Oldmen cup

I. Tournament template packs

1. Favourites (isn’t played in qualifiers)

• JC (XL, fast roads, chess timer 16-8-2, sims 116)
• 6lm10a (XL+U, medium roads, chess timer 20-8-1.15, sims 117)
• h3dm1 (L, medium roads, chess timer 21-8.30-1.15, sims 115)

2. XL

• Nostalgy (XL+U, fast roads, chess timer 21-8-1.15, sims 117, AI towns are selected before the game)
• Spider (XL+U, medium roads, chess timer 21-8-1.15, sims 116)
• 8xm12a (XL+U, medium roads, chess timer 21-8-1.15, sims 116)

3. L

• Diamond (L+U, medium roads, chess timer 19-8-1.15, sims 116)
• Apocalypse (L+U, medium roads, chess timer 19-8-1.15, sims 117)
• BnB (L+U, fast roads, chess timer 19-8-1.15, sims 116)

4. M200

• 9dw, Skirmish, 2sm2c
• For all templates (size М, difficulty 200%, towns and bonuses choices are random; roads: fast+medium; chess timer 8-4-1)
• For Skirmish and 2sm2c sims — 117, for 9dw — 113 (restart on meeting — 113)
• Coin flip color choice, restart on the generation with the same towns

5. Mirror templates

• mt_JC (L+U, fast roads, chess timer 16-8-2, sims 116)
• mt_FW (XL+U, fast roads, chess timer 21-8-2, sims 117)
• mt_diamond (L+U, medium roads, chess timer 21-8.30-1.15, sims 116)

6. Exotic

(By mutual agreement could be played at 200% dufficulty, all random, coinflip color choice)

• Clash (XL+U, fast roads, chess timer 21-8.30-1.15, sims 117)
• Anarchy (L+U, any roads, chess timer 19-8-1.15, sims 115)
• Arcada (М, medium roads, chess timer 8-4-1, sims 116)

7. Old-school (isn’t played in qualifiers)

• 8mm6a (XL+U, medium roads, chess timer 21-8-1.15, sims 115)
• Mini-nostalgy (L+U, medium roads, chess timer 19-8-1.15, sims 117, AI towns are selected before the game)
• 2sm4d3 (L+U, any roads, chess timer 16-6.30-1, sims 116)

Restarts on all templates — 112, on mirror — 111. There are no restarts on the meeting on These OSb and Arcade. On the Arcada template, it is necessary to punch GO.

The rules for choosing computer locks for Nostalgy, Mini Nostalgy, Diamond and Apocalypse are standard, for other templates — random computers.

II. Template choice rules

1. Latest HotA game version.
2. Town and color trade before the game (if template rules don’t involve random town choice). After the trade player who sold the town can ask his opponent of his town choice
3. Template choice and town trade are done live on stream. For that, players should join voice channel on Discord (The only exception is for players who don’t speak Russian, they can choose template and trade in lobby)
4. After the game had started, players are moved in different voice channels in which they remain until the end of the game.
5. Template is chosen by ban system. Coin flip winner chooses who bans template pack first.
6. For BO1: BAN player No. 1, BAN player No. 2, BAN player No. 1, BAN player No. 2, the remaining set is selected for the game.
7. For BO3: player №1 BAN, player №2 BAN, player №1 PICK, player №2 PICK, player №1 BAN, player №2 BAN. The remaining template pack is played in the 3rd
8. For BO5: player №1 BAN, player №2 BAN, player №1 PICK, player №2 PICK, player №1 PICK, player №2 PICK. The remaining template pack is played in the 5th game.
9. That way, players choose 3 or 5 template packs for the series. Same way (ban-pick) players choose specific template to play out of 3 templates present in the pack. Player who chose the pack bans template first. In bo1, the first player to ban the template in the set is the player who banned the sets second.
10. For example: players chose «Favourites», «XL» and «L» packs for BO3 series. Player №1 picked «Favourites», player №2 picked «XL», «L» pack was chosen automatically. «Favourites» is played first and player №1 bans one of the templates first, e.g. h3dm1, then player №2 chooses which template will be played.
11. Before choosing a template in the last set, which fell out automatically, the players throw a coin again. The player who won the coin chooses who first bans the template in the pack.
12. After the template was chosen players generate a town pair. Towns, played in the series previously are banned.
13. In Apocalypse and BnB templates Necropolis is banned by default.
14. If Apocalypse or BnB are played in the 5th game and Necropolis wasn’t played yet, all towns are unbanned and Necropolis is banned instead.
15. Town reroll is allowed. 500 gold for reroll with or without town ban. If players used town reroll in the first game, they should roll again in the next game.
16. After that players trade for town and color. Before trading for color, player who won the town trade must declare his town choice.
17. Players can lower the game timer and increase simultaneous turns by mutual agreement.
18. The rest of the rules are agreed upon by the parties or, if there is no agreement, the standard rules specified on the website h3hota.com in the description of the templates.

III. Organizational issues

1. The number of participants in the final stage is 16. In qualifiers — unlimited.
2. Prize fund is 200 000 Russian rubles.
3. Main judge: Sergey Ustimenko. Discord: Freeman#2424
4. All controversial issues are solved by contacting the main judge.
5. Organizers can change the tournament regulations during the tournament or reject someone’s registration without explaining the reason.
6. Players must keep all the save files until the end of the tournament and provide them to organizers if needed.
7. The information about the tournament is being updated as necessary and is located at the tournament web page.
8. Broadcasting all the joint games and games in the final stage of the tournament is required.
9. Players who can’t stream their games will be excluded from the tournament.
10. Final stage players must stream in at least 720p quality without lags or frame drops. Organizers can exclude a participant if his stream does not meet the requirements.
11. Games are broadcasted on the MSStudio or MSStudio2 channels. Stream starts 15 minutes before the game.
12. At the start of the game commentators introduce the players. Players must be present in the discord voice channel. If they are not present in voice channel by this time they are applied with rule №8 in section IV.
13. During the stream players are not allowed to have any sources on their screen such as donate goals, subscriber notifications, advertisement etc.
14. Webcam (optional) should be located at the specific place. Webcam size should also meet the requirements.
15. Every player who won the series must give an interview. For that players need to join voice channel with commentators.
16. All the communications between players and organizers take place in special MSStudio discord channel.
17. Players should not start their games without coordination with MSStudio staff responsible for their game.
18. Tournament administrator — Max Vezuchiy — Be3y4uu#0722. He makes a tournament schedule with players’ and commentators’ agreement.

IV. Terms of the tournament, time and duration of the games

1. Tournament time limits and game duration
2. Tournament time limit is announced after coordination with participants.
3. Every qualifiers phase should be completed in 1 week. If the participants couldn’t play in this period they may receive technical loss.
4. Players must contact their opponents and one of the tournament organizers before every stage and come to an agreement of the time of their game.
5. Paragraphs 5-11 are applied to joint games and games of the final stage, which have to be broadcasted. In qualifier stage players should just contact the tournament administrator.
6. Games start in the period 11:00-17:00 EAT
7. By mutual agreement players can save and reschedule their game but only after 8 hours into the game.
8. Players can’t start the second game immediately after the first one if it lasted for 7 hours or longer.
9. Players should agree on the amount of games played in a single day. Players can take a 20 minute break between the games.
10. Every player has 3 hours for breaks during the games (summarized). If a player used all 3 hours (in one or two games) and isn’t able to continue the game he receives technical loss.
11. If a player didn’t warn the tournament administrator about him being late to the game, he loses 1 restart after 10 minutes, another restart in 20 minutes and receives technical loss in one game after 30 minutes have passed.
12. Games can be rescheduled if the players warn the tournament administrator not later than 12 hours before the game.

V. Tournament stages

1. Tournament has 3 stages: qualifiers, joint games and the final stage.
2. Registration — since 17 till october 24. Qualifiers — since october 25 till november 14.joint games — since november 15 till november 25. Final stage — since november 26.
3. Final stage is conducted by single elimination system (with losers bracket). All of the games are BO3, Grand Final and WB Final are BO5.
4. 8 players receive direct invites in the final stage of the tournament and receive 1-8 seed numbers. Their opponents are chosen by drawing from players in qualifiers and joint games.
5. 4 players receive direct invites in joint games.
6. Any person who completed the registration will access the qualifiers. 4 players chosen by tournament organizers will be placed in qualifiers bracket, other players will be chosen by drawing.
7. Qualifiers and joint games are conducted by single elimination system with 5 template packs (Favourites and Old-School excluded). All of the games are BO3. Pick-Ban system is the same as in 7 template packs (second ban excluded).
8. 4 players who won in qualifiers quarter finals access the final stage.
9. 4 players who lost in qualifiers quarter finals access the joint games and play 1 BO3 series with 4 players who received direct invites. Pairs in joint games will be chosen by drawing.

VI. Unsporting behavior

1. During the tournament players are not allowed to insult (including their stream, any stream chat, during the trade before the game and post-game interview, in lobby chat, in PM etc.) other participants, commentators and MSStudio staff. In case of discovering this type of behavior, the organizers can apply any punishment (depending on the statement) including disqualification. Every situation is being examined by tournament organizers and they apply the punishment.
2. If a player apologizes in tournament discussion chat in discord or in PM with the person he insulted and his apologies are accepted, the punishment will be removed.
3. If a situation like that reoccurs, the player is instantly disqualified from the tournament.

VII. Prize fund

Minimum prize fund  — 200 000 rubles + 50% of donations.

• 1st place — 41% or 82 000 rubles
• 2nd place — 18% or 36 000 rubles
• 3rd place — 9% or 18 000 rubles
• 4th place — 6% or 12 000 rubles
• 5-6th places — 3,5% or 7 000 rubles
• 7-8th places — 2,5% or 5 000 rubles
• 9-12th places — 2% or 4 000 rubles
• 13-16th places — 1,5% or 3 000 rubles