DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 02/09/2026 Duedate: 02/21/2026
LYRATILAN ARENA
DM 25 TURN 1037
This Week's Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
SNOOKS EAGLIN
THE BLUES 25 (581)
(25-6559) [17-8-0,95]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
GEORGE STRAIT FULL PROOF
GONE COUNTRY (453) HAZ MAT '25 (603)
(25-4888) [13-4-1,96] (25-6815) [2-1-1,38]
Popularity Leader This Week's Favorite
PAUL STOCK ALAN JACKSON
THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464) GONE COUNTRY (453)
(25-6680) [13-32-0,71] (25-4886) [7-11-0,90]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
THE BLUES 25 (581)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. WORKING GIRLS (193) 46
2. HAZ MAT '25 (603) 37 THE BLUES 25 (581)
3. THE BLUES 25 (581) 22 Unchartered Team
4. GONE COUNTRY (453) 17
5. THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464) 1 HAZ MAT '25 (603)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1- 1 LITTLE LEO CRUSH (595) 21 14 0 60.0 1/ 2 THE BLUES 25 (581) 12 3 1
2/ 2 THE BLUES 25 (581) 74 51 2 59.2 2/ 1 GONE COUNTRY (453) 12 3 0
3/ 3 GONE COUNTRY (453) 43 45 3 48.9 3/ 4 WORKING GIRLS (193) 3 10 0
4/ 4 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464) 977 1110 29 46.8 4/ 0*HAZ MAT '25 (603) 2 0 0
5/ 5 NEON GRATITUDE (593) 46 56 3 45.1 5/ 5 NEON GRATITUDE (593) 1 2 1
6/ 6 WORKING GIRLS (193) 212 271 19 43.9 6- 3 LITTLE LEO CRUSH (595) 1 2 0
7/ 0*HAZ MAT '25 (603) 3 4 1 42.9 7/ 6 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464) 0 3 0
'*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn
(###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank
DUELMASTER'S COLUMN
Notes from the arena champ.
Well, ya'll probably did not expect to see me here this soon, if ever. My manager
didn't think so either. He thought that the "King", George Strait, would be Gone
Country's first Duelmaster. The reality is that I have underperformed my entire
career. I am one of three (3) original team members that started with a 21 wit. We
lost one of the other ones along the way - you might be able to guess the third one.
My manager says that I have better starting stats than his three of the Top 100
warriors in Primus with the same fighting style, yet I had a pretty rough start at 3-
10. Apparently, I could not take a hit -- so I trained a little and things have
improved.
As you might suspect, Gone Country is not my manager's first team. Our manager
started playing Duel 2, known as "Duelmasters" when he started, in the mid- eighties
with four of his friends in high school. They had one warrior each on a team named
the Blue Meanies in Bonsur. Our manager formed another team in Solven on his own when
he went to college -- which has been the team he has run since along with a few other
teams "here and there". Several years later, he formed Gone Country based on his love
of '90's country music, sent some of them to a mail-in-tournament, and never sent them
to fight in the arena thereafter. Our manager stopped playing Duel 2 for awhile, but
eventually returned and decided to activate this team.
I am not sure that I will be here next turn. I have been the most challenged warrior
for quite some time, persumably due to my poor record, and there are some more
experienced warriors in the Champions class who I am sure will be coming for me. If
that is the case, it was fun while it lasted. I hope that this arena can attract a
few more new teams -- some of our younger warriors are tired of fighting "stand-ins."
Lyratilan, keep your blades up.
-- Alan Jackson
Gone Country
SPY REPORT
Well, what are you looking at, LYRATILAN? Ain't you never seen Snide Clemens
before? Ah, shaddup and listen to my news. Later days, GONE COUNTRY, since THE
BLUES 25 took top team from you this turn, you guys are old news. Of course, we're
all terribly impressed to see JADE win a fight and gain 23 points, terribly. Tsk,
tsk, PEARL beat LONG JOHN HUNTER and LONG JOHN HUNTER lost 16 points. You're
breakin' my heart. And it's out with the old, in with the new, as SNOOKS EAGLIN
takes the Title and last week's bar tab from the old Duelmaster. Heh, heh.
Kickbacks and bribes, kickbacks and bribes, how else do you think some of these guys
win their fights? Skill? Ha!
Well, let's take a look at some more misdeeds of you miserable sword-boys.
What's the big D? WORKING GIRLS was the most avoided team? Bunch of lily livered...
grumble... mumble... curse... And it looks like GONE COUNTRY avoided them the most
this turn. What a pack of would be losers, if you ask me. Hmph. Ooh, I'm
frightfully impressed, PAUL STOCK was this turn's most challenged warrior. Watch
that ego swell, sports fans.
Some people like volunteer work in the hospitals. I volunteer for LYRATILAN's
morgue. More variety. We're all going to die in the end, so why worry if the fate
catches up with you sooner that later?
I was about to buy a new quill pen the other day, but some fighter took it for
an epee. Forgive me for writing with a dagger. Phlllt! Just had to do that before
I leave the fine city of LYRATILAN. I feel much better now. Paste this one in your
scrapbooks, you'll need the kindling come this winter-- Snide Clemens
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SNOOKS EAGLIN 6559 17 8 0 95 THE BLUES 25 (581)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
GEORGE STRAIT 4888 13 4 1 96 GONE COUNTRY (453)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
ALAN JACKSON 4886 7 11 0 90 GONE COUNTRY (453)
-CASH IS CRASS 6696 9 5 0 89 LITTLE LEO CRUSH (595)
BABY FACE FOSTER 6562 18 10 0 86 THE BLUES 25 (581)
SUSAN MURPHY 6704 14 20 2 84 WORKING GIRLS (193)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
BIG MOJO ELEM 6563 7 14 2 78 THE BLUES 25 (581)
PAUL STOCK 6680 13 32 0 71 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
PEARL 6793 7 7 1 66 WORKING GIRLS (193)
GUITAR JR JOHNSON 6621 12 6 0 58 THE BLUES 25 (581)
JADE 6791 7 7 0 58 WORKING GIRLS (193)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
AETHER FLOW 6675 12 13 2 56 NEON GRATITUDE (593)
LONG JOHN HUNTER 6630 11 4 0 50 THE BLUES 25 (581)
DANKE 6732 13 10 0 49 NEON GRATITUDE (593)
CHANELLE 6796 7 7 1 47 WORKING GIRLS (193)
FULL PROOF 6815 2 1 1 38 HAZ MAT '25 (603)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
CLINT BLACK 6818 4 2 0 31 GONE COUNTRY (453)
GARTH BROOKS 6817 5 2 1 28 GONE COUNTRY (453)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
UNCUT 6820 1 0 0 20 HAZ MAT '25 (603)
OBRIGADO 6809 4 3 0 15 NEON GRATITUDE (593)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
TRACY LAWRENCE 6816 3 4 0 GONE COUNTRY 453 AETHER FLOW 6675 1037
GNATALIE 6768 5 7 0 WORKING GIRLS 193 BIG MOJO ELEM 6563 1035
PERSONAL ADS
Pearl -- I guess that you got your revenge. It was wrong of me to take advantage of a
Working Girl as I did a couple of turns ago. That said, I have friends in low places,
so we will see what happens when you move up to face some of our more experiencd
warriors. -- Garth Brooks
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
SUSAN MURPHY was bested by BIG MOJO ELEM in a 2 minute master's Bloodfeud fight.
BABY FACE FOSTER vanquished PAUL STOCK in a 1 minute uneven Challenge battle.
GUITAR JR JOHNSON luckily beat CHANELLE in a 3 minute gruesome Challenge fight.
ALAN JACKSON was bested by SNOOKS EAGLIN in a 4 minute veteran's Title contest.
GEORGE STRAIT demolished VIRGINAL CONCUBINE in a 1 minute mismatched competition.
LONG JOHN HUNTER was viciously subdued by PEARL in a crowd pleasing 3 minute fight.
DANKE was devastated by JADE in a action packed 1 minute one-sided competition.
AETHER FLOW slaughtered TRACY LAWRENCE in a 1 minute uneven duel.
FULL PROOF overpowered OBRIGADO in a popular 1 minute gory uneven duel.
GARTH BROOKS overpowered POLITE BEGGAR in a 1 minute one-sided melee.
CLINT BLACK overpowered CULT MEMBER in a 1 minute one-sided match.
UNCUT devastated TRUSTWORTHY SCRIBE in a 1 minute mismatched conflict.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|LUNGING ATTACK 5 TOTAL PARRY 21 - 9 - 0 70 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 4 STRIKING ATTACK 16 - 7 - 2 70 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 4 AIMED BLOW 10 - 9 - 0 53 |
|TOTAL PARRY 3 PARRY-LUNGE 4 - 4 - 0 50 |
|AIMED BLOW 1 LUNGING ATTACK 25 - 28 - 2 47 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 BASHING ATTACK 5 - 6 - 0 45 |
|BASHING ATTACK 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 4 - 5 - 1 44 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 1 SLASHING ATTACK 19 - 25 - 1 43 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 3 - 0 0 |
|WALL OF STEEL 0 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 1 - 0 0 |
Turn 1037 was great if you Not so great if you used The fighting styles of the
used the fighting styles: the fighting styles: top eleven warriors are:
AIMED BLOW 1 - 0 LUNGING ATTACK 1 - 4 3 TOTAL PARRY
PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 - 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 1 3 SLASHING ATTACK
BASHING ATTACK 1 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 2 LUNGING ATTACK
SLASHING ATTACK 3 - 1 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 0 1 STRIKING ATTACK
STRIKING ATTACK 3 - 1 1 BASHING ATTACK
TOTAL PARRY 2 - 1 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
TOTAL PARRY SNOOKS EAGLIN 6559 17 8 0 95 THE BLUES 25 (581)
STRIKING ATTACK GEORGE STRAIT 4888 13 4 1 96 GONE COUNTRY (453)
BASHING ATTACK BABY FACE FOSTER 6562 18 10 0 86 THE BLUES 25 (581)
PARRY-LUNGE DANKE 6732 13 10 0 49 NEON GRATITUDE (593)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is PAUL STOCK 6680. The most popular warrior this turn
was ALAN JACKSON 4886. The ten other most popular fighters were PEARL 6793, CHANELLE
6796, JADE 6791, FULL PROOF 6815, BIG MOJO ELEM 6563, BABY FACE FOSTER 6562, GEORGE
STRAIT 4888, SUSAN MURPHY 6704, GUITAR JR JOHNSON 6621, and AETHER FLOW 6675.
The least popular fighter this week was LONG JOHN HUNTER 6630. The other ten least
popular fighters were PAUL STOCK 6680, UNCUT 6820, CLINT BLACK 6818, OBRIGADO 6809,
TRACY LAWRENCE 6816, DANKE 6732, SNOOKS EAGLIN 6559, GARTH BROOKS 6817, AETHER FLOW
6675, and GUITAR JR JOHNSON 6621.
The following warriors have traveled to AD after fighting this turn:
BOOMING BARITONE (25-6687) HELL'S CHOIR (594)