Requirements for participants:

1. In order to participate in the tournament, players need to be registered on heroesworld after 31.05.2015
2. To be part of the tournament, players should have played a few games in the official tournament of the season or another official tournament, or at least 5 games for fun with detailed reports posted in the thread "Games for fun" on heroesworld (games could be played and reports written after registering in the tournament).
3. Players who won prizes or took part in 2 or more Newbee tournaments are not allowed to participate.
4. The players with a permanent rating 1700+ at the time of application will not be accepted for registration.
5. The tournament does not accept players with more than 100 official rating games on HW.
6. Questions about accepting a relatively experienced players or with an earlier date of registration on heroesworld will be analized by the organizers in consultation with the AC (Appeal Commision).
7. Players who have registered before 31.05.2015 will not be accepted for the tournament, if they have 30 or more games on the rating HW.
8. Participants should be able to play 1 game per week - priority time for the game is 19-24 MSK on weekdays and 12-24 MSK at the weekend.
9. If the information provided by the player is proved to be false during the tournament, the player will be disqualified and the evidence submitted to the AC.

Applications process:
Applicants can find more details on how to register in the forum a Detailed instructions with picturesFAQ17. Detailed below is the application process:
1. Check whether the icq number was added in your profile, and in case it is not, add it. If it is in your profile, then your avatar will have the green symbol of ICQ. If not - you must act according to the algorithm of registration.
2. Submit a request in this thread. To do this, click Sign up for the tournament, link which is located at the beginning of the topic and the top of each page.
3. For 2-3 days before the draw you need to get in touch with the leading skd (ISQ 593626431) and confirm participation. Offline players (no user activity for a week) will not be admitted to the draw.

Organizational matters:
1. Organiser - skd (ICQ 593626431), judges - Dark (ICQ 303751774), Dima Surmay (ICQ 263293484), Nitro (ICQ 627769385).
2. The tournament is held based on the Rules of online games Heroes III and seasonal rating tournament .
3. Regulations and Rules of the tournament will not be changed after the end of registration, during of the tournament.
4. For each played game, participants must submit a detailed report and a detailed proof of this topic. Only in this case, the result is considered. All reports should be written during the tournament with an automatic system of writing reports: Detailed instructions with pictures FAQ18.
- To create a report you need to press new report, which is located at the top of each topic page, and enter all the required fields on the template. Then you need to write detailed comments on the game.
The second player must find the report and, in order to confirm it, he/she needs to press the button to confirm the report and also write a detailed report. It is customary to thank the opponent for the game.
5. All games in the tournament are rated in the season tournament and also in overall ranking HoMM3 HW players.
6. Winner of the tournament will have slot in Wild Card tournament to FB-11.
7. In the case of games that weren't played in time, technical results will be assigned.
8. Saved files with passwords for all games must be kept until the end of the tournament and must be given on demand to the leading referees of the tournament, or to any member of the AC. Forgetting or losing the password of the game can serve as a basis for thetechnical defeat in the game.
9. Please discuss any controversial issues offline. The solution is to contac the organizer or a referee of the tournament into ICQ and submit daily saves, passwords and other necessary information. The judicial decision is made primarily on the basis of the rules of the tournament. If the situation that arose is not regulated by the rules, the judges are guided by elementary logic and ethics of the game.

Regulations

The format of the tournament.

The tournament is held as follows: Qualifications. Group Stage. Playoffs - Double Elimination.
The qualifying round - an additional step, in which the participants are distributed in pairs and play for getting to the group stage. The match goes to 1 win. Winner of the match takes a place in the group stage, the loser will be reserve player (during the group stage, reserve player will be able to take the place of a disqualified or withdrawn player).
Group stage - groups of 6 people each. Of the group round of the playoffs come the players, who took the first 4 places. (In the case of the number of enrolled participants over 30, this paragraph rules will be adapted to the number of participants).
The main criterion out of the group is the number of points (for a victory given 3 points, 1 for a draw, 0 for loss). If several players have the same number of points, then come into force additional indicators (in order of priority):
a) Berger factor ;
b) Personal meeting;
c) The total amount of game moves in games where the player has won (priority is given to the player to spend fewer moves to win. Point "c" apply only if the players have the same number of wins in the group).
d) if it is impossible to give priority on additional indicators a, b, c between the players held game on template Skirmish M 200%.
Playoffs -The upper and lower grid.
At the upper grid, players have to win 2 games to qualify to the next round. At the lower grid players need to win one game until the final. The final in lower grid is held to 2 wins. The player who lost the top grid, passes into the lower grid; the player who lost in the lower grid is eliminated from the tournament. Grand Final consists in 3 wins. The last player on top grid has the advantage of one map.

Dates. Registration: July 18 – July 31, 2016 (20:00 Moscow time)
The draw and the formation of groups: July 31, 2016
Start of the tournament: August 1, 2016
Qualifications: TBA
Group stage: TBA
Getting round of the playoffs: TBA
Tournament games have to be played until the deadline. For violation of game time, organizers and judges of the tournament can decide that the player can be penalized up to disqualification for the tournament.

Rules.
1. Version of the game. The tournament is held on the version of the game SOD 3.2 (4.0) + HD modes + HW_rulez . By mutual consent of the players game can be played on HotA version 1.4.2 (or latest current version). When using HW rulez default setting options are as follows: 01110.
That means: ban on the obelisks - off, ban on the hill fort - on, ban cartographer - on, keymaster tents - on, built 2 level in the city - off. Players may agree to other terms of the settings.
2. The tournament is held on the rules of online games in Heroes 3 . When you play the version of HotA use rules section on HotA.
3. Restarts in the amount of 3 days (111 + 111 + 111 or 111 + 112 or 113).
There are 2 days of restarts for Skirmish (111 + 111 or 112).
4. Colour Selection: In qualification games - is given to the first player in the pair. In the group stage - red player in tables selects the colour. In the playoffs - selection is given to the first player in pair and in each of the following games, players change right to choose the colour.
On Skirmish those player who chooses colour - choose it for 1st generation, after each restart players switch starting colour.
5. Starting city is selected by elimination. Players alternately take out 3 cities, and then selects the starting city. Player who begins to delete cities - selects the first city. Second palyer in pair begins elimination (indicated with blue colour in the group tables). In playoff games: the right to begin the elimination of the cities change after each of the following games.
On Skirmish starting town, hero and bonus are random.

Templates.
1. Games in qualifying round and group stage go on templates: Skirmish M-200, Balance L-U, 2sm4d(3), Jebus Cross, 8mm6a.
2. The Playoffs will be added to the number of templates: Diamond and 6lm10a.
3. The template is determined by elimination. Players alternately take out one template as long as there will be a template on which the game will be held. The first player who eliminate a template is the one with the right of the colour selection.
4. Information about templates and recommended settings can be found in the relevant section.
5. Games are held on the chess timer. For a more comfortable game settings chess timer options are increased.
Skirmish - 10: 00 + 05: 00 + 01: 15
Balance - 19: 00 + 07: 00 + 01: 15
2sm4d (3) - 21: 00 + 08: 00 + 01 30
Diamond - 24: 00 + 08: 30 + 01: 30
8mm6a - 24: 00 + 09: 00 + 01: 30
6lm10a - 24: 00 + 09: 00 + 01: 30
Jebus Cross - 28: 00 + 09: 30 + 01: 45
Whith mutual agreement of players, the game is held on the established rules heroesworld chess timer.