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Read plz Regulation and Rules of of games International online of tournaments 2009 Heroes IV (World Championship, Celestial Way, Altars of Knowledge)
(Download Regulation and Rules 2009, Download Software, Download Playoff 2009, Download Tournaments Maps, Download players contacts, Download pictures of tourney)
Organizers:
• Oxygen (oxygen[dog]heroesleague.ru)
• CTPAHHuK (huk[dog]heroesleague.ru)
• Vsev (tech admin)
Organizers functions: publishing of all the necessary information using website, controlling tour deadlines, players and referees notification (news etc.) via forums and e-mail, technical control of the champ website and all necessary software, Hamachi networks creating, providing all possible help to players (any consultations, technical troubleshooting, solving of the time mismatch problems).
Referees:
• DJN (jeanbesses[dog]yahoo.fr)
• LordZezuk (zezuk[dog]heroesleague.ru)
Referees functions: complicated problems solving (save checking, stopping argues, making decisions about deadline breaking etc.), setting technical results, moderating quarrels and so on.
Referees list can be extended with additional persons or even fully corrected before the tournament starts. It is prohibited to dispute referees decision.
Informational and tech sponsors:
• Equilibris (www.equilibris.celestialheavens.com)
• Лига Героев (www.heroesleague.ru)
• Heroes World (www.heroesworld.ru)
• Archangel Castle (www.archangelcastle.com)
• Геройский Уголок (www.heroes.ag.ru)
• Tournament of Honor (www.toheroes.com)
Info and tech sponsors functions: publication of the tournament news and important info, supporting all necessary software and website, mailboxes support.
SOFTWARE, SETTINGS, MAPS
Game version — Heroes IV Equilibris 3.51. Any other game modifications are prohibited.
Recommended network software: Hamachi, GameSpy or direct TCP/IP connect. All players have to log into according hamachi network or gamespy to give all referees an universal ability to connect to each player or control each player activity.
For WC-09 players hamachi networks are made:
For WC-09 players hamachi networks are made:
For first 8 pairs: WC 2009 1-8 (password WC 2009)
From 9 to 16 pairs: WC 2009 9-16 (password WC 2009)
From 17 to 24 pairs: WC 2009 17-24 (password WC 2009)
From 25 to 32 pairs: WC 2009 25-32 (password WC 2009)
For CW-09 players hamachi networks are made:
For first 8 pairs: CW 2009 1-8 (password CW 2009)
From 9 to 16 pairs: CW 2009 9-16 (passwor
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It is recommended to use ICQ or MSN to communicate to each other (forum messages or e-mail will have less importance against instant messengers if any argue is present).
All three tournaments (World Championship, Celestial Way, Altars of Knowledge) will be played using the same maps set.
Few leagues (Archangel Castle, Heroes league, Heroes World) was choose 3 maps:
1. Power Spot (Expert, 8 min)
2. Power and Reason (Expert, 8 min)
3. Circle of life (Expert, 8 min)
Other 7 maps was choose by players:
4. Eldorado (Expert, 6 min)
5. Bizarro (Advanced, 8 min);
6. Heart of the Winter (Expert, 6 min)
7. Iron Man (Expert, 8 min);
8. Spleen (Expert, 8 min);
9. Showdown (Advance, 6 min);
10. Lezkandra (Expert, 8 min).

TOURNAMENT FORM
World Championship, Celestial Way и Altars of Knowledge are linked tournaments with three prize-winning places in each. This tournament series will be carried out using Double Elimination system without qualification rounds. The first and the most important tournament is World Championship. WC have Playoff — knockout system. On picture nicknames of host players have [red]red color[/font], nicknames of still not-active players have gray color. This picture is updatable (last update 31 october).

World Championship losers will go down to second tournament — Celestial Way (playoff — knockout system with incoming players from main championship till semifinals start). On picture nicknames of host players have [red]red color[/font], nicknames of still not-active players have gray color. This picture is updatable (last update 31 october).

Three winners of the World Championship and three winners of the Celestial Way will participate in the Altars of Knowledge (AK). AK — is short torunament including three matches (world champion against celestial champion, 2nd against 2nd and so on) for Archmage’s Altar, Guildmaster’s Altar and Expert Wisdom’s Altar.

Thereby these three tournaments are Double Elimination tournament with finals of the six.
Standings table size depends on number of registered players.
Sortition should be made by referees. 8 best 2008 players (by WC2008 results) will be sowed. The rest of players will be assigned in the alphabet order. Players that came from the same countries will be placed as far away from each other as possible. Thats why we have not enough statistics from WC’08 to distribute all players.
TOURNAMENT SERIES SCHEDULE
July 1: publication of the complex tournament information (regulations, referees maps), opening maps pool for adding, tournament registration opening.
August 1: maps pool blocking, preparing poll.
August 12: maps poll start.
August 21: poll finishing, publication of the final maps list.
August 25: registration closing, sortition publication, maps preparing finishing.
August 28: start of the championship.
Every World Championship round should go in 21 days.
Every Celestial way round should go in 14 days. First round and semifinals in Celestial Way should go in 21 days. These rounds length was increased because of New Year holidays and to avoid tournament gap.
Altars of Knowledge should be finished in 14 days after Celestial Way ends.

First player (in the pair, hosting player) is responsible for the game. First player should notify referees about opponent’s absence (not less than 5 days until current round ends). Host player will get technical lose if there was no notifications and explanations about broken game. Also host can get tech lose for modified maps using or maps, that doesn’t exist in tournament maps set. Such maps can be used only after referee’s permission (all gameplay advances should be discussed with referees).
If any difficult situation present, then referees have to solve it (using voting if there is no unanimous decision).
TOURNAMENT RULES
Referees should prepare champ rules not later than 21 day before tournament starts. (Full text you can read in the file)
AWARDS
First three places in each tournament are prize-winning.
World Championship (WC)
1 place: World Champion rank, World Cup (personal Cup) and mark “World Champion” (Grail – personal mark).
2 place: Silver prize winner sertificate, silver prize winner mark (Sword of the Gods – challenge mark).
3 place: Bronze prize winner sertificate, bronze prize winner mark (Adamantine Armor – challenge mark).
Celestial Way (CW)
1 place: Celestial Champion rank, Celestial Champion sertificate, Celestial Champion mark (Boots of Travel — personal mark).
2 place: Celestial sertificate II degree, Silver prize winner mark (Equestrian's Gloves – challenge mark).
3 place: Celestial sertificate III degree, Bronze prize winner mark (Surefooted Boots – challenge mark).
Altars of Knowledge (AK)
1 place: Archmage rank, mark of Archmage’s altar (Archmage's Codex – challenge mark).
2 place: Guildmaster rank, mark of Guildmaster’s altar (Guildmaster's Compendium – challenge mark).
3 place: Expert Wisdom rank, mark of Expert Wisdom’s altar (Master's Spellbook – challenge mark).
Registration on World Championship 2010 finished! For registration on Celestial Way 2010 we need know your nicknames, ICQ, MSN, e-mail and country. We have no much place for registration and it will finish before 18 september.
P.S.: If you wanna help with making prizes, message to Oxygen.

















