Thursday (Final) Teasers

Site Admin Joined: Jun 20, 2002 Posts: 1345

In 2 classes the TC had a kill.
In only 1 class did the TC not have 2 losses.
In the Champions 7 styles got awards.
In the Rookies 9 styles got awards.
STers killed 35 of the tourney's 130 dead.
A warrior in the final 3 of one class died to an NPC. If it had won it would have been in the TC fight.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 9:13 pm

Amazing! Does this tourney have the record for lethality? I dread receiving my results...

Gergin
Crying or Very sad

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 9:17 pm

First post btw!

Gerg

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 9:52 pm

5.31% of tourney entrants died. That is a pretty hefty toll in my opinion, but may be pretty much the norm for some of the regular arenas. Wasn't there a discussion on a previous board (not this one) that stated you have a greater chance of dying in a tourney than in the arena?

MD

P.S.--I like the skeleton avatar the best.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:01 pm

No worries, the skeleton with an attitude will be making regular appearances here... brings me back to my days as the Reaper in Transel when I was allied with the Blue Adept in the Pattern vs. Cryptic Hecatomb. Anyone out there run in Transel in those days (early 90's)?

Gergin
Cool

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:01 pm

You have HALF the chance of dying in a tourney in theory. Except you fight 5, 10, 15 fights at once in a tourney versus one fight every two weeks in the arena.

Now, I'm going to be terrified if I see my warrior fight a bye in the run-offs.

TigToad

Site Admin Joined: Jun 20, 2002 Posts: 1345

You have half the chance of dying in the tourney... blunted weapons and such.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:25 pm

JUST GREAT! Ya know how you have that feeling of dread when you hear bad news?

In the last tournament I ran that guy in the adepts that died in round 9. I remembered reading the teaser and thinking "boy that sucks for somebody".

Now, I see that an NPC offed somebody before a title fight. I just have that sinking feeling again.

I don't suppose that was a Rookie warrior?????

-The Torch

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:31 pm

Let us all hope that the manager who got killedn by an NPC isn't Slugbait....

Site Admin Joined: Jun 20, 2002 Posts: 1345

Why not Slugbait?

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 11:54 pm

Because this happened to him before at the FtF, remember?

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 11:54 pm

I just know all the in opportune deaths will be mine. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:16 am

If, like I did, you ran a pretty good but low con striker in one of the bottom tourneys, and especially a rookie who was on decisiveness vs PS's you are probably in the running on this outcome. There's an NPC, Embezzling Scribe I think, that's a PS running responsiveness with a nasty reputation for catching young, frail strikers on decisiveness and killing them. That's my guess for this outcome.

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 7:15 am

Checked the stats on the last tourney to see if this was an extemely high death rater or no. I may go back and look at other tourneys to get a better idea.

2003 FtF

2307 Warriors entered (I counted, so there is a chance for error)

123 Deaths

5.33%

If the other tourneys follow a similar pattern, then it looks like 5% of the field in a tourney will get themselves killed.

Darque

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 7:46 am

Embezzling Scribe is a TP, not PS, which is extra trouble because if someone slowed down too much vs. TP's, Scribe will jump them, hit them, and kill them.