Posts from HEROES 5: SIBERIAN OPEN CUP 2014

A brief account of the events. We arrived at the location. The amazing welcome from the locals was a pleasant surprise: the inimitable Dust_HL greeted us in a Siberian style: as we exited the airport building, we were offered to have some strong drinks + sandwiches with red caviar. We gladly accepted.
The esteemed Dirty_Player provided accommodation with all the amenities.
Then, a 7-hour journey to the accommodation location in the company of the cheerful PReDS, the sparkling iDD, the kind-hearted Dust_HL, as well as Dirty_Player, Noom, HellLighT+1Grizvald, LeBron, and Amiloo, all traveling in a van hired by the hospitable organizers of the Heroes gathering.
In the evening of the 4th, there was a poker tournament. Well, we didn't perform perfectly...
Today, 05.01.2015, in the second half of the day, after Noom wakes up, we will start the tournament.

We played according to the following rules: the judge of the Heroes 3 tournament chose a pair and a map, and then the chosen pair played the map with both opponents playing as both sides.

First game: Mages (Noom) vs. Humans (Killa) on the "Iris" map - a loss in the second week.
Second game: Mages (Killa) vs. Humans (Noom) on the "Iris" map - a restart due to a loss in the crypt on day 112, and a loss on day 117 in a multi-dwelling (forgot to pass the artifacts).
Third game: Dwarves (Noom) vs. Orcs (Killa) on the "Garuna" map.

I took mine 111 after seeing 3-4 resource nodes. The opponent restarted the cyclops node on day 112, so we played the second map. The opponent surrendered the nodes 2, 3, and 5, and I got Svey and Brand in prison. I was short on money until the middle of the second week when the Dwarf took the trophies and started clearing the map with an expert-level artifact. In the third week, I broke through to the gold mine and, misjudging the strength of the portal, instead of taking the treasure, I went to the central main town and lost to green dragons (couldn't regenerate). As a result, I went looking for a passage to the opponent to trick him with spears and grandpas with a ball. I broke through one of the side portals on the last moves and passed the turn - on the next turn, the opponent moved out and died against the Dwarf.
Thanks for the game.

P.S. The atmosphere was great, those who didn't come missed out.

The fourth game – we played a reverse matchup on the Crown map.

Noom (blue, Orcs, Haggesh) won against Killa (red, Dwarves, Karl) with 142 Crown points.

From the start, Haggesh, Shax, hiding spots 4-6, a machine shop on the respawn point, and a market. I decided to play despite Karl being the opponent's hero. The machines didn't allow me to reach level 20, so I took a Chaos and Darkness log, focusing on attack and defense. In the end, I played slowly, and only gathered meat and headed through the center towards the opponent on the 4th week, but he surrendered earlier in the maxiroach. Thanks for the game.