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For a more exciting experience, I think Single Elimination with a fixed bracket would be better.

Wicc, did you keep track of the average time players met in the blitz-jebus tournament? Isn't 117 a bit early to end the online battles?

Wicc, did you keep statistics on the average meeting time in a blitz-jebus tournament? Isn't 117 too early to end the OH?

By turn 117, with chocolate, the opponent will already be breaking your GO for the hot swamp or dungeon. As the Helllight-The match in the OH showed, even 10 percent of the meeting time remaining until the end of the simultaneous turn significantly affects the tournament timeline (due to the need to contact judges or the arbitration committee) and creates difficult-to-resolve conflicts (if something needs to be replayed from the beginning on turn 121 in Jebus, it's usually a huge headache for the players).

With chocolate, against 117 opponents, your turn order will be disrupted, forcing you to fight for the Hotov swamp or Dungeon.

With a timer of 8+4+1? I'm curious, on what date was the earliest match in the Blitz-Jebus tournament?

Is it on an 8+4+1 timer?

The plan is that the players won't be complete beginners – in Haven, Hell often accumulates 50+ minutes of time on Jebus by turn 117 on a standard timer, and the starting stacks in Haven are also excellent. The main thing is that the creature banks are distributed evenly, and not 3 Hives, 2 Zephyrs, and the rest are Minotaurs.

For such an event, a mandatory restream of the final in good quality with commentary from the organizer is essential. To do this, the final should be moved to the next day, or a stream should be set up for all participants before the tournament begins, as there will not be enough time for this on the day of the event (for those who don't know how to stream). And I'll reiterate here just in case: let's have a Single Elimination format with a fixed bracket! P.S. If the final is moved to the next day, it can be played as a best-of-three. And people will at least have time to think about who to bet on (it would be most interesting to launch a betting pool before the final, in my opinion).

In general, I have time for games now – I’ll participate if there’s enough interest.

P.S. For the millionth time, I’m saying that I don’t understand the point of any confrontation regarding the game version. I personally enjoy playing HotA, SoD, and WoT. They’re just different games, each interesting in its own way. And in general, “Space Rangers 2” is amazing; if it had a dueling multiplayer mode, it would overshadow Heroes completely :).

By the way, regarding the balance in HotA, the balance of the factions is definitely well-done. Top lists of factions from different players vary greatly. Some factions were even called both top-tier and underperforming (Dungeon, for example). In my opinion, for the sake of spectacle, the final should only be played with all factions chosen randomly.

In my opinion, for maximum entertainment, the final should only be played with all-random settings.

To talk about the final, perhaps first someone needs to sign up?

In order to talk about the finale, perhaps someone should register first?

Lizard registered :) And in general, it's better to clarify all the details in advance so that there are no unnecessary questions or disagreements later.

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make it impossible to block roads beyond a certain value

Why not make it impossible to block any roads at all?

Mirror Jebus Cross could solve it in terms of balance

Why not make any road blocks impossible?

Do you mean completely without guards on the roads? Then the chance of restarting the game due to encountering them will increase significantly.

Some guards on the road should be left in any case. But their size should be limited so that they do not create deadlocks, that is, they can be overcome by the hero and the starting army for any castle without critical losses.

Visually, the optimal limit seems to be 5K value (minor guardian, imp guardian).

Do you mean completely without guards on the roads?

Well, yes, except for the guards at the passages between zones, of course.

Then the chance of restarting due to an encounter will increase significantly.

But this can be adjusted with the template settings.

Some guards on the road need to be left in any case.

Maybe we could then make it possible to configure this in the template file? You choose for each road segment (from the castle to the guard post or from the castle to the castle) - whether there will be blockades on it or not (and if there are, how many). Here you can also make a setting for the length of the road segment so that it doesn't generate a kilometer-long path to the Guardian. By the way, the presence or absence of guards in villages, in my opinion, adds unnecessary randomness, especially on the Jebus difficulty. This option can also be made configurable in the template.

I've attached a poll.

It's a multiple-choice poll, so please mark all the options that apply to you.

I didn't notice that the poll was multiple-choice. Of course, I'll participate even if there are no entry fees.