Posts from Nomination for "Player of the Year 2013" Auto-translated

kobrych, you are very strict with yourself; the M200 with your 20,000-minute moves isn't a good option :D. Besides, the lacquer ran out when the Djinns killed me for a hat, 5 levels down on Morale.

=Stinger= - winner and finalist of tournaments, plays equally strong in both SoD and Tournaments; it's actually strange that he doesn't have this title yet

AlexTheGreat – CIS Champion 2013; regardless of what people say, it is the most prestigious tournament—anyone who wanted to prove or show something signed up and came. I saw his games on mirror against Cobra and Bayezid and was amazed at how one can increase their advantage day by day against such players.

Gomunguls – victory in FB, for the second time in a row

It seems to me, or can any topic be reduced to a SoD vs. WT argument? :D

:smile40:
It just came to mind....
No matter where you look, everything ends in a brawl like at a typical wedding. Although, it would be strange to see a fight between games. With each new iteration, this supposed rivalry becomes more amusing; the arguments may be dwindling, but the source is still active. In general, I came to the conclusion that, in reality, two types of people are clarifying their relationship, not antagonists (like black and white) – two shades of gray, for example, working in the same heroic field. But there is also a division, a partition like between old neighbors, behind which something enviable or contemptible is visible.
Enthusiasts added scripts to WoG, introducing performances with all sorts of Santa Goblins, second upgrades, etc., significantly changing the gameplay and making TE (WT) with balance. Not the best, not the worst, but different. But with promotion – more balanced and correct (only no one has seen the libretto for this "opera"). At the same time, the integrity, concept, and balance of the SoD fairy tale (in an exaggerated form – modernism was inserted into the baroque facade, a dead man is given a human appearance, grandma is put in sneakers so that she can run faster, even though she is old and walks with a cane, wings were attached to Poseidon, he has swum enough...) were overthrown. And it is precisely because of the amateurish approach to a holistic gameplay process that I did not develop a fondness for WT.
Heroes is a game. And, like any game, the balance in it is the author's idea within certain temporal (historical, fairy tale) frameworks, and not what you want to see. And there is always someone in this world who is stronger, smarter, scarier, and it is not necessarily you. Heroes is a very versatile game. And proving superiority in skill in it is a delicate and unrewarding task. There is an opinion that in WT, the global variability has been reduced, which allows a certain group of players to still demonstrate and show their true ability to play. It doesn't allow the crab with DD to mock the old man without DD for too long :) But Heroes is a strange game – one misclick – defeat, one step in the wrong direction – and goodbye, utopia, or you can even write GG (but the opponent turns out to be faster than you in writing texts, he is ahead by a second – and he already writes GG to you... oh, and they don't even let you lose with dignity...). So, you try, you do everything according to the canons of the highest skill... :smile41: And some noob jumps to your respawn point and knocks you out with some kind of explosion. This is unfair (incorrect, imbalanced). This cannot happen in WT :smile08: It is especially interesting to understand how this is consistent with the stated fact that WT players are the only ones in the championships. But it's simple – these are just players with healthy ambitions (slightly higher than others), fueled (including) by playing on their version (fashionable, the version of the initiated, although they themselves are not obsessed with this idea, but it is necessary – out of spite), a broad outlook (initially believing that greater success can be achieved in WT) and free disposal of their time. If they claim that a strong WT player will be strong in SoD (although what is there to argue about?), then a strong SoD player will also be strong in WT – the game mechanism is the same, the difference is only in the time spent studying additional material.
As for the nomination.
Let's take the well-established procedure from football. Who do we choose? The best player in general (as coaches and captains do, whose votes are considered less objective)? Or the best player of the year (as journalists do, their votes are more objective)? Here, you can divide the votes – in one pool – organizers, judges, hosts, moderators (parallel to journalists), in the other – the top 5 (3) of all tournaments, in the third – all the others (or combine the last two pools). The tournaments of the past are so diverse in terms of composition, regulations, and criteria for the winner that simply summing up the results or determining the percentage of victories will be incorrect. In those same Favorites, Stinger was obliged to play for the Tower. The OFB selection was irrelevant. SoD-free tournaments do not fit due to the narrow coverage of players. And let's not miss the opportunity for Twaryna and the chatters, who, if they want, can push him into second place :smile01: The main criterion should still be the "sporting" principle. And since there were no tournaments similar to the World Championship, it is worth paying attention to the minimum requirement for the nominee in terms of the number of tournaments (games) played.

I want to add some information – Artem (=Stinger=) won another tournament, the "Hungry Games"! It started in August 2013 and ended today! I think this will be another reason for many to choose him!

Artemio got a good beating! ;D

In my opinion, Stinger is the perfect candidate for us. He's a player who is recognized by both newcomers and veterans. He's still playing and hasn't gone anywhere, and his skill level remains consistently high. Plus, he entertains us with his streams (even if they're not as frequent as Tvarina's, but still). And he won a bunch of tournaments this year.

P.S. So, create a poll already! :D

Maretti is certainly good, but Stinger feels more familiar and isn't that much worse: D it's time to create a poll.

Maretti is certainly good, but Stinger feels more familiar and isn't that much worse: D it's time to create a poll.

Not yet, Antokh, not yet... there's no point in creating a poll until all the nominations are announced; did you think there would only be 2 nominations? ;)

Will there be more? "Kappa should be here"

There will be more! "Kappa should be here"

For those who haven't seen Alex's games yet, here are some old videos from 2010:
Heroes 3 World Cup 2010 FINAL Maretti vs AlexTheGreat http://www.youtube.com/user/allofyourdreams/videos
Regarding the topic, Stinger is the best! I watch all his games, and his online gameplay on the map is impressive!
Maretti also deserves to be considered the best. In my opinion, he is the strongest player technically at the moment!

In my opinion
Player year is Gomunguls
Beginner The_
discovery helllight

Of course, Stinger.

The poll is open, let's vote:
YOU CAN VOTE FOR SEVERAL CANDIDATES

Oops, I mixed up the topic with "Rookie of the Year 2013" and voted for The, even though I wanted to vote for Stinger. Oh well, I'll give my vote to Timur in advance then :D