The first stage of the annual John Van Caneghem Memorial Tournament. — Tournament history (offline)

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Kamikaze

18 years ago

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The first stage of the annual John Van Caneghem Memorial Tournament

TOURNAMENT RULES

1. To participate in this Heroes 1 "Dragon Pass" tournament, you must register on our website www.heroesworld.ru and submit an application in this thread.

This tournament is part of the general John van Caneghem Memorial Tournament, so all information, as well as the conduct and results, will be displayed in this section.

John Van Caneghem Memorial Tournament at HeroesWorld

Note: The final results of the tournament will also be available in the offline Heroes 1 tournaments section.

2. The tournament will be played on the Russian version of Heroes 1 from Buky. The save file will be generated on the Russian version 1.1.

3. The goal of the game is to defeat the enemy in the shortest possible time.
The submitted save file must contain the abbreviation (VC - van Caneghem) and the player's nickname.

Example:

VC_Kamikaze.GM1 or VC-Kamikaze.GM1

4. The result will primarily be evaluated based on the minimum time taken.
If several players have equal completion times, the best one will be determined by the sum of primary skills (attack, defense, magic, knowledge), INCLUDING WORN ARTIFACTS; if a favorite still cannot be determined, it will be based on the amount of mercury.

5. Along with the submitted save file, you must include a description of the last step (battle with a hero, battle for a castle, capturing an artifact, defeating the last monster) after which victory occurs, or the scenario is completed.

6. The submitted save file may have multiple heroes; the sum of characteristics is calculated for the strongest one.

7. You can read the rules for passing the save here.

8. Send the save file to the email address Kamikaze.

9. In case of suspicion that a player is cheating or has other malicious intent while playing the map, it is necessary to make a save every game day.
In this case (detection of cheating), the player will be required to send additional saves and provide a description of the gameplay to determine whether the game was fair or not, to the tournament organizer.
The result of a player who played unfairly will be canceled, and their further participation in tournaments will be impossible. This will also affect their reputation negatively.

10. Discussion of the tournament during its course is PROHIBITED!!!
(Players who violate this rule will automatically lose the opportunity to play in the tournament; their results will not be counted and will be annulled).

11. The tournament starts on February 17th and lasts until March 10th (inclusive!). The results will be announced on March 14, 2008.

12. After you submit your save file, you will see in the application table that:

save accepted - indicated by a bold nickname.
save approved - indicated by an italicized - bold nickname.

We invite everyone to participate in the tournament!

Save files will only be considered from players who are listed in this table, so please submit your applications IN ADVANCE!!!

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
NUMBER	PLAYER NICKNAME
1	Kamikaze
2	Gramm
3	Psixxx
4	BigAke
5	Raper
6	Romanuel
7	Light God
8	Fireball
9	Lord Vampire
10	Miner
11	ValgallaWolf
12	SoulDrinker
13	Maximix
14	TosBelorus
15	Catch
16	Necromancher
17	WOLVARINE
18	vbn
19	Nzol

All about the starting save

Starting save

Starting save:

Map from which the save was generated:

1. Download the save file.

2. You need to place the downloaded save file in the GAMES folder of your installed Heroes 1 game on your computer.

3. Load it and start playing at any time that is convenient for you, while remembering to make daily saves.

4. After reaching the last action (after which victory occurs), you must save again.

5. With the final save, provide a detailed description of the last step (most likely the battle); this will speed up the results and reduce suspicion of cheating!!!

6. A complete description of the tournament map is encouraged (not required). If there are such descriptions, a competition will be held for the best description. The top five will take their rightful place in the "Feats of Our Best Heroes" section!

7. Send this save file to the specified address (in the rules of this tournament).

8. Wait for the results to be announced.

P.S. I wish all participants an enjoyable game and most importantly VICTORY!

P.S.S. If there are additions or comments, please do not hesitate to express them so as to minimize disagreements and shortcomings during the tournament process.

Always yours, Kamikaze.

Psixxx

18 years ago

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Here is my brief Walkthrough for 6 days:
On day 1, 4 heroes are bought, and Gnomes, Ogres, and Bandits are defeated.
On day 2, 2 more heroes are bought. One runs, collecting all the chests into gold. Genies are defeated. The Warlock runs to the Witch Hut Castle, hiring Bandits along the way.
The Barbarian teleports through a portal to the upper opponent, and another hero follows him through the portal. One hero runs to the Mines, and the other two stand next to the portal.
On day 3, the Warlock visits the Sanctuary, takes Lightning, and stops next to the Fairies.
The Warlock hires Nomads and gives them to the hero next to the portal. That hero runs through the portal to the Human Castle. Another teleports to the upper right corner, and the red hero simply runs to that corner.
The upper hero runs to the Castle, and another one follows him.
On day 4, we take the Fairy Castle. The Barbarian stands next to the Human Castle.
Another Barbarian takes the Necropolis Castle.
On day 5, we take the Human Castle and carry away the enemy heroes.
On day 6, we also carry away the enemy heroes.

I could have carried away all the enemy heroes on day 5, but I didn't want to replay the game.

Ley

18 years ago

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I read it all and was amazed... :D First, I saw - 6 days - and was shocked; then I saw - already 5 - and it turned out to be somewhere around the middle; then - 4 - and I thought "I don't believe it!", okay, I accepted it... I thought, is it theoretically possible to complete it in 3 days? - and bam - 3 days - it's like magic! But after I found out Nzol's result - I'm still feeling feverish... :D Yeah, the first Warlord's Challenge was really successful ;)

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Catch

18 years ago

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Ley;159307

Yeah, and the first Warlord King was really successful ;)

That's right :) Even though the host regretted not adding more dragons, it actually added more variety to the playthroughs. Some went through the dragons, and they broke through them in different ways. Some went through the djinns, teleports, some just went through the teleports, and some built a guild. In general, I think the tournament was really successful. Non-linear playthroughs are rarely seen in such large numbers in tournaments :)
Thank you very much, Kamikaze, for the tournament :)

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P.S. Although my result didn't satisfy me at all, and after the tournament I was disappointed in myself :( I also tried to play as N'Zoth, but I didn't realize that such an army could actually break through them...

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Nzol

18 years ago

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Catch;159310

Overall, I think the tournament was a success. It's rare to see such a variety of non-linear playthroughs in a tournament.
Thank you very much, Kamikaze, for organizing the tournament!

I can't disagree.
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Kamikaze

18 years ago

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Thank you all for the warm feedback. I'm glad that everyone is excited... or at least many are, which is also good. I'm only disappointed that my "puzzle" turned out to be unnecessary :( But overall, the tournament was a success... you can see that from the number of final submissions.
Thank you again, friends!!!

Miner

18 years ago

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I didn't attack dragons and djinns because they were psychologically off-putting. :) I decided to send three Barbarians to each Castle using teleporters. I gave all the artifacts to the one who was heading towards the Sorceress Castle, as he would encounter more battles along the way. At the crossroads, I distributed the troops evenly. One hero from the Knight Castle still managed to escape to the swamp, so I had to intercept him with my fourth hero. In general, all four teleporters were used. :) The following fact made the walkthrough easier: some enemy heroes with troops of the first and second levels rushed towards the dragons and, naturally, perished. They probably wanted to repeat Nzol's feat. :D

Lord Vampire

18 years ago

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I took a closer look at the results, and I have something to be proud of – I have the strongest hero!

RAPER

18 years ago

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It’s very interesting how vbn found the second-best result in terms of stats and did it in just 6 days! ;) Share your secret! ;)

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vbn

18 years ago

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The artifacts belonged to 2 heroes, and they needed to be transferred to the 3rd.
And on the 6th day, there was a lot of money left.

First, I fled with the 1st hero from the neutrals, bought this hero on the same day, another hero took the artifact from him, and dismissed the hero who had just been bought.

Then, I did the same with the 2nd hero with the artifacts.

Well, and finally, I gave all the artifacts to the 3rd hero.

I read and reread the rules carefully, so, judging by everything, I didn't violate anything.

The trick turned out to be that in Heroes of Might and Magic I, you can dismiss a hero standing at the castle gates.