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02.02.2014 Ayauhteotl (Red, Flax, random, Grinya, Arlash) def Tovariщ (Blue, Castle, Valeska, Gurni) 2sm4d(3) 124

Confirming, I was doing some nonsense throughout the game, I haven't been able to think clearly lately. Thanks for the game!

Two games in the second round of the lower bracket have not been played on time:

u2noob, please contact me regarding the game!!!

There is a save, but where is u2noob?
darkello, I don't recognize you :smile10:

Diabler, please get in touch. It's convenient not to receive messages from contacts outside the list, but it doesn't promote communication :)

Diabler, the lack of information also doesn't contribute to a successful performance in the tournament.

The deadline for the 1/8 finals is February 17th.
The lower half of the upper bracket has already completed its tasks.

Waiting for u2nuba, I have saves from about 2-3 weeks ago.

We have an epic game going on, 6m10s, against a Protoss, and we've already saved three times, but the time still isn't a record. I think we'll manage to beat it by February 17th.

Diabler, the lack of information doesn't help with a successful performance in the tournament.

The deadline for the 1/8 finals is February 17th.
The lower half of the upper bracket has already completed its tasks.

We got in touch, and yesterday we played up to round 136. I hope we finish it tomorrow.

12.01.2014 darkello (Red, Rampart, Coronius, Clavius) def u2noob (Blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 6lm10a 137

There was a replay from 134, both players made mistakes, and it turned out how they could, in the end, they clashed, and the opponent's army was not on the main base during the clash ;(

Thanks for the game.

05.02.2014 Yostairs (Blue, Conflux, Aenain, Monere) def GoD (Red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) Spider 225
We spent all our resources, including those for the meeting.
As a result, we got quite good rewards: there's Monere, air units are built, an external market, 2 treasure zones, and 3 roads. I broke through to the adjacent territory, and there at the crossroads of roads, stables were located. As a result, on day 1, I took the blue rampart and 2 villages in the adjacent territories, bird houses in the citadel. On day 121, I take the pink swamp and go to a convenient underground treasure zone. I stayed there all week, taking Pandora with 45 Gogos, 15k experience, all fire creatures, and 15k gold; 3 treasure zones, bracers. On day 132, here I also get MaxiuTopa, they give me a teapot, gladius, titan armor, and a bag of gold. In GM4, Town Portal is available in the castle, and Flight in GM5. I decide to immediately go through the green compass towards my opponent; after all, it's a decent Monere with 30+ attack and 20+ spell power. But somewhere around day 135, I see Kyrre eating a couple of Dragon Utopias and teleporting somewhere. As a result, the game turned into a complete battle for control of the map. Somewhere in the middle of the 4th week, I catch Dimension Door in Pandora and gather AotD (Artifact of Destruction). Then I take another treasure zone, where there are about 4 hives, then another one, where there are 2 weak Dragon Utopias and a few more hives. All this time, there was an exchange of cities. Also, somewhere from the middle of the fifth week, I had to spend every night in the castle so as not to let my opponent create Archons. As a result, on day 225, I see Kyrre with low stats (they were higher before, so I was sure that he had AotD and Red Sphere) standing exposed. I take the brown Inferno with scouts, upgrade my 5 angels, equip my AotD, and attack.
Monere (21-17-**-**) ~150 grand wizards, 71 griffin riders, 16 birds, 5 archons, 13 psychics, 52 energy elementals, ~105 monarchs. (AotD, golden bow, bracers, +3 hp, +3 speed, ammunition cart)
Kyrre (22-22-**-**) 15 birds, 14 angels, 68 monarchs, ~180 griffin riders, 120 centaurs, 1+37 serpent riders. (golden bow, AotD, red sphere, +2 speed, elixir)
Two factors decided the outcome in the final battle:
1) My AotD went first, as a result, elves and storms managed to shoot once without being cursed.
2) +3 speed against +2, as a result, my vivs and birds moved earlier than his vivs and birds.
Thank you for the game.

04.02.2014 ProtosArchon (blue, Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def KobRa_RR (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 6lm10a 2.3.5

Very bad start with only road ending in one way monolith exit. One adjacent area was swamp so i go with Hack into another hoping to find another road soon. But no sight of road so Hack spent wk1 collecting gold. At least i found enough to build behemots and castle wk1.
Wk2 my struggling continued. Hack spent most of time collecting resources and found road late but it was blocked so i retreated him in town. In the meantime other heroes cleared starting area and i gained enough gold to upgrade behemots wk3. Wk3 things started to move finally. I took some hives and neutral towns and found one utopia. It was great and gave me boots of speed and blue hat. With DD i go quickly into treasury and take few more utopias there. Got almost everything i need except TP, which i could not get even with 3 lvl4 guilds builded.
Wk4 i buy all army and take opponents main town. I move Jabarkas with some army there and fight scout wars for few turns while Hack entered into another treasury. There i found finally TP and few more utopias. Got all parts of angellic alliance as well.
Month 2 was mostly cat and mouse game. I decided to go for castle town to upg angels but opponent did it before me and attacked on 2.3.5. He had really massive army with 20 AA's, 108 wyverns, 290 demons and 1.3k skellies and all stats 30. I got only base stronghold army plus 121 monarchs and 4 angels.But Crag Hack with 60 attack, blind and speed advantage in battle were enough. Thx for game.

Hack with att 60 was enough. :) Shouldnt come as a surprise.

5.02.2014 Palach HP (blue, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def Dirty_Player (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Jabarkas) 135 smka
I took 2 restarts due to very bad draws and asked to generate the map myself next time. I hadn't moved yet, but I saw a Griffin Conservatory and an external dwelling of bulls. The opponent said he was already at the respawn and was going for a meeting re. No problem, my gen gives bait for the opponent (in the form of lv3-4 Griffin Conservatory, external dwellings of cats, and huts with loga) and yet more luxury for me.
Week 1. Lizardmen are built, plenty of money, there is an external dwelling of bulls and a Griffin Conservatory at the respawn, as well as a Dragon Utopia below the respawn and a hut with air. GO goes into the metro, and on my side are Wizards, but there are also 3 roads with breakable guards. I capture 3 secondary mines (ramp, conflux, ramp). The last one, farthest from him, shows an exit into a swamp treasure zone. There's also a lv3 Griffin Conservatory, a market, and stables. From the conflux, I broke through a passage into the treasure zone, and at the entrance there is 1 Dragon Utopia. In a turn, I'll already see a second one. Also, next to this entrance, there is an exit to the opponent's respawn. From 1 secondary mine (ramp closest to the opponent), 2 entrances are visible: 1 to his respawn, another into the treasure zone to a monolith, and further a Griffin Conservatory. End of week 1: I have Mullich with expert Tactics and Leadership, an art +1 speed and Taz with expert Defense and Air, as well as a built 1-7 in the castle with an external dwelling of cows, and enough money to buy almost everything.
On the second, I played very safely and almost got caught out. I scouted 2 more in the swamp treasure zone, which is completely mine, but 1 exit from there is from the lower ramp and has a Dragon Utopia right there, and another exit from the upper ramp also has a Dragon Utopia, but that ramp turned out to be very vulnerable to the opponent. I also took 2 Griffin Conservatories, which gave a total of 7 angels, so I decided I didn't need to go take a 3rd one. But I had to decide something; I couldn't rush either, even though I saw my army was much more impressive. I decided to play it safer and almost lost. I started buying resources for upgrading bulls and for purchasing, and positioned my heroes so that on day 131, 2 Dragon Utopias in 1 treasure zone, where the exit is from a flank and is adjacent to the opponent, and 1 Dragon Utopia in my own zone, would be broken. But on day 131, the Barbarian Jabba jumps over the rocks and kills Mullich, who I thought was the papa and was preparing for the run. It was especially frustrating that I hid him in a ramp; I could have bought him out on Tactics. I regretted not firing the scout in the treasure zone. The next turn, all the brethren are brought to Tazar, and thanks to the striking stacks of 22 gr bulls, 5 hydras, and 7 angels, they take 2 Dragon Utopias in the adjacent treasure zone, and then a third one, giving stats, wings, and KZ. Seeing Taz's stats, Jabba decides to take the far Griffin Conservatory and run off somewhere else. Then I devour 2 Dragon Utopias with noobs and 1 with Taz, getting the red orb of shackles and more stats. After that, I began pursuing the opponent, and upon receiving information that the swampers have the red sphere, the troglodytes signed a capitulation.
Notable fact: if GO had been a bit easier on that side, rather than taking 100 king-cycles on day 131, it's unknown how all this would have ended. But as it was, after taking the Dragon Utopias, the Dungeon had almost no theoretical chances left.
Thanks for the game.

5.02.2014 Palach HP (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def Dirty_Player (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Jabarkas) 135 smka

I confirm. Scratched out a papist sm-ka, the opponent took 2 rests, I didn't take any rests. Fell for the external dwelling of cats and the Griffon Conservatory 3-4 at the Castle. Had no money at all, thought for a long time about taking a rest, but didn't take it. Paid the price for that. The opponent had a chocolate setup; he placed 1-7 in the Castle and bought everything out on 121, while I was thinking whether I could buy out all the Troglodytes on 121? :D Took the Griffon Conservatory almost without losses, broke through to the secondary zone and the treasure zone. On 122 took several Dragon Fly Hives and the Book of Air. On 131 I planned to hit the GO and take the opponent's Castle, but GO with 100+ Greater Cyclopes stopped me. On 131 Tazar bought everything out and devoured 6 Dragon Utopias, revealing stats of 20 37 10 22. I took a Dragon Utopia with Boots of Levitation. With that, we postponed the game. Asked if there was a red orb, got a positive answer, and with that we ended the game. Thank you for the game.

We have completed the 1/16 finals, and there are 30 players remaining in the tournament.

In the 1/8 finals, in the upper bracket:
Dungeon 5
Necropolis 3
Conflux 3
Stronghold 1
Castle 1
Rampart 1
Tower 1
Fortress 1

In the lower bracket:
Dungeon 4
Rampart 3
Conflux 2
Necropolis 2
Fortress 2
Inferno 1
Tower 1
Castle 1

So far, no castle has been lost.

05.02.2014 Mizrael(red, Castle, Caitlin, Tyris) def Diabler (blue, Necropolis, Clavius, Clavius) 8mm6a 136

After a bunch of restarts, I decided to play the hand with stables and a Griffin Conservatory at the respawn. The Griffin Conservatory turned out to be a single dwelling, and from the heroes only the tourist was available. Horses in the Citadel on the first week, angels in the Castle on the second. Mom got Mass Haste; at the start of the third week there was contact near the Castle village, and an external dwelling of angels was there, which I took. The Necro who started leveling near me with an angel was killed by Nagash with a Lightning Bolt, but Nagash himself died in one round from Mass Haste. We scuffled with scouts a bit near the village and saved. Then the opponent decided not to continue... Thanks for the game.

06.02.2014 Nitro (blue, dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Aiwe (red, Tower, Eine, Solmyr) skirmish m200 127
Because of the damn mail.ru, an almost finished report was lost. I'll be brief.
3 external dwellings of Troglodytes and one each of Harpies, Eyes, Minotaurs. The road leads to one of the treasure zones. A secondary mine via wasteland.
On 111, a spread of 6 heroes on slow roads. On the first week, Eyes in the Citadel + portal, passages are breached and two treasure zones are scouted, a secondary mine and a gold mine are taken.
On 122, the opponent decided to level Solmyr guarding the passage from one treasure zone to another (14k value) and retreats after a long battle. By the end of the week, I take a couple of meat Pandora's Boxes, a black dragon from a refugee camp, and an amulet against Bolt and Chain. On 127, I burst through the portal onto the opponent's secondary mine, where I catch Solmyr on the start. Thanks for the game!

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