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The group stage is coming to an end. There are 2 days left to finish playing out saved games. Now, we can summarize the results in a few more groups. Group F: Lem received technical defeats in matches against Diabler and aka.Ward3n due to disconnections. Group L: LeBron - Stizko - 0-0 - match not played. Alone - Slayzer - 1-0 - Slayzer refused to play. Group P: cuc9ctblu - Myxomoar - 0-0 - match not played.

02.11.13 2unoob (Red, ramp, Kyril, Kyril) def Alone (Blue, necro, Isline, Isline) 2sm4d(3) 143.

Thanks for the game.

We both ended up without rests; I was in the basement with heavy exits. First one went to 99 gr. Gremlins + pits, the second was blocked by the guard of a Dragon Utopia — but from the observation tower you can see that you can bypass it in a couple of days by going off-road, so unfortunately there is no technical rest... I went off-road, lost some of the bones, of which there were few to begin with; on the third day I built Liches. I tried to break through 90 gr. Gargoyles with them — I broke through, but there was no army left and I didn't gain any Skeletons. On the surface there was a flock of Silver Pegasi... :) We stayed at our own respawn for the entire first week. At the start of the second week, I captured Conflux; I see Boots, but they are off the road, and I already have no speed — I didn't go for them. I scouted the Troll's Dragon Utopia — nothing to take it with. From the observation tower I see my Swamp Treasure Zone — but everywhere there are mega-guards for all sorts of junk (like a Hive + Tent + Resources), and rushing there isn't timely. There's an option to try through the second exit, since the Conflux respawn is heavily cut up, but I gathered a few bones. I broke into the Forge and from there (after refreshing mana) broke through to the surface, the Stones, and then an unexpected surprise — the Red player is coming off-road to visit my Conflux :( They didn't let me ramp up... There were a few scout hero skirmishes. First, opponent ATTACKED ME and killed a scout hero with a Meteor. I joked in ICQ like, "Have you already built Level 4 Magic?" — I didn't know the rules had been adjusted so you can cast Level 4 spells in battle against an opponent. Well, I shrugged it off, like, we'll keep playing — we'll sort it out later; in the meantime I consulted with Gomunglus about the rules. On the next turn, the opponent ATTACKED ME again, but my scout hero was on Fairies, and a spell killed a single unit of the opponent. Then I was immediately hit with a technical defeat, like you can't kill in the first round. Fine, I thought, we'll be more careful with this guy — but we kept playing. Meanwhile, Isline captured a Level 2 Griffin Conservatory and doubled their mana at the Creek; the bones are piling up nicely now. However, Mephala is clearly stronger with 7 Angels and a horde of Grands. I'm thinking where to go. In theory, the native Treasure Zone is not an option — there are trump-guards, and the loot would be a couple of Hives and a Library... — that's out. Can't go towards them, so the only choice is off-road to the last Treasure Zone — and I did that. Meanwhile, Mephala took my Forge, which I reclaimed the next turn, but I still couldn't deliver the growth. :mad: In the last Treasure Zone, as luck would have it, there was nothing good again. Lots of objects — quest-guard artifacts, prisons, useless artifacts... but no Hives or stat-boosting artifacts. On top of that, the opponent could see where I was going from their observation tower, so they egged me on, like, "You've already lost anyway." And so it happened; they have Elves' external dwelling, and right next to the road two Griffin Conservatories 2+2, everything is perfect in that regard. With Necros, things sometimes get tough...

Thanks for the game!

Now let's look at some of the remaining groups in more detail.

Group C:



HellLighT - Volodymyr - 0-0 - game not found.

In the Mar - Redsnow and Redsnow – Browser games, a score of 0-0 will be assigned tomorrow morning if the players do not provide save files or complete the matches today.

Group I:



In the ShadowManiac - leosnow game, a score of 0-0 will also be assigned tomorrow morning if the players do not contact the organizers, provide save files, or report on completing the match today.

Group G:



UrukHai – kalababa - 0-0 - game not found.
UrukHai - rebellious - decision based on save file.
rebellious – kalababa - possible rematch tomorrow.
UrukHai must contact the organizers by Monday to continue participating in the tournament.

In all other groups, all started matches must be completed over the weekend, reports written, or players must submit save files.

What was the outcome in Group B regarding the 4th place?

Group E
12/21/2013 bRitvo4kA (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def MuLLIyTa (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Tant), balance, 123
Thanks for the game!

Group E
12/21/2013 bRitvo4kA (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def MuLLIyTa (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Tant), balance, 123
Thanks for the game!

You're welcome :) GG

Group K

21.12.2013 R55Max (red, Rampart, Kyrre) def Pyre (blue, Swamp, Tazar,...) 6lm10a, 127

Spawned an external dwelling of elves and dendroids, but money is absolutely terrible. A spread of 3 or 4 heroes. Every day of the whole week, I barely scraped together enough gold to build. Ended the week with about 5 heroes, took a secondary Conflux (the Mage Guild was junk). But I did build cavalry in the Castle.

On day 2, there was nothing to buy, but I wanted to take the two scouted Griffin Conservatories near the capital. One of them had 3-4 angels, and the far one near the stables, where another external dwelling of dendroids was found. In short, to buy them I needed to take the Naga Bank near my starting area, but I couldn't check it. On day 2, I decided to go to the computer without growth, since there was no money, only with the extra army from dwellings — it turned out to be a Dungeon, I successfully killed the main army in the Citadel with a loss of 86 halflings (they were given in a Pandora's Box and their dwelling was there, good thing they didn't hit the archers, who were still unupgraded). It was also pleasing that Kyrre was leveling up excellently.

In short, at the end of the week I head back home, having successfully run through the stat boosters, and I stop at the Naga Bank. Meanwhile, money became easier (I had already built for a thousand each, and there were two [dwellings] near the Dungeon), and scouts had uncovered quite a bit. I buy up to 35 grand elves, 6 unicorns, 9 dendroids, and singles. I go in, and there's a max Naga Bank. I only have 1 Haste for the dendroids and Slow or 2 Slows, I got a bit nervous here — any morale could ruin everything, I thought for a long time about whether to hit the bottom stack with unicorns. I struck, and Blind worked, super. Then all the singles go left-up, we shoot down 4 nagas from the top-left, and Slow on the bottom-right. It held for 2 rounds. After that, it was easier; there were only 2 morale procs, which weren't decisive. I leveled up Earth magic. I stopped just short of the first Griffin Conservatory. The Dungeon still had 2, and a 5th one was separate behind the terrain. In short, around day 135 I was supposed to take the 4th and eat a Dragon Utopia, but the blues surrender — a sour outcome.

Thanks for the game

Group K

21.12.2013 R55Max (red, Rampart, Kyr) def Pyre (blue, Swamp, Tazar,...) 6lm10a, 127

The external dwelling gave ears and dendroids, but things are terrible with money. A spread of 3 or 4 heroes. Every day of the week I found just enough money for construction. Ended the week with about 5 heroes, took a secondary Conflux (the Mage Guild was junk). But I did build cavaliers in the castle.

On the 2nd day there was nothing to buy with, but I wanted to take the two scouted Griffin Conservatories near the table. One of them had 3-4 angels, and the far one near the stables, where there was also an external dwelling with dendroids. In short, to buy everything I needed to take the Nagas dwelling near my starting area, but I couldn't check it. On the 2nd day I decided to go to the computer without growth, since there was no money, only with the additional army from dwellings — it turned out to be a Dungeon, I successfully killed the main army in the citadel with a loss of 86 halflings (given in Pandora's Box and their dwelling was there, good thing the archers weren't hit, they were still unupgraded). It was also pleasing that Kyr was leveling up excellently.

In short, at the end of the week I head home, having run through the stat boosters successfully, and park at the Nagas dwelling. Meanwhile, money became easier (I had already built [2] thousand and there were two near the Dungeon), and scouts revealed quite a bit. I buy up to 35 grand elves, 6 griffins, 9 dendroids, and tier-1 units. I go in, and there's a max Nagas dwelling. I only have 1 Haste for dendroids and Slow, or 2 Slows, I got a bit scared here — any morale could ruin everything, I thought for a long time whether to hit the bottom stack with griffins. I hit and Blind worked, super, then all the tier-1 units go left-up, we shoot 4 Nagas from the top left, and Slow on the bottom right. It held for 2 rounds. Then it was easier, there were only 2 morale procs, neither decisive, I maxed Earth magic. I stopped short of the first Griffin Conservatory. The Dungeon had 2 more, and a 5th one separately behind the terrain. In short, around 135 I was supposed to take 4 and eat the Dragon Utopia, but Blue surrenders, a sour situation.

Thanks for the game

that's how it was. thanks for the game

That’s exactly what happened. Thanks for the game.

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We are closing two more groups: Group E Group K There are 6 groups left and 10 unplayed matches.
Mostly these are saved games; however, today we need to finish these saves and write reports.
Players must independently, without waiting for a reminder from the organizers, post on the forum or contact me or Valera and report on the current situation.

Group I

In the game ShadowManiac - leosnow, tomorrow morning it will be 0-0 if the players do not contact the organizers today, submit save files, or report that they will continue playing.

This has been done:



=Stinger= - AYMAN ????

Group C:

In the games Mar - Redsnow and Redsnow – Browser, results of 0-0 will be assigned tomorrow morning if the players do not submit save files or continue playing today.

A request was made to wait until Monday morning. Okay.

Group MPiterius - BlooDy)DriVeR ????

Group HMerlinTheMagician ????????????????????????????????


Group Dtwaryna - Satir ????
Grizvald - ColdRain ????

Group Grebellious - kalababa ????

What has been decided in Group B regarding 4th place?

Everything will be decided after all the results of all groups are known.

Group H
MerlinTheMagician ????????????????????????????????

Save from the second month (8mm6a) with Shevanesyan - we planned to finish it today. If we can't, I'll submit it for judging.
Save (from the second week of Balance) with GodenDag - similarly, we wanted to finish it today.

Today, Artem and I are playing. Before that, we had a quick game and chose to restart.

I can play today, but we didn't make any prior arrangements.

I’m probably in 1st place among 5-6 players, and I’m also ahead of many others in 3rd or 4th place, so it seems I just got unlucky with the group.

Group H

22.12.2013 Merlin (red, Castle, Valeska) def theShevanesian (blue, Swamp, Tazar), 8mm6a, 227.

A harsh and long game (we only managed to pull through on the third attempt). I took all the rests. The opponent got a double.
On 1-1-3, a neutral stack was taken - Barbarians. A major blunder: Valeska entered the town but didn't buy the spell book, the dyed bitch. Because of this, the game was on a knife's edge for Valeska, as time had to be wasted buying the spell book... Built horses in the citadel, behemoths didn't get built. On 1-1-7, Valeska is only level three, but with Earth. Cons are visible, but one is out of the way, and the other is guarded by 5-9 firebirds (con, pandora, gold, and +1 spells). The central village was taken. Barely managed to buy everything. On 1-2-2, a con is scouted on the road at 3-4, but a bit far.
On 1-2-5, pandoras were taken for a horde of Vamps (15 Lord Vampires) and a horde of Pit Fiends (35 rags). Zero mana.
On 1-2-6, Tazar arrives with a horde of lizards. Valeska hits the firebirds for a pandora and a con. Experience and the con, naturally, a single point. Tazar runs along the road - the under-daddy (rather, under-mommy - Synka with shooting) attacks Valeska with all her might. The result of the battle - an exchange of armies (53 lizards, 13 wyverns, some Vamps - Valeska loses an angel, 4 cavaliers, 47 arbalesters, 35 rags, 28 halberdiers), Synka buys back with the remnants of the Vamps. 15 Vampires are completely alive, and the center is ours. We build behemoths. We gather the goodies - cons.
On the fourth week, we take a Dragon Utopia on the respawn (by the way, endless) - a chalice, Dragon Crown, Helm of Satanic Rage, and a Blackshard. A Dragon Utopia has long been visible beyond the mountains - but the path to it is unknown. We find a Dragon Utopia in the underground - minimum with Red Boots.
We finally find the passage to that zone where another Dragon Utopia is visible. Speaker's Hat. The Wizard's Well is assembled. Then we jump and fly once. Didn't expert Air for a long time. We take a couple more Dragon Utopias. Sandals and a necklace. The sixth week was marked by upgrading angels. Determining the Grail dig site from two obelisks. It turned out to be on the respawn, but far (a three-day journey). Prospectors head there.
Valeska jumps - sweeps through towns, fights neutrals. Finds the Shackles. On 2-2-7, she fights a neutral of the opponent with some mini-army under a Red Orb and Shackles (next to an untaken con and a cape for speed). At this point, the opponent surrenders. He has slightly more angels (temporarily), 90 wyverns. But Valeska's stats are 26-30-21-15 (and with control) against Tazar's 19-18-6-8 and without control.
Thanks for the game.