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The time has come and so... drumroll... the qualifying tournament for FB-8 is declared open :smile44:

I. Regulations and Deadlines

The qualifying tournament will be held using the "Swiss" system

Start of the tournament: April 1, 2014; registration until March 29, 2014 inclusive

Time limit per round: 2 weeks - technical losses will be assigned without regard to opinions or authority (the sole exception is CIS-14 in Minsk)
Players have the right to arrange a convenient time among themselves, but if an agreement cannot be reached, the critical time for playing is the night from Saturday to Sunday of the first week. (if the game was not completed in one session, then during the second week). In case one player fails to show up at the set time, the other must write to the organizer or one of the judges, and when the tech result is assigned, this will be the main argument.
This clause is not subject to discussion.

7 players advance to the final stage.

II. Rules and Templates.

1. By default, games are played according to /topic/10593/
2. By default, the game version is SoD 3.2 (4.0); by mutual agreement, WT or any other version of HOMM3.

3.The template for each round will be determined as follows - during registration, each participant must indicate 5 favorite templates; from all these templates, 9 will be selected (depending on the number of participants and the number of rounds, respectively). Then the selected templates are randomly "shuffled" and a list is compiled (e.g., 1-2sm4d3, 2-mininoszta, 3-Jebus Cross, 4-skirmish, etc.). In the 1st round, players ban templates that "came up" under numbers 1, 2, 3 (i.e., banning occurs from 2sm4d3, mininoszta, and Jebus Cross). In the next round, banning occurs from templates 2, 3, 4 (mininoszta, Jebus Cross, skirmish), etc. In the last 7th (9th) round, banning will occur from templates 7 (9), 1, 2. Red starts the ban

4. Town selection: standard ban. Blue starts the ban. Colors are determined during the draw and do not change with restarts.

A win awards 1 point, a draw 0.5, a loss 0.
The winners, and accordingly those who qualify for FB, will be 7 people.
The winner is determined by the total number of points scored. In case of a tie in points, additional tiebreakers apply.
1) Buchholz Coefficient
2) Head-to-head result

III. Organizational Matters
1. The tournament is official and regular.
2. The tournament is conducted according to the Rules for Organizing, Conducting, and Participating in Tournaments.
3. Tournament Host: zloi_romantic (296524052)
Tournament Judges: Pit for LM (471401475), Dirty_Player (ICQ 408722873).
4. For each game played, participants must submit a report and confirmation.
5. Saves of all games must be kept until the end of the tournament and presented at the first request of the tournament hosts or any AC member.
6. Regarding controversial issues, if any arise, please discuss them outside the forum. To resolve them, contact the host or a tournament judge via ICQ and provide daily saves, ICQ logs, and other necessary information.
The judges' decision is made primarily based on the tournament rules. If the situation that arises is not regulated by the rules, then the judges will be guided by basic logic and gaming ethics.
7. All tournament games count towards the season rating. Reports and confirmations are written in this thread and will be copied to the "Game Reports and Confirmations Online" thread. I.e., there is NO need to duplicate reports in the seasonal thread.
8. The final part of the tournament will be held using a round-robin system.

IV. Participants
1. Experienced players from HW and other gaming resources are invited to the tournament.
2. Newcomers who have shown good results are allowed (applications will be considered on an individual basis).
3. Newly registered players are not allowed to participate in the tournament (exception: active players from other gaming resources; applications will be considered on an individual basis).
4. Players who have a BWP are not eligible to participate in the tournament. If any player is awarded a BWP during the tournament, they will be disqualified and their results annulled.
5. Applications from undisciplined players who have repeatedly "ditched" tournaments may be rejected.
6. The organizers reserve the right to refuse a user participation in the tournament without publicly explaining the reasons.
7. The Winner and 2nd-3rd place finishers of the FB-7 tournament are NOT allowed to participate in the qualifiers.
8. The tournament application must include:
- 5 most favorite templates
- convenient time for playing

9. Players Gomunguls, Aya, Maretti advance to FB-8 without a qualifier, while players Piterius and LeBron have a bonus of a byeslot for 1 round (if, of course, they wish to participate)

The randomizer arranged the templates as follows
1-2sm4d3
2-Spider
3-skirmish (played according to OFB rules, i.e., with a town ban and no color change, but by mutual agreement you can play according to seasonal rules, i.e., allrandom)
4-6lm10a
5-JC
6-8mm6a
7-anarchy
8-diamond
9-Mini nostalgia

Thus, in the 1st round Red starts the ban from templates - 2sm4d3, Spider, skirmish
In the 2nd round, the ban proceeds from templates Spider, skirmish, 6lm10a
In all rounds, Red starts the template ban

I repeat for everyone - if you have a problem with your opponent (cannot find a common time, being ignored, etc.), write to me on ICQ - we will sort it out
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Zhavdet is a cool dude.
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zloy_romantik
Pyre-Stinger-I'm placing a bet of 0-0, they didn't manage to play within the deadline.
Mizrael-u2noob-I'm placing a bet of 0-0, they didn't manage to play within the deadline.
Well, if the players tried to play and even played for a certain number of days, it would probably be more logical to set the score at 0.5-0.5. A score of 0-0 should be set if they both stalled.
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Wicc
Well, if the players tried to play, and even played for a certain number of days, then it would probably be more logical to set it to 0.5-0.5, and 0-0 should be set if they both were inactive.
I completely agree.
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Wicc
Well, if the players tried to play and even played for a certain number of days, it would probably be more logical to give them 0.5-0.5, but 0-0 should be given if they both stalled.
If they wanted a draw, they could have written a report, and it would have been a draw. I myself played with Player until 5 am; we saw that we wouldn't meet the deadline, agreed on a draw, and posted it. There are no reports there, so there's no game, hence 0-0.
Are they little kids? Do I have to knock on each one's door and ask them to play or write a report? The deadlines are listed in the first post; everyone knew where they were signing up.
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Весна 2012.
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evil_romantic
If they wanted a draw, they could have submitted a report, and it would have been a draw. I myself played with Player until 5 am; we'll see if we can meet the deadlines. They agreed to a draw and posted it because there are no reports, no report means no game, so 0-0.
Are they little kids? Do I have to knock on each one's door and ask them to play or submit a report? The deadlines are listed in the first post; everyone knew what they were signing up for.
acting like a man:smile20:

лето 2012.
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evil_romantic
If they wanted a draw, they could have submitted a report, and it would have been a draw. I myself played with Player until 5 a.m., let's see if we can meet the deadlines – they agreed to a draw and posted it. There are no reports there, no report – no game, so 0-0.
Are they little kids? Do I have to knock on each one and ask them to play or submit a report? The deadlines are listed in the first post; everyone knew what they were signing up for.
Honestly, this is nonsense. People spent who knows how much of their time for a 0-0 result.
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kalababa
Honestly, it's nonsense. People spent who knows how much of their time for nothing, resulting in a 0-0 draw.
If you don't like it, don't participate. The tournament rules state that technical decisions will be made on April 15th; I waited until noon, but there were no reports, and I'm not going to draw a tie.
On April 29th, it will be the same, but worse – two technical decisions, and a player is "out."
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Весна 2012.
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kalababa
Honestly, it's nonsense. People spent who knows how much of their time for a 0-0 result.

Of course, people might be upset, but they are the only ones to blame, and I think the 0-0 draw was justified.
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kalababa
Honestly, it's nonsense. People spent who knows how much of their time for nothing, ending up with a 0-0 score.
As an organizer, I'll say that the most frustrating thing is when players think that the organizer cares more about it than they do and can't even write in ICQ to say that they played, have a save file, but no way to finish the game.
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And, in general, organizing any event is an ungrateful task. As they say, you do everything right, and everyone knows what they're getting into!
Каждое поражение-навоз успеха!Герои как жизнь: непредсказуемы как городская маршрутка ,капризны как наши женщины,увлекательны как рыбалка в период нереста ,коварны и отвратительны если мышкой движет слюнявый читер! всё в них есть и это.......

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I wrote about the draw in ICQ around 2:00 PM Moscow time.
I have lunch after 2:00 PM.
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KobRa_RR
THIS WAS AWESOME!!!!! I haven't done anything like this before...
Thanks for the game!!

Great, thanks for the tutorial.
ISQ 357644592(работает!)
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I'm not too worried about the 0-0 draw; this game was more important for Stinger. Honestly, after he said he couldn't play anymore, I messaged him, suggesting either agreeing to a draw or letting the judge award the win based on saves. But he was already offline. Although, I could have won this game. I won't make any angry comments about the host. He's right in his own way.
Только в тишине ответит вселенная, только в наших сердцах мы обретем смелость следовать её зову. ;)
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"An Insider's Perspective":

In my opinion, the organizer shouldn't worry about who played against whom, who saved the game, or anything like that. Each round has its own deadline within which the match must be played. Whether a match was played is determined by writing a report in the tournament thread and the opponent confirming the game.

While confirmation can be slightly delayed, at least the basic report header should be clearly written in the thread, or the result of the game should be communicated to the organizer in some way.

If the game took place, and the result is only known to the two players who played, and they decided to simply ignore reporting it within the allotted time, that's their problem, and even in that case, a score of 0-0 can be assigned, or a coin can be flipped, because otherwise, days are lost for the next allotted time for the round.
МУДРЫЙ - не обязательно старый, ОПЫТНЫЙ - не обязательно мудрый... обладатель и того и другого всегда должен помнить слова НАПОЛЕОНА БОНАПАРТА: Война состоит из непредусмотренных событий; В каждом большом деле всегда приходится какую-то часть оставить на долю :smile33: СЛУЧАЯ...
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Kilgor
Tired, report in the morning.
Here's the report.
We rested a lot. I surrendered to [Vala/Water Elemental] with three stacks and the second one also with three stacks. But terrible lack of money + it took 5 days to reach the ore mine. I didn't build either Knights or Citadel on the first. Instead I took a castle from Conflux and built Dwarf dwellings there with an external dwelling. I had to take the external dwelling with 10 archers and 4 Dwarves.
On the second I built birds, scraped together a stack of Magma Elementals - 20 of them. I took several computers, built good economy, took 2 Hives.
On the third I took a tier 3 Griffin Conservatory, 2 Dragon Utopias gave [КЗ/Spell Scroll] and Wings, I took another Conflux + also built birds there.
On the fourth, another 2 Dragon Utopias - gave Air Magic [spell/scroll], a [Vala/Water Elemental] with expert Air and Earth. Tons of gold, tons of troops, income 15k, I'm thinking about [demon summoning/demonic]. Through a chain and 2 Dimension Doors I reach the scout hero in the castle with all the troops.

Thanks for the game.

P.S. Several unpleasant mishaps happened in the game. It would be better for the organizers to write about the templates more clearly.
I confirm, thanks for the game!

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