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Organizational Matters:

1. Tournament host – skd (ICQ - 593626431); judges - skd, Nitro, in extreme cases contact Dirty Player.
2. The tournament is unofficial and is conducted according to the Rules for Organizing, Conducting, and Participating in Online HOMM3 Tournaments.
3. All tournament games are counted in the HoMM3 HW Player Rating.
4. After the start of tournament games, the tournament regulations will not be changed.
5. Disputed matters, if any arise, are discussed outside the forum. To resolve them, contact the host or one of the tournament judges via ICQ and provide daily saves, ICQ logs, and other necessary information.
6. Tournament games must be played within the set deadline. Violation of game deadlines may result in penalties up to disqualification from the tournament, as decided by the host and judges.

Requirements for Participants:

1. All willing Heroesworld players are invited to the tournament (if you are not yet in the HeroesWorld rating, you must have at least 5 fun games with reports in the relevant section).
2. Applications from participants with unconfirmed reports will be left unconsidered until the corresponding reports are confirmed.
3. The organizer reserves the right to deny registration to players who have repeatedly withdrawn or been disqualified from other tournaments on HeroesWorld.

Regulations

Rules:

1. Game Version: The tournament is held on the SoD game version + HD mod version 4.2+.
2. Tournament games use the HW_rulez 1.38 patch (if a new version is released, this clause will be updated).
3. The tournament is conducted according to the rules for online games in Heroes 3.
The "mage guild rearrangement" option is enabled in the game lobby.
4. Restarts total 3 days (111+111+111 or 111+112 or 113); for the Yolka template, a total of 2 days (111+111 or 112); for the h3dm1 template, restarts 1 day - 111.
5. The following templates are used in the tournament:
Panic, Balance, Kite, Jebus Cross, 2sm4d(3), Anarchy, Yolka, Wheel, h3dm1.
6. Template settings options (additions to the HeroesWorld rules):
- The Panic and Balance templates are played on an L-U map without fast roads;
- The Kite template is played on an L-U map without fast roads, no water, strong monsters, difficulty 130% (rook);
- The Jebus Cross template is played on an L-U map without slow roads, medium monsters;
- The 2sm4d(3) template without additions;
- The Anarchy template is played on difficulty 200%; in the lobby before starting the game, the "HeroesWorld Rules" option must be unchecked in the settings;
- The Yolka template is played on an L+U map with fast roads only, no water, strong monsters, difficulty 160%. Restart on first encounter is canceled;
- The Wheel template is played on an L+U map without fast roads, no water, strong monsters, difficulty 160%;
- The h3dm1 template is played on medium roads, difficulty 160%, no water, strong monsters, redraw is allowed, passing by shifted zone guards is allowed.

You can familiarize yourself with the template schemes and download any missing template files in the relevant topic - posts #31, 40, 42.

7. Tournament games are played with a chess clock: 19:00 - 08:00 - 01:15;
for the Yolka template, the timer is increased: 21:00 - 08:30 - 01:30;
for the h3dm1 template, the timer is increased: 24:00 - 09:00 - 01:15.
8. The template is chosen by a coin flip:
The "coin flip" option is used in the game lobby; the player who guesses the number chooses who will start the template coin flip.
9. Starting town/color is chosen by a coin flip.
After the template coin flip, the "coin flip" option is used; the player who guesses the number chooses whether to start the town coin flip or to choose a color first.
Exceptions:
1) For the Anarchy and Yolka templates - the winner of the draw chooses a color for the first generation. Starting town/hero/bonus is random, after each restart the starting color changes.
2) For the h3dm1 template - the loser of the draw starts the town coin flip. Players alternately remove one town at a time until only one remains, on which the game will be played. After determining the starting town, a bid is held for the right to choose a starting hero first, followed by a bid for the right to choose a color. The bid must be a multiple of "100". It is allowed to choose Galthran as a starting hero, as well as heroes from Flux (on restart, it is forbidden to change the starting hero to the opponent's starting hero chosen before the start of the first generation).

Tournament Format:

1. Registration from January 14 until 20:00 (Moscow time) on January 28.
2. Start of the tournament – January 29, 2017.
3. The tournament is held using the full double elimination system (the loser in the upper bracket moves to the lower bracket, the loser in the lower bracket is eliminated from the tournament); each stage is bo1, starting from the upper bracket quarterfinals and lower bracket semifinals - bo3. The grand final is bo3 with an advantage for the player coming from the upper bracket of one map.
4. If a game ends in a draw during the bo1 stage, an additional game is played.
If during the bo3 stage one game ends in a draw and the second is a win for one of the players, the third game is not played.
If after a score of 1-1 in the bo3 stage, the third game ends in a draw, an additional game is played.
5. Round deadlines will be determined before the start of the tournament depending on the tournament stage and bracket (upper or lower), calculated at no less than 2 weeks per game.