Posts from “Two Seasons: Summer-Autumn 2014” Tournament. Online games for rating (reports, discussions).

Summer-Autumn Seasons of 2014.

Rules. We are playing according to Rules for online games in Heroes III and the seasonal Ranked Tournament.
Difference: a system of subjective restarts is in effect: "totaling 2 days":

4.3. Subjective Restarts:
each player has the right to take a restart/restarts no later than the end of their turn on the corresponding day, that is, start a new game with map regeneration. It is possible to take either 2 restarts on the first day of the game (111+111), or one restart on the second day (112).

Of course, by mutual agreement, you can play according to standard tournament rules "totaling 3 days".

Automatic report submission. Only reports written using the automatic report submission system will be counted towards the rating. To gain access to submitting reports, you must предварительно register for the tournament. Players who have played at least 5 matches with different opponents on the HW forum may participate in the tournament (it is necessary to provide links to detailed reports).
Before writing reports, it is mandatory to familiarize yourself with Rules for Writing Reports.
If there is an error when entering any parameter, you need to inform the tournament judges: Pit for LM - icq 471401475 or Dirty_Player - icq 408-722-873 for correction or cancellation.

Judges. If problems and disputes arise during the game, immediately contact the hosts and judges, as there are many of them, so with a high probability, someone will be online:
Pit for LM - icq 471401475;
Dirty_Player - icq 408-722-873;
Javdet - icq 275667709;
Gomunguls - icq 499978341;
Mizrael - icq 27384379.
If no one is available, calmly save the game and postpone it. After that, write private messages to the judges - in the upper right corner of any page of the forum there are words Private Messages, click on them, select the menu on the left - New Message, enter the names of the recipients:
Dirty_Player ; Javdet ; Gomunguls ; Mizrael ; Pit for LM
and state your problem.

Offtopic.
Here - only seasonal games - reports and discussion of those game situations that occurred in them.
It is forbidden to condemn players for:
- writing reports with deadlines from the first week (111, 112, 113...),
- refusing to provide autosaves and gum restarts,
- playing with weaker opponents, etc.
In this topic, such discussions will be off-topic and trolling and will be deleted without explanation.

I decided to start registration for the ranked tournament earlier so that you immediately have the opportunity to write reports starting June 1st. I will activate applications on Sunday morning.

What's new?
The most important thing is that I want to conduct another experiment and this time combine 2 seasons into one - summer + autumn. I will summarize the results in 6 months. There will be one medal, not two, and with a different design; they promised me it would be very beautiful, and there will be a desire to fight for it.

Why? There are many reasons:
- any rating depends on quantity and quality. In our formula, the transition from quantity to quality begins approximately after one and a half months from the start, and the formula really starts working just towards the end of the season, when more than 1000 games have been played by the forum community. That's when we cut off the results and start all over again. As a reminder, at the beginning of the season everyone is given the same number of points - 1500. Look at the individual results of those players who have the highest "productivity" (more than 30 games) https://polly.phys.msu.ru/~shvets/HOMM3/winter2014/rating.html. At the beginning of the season, any player receives 14-16 points for all victories. By the end of the season, strong players receive 1-2 points for winning against outsiders. Obviously, for the correct operation of the formula, it is necessary to increase the number of games (i.e., the duration of the period), for example, on WCL the results are summed up once a year.
- due to the fact that now the seasonal rating strongly depends on the number of games, the tournament medal does not enjoy authority. I hope that the reward earned in six months will be more valuable, and the season will become more prestigious.
- many good players only play in tournaments and not very often, showing excellent results and defeating the strongest; these games, accumulated over a longer period, will have greater weight in the ranking points and allow such players to compete for high places.
- sufficient statistics on castles and templates are not collected in 3 months, but the results for half a year are interesting.
- formally, it is more convenient for players to register once for six months, and not twice, and wait for activation (I don't always react immediately to the application).

Let's try to increase the duration of our tournament and then analyze the results.

I will try to calculate the current rating (as in spring) 1-2 times a month, depending on player activity, so that you can track changes.

Next. Please pay attention to deadlines (they are already written in the spring season):
- there is 1 week to write a report on the game;
- there is also 1 week to confirm the report on the game;
- the deadline for submitting claims about the game is 1 week.

If we want the rating to be updated more often, then we must work together to properly format reports.
Running after those who do not confirm and urging them takes up a lot of time. Therefore, I will introduce sanctions. I will act simply: freeze the player's application, and those who do not confirm will not be able to post games.

So read what is written and, if you agree with the terms, leave an application.

Good luck!