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Winning is key to grab the EIZO FORIS FS2333 Monitor

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Who will win?

It's simple – If you know the board game "Battleships", you will know how to play. Just head over to www.joindota.com/en/challenges/ and get started by either reading the guidelines below or, if you like, just start by trial and error and find out for yourself. It's not that hard.After you have found and challenged a user via the search function, the ranking or the history of your games on www.joindota.com/en/challenges/ , you can placeon the 5x5 square Dota 2 minimap either by drag & drop or by pressing the "Randomize" button. The heroes you have placed will not be visible for your opponent and the task is to eliminate all 5 heroes of your opponent before he eliminates yours.As soon as you and your opponent have put your heroes in position and hit the "Challenge" button, each player can shoot a limited number of Sunstrikes on any of the 25 fields (unless one is already fired upon) and try to eliminate the five heroes from your opponent. You must place 5 different heroes on the minimap to be able to start a challenge. You can not place a hero more than once and your opponent has the same ability to place heroes as you do. The individual heroes do not have any functionality per se, but we put all of them into the game so you can pick your favorite lineup.If you have placed the wrong hero or want to place him on a different field, you can just click onto the hero in the minimap to remove it again and make another choice per drag & drop to put them onto another field. Once the game has started, your lineup is locked in and it is impossible to change the position of your heroes.The person you challenge will always be the one to shoot first. The amount of shots that can be made are in the following order as you take turns:This is order is to make it as fair as possible for both while not dragging out the game like it would if it were only one hit per turn. Note that the last shot can technically not be made and is the lone casualty of us doing the match to balance out the fairness/experience ratio.After you have taken your turn and are waiting for your opponent, you must refresh the page in order to see if your opponent has made his move. Having a voice chat up with the friends that you play against might be useful in this case to know when they are finished. We chose to not auto-refresh the page to not stress your browser or internet line and wanted you to decide when to refresh it.Killing 1 hero:Killing 2 heroes in a row (Double Kill):Killing 3 heroes in a row (Triple Kill):Killing 4 heroes in a row (Ultra Kill):Killing 5 heroes in a row (Rampage):-----------------------------------------------------------Winning the round:Losing a game will still give you points for all the heroes that you have eliminated before your opponent won, so do not give up too early as you could still land an Ultra Kill! If you however decide to hit the "Ragequit" button, you will get 0 points and your opponent will get the points for the heroes he has eliminated plus the 15 points for winning the game.You can have as many open challenges at the same time as you like. So in order to increase your chance of climbing up the ranking list faster, the golden rule is "The more you play, the more points you will get". Once you have an open or active challenge, you will be able to see it directly on the top left below the navigation bar on www.joindota.com so it's easier to tell when it's your time to strike!Using multiple accounts for this game and therefore levelling up either one or more accounts is strongly prohibited and will result in a ban from Invoker Sunstrike and deletion of points of the accounts involved. The system behind Invoker Sunstrike will detect patterns in play behavior to determine if an account is used to boost another, so please do not try to cheat your way up in the ranking list - you will be detected.The ranking for Invoker Sunstrike will run from July 11th until August 31st, 2013 and within the top 10 ranked players on joinDOTA, we will random out the monitor. Why the top 10? - Because we feel that anyone who made it up that high in the ranking put in a great effort to get there and should have a chance; not just the 1st placed player who could get there just because he spent the highest possible amount of time to play.