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We started back in November, then Stinger was causing me problems for two months, and even appealing to the judges didn't help. Now, I can't play myself. Considering that, due to Berger's priority over the result of the personal match, the only result that suits both of us is a draw, we decided to fix this result.
Thank you for the game.

Thx for game.

Due to personal difficulties, I request to be withdrawn from the tournament.

Group O.

Another sweaty match turned out, with plenty of saves and long breaks. Well, we won, and that's that, no need to dwell on it now.

On the first map, we gave the computers a decent kicking, even captured the main on day one. But I still managed to finish off two of them, Swamp and Inferno. And the birds settled in the Citadel. Though on 122, Luna had to retreat from the third computer, which had barricaded itself with a Citadel. I thought I'd handle it with the birds — it didn't work. Plus I lost one.

On the second map, things got pretty rough when I threw away Luna on morale. There were a couple of tough fights in the treasure zone where the timer ran out mid-battle and half the heroes were left with full moves. Well... the suffering paid off when, for the Chaos Hydras, Tanta got all the Fire spells. He had been leveling since the first week, but only got Air on the third, and I bought him Earth back home even later.

The second map ended with two Griffin Conservatories 3+4, which were taken with Armageddon without any problems, but once again not without mistakes — I didn't have enough movement to grab the external dwelling of Firebirds. Oh well, took it on 131.

133 — built Mage Guild 4, which gave Town Portal. I built it in Inferno because I initially planned to play Demons, and Mage Guild 2 was already there. But then I realized I could barely afford one Mage Guild with my resources. Had to leave it in Inferno. I hit the Dragon Utopia with Armageddon early, finishing it off. Aislinn was leveling in parallel. You can never have too many Necromancers, plus at level 2 she immediately got Earth, and a little later, Logistics. By the end of the third week, I grabbed a few Pandora's Boxes for her, one of which was again for Fire.

By the end of the third week, a Dragon Utopia dropped КВ and Wings. I immediately thought — I need to take the opponent's main while he doesn't have Archangels. So without getting distracted by the other scouted Dragon Utopias, I build a Fort and a Transformer in the Necro village, +500 Skeletons from 1-2 level meat. In another treasure zone, I pick up a couple more Dragon Fly Hives. And Aislinn, since she had Logistics, tries to reach the main cleverly through Dimension Door. The first time, I was 300 movement short. But we scouted a bit, and the next day I took it through an external Tavern.
I beat the weaklings, scouting as much as time allowed.

I kept returning to Castle so as not to give up the main. But I messed up once, and he took it back. Anyway, we ran around a bit more, finished off the last Dragon Fly Hives, converted skeletons, picked up Dragon Utopias that got entangled with chains and the merging timer. In the end, by the final battle, I have: 11 Archangels, 75 Monks, 2k Grandmaster Skeletons, and 18 Firebirds. Morale -1. Driver has 10 Archangels, 10 Horses, 680 regular Skeletons, 60 Swarms, and 1 Master Genie. So Morale -2. Oh, and also an Elixir, and stats with a +20 Attack difference in Driver's favor.

The negative morale certainly decided things. Once I flew the Archangels into the Castle, -7 in one go. After that, the final battle went without major issues.

Thanks for the game!

Perhaps the in-game timing doesn't reflect reality. A very interesting game with a 0 for 131 exchange. But the opponent concedes due to a lack of time to finish the game.

I want to play all the games, but for some reason, the opponents from the group aren't very interested in that. I'm ready to play every day from 6:00 PM Kyiv time, and on weekends, we can arrange it!

Diabler receives a point from cost.

I think this decision is hasty and completely unjustified. Diabler played all his games and was resting calmly, while Cost didn't even bother and wasn't going to finish the tournament. Now, for some reason, he's going to get another point from Diabler. Or maybe everyone will get a point from him? Cost should be banned from the tournament because he wasn't going to play or finish any games. And now they're giving him this ridiculous point.

Or maybe everyone will get a point from him?

Cost should be banned from the tournament because he wasn't going to play or finish any games.