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BAJIEHOK (Castle, Valenska, Valenska) def KobRa (Stronghold, Tiraxor, Tiraxor), 132 This time, the map generator decided to team me up with another player and placed about 5 cons near the road, totaling 12 angels and 2 utopias, so we could upgrade them. And to have something to capture the cons, it thoughtfully placed a Dungeon town, a Dungeon outpost, and a Scorpion lair nearby. Artem, thanks for the game!

VALENOK (Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def KobRa (Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor), 132

This time the generator decided that it was playing on my team and placed about 5 Griffin Conservatories near the road, totaling 12 Angels, and 2 Dragon Utopias, so I could clear all that loot. And to make sure I had the means to take the Conservatories, it thoughtfully placed a Dungeon town nearby, a Dungeon AI, and an external Scorpion dwelling.
Artyom, thanks for the game!

Thanks, I played at my own pace - on the first week I had an Angel and a Vivi stream, on week 121 I was ready to kill the opponent, but I didn't know how to proceed or whether to take any Utopia, but they simply weren't distributed, and when I finally found one, it was already too late. Thanks for the game!

What are the latest updates from the battlefield?

04.11.2013 bRitvo4kA (blue, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gurnisson) def KobRa_RR (red, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran), Diamond, 135, WT, +5100
Gosha caught him and didn't let Gune escape. But then Gurn came back with manacles and took revenge.
Thanks for the game!

Dear BAJIEHOK, bRitvo4kA, and Redwhait_HP, we kindly request that you complete the tournament by December 20th. This is in your best interest, as it will allow you to secure a spot in the main stage of The_'s CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.

It has already been agreed that the slot will be kept open just in case. So, I'm waiting for the update and ready to play.

Sir Razor, come out and fight! :)

BA/IEHOK (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) def bRitvo4kA (red, Rampart, Kir, Kir), Diamond, WT, 125

Thank you for the game!

We agreed in the final to play until one victory under SoD.
05.01 BA/IEHOK (red, Castle, Valya, Pikedram) def Redwhait_HP (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Kir), diamond, 217
The game really turned out great...
Under the castle there was a stable and an external dwelling of marks; they spread everywhere and broke through everywhere.
In the stone treasure zone, he took the swamp village, revealed 5 hives (and several more in the snow treasure zone), an external dwelling of vivs, a water book, and from the overview, highlighted a piece of the opponent's spawn and a grassy treasure zone behind the mountains, where a level 5 stronghold lies. A cunning plan arose for the second week: build a village near the upgrade of vivs, collect all the artifacts, hit Dragon Utopia in the underground zone, and take the stronghold with Dimension Door, then attack the main hero of the opponent.
On turn 125, with 15 gold per round from cows (from Pandora) and 50+ vivs, they take Dragon Utopia 1. There is a water book (which isn't that necessary), two amulets, and a resistance cloak. But on the earned money, 55 vivs are upgraded.
Next, according to the plan, a water book, a fifth-level hat, and on turn 131, I go to the opponent's main hero. Then comes a long and tedious struggle, wars with computer heroes, skirmishes with lesser creatures... The opponent is somewhere gathering strength; Valya also gathered a couple of Dragon Utopias and more artifacts. There are several heroes with water magic who actively help.
By turn 141, there are 8 castles, good control of the map, but I can't catch Ivor with Town Portal and wings). Several times, just a few squares were not enough to reach the opponent.
On turn 144, the first final battle. It lasted probably longer than the entire game before it.
Ivor 18-42-11 (about 220 mana), in his army: 31 grand griffins, 53 vivs, 4 hydras, 12 unicorns, 7 angels, 5+1 gr vivs
against Valeska 21-25-28 (about 300 mana) 4 angels, 15 grand griffins, 73 gr vivs, 136 marks, 86 lizards, and single gr flies. Valya has shackles.
In the final battle, all kinds of spells were used: implosion, antimagic, summoning earth elementals, mass slow, haste, resurrect, spell removal, healing....
At the end of this mess, the opponent had a stack of angels left and some other small things; I had three stacks of earth elementals under one hundred each, marks, lizards, and slightly more mana. From the opponent, there was a mass dispel, armageddon, and both heroes with all artifacts went into oblivion! The artifacts are, of course, all on the main heroes (including me, two water books and a fifth-level hat in my backpack).
After that, for the next week, the goal was not to be defeated by computer heroes)).
In principle, control of the map was mine (I controlled about 12 castles), income already increased to 17k per day + there was a necropolis village with the prospect of transforming hordes of skeletons and a piece of treasure zone, from which it was possible to get another 20 ducks.
On turn 216, the opponent is caught for the first time. There's a good Kir with 7 hydras and minor creatures. He was attacked by a mage with 80 mana, bolt, and a mixed zoo. Due to low morale, he couldn't finish the game right away - Kir buys himself off with 1 hydra and sits in the swamp castle, which is attacked the next day by Pikedram with 30 mana, bolt for 180, in his army: 8 gr castlekings, 25 griffins, and 10 grand griffins. And this is GG!
Thank you for the exciting game!

Thank you for the tournament; judging by the "successes" in others, all the luck was spent on this one.

We agreed to play the final best-of-1 VT under SoD
05.01 BA/IEHOK (red, Castle, Valeska, Pikeman) def Redwhait_HP (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Kyrre), Diamond, 217
The game truly turned out splendid...

Damn, but this game really was worthy of a final.
I should have played VT a few times after all, since the last time I played it was on the Russian server.
The pair suited me well enough, the restarts kept giving me junk, I even had to make one on encounter.

I didn't play optimally, the lack of experience showed a bit, and I had nothing to counter my opponent with.
As it turned out later, everything was handed to me on a silver platter :D I just had to capitalize.

On the last restart, I got a bad external dwelling of Elves and a terrible closed road network with one-way portals.
I entered a big treasure zone, there were a couple of external dwellings of Hydras, a Shield +12, a Pandora's Box with 30 Flies, a couple for experience, and 2 for level 4 magic. But Ivor didn't have Fire in his skill progression. From the Control zone, I only scouted the level 5 Cap, but the guard was 20+ Scorpicores, and I essentially had nothing to take it with on the 2nd month.
Then, at the end of week 2, my opponent arrives, takes the Cap, and reveals 50+ upgraded Wyverns, which made me uneasy.
I collected all the Dragon Fly Hives in the treasure zone, I even took the Dragon Utopia, but it gave me junk.
Then, the only joy was taking Wings; the opponent had no Town Portal, which was good and gave me time to build 50 Wyverns and decent combat stats. But again, I lacked literally one day to upgrade them and got hit with a hard final fight, which lasted over 2 hours and was very epic.
I was heavily behind in mana and spell power, but I had a significant advantage in combat stats. The army was also not in my favor.
The outcome was heavily influenced by the speed of my Wyverns being only 10. If the opponent had given me one day to upgrade them, the final fight would have been more or less easy, even though I had 30 fewer Wyverns. As it was, the only option during the final fight was to kamikaze myself and kill him with Armageddon; otherwise, the "poop" would just catch up and kill me sooner or later.
Then, after the final fight, neither of us knew what to do. We didn't want to play a new game, and we didn't want to continue either.
But essentially, the game was for advancing to the main stage of the Champions League, and there was only one spot, so we had to continue.
I quickly specced into Hydras, but the issue was money.
I captured the Conflux with a Capitol and growth from the computer on day 2, month 1, week 1, and thought for a long time: either buy in the Conflux and try to defend the Capitol, since I had almost no towns and money, or buy all the Hydras immediately and go level Kyrre.
I bet on the Conflux and unfortunately guessed wrong; the next turn, the computer recaptured the Conflux almost entirely thanks to Advanced Catapult and Bless on Storms and Psychos.

Then I was in debt with no purchases and didn't know what to do, wasted a couple of days and let my opponent gather everything he needed for happiness. We caught Kyrre with the Book, but without Haste and Slow, I was just short of money to buy back, so we practically killed him on the spot.
And then it was cleanup in the Swamp, against which there was nothing to be done.

Thank you for the incredibly interesting game and congratulations on the tournament victory; it is definitely well-deserved!!!

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Also, thanks to the organizer for a very interesting tournament on an excellent template.

Congrats, Artem!!!!

Congratulations, my friend, on your well-deserved award!

Thank you! :)

That's it, we're done :)

The winner of the Diamond Monster tournament, after a long and intense battle, is:

BA/IEHOK

The award ceremony and prize distribution will be postponed until Minsk, where the winners of the Blitz-Jebus tournament, possibly Terra dei Demoni, and possibly 8m---666---a will likely join.