quite promising from my side, got resurrected on us — a pair of Sunken Ships, a Pandora's Box with 110 gremlins, 2 Conservatories, and a Dragon Fly Hive.
Started the decisive one.
111 The main event of the day was basically digging up Tazar, who was immediately put into folders. There's a Dragon Fly Hive and a Conservatory, and I have a Fireball, a Sword +5 behind the skeletons, and a Pandora's Box with 10-19 Rocs; also checked my Conservatory — minimal, and without Perfect Sight to boot, super.
112 Sticky found an external dwelling of wolves, a couple of Pandoras, and another Conservatory.
From my refuges, I bought 4 Pots, which got barbarian Tuesday and a Fort placed there. The second refuge gave 9 gargoyles, and with them I broke through Rocs at level 11 — what was in the Pandora's Box I didn't understand, but I didn't take it. The scout hero revealed some watchtower view and revealed another Conservatory (+2 Speed next to it), a Pandora's Box for Harpies, and 3 Dragon Fly Hives (one, admittedly, far in the snow).
GO gr cyclopes for Sticky — dread knights + Rocs.
113 Taz eats a Pandora's Box for gr Hoppers and stands in an external dwelling of Rocs.
I took the Pandora's Box — it turned out to be 5k experience. At first I didn't get it, but then it dawned on me that there was supposed to be a prison there with Mullich :(
Next, I destroyed the Harpies, and that gave 10k experience, Fire to Iona, and I expertized the Armor.
114 Sticky built Bears, took an external dwelling of Rocs, and after it a Dragon Fly Hive at level 8 and an empty box. Getting ready to take a Pandora's Box for Archmagi and a Conservatory at 2nd level.
I took +5 Spell Power, gave everything to scout heroes, and Daremif with 37 mana and Mage Guild level 2 easily took the minimal Conservatory.
115 Taz got 15k experience from a Pandora's Box and is getting ready to take a Conservatory.
I had a fail — Iona enters a Dragon Fly Hive without checking with Angel — 3 Rocs, 10 Wolves, 20 Hoppers, a couple of Gargoyles; when the quick combat showed a loss, I sensed something was wrong, and indeed it was maximum :( I had to flee, leaving 36 Serpents.
At home, Town Portal to 4th guild on the first try.

116 The 2nd level Conservatory went easily. I built Bears and finished off the wretched Dragon Fly Hive; Iona replenished mana and is ready to hit the next Dragon Fly Hive next turn.
117 The 3rd level Conservatory went worse — all Rocs, Wolves, and 2 Ducks were lost, but there are already 5 Angels and another Conservatory. I took the Conservatory for 6 Ducks, sacrificing 60 Gremlins in quick combat, and I'm ready to take the Conservatory with +2 Speed on 121, then give away the entire army via Town Portal. Both of us have Bears stationed in the castle.

121 Sticky shopped, took another 3rd level Conservatory with a scout hero. Taz is ready to break through GO next turn.
I took a Cloak, enter the Conservatory — it's maximum; I have 1 Bear, 18 Ducks, a couple of Gargoyles, 30 Gremlins, and a few more units. Finished quickly, but lost 6 Ducks and all Gremlins. Then I combine the entire army, and Andra uses Town Portal to give the entire army to a scout hero. Also, after selling everything (including the scrolls, plus I took out the max loan :D ), I sent it for upgrading Bears and buying whatever was left.
122 Sticky combined the army, upgraded 6 Bears, took a +6 Shield. Before GO — stables and double mana. There had been a Blue Necromancer visible all day, who, after beating the Diamond, didn't have time to take the Pandora's Box and Dragon Fly Hive.
Dread knights and Rocs fell without issue; in a free Pandora's Box — 20k experience.
We line up: 1 + 11 Angels, 1 + 40 Wolves, 15 Ducks, 6 Rocs, 6 gr Bears
Stats are roughly even: about 20 gr Ducks + 16 regular ones, 37 gr Wasps, and 2 Hydras.
On tactics — all forward. Taz casts Slayer, but all 4 stacks resist!!! :mad:
The unit of Angels crashed into gr Ducks and died, but the full stack hit without retaliation. The Bear stack took out half of the regular Ducks.
Then Slayer landed, and there was tactical back-and-forth in the first round; in the end, the Ducks retreated to the far corner.
Round 2) Bolt killed 2 Angels; Ducks in the far corner wait, since there was +3 Speed — Angels had 7 Speed, allowing them to cast Haste on the Bears; Angels killed 16 Wasps; Bears left a regular Duck with little HP and took out 6 out of 7. Wasps and Hydras crashed into Wolves, the Wolves finished off the Duck, and our Duck stack crashed into the Wasps.
Round 3) We have first speed — immediately Haste on the Angels, and Bears finish off the Wasps. Angels finish off gr Ducks. A couple of Hydras remain; they're basically doing nothing, just moving around, and the opponents surrender.
Thanks everyone for the game!!!

Well, Albert just can't do without Valentine... Maybe that's what makes their duo so strong? ;)

Attention! On Saturday at 12:00 Moscow time, the semi-final match between Dremuchie Duby and FISH'enebennye will take place. We invite everyone to watch this exciting match!

LeBron (green, castle, Valeska, Wystan) + Dirty_Player (blue, rampart, SuperMepha) def Pit for LM (tan, Inferno, Calh) + Gomunguls (red, dungeon, Shakti) JC-l, 124
statistics don't lie ) 4 out of 4 wins, playing the castle+rampart pair
It dealt well, 2 external dwellings of angels and a Griffin Conservatory minimum+dungeon, Wystan level 5 with expert archery in prison, everything was conducive to a tempo play for castle, but in the external angel dwelling something happened that makes some hate SoD and others can't stand it xD, the winged ones, raising their wings up, sharply hit the archers sending Wystan to the tavern, good thing I didn't take the menagerie, on 116 with the native angel I finally finished off the ill-fated external dwelling, the angels morale-checked in that fight in the first round too! But this time I managed to sort it out, getting by on 1 winged one. In the second external dwelling the angels fought 3 on 3 and I managed to sort it out without morale boosts. Mepha worked more productively, quickly getting expert earth and picking up sweet artifacts, she flew to the center, where she took a chest for 3 gold! on 121 she took a Dragon Utopia in the center with КВ and picked up +3all from under the opponents' nose. With the money from the utopia, we hired 10 angels, uniques, and a bit more menagerie. Calh came himself with stats 18 17 18 180, plenty of power: 8 archdevils, 40 efreeti, 90 magogs, 9 sultans and small fry. But against Mepha's 27 34 20 480 and anti-magic on the archangels, you can't push through!
thanks for the game!

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LeBron (green, castle, Valeska, Wystan) + Dirty_Player (blue, rampart, SuperMepha) def Pit for LM (tan, Inferno, Calh) + Gomunguls (red, dungeon, Shakti) JC-l, 124

A very interesting and exciting game that made us think hard. We started by seeing a few pandoras, hiding spots, and a teapot behind the ogres on the elven respawn. We decided to play. Mephala went to collect the pandoras and ventured deep into the wilderness; there, Galkin took a box for experience but didn't max out his earth magic, while Meph perfectly mastered earth and logu. After two attempts, they inflicted slow and began attacking ГО. 15 grandmasters and Masslou were working wonders, and on turn 117 in the box with 40+ horses, we obtained three golden dragons, which greatly lifted our spirits. On turn 121, we took a shield+4 from 50-99 liches and wings from 2 rusty ones (it was a difficult battle because having 2 of them turned out to be very unexpected). Next, we had 2 Dragon Utopias, upgraded angels, and then Calh himself came, spent the night in shackles, and was attacked. With one move, antimagic on 10 archangels put an end to it. Revenge is taken! Thank you for the game!

LeBron (green, castle, Valeska, Wystan) + Dirty_Player (blue, rampart, SuperMepha) def Pit for LM (tan, Inferno, Calh) + Gomunguls (red, dungeon, Shakti) JC-l, 124
Thanks for the game!

Confirmed!
The game was tough because we didn't get very good units. We had to defeat 20+ creatures with a large stack of 16 Vivis and 2 Angels, and our hero was only level 5... We lost an Angel, 2 Vivis, and some minor units in the process. We moved to the center, grabbed everything we could, and passed it to Pete. Then, Pete, after 3 failed attempts (which turned out to be weak), went to war against the blue team, and they attacked him with parameters twice as high and a strong army, and we surrendered! We squeezed everything we could out of the respawn points, but we were less lucky.))
Thank you all for the game!!! I really enjoyed the tournament, and I liked how we played as a team:smile12:! I want to thank Pete for the games; it was all great!!!:smile54:
Congratulations to the Fish team for making it to the finals, and I wish them good luck!!! I will be rooting for them!!:) :smile02:

So, the tournament is coming to its logical conclusion, and I would like to summarize the results and give a brief preview of the next tournament in a similar format.
I would like to note that almost all the games were really interesting and dynamic, with some unexpected twists and controversies. All this suggests that the blitz format for 2v2 is extremely successful. However, there were also some serious shortcomings in this tournament format. First of all, this is, of course, the group stage. As practice has shown, groups are completely unacceptable for 2v2 games, because half of the games in this format do not have any tournament significance, and it is quite difficult to gather four people for a casual game.
The second point I would like to note is the game version. The latest innovations in the HD mod make it almost playable, even from my conservative Warlords-oriented point of view. As the tournament experience has shown, a timer is a must in this format, and the time per turn was determined quite accurately, so that on the one hand, it does not drag out the game, and on the other hand, it does not turn it into a race. On average, it took us 5-8 hours per game, which, I agree, is a great real-time result, even for a 1v1 format?
The third point is the map. JC-l with weak monsters proved to be an extremely successful option! However, as the experience of 1v1 games shows, it is not worth sticking to one map, so in the next tournament, there will be a list of 2-3-4 maps.

So, let's summarize:
the next tournament in the 2v2 format will be held
a) on the HD+ version with a timer
b) using the double elimination system
c) on several maps

I hope the viewers enjoyed the tournament, and we promise a hot stream battle in the final :cool:

LeBron (green, castle, Valeska, Wystan) + Dirty_Player (blue, rampart, SuperMepha) def Pit for LM (tan, Inferno, Calh) + Gomunguls (red, dungeon, Shakti) JC-l, 124

Yes, we bet on the three native Dragon Utopia, but as luck would have it, they all turned out to be minimal and kind of crappy. In the end, we didn't have enough money and lacked the stats - you can't push against mega-Mepha...
Thanks for the game.

This Sunday, at 10:00 Moscow time, the first game of the final match will take place. We invite you to join us for fun streams!

the first game

the first one? :confused: and how many should there be?

first? :confused: and how many should there be?

I was sold tickets for the 5th one.

They sold me tickets for the 5th.

Doesn't matter if it's 7, just tell me who you bought the tickets from :D