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So, let's begin
Day 1:
I found the house pretty quickly, but the entrance, no, I stood there dumbly knocking on the gate instead of opening it! Psyche_7 arrived and helped me out. twaryna greeted us at the very entrance. Then we went inside, and almost everyone was already there. We got acquainted, had a drink of some cloudy Armenian liquid to celebrate the meeting, then some more, chatted a bit with each other. The time for the draw came. And then JustObserver was the luckiest of all. He was drawn against Vatya, but Sasha decided, of course with the approving shouts of the crowd, that Vatya wouldn't show up, and JustObserver gets a free slot for 2 liters of whiskey. When the whiskey was delivered to the spot, Vatya had already arrived and was re-drawn against KirilSamoylenko, so that JustObserver wouldn't have bought the free slot for nothing. But then we found out that Browser, LeBron's opponent, wouldn't be coming, and they decided to pair them up. First round draw:
Tovarish(0) – Psyche_7(1) – MiniNosta (Denis aka Tovarish made 2 DDs)
Preds(0)- Captain(1) – smka (Battle game)
JustObserver(0) – LeBron(1) – Diamond (Interesting battle game, ended in a throw)
The_(1) -Ward3n(0)- smka – (they played both equally drunk, and Timur will tell you about this game better than I can, we heard it about 40 times there)
Snooppy(0) – Amiloo(1) – Jebus Cross – (Alexey (Snooppy) threw)
Piterius(1) – GoedenDag(0) – diamond – (after meeting on 116!, GoedenDag couldn't handle the Griffin Conservatory at the start of the second)
Twaryna(1) – Noom(0) – Skirmish autoresolve – (Sanya cheater, never fought anyone!)
Vatya(1) –KirilSamoylenko(0) – smka – (after Kiril's throw on 112, they played a new game where Kiril threw on 112!)
Those who weren't playing chose a club of interest, some drank, some watched other games, some played poker.
Then the draw for Day 2 was made, which will be described below, with the results.
Then Kostya picked up a guitar and the songs and dances began.
Day 2:
Name day of Gunar, Heroin, KirilSamoylenko.
I'll start with a preface perhaps. After the first game day's draw and lunch, The_(Timur), Amiloo (Misha), and Ward3n (Anton) went out for a smoke. Timur says, we need to call Zhenya (Gunar), about the girls and a tour of Kyiv...
The day started with finishing the game Snooppy – Amiloo, because on the first day Misha took 4 restarts instead of the allowed two, they decided to play with a fresh mind. We had a breakfast of very tasty pancakes with ice cream and strawberries, huge respect to Snooppy for the kitchen!
Then Gunar arrives! Then Roma (Heroin) takes matters into his own hands. After the words that Gunar would roll everyone here on easy mode, well except for LeBron (in the initial version only Fish played on par with him, then the list certainly grew), Roma started acting. First, Roman introduced himself to him as AlexTheGreat, then PitForLM, then =Stinger=, then Gomungulsom, Mediumom, etc., I don't remember the exact list. Then Roma tried to find out from Evgeny, why does he make so many clones, what's it all for? No answer was received. But everyone drank with the new acquaintance, and the new acquaintance Gunar drank with everyone, took photos with us and Amiloo, then separately with Amiloo. Everything went quietly and peacefully, and the following games started being played:
First round winners:
Psyche_7(0) –Vatya(1) smka – Vatya's treasure zone with 6 utopias, 4 portals and 2 Dragon Fly Hives will become a new meme!
Twaryna(1) – Captain(0) JC – 32 Wyverns on 115, papal red ball
LeBron(1) – Piterius(0) smka – interesting game. After the throw on the first triple swamp, Fish pulled through.
The_(1) – Amiloo(0) JC – again the red ball decided.
First round losers:
Tovarish(0) – Preds(1) - seems like Jebus Cross, I kinda forgot this game(
JustObserver(1) – GoedenDag(0) – m200, papal Isra with expert boat doesn't forgive
Ward3n(1) – Snooppy(0) – smka – Alexey wasted all the timer on tactics, not understanding why the troglodytes didn't want to go forward into battle, then surrendered and went to sleep.
Noom(0) – KirilSamoylenko(1) – seems like preference.
Then KirilSamoylenko was the first to enter a real fight. During a game of preference he felt unwell, I won't say why, if he wants he'll tell you himself. It would have been a sad moment if he hadn't said, yes-yes, I'm leaving now, ah, just let me finish the preference game. Well anyway, we put him in a taxi, handed him over to his wife, all good. Then I insisted we hold the quiz, well the games were all finished by around nine to half past nine. But the guys sat down for a 3-hour preference game. As a result, the quiz started around 12. You can see the questions in the topic earlier. The most interesting thing is, two future finalists ended up on the same team and also won the quiz. As Vatya wrote earlier on the forum, about 30% were answered, actually about 40%, but some of the questions were really difficult. During the quiz, Gunar started actively interfering, while Heroin quietly slept. After the quiz, a stream was launched with the draw, conversations, and since Amiloo decided to play against Psyche_7 and no one present objected, they played. They wanted to stream the game, besides the stream they played guitar, discussed papal topics and other nonsense, twaryna's channel got banned on sk2tv for "non-gaming content, alcohol, swearing on stream." Yes, that was the best stream ever to be held on your fucking portal!
Then the well-known situation with Gunar and Heroin, in the end it all finished with a taxi home.
Day 3:
The main news is of course Preds's birthday. Dima, all the best to you again! Dima decided that we shouldn't gorge ourselves like animals and bought 3 cakes. We destroyed most of the alcohol in the first 2 days, and when I got up and took an ice-cold shower, I spent a long time looking for something to drink in the morning. The chefs fed us deliciously again. On this day everyone was focused on the semifinals, and none of yesterday's trio of "finalists" were there, no one was acting up much, and there will be game reports about this day.
Let's start with the guys who had 0 points:
Noom(1) – GoedenDag(0) – win in chess.
Tovarish(1) – Snooppy(0) – m200, Alexey threw.
Now for those with 1 point:
Amiloo(1) – Psyche_7(0) – JC – interesting and instructive game. We learned how to take an external dwelling of birds.
Ward3n(0) – Captain(1) – JC – for some reason I decided I'd make my opponent take a restart, but I miscalculated, and getting 2 blocks on 2 roads on 112, I climbed into a Dragon Fly Hive and died.
Piterius(1) – KirilSamoylenko (0) – teh win.
JustObserver(1) – Preds (0) – 2sm2c – Yura attacked on 125 with wild stats and the birthday boy capitulated.
Semifinals:
The_(red,barb,Hack) def LeBron(blue,Flux,Luna) – JC – a very interesting game, with 2 very playable random maps. On one hand, The has 2 Griffin Conservatories, artifacts for attack/defense, 4 angels from 2 conservatories, one Dragon Fly Hive for 4 Wyverns, an external dwelling of behemoths, KZ, and cloak of negation. Mr. Fish on 111 has a cap, 3 Dragon Fly Hives for 24 Wyverns, a couple of low-level external dwellings. And LeBron would have won, if not for one thing, double GO, which left him no chance to get out on 121, thus GG VP.
Vatya(red,Castle,Valeska) def twaryna(blue, Dungeon, Shakti) – Diamond. The game is simply worth AK's attention, Vatya cheater, all that. 42 archers on 111 (without an external dwelling of course). But seriously, Sasha had things just as good in the first days, 150+ troglodytes, 2 dwarf dwellings and 2 necromancer dwellings. Of course, the papal choice of wisdom instead of armor on 114 at level 6 by Vatya was discussed for a very long time. The main reasons were: 1) Wisdom for 3 boxes. 2) On 114 it smelled like final fight 3) Well, why not, there's already plenty of defense. Vatya played the first final fight mega competently, except for the placed horse not being closed by the fairy, although as they explained to me later it was a papal move to make twaryna fall for that horse and not buy himself out. The second final fight was hopeless, although everyone was waiting for armageddon, but it wasn't there(
And immediately the final began. I commentated the start of the final, up to 116, sipping an untouched 0.5 Captain Morgan, although Denis, aka Tovarish, threatened to commentate "purely on the game," but drifted off and fell asleep. On 116 there was a save, Vatya went to play preference with Kostya, Snoopy and Twaryna, and The_ went to sleep.
Day 4:
The game resumed at the beginning of 10 AM.
Final result and analysis:
Vatya(Blue,Conflux,Moner) def The_(Red,Barb,Crag,Galtran) MiniNosta 136
Say what you will, but Vatya is a damn pro rusher. After losing Moner with 3500 MP on 115 (log, stable, boots, gloves), on 121 he gets Moner in the tavern who brings his buddies along, then 10+ Dragon Fly Hives in one treasure zone… further gameplay was almost pointless.
Timur lost almost all of his low-level week 1 army, on the second week on moral rng the nomads ate the bear and played far from ideally. Although Timur deserves credit, he fought to the end, like a real lion, until he saw the opponent's fly and that he would be caught up the next turn.
And well, I'm more than sure that our trolling threw Timur off a bit, for which I offer my apologies, there Kolya aka Psyche_7 was far from trolling Vatya, quite the opposite.
Then we took a few photos and Captain drove the Muscovites to explore Kyiv, for which he also deserves respect. After that, the "superfinal" began: Twaryna vs LeBron
Twaryna(red,Barb,Crag) def LeBron(blue,Ramp,Mephala\Kyrre) JC 112
Sasha had everything going well, but MrFish couldn't handle 80 steel golems for a pandora's box. Although we were hoping for 30 wood there, it was actually 15k experience. A pity, of course, that there was no struggle in the central match of the tournament.
For 4th-5th place
Amiloo def Piterius, unfortunately I was focused on the final game and didn't see the process myself, only know that Petr threw in a max ult.
JustObserver(red,Castle,Charna) def Captain(blue,Ramp,Ivor\Alamar) (smka(coin flip)) 131, this is 100% Captain's mistake. When he won the final fight on 131 after breaking GO on 127, he attacked Yura's castle and was defeated. Since there was no time to finish, the game was submitted for AK decision. AK couldn't identify a winner and awarded a draw, so it was all decided by a coin flip. Victory went to JustObserver!
Result:
Tournament rating 9.5\10.
Half a point was deducted only for the inconvenient location and the fact that the house took a long time to heat up. Otherwise, I'd like to express huge gratitude to Sasha for the organization, to Lyosha for the chefs, they cooked very tasty, and to all the participants and spectators who came. Believe me, those who haven't been to such tournaments have missed out on a lot. Even just talking to players of this level, analyzing the game with them, simply chatting, that's worth a lot. Juristis, you think you did the right thing by not coming, like not being able to handle another drinking party, having to make three transfers, you are very wrong. Special respect to Browser for the pennants. In short, you need to attend events like these, you'll get an enormous amount of emotions, and you won't regret it, 100% guarantee.
P.S. It's very pleasant when people recognize your work (well, from my side it's the quiz) as very interesting.
P.P.S. If anyone has photos of Preds sleeping standing up, I think we should share them)
P.P.P.S Awesome hoodies from Piterius. Btw, Kostya, upload the photos of Gunnar with Amilu and us)
aka.Ward3n
