The Tournament has something in common with the idea of the football tournament, named The Champions League. It has an interesting and original structure and besides gives an opportunity to get the financial encouragement. At present, the sum of prize money is 15.000 rubles or about 450 dollars. All the money is given by the organizer of the tournament. And the prize money can be increased to 30.000 rubles (about 900 dollars). And during the tournament different mini-contests, concerning small but also pleasant prizes, are going to be introduced too. Follow the updates, please.


1. The organizer is The_ (icq 241-568-808, skype thew0w), Judges are Pit for LM (icq 471-401-475), Dirty Player (icq 408-722-873).
2. The Tournament is conducted according to the rules, accepted by the portal, you can find it here https://forum.heroesworld.ru/showthread.php?t=10593
3. The version of the game is SoD 3.2 (4.0) +HD-mod (the latest working version at the moment), in order to prevent players from breaking of the basic rules of the game and the rules at the skirmish template, it is recommended to use the patch version 1.02 of HW_rules mode.
4. The choice of template is realized by the elimination from the following list: 2SM4d(3), Balance, skirmish, 2cm2c (200%), Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Diamond, 8mm6a, 6LM10a, Spider, 8хm12а and anarchy 200%, the player, marked by the blue color at the table, eliminates 5 templates, the player, marked by the red color, chooses from the remained 7, the template to play and sets is the timer. The red player is able to choose a type of the timer (chess or SoD timer), the blue player begins the elimination of the castles.
The Chess-timer for m200 templates is 8+4+1, for L+U templates is 16+8+1, for XL+U templates is 20+8+1, for Jebus Cross template is 30+8+1.

5. All the tournament games will be taken into account in the season-rate.
6. It is necessary to keep all the saves until the end of the tournament and be ready to show them to the organizers and judges if they ask you to do it. Failure to submit saves or passwords, refers the technical lose. Be attentive to this point of the tournament, please.
7. All the problems are solved confidentially, in private with the organizers and judges of the tournament, according to the rules and the common sense. Don’t flood, please.
8. The organizers and judges have a right not to take the player to the tournament without any public explanations.
9. The organizers and judges have one ”wildcard” and right to give it to any player without public explanations
10. The tournament has its own time limits and obligatory dates of the game (in case the players can’t find time for the game themselves). The obligatory date is the nearest Saturday from 12 am until 0.00 pm (Moscow time)
11. If the start of the Tournament is successful (40 or more players take part in it), the Tournament will be considered as official and the negotiations with administration about handling of the Champion’s Cup under the winner’s avatar take place (The project is developing now).
12. Sending the application, you show your agreement with the rules and regulations of the tournament.



1. 16 players are enrolled into the group-stage automatically. Аll the champions of the official tournaments, held this year, get this right. Also those who have the highest rate or other achievements, obtained not long ago, join the group-stage. These players are determined by judges.
2. The other 16 players break through the qualification. The ceiling amount of the participants is 64, and the qualification is held until 1/16 stage without the lower net. At the stage of 1/64 one game is played, the stage of 1/32 is played until 2 victories.
3. After the qualification all the players are divided into 4 baskets. The first 16 players are divided into the baskets number one and two, according to the rate of the players, the other 16 players are divided into third and fourth baskets, according to their rate and then the drawing takes place.
4. There are 8 Groups, 4 players in each one. The group-stage consists of 6 games, 3 of them are ”home matches”, when the player takes red color, and the other 3 are ”away matches”, when the player takes blue color and begins the elimination.
5. The Tournament is held according to the round-robin scheme. The time limit for each round is 11 days. The changing of time limit is possible, in case the player lets the organizer to know about the troubles using Forum, ICQ or Skype in advance. In other cases the player, who failed to play the round in time, get technical lose.
6. Two best players from each group join the play-off round. The other two players leave the tournament. Play off is held according to the Full Double Elimination system.
7. In the upper net each round is played until two victories. The Grand finale is played best of five, and begins with the score ”1 – 0” for benefit of the winner of the upper net.
In the lower net each round consists of one game. The final of the lower net is played best of three. The winner of grand finale wins the tournament, the participant of grand finale takes the 2nd place, and the loser of the final of the lower net takes the 3rd place. These players are awarded.
8. At the moment the prize sum is divided like this:
1st place - 8.500 rubles (about 250 dollars), 2nd place - 4.000 rubles (about 120 dollars) , 3rd place - 2.500 rubles (about 80 dollars) (In case of increasing of the prize fond, the prize sum will be increased proportionally).


1. The Registration to the Tournament lasts 3 Weeks from 30 November, until 20 December.
2. The qualification begins right after finishing of the registration.
3. The application consists of nickname, and the way of communication (ICQ is obligatory, another ways of connection are advisable).
The Champions name the tournament they won with the date of beginning and finishing of the tournament.
Example:
Vasya
000-000-000
skype: Vasyapapa
The champion of the tournament N, began on 01.01.2013 finished on 30.06.2013.

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1. If you like the idea of the tournament and you have possibilities to support it, you may render the assistance. Any material support joins the prize fond and promotes the holding of the mini contests. (The contact information is here The_ (241-568-808, skype thew0w. Write on me, please, call on me, send presents and etc.)
2. All the money will be paid off, no matter how many participants join the tournament, in any convenient for the winners way.
3. The tournament will be held under my control until the end.
4. I also wish all the participants of the tournament take it seriously and play the tournament to the end, even if you lose all the chances to join the Play-off round. I hope very much, the tournament avoids disappearing and groundless removals.
5. The tournament is planned as anniversary, the winner takes part in the next Tournament automatically.
6. I wish you luck! And Let the strongest win!