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So, even during the current tournament, we started thinking about a new one. Preparation for it was thorough. Here are the tournament rules:
1) Those wishing to participate in the championship must submit an application in this thread within the deadlines set by the tournament organizers. The application must contain the following information:
a) Username (the name under which the user is registered on the forum).
b) Castle.*
c) Hero Name*
Castles are chosen by elimination. After registration ends, a user who has specified a particular castle in their application does not have the right to change it before the first game. Make your choice carefully; you still have time until 05/28/2007.
2) The minimum number of participants required to hold the tournament is 16 people.
3) The competition will be held at 200% difficulty and on the L map without Dungeon. Turn limit: 2 minutes. Maps are selected and edited only by the organizers , and tournament participants will receive save files for the maps via email or ICQ. The number of maps used in the competition depends on the number of participants. Matches on random maps will not be held. There are no computer opponents.
4) We strongly ask participants to inform the organizers of the following information: date of your match, start and end time of the match (Moscow time), approximate (or exact) duration of the match, starting castles and heroes, name of the winner. This information will be used to keep statistics of the tournament.
5) The competition scheme (qualifying groups with subsequent elimination games or immediately elimination games) is chosen by the organizers depending on the number of participants. After the application deadline expires, the final schedule for the tournament will be posted in the same thread. Detailed explanations will also be attached to it.
6) If there are 16 or more participants, matches for third place will be held. If possible participants in the match for third place object to its holding, then third place will not be determined in this championship.
7) All data about the games, game participants, results of the games, schedules, and winners of the championships will be recorded in the "Statistics of the 'The Best Hero' Championship" thread (/topic/at/90706/).
8) List of banned heroes: Adel, Roland, Kira.
Banned spells: city portal, flight, walk on water, dimension door.
Banned skills: diplomacy.
Banned artifacts: Wings, Grail.
9) If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the rules, please contact us via email (st-st-ts-ts@rambler.ru) or my junior assistant (JOIS1@yandex.ru), the tournament organizers. However, we kindly ask that you do not bother us with trivial matters.
Method of connecting to each other.
For the tournament, we created one network for all participants who can connect to it independently using the Hamachi program (you can download it here http://files.hamachi.cc/HamachiSetup-1.0.1.5-ru.exe ), regardless of whether the creator of the network will be in the network or not.
If someone has never used this program before, I'll try to explain briefly:
First, install it on your computer (when installing, choose the basic version). Then connect to the Internet, wait for Hamachi to load completely, click on the "join a network" option, and enter the network name and password in the window that appears. To prevent outsiders (who are not participating in this tournament) from connecting to the network, after all tournament participants are known, everyone will be sent the network name and corresponding connection password via private message.
After a participant successfully connects to the Hamachi network (important: if the asterisk next to another participant in the network is lit yellow, this happens because firewalls or routers block communication between computers. To establish a connection between computers, the asterisk next to another participant must light up green. Sometimes it is enough to simply disconnect from the network several times and then reconnect – right-click on the network name in the Hamachi window, select “disconnect from network”, then click again and select “connect to network”. If this method does not work for someone, they will need to disable firewalls and routers during the match.), launch the game, go to "multiplayer", then TCP/IP. After that, one of the participants creates their own local network with an arbitrary name and password, which he informs his partner (opponent), and the other clicks on the "join" button and enters the network name with the corresponding password that was provided by the opponent. Voila! If there are any problems (sometimes the secondary player cannot choose a castle, hero, or starting bonuses), try exiting and creating the network again. If any technical problems arise, try creating your own network in Hamachi. To do this, start the program, click on "create new network," where you enter an arbitrary network name and password, which you also inform your opponent. If everything works correctly, then create a TCP/IP local network accordingly, etc.
Due to our lack of experience in such events, we apologize in advance for possible inaccuracies, shortcomings, etc. In future championships (if this event appeals to true heroes, because IMHO it is better than rehashing the same questions over and over), there will be fewer and fewer errors with each subsequent tournament. We will be happy if some of the participants have valuable suggestions regarding the organization of future tournaments, including maps that can be used as a basis for conducting future tournaments. For this, send a private message to the organizers.
Dear competition participants, if it is more convenient for you to connect to each other using another method, we will not prohibit you from doing so. We only recommend Hamachi as the easiest and most common way to connect.
The tournament organizers reserve the right to change the rules of the competition without any explanation.
Have a good game, and may the best win.
Sincerely, the organizers of this tournament: step_1985 and JOIS.
In this thread, we accept applications for participation. As they say, come yourselves, invite friends; the more participants there are, the more fun the game will be. The championship is held on version HoMM 3 v4.0: Shadow of Death. Registration is open until May 28, 2007, so you still have plenty of time to think everything over and prepare.
I wish everyone good luck, let the competition begin!
Attention!!! Since I am left alone, I will do the following:
after the end of the voting survey, I will leave a post in which the deadline will be indicated by which each player must indicate Castles for all remaining games of the second round of the tournament. Once again, I remind you: whoever indicates first will be given the right to use red color. And those who don't do it, I will put Castles at my discretion.
after the end of the voting survey, I will leave a post in which the deadline will be indicated by which each player must indicate Castles for all remaining games of the second round of the tournament. Once again, I remind you: whoever indicates first will be given the right to use red color. And those who don't do it, I will put Castles at my discretion.
