DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 06/30/2025 Duedate: 07/12/2025
TOBIR ARENA
DM 14 TURN 1037
This Week's Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
STRIP TEASE
ANYTHING GOES (571)
(14-5808) [11-3-0,105]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
STRIP TEASE POSITION IS EMPTY
ANYTHING GOES (571)
(14-5808) [11-3-0,105]
Popularity Leader This Week's Favorite
LT KERRI STRUG LT KERRI STRUG
SAGE SOLDIERS (350) SAGE SOLDIERS (350)
(14-3185) [10-16-1,85] (14-3185) [10-16-1,85]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
SAXON (578)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. SAGE SOLDIERS (350) 20
2. THIS MODERN WORLD (576) 14 ANYTHING GOES (571)
3. NEON DRUIDS (572) 10 Unchartered Team
4. ANYTHING GOES (571) 8
5. THE DOGHOUSE (188) -1 BRICK HOUSES (488)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1 ANYTHING GOES (571) 77 26 0 74.8 1/ 2 SAXON (578) 9 6 0
2/ 3 THIS MODERN WORLD (576) 26 23 2 53.1 2/ 1 ANYTHING GOES (571) 6 4 0
3/ 4 SAXON (578) 28 28 2 50.0 3/ 3 THIS MODERN WORLD (576) 5 2 0
4/ 5 SAGE SOLDIERS (350) 45 51 3 46.9 4/ 5 SAGE SOLDIERS (350) 4 8 0
5/ 6 NEON DRUIDS (572) 43 52 3 45.3 5/ 6 NEON DRUIDS (572) 3 0 0
6/ 7 THE DOGHOUSE (188) 1229 1544 26 44.3 6/ 4 THE DOGHOUSE (188) 2 4 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.
I am a performer. I am exotic. I am intriguing. I am here to please. And I am
Duelmistress. Come and get some.
-- Strip Tease DMIII
SPY REPORT
You elder fighters surely remember me. The younger ones may call me Olaf
Modeen. I return to TOBIR once again! Biff! Pow! TOBIR watched with glee as
ANYTHING GOES got knocked off top spot by SAXON! What's with MJR FRANK BURNS? He
actually beat SAXON's SONG OF EVIL, and walked away with 16 more points from the
fight. Laughs were big at SAGE SOLDIERS while they watched MJR FRANK BURNS clobber
SONG OF EVIL. She lost 14 points and got bruised from objects thrown from the
stands. Try as she might, SNEELY wasn't good enough at persuading STRIP TEASE to
step down from the Duelmaster's throne... Advice to fighters with a 1 will--give up
fighting!
Speaking of cowardly avoiders and unfair challenges... How well I know the
feeling of being in the most avoided team! Don't fall out of practive, SAGE
SOLDIERS! Management must be dealin', as the boys at ANYTHING GOES ain't reelin'!
SAGE SOLDIERS' mad! I hate going to the effort of writing about the kind of fights
that RACER gets in. He fights people like LT KERRI STRUG, 9 points below. I thought
RACER showed great skill and promise when he overcame LT KERRI STRUG. All right, so
I slept through it! Big deal!
Warriors of TOBIR unite. You have only your games to lose! Here's some advice:
study your opponent, master many skills, fight dirty.
Well, I'm pretty much through. You guys need to get back practicing. Are you
as tired of reading this as I am of writing it? Actually, I guess I'm writing it
before you read it. Oh, well. Time for my medication, so I'll leave now. Practice,
practice, practice!-- Olaf Modeen
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
STRIP TEASE 5808 11 3 0 105 ANYTHING GOES (571)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
RACER 5754 21 6 0 93 ANYTHING GOES (571)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
LT KERRI STRUG 3185 10 16 1 85 SAGE SOLDIERS (350)
COMMANDER POWLE 4593 8 5 0 78 SAGE SOLDIERS (350)
SNEELY 5748 15 19 0 76 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
CRPL MAX KLINGER 3183 13 7 0 70 SAGE SOLDIERS (350)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SILENT MAJORITY 5821 9 5 0 66 THIS MODERN WORLD (576)
CALIX 5766 11 7 0 64 NEON DRUIDS (572)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SNORRY 5757 10 22 0 52 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
MUMBLE RAP 5809 8 8 2 47 THIS MODERN WORLD (576)
-ANXIOUS 5751 7 4 0 46 ANYTHING GOES (571)
MJR FRANK BURNS 3184 7 10 0 46 SAGE SOLDIERS (350)
ALL GUNS BLAZING 5826 8 4 0 41 SAXON (578)
SONG OF EVIL 5825 6 6 1 35 SAXON (578)
-SMELFIE 5822 4 3 0 34 THIS MODERN WORLD (576)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SLOW LANE BLUES 5835 5 5 1 32 SAXON (578)
CONQUISTADOR 5828 3 9 0 25 SAXON (578)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
ROCK OF AGES 5860 2 0 0 14 SAXON (578)
-PUKE 5859 0 1 0 1 ANYTHING GOES (571)
SLEEZY 5850 0 1 0 1 ANYTHING GOES (571)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
PERSONAL ADS
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
RACER unbelievably bested LT KERRI STRUG in a 3 minute master's Challenge fight.
STRIP TEASE handily defeated SNEELY in a 1 minute one-sided Title match.
CRPL MAX KLINGER was unbelievably bested by NOBLE ASSASSIN in a 3 minute brawl.
COMMANDER POWLE savagely defeated NOBLE ASSASSIN in a exciting 1 minute bloody fight.
SILENT MAJORITY devastated ALL GUNS BLAZING in a 1 minute one-sided duel.
SONG OF EVIL was bested by MJR FRANK BURNS in a 3 minute bloody match.
MUMBLE RAP overcame CONQUISTADOR in a action packed 1 minute fight.
SNORRY was vanquished by CALIX in a action packed 1 minute uneven duel.
SLOW LANE BLUES overpowered TRUSTWORTHY SCRIBE in a popular 1 minute uneven duel.
ROCK OF AGES overpowered SLEEZY in a 1 minute uneven match.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|LUNGING ATTACK 8 WALL OF STEEL 4 - 1 - 0 80 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 3 STRIKING ATTACK 15 - 7 - 0 68 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 2 SLASHING ATTACK 29 - 24 - 2 55 |
|TOTAL PARRY 2 TOTAL PARRY 10 - 10 - 0 50 |
|AIMED BLOW 1 AIMED BLOW 13 - 13 - 0 50 |
|BASHING ATTACK 1 LUNGING ATTACK 48 - 48 - 3 50 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 0 BASHING ATTACK 3 - 11 - 0 21 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 - 0 0 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 4 - 0 0 |
|WALL OF STEEL 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 - 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:
STRIKING ATTACK 2 - 0 SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 2 6 LUNGING ATTACK
TOTAL PARRY 2 - 0 AIMED BLOW 0 - 1 2 SLASHING ATTACK
LUNGING ATTACK 4 - 4 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 1 STRIKING ATTACK
PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 1 TOTAL PARRY
PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 1 AIMED BLOW
BASHING ATTACK 0 - 1
WALL OF STEEL 0 - 0
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
STRIKING ATTACK STRIP TEASE 5808 11 3 0 105 ANYTHING GOES (571)
TOTAL PARRY RACER 5754 21 6 0 93 ANYTHING GOES (571)
LUNGING ATTACK COMMANDER POWLE 4593 8 5 0 78 SAGE SOLDIERS (350)
SLASHING ATTACK SILENT MAJORITY 5821 9 5 0 66 THIS MODERN WORLD (576)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is LT KERRI STRUG 3185. The most popular warrior this
turn was LT KERRI STRUG 3185. The ten other most popular fighters were CRPL MAX
KLINGER 3183, SONG OF EVIL 5825, COMMANDER POWLE 4593, SILENT MAJORITY 5821, MUMBLE
RAP 5809, CALIX 5766, SLOW LANE BLUES 5835, RACER 5754, STRIP TEASE 5808, and ROCK OF
AGES 5860.
The least popular fighter this week was SLEEZY 5850. The other ten least popular
fighters were ALL GUNS BLAZING 5826, SNEELY 5748, SNORRY 5757, CONQUISTADOR 5828, MJR
FRANK BURNS 3184, ROCK OF AGES 5860, STRIP TEASE 5808, RACER 5754, SLOW LANE BLUES
5835, and CALIX 5766.
SUMMER BLOODGAMES 2025
Back by popular demand, we will be hosting a new slow Bloodgames mailed arena
beginning in August. We also plan our usual Bloodgames arenas at the summer Face-
to-Face.
For those of you who always wanted the chance to manage the last warrior standing
alive upon the arena sands, your day has come. The Bloodgames are coming!
At the end of the ten turns, even though several warriors, bruised and scarred, MAY
yet live, only one will be crowned Champion of the Bloodgames. And in this game mere
survival counts for little. A great general once said, "The object of battle is not
to die for your cause, but to make your enemy die for his." This general would have
greatly enjoyed the Duelmasters Bloodgames. Here are the particulars:
Face-to-Face style Turn 1 is due Fri July 18 at 9pm at the hotel
Bloodgames (DM 98): Turns process with the tournament
Strategy changes allowed, bloodfeud challenges only
Mail-in style Turn 1 is due Sat July 19 at 9pm at the hotel
Bloodgames (DM 99): All turns process overnight, mail-in style.
No strategy changes; all ten rounds process one
after the other and results will be out Sun morning.
Slow Bloodgames (DM 95): Turn 1 is due Weds August 13
Turns process every 28 days
Strategy changes allowed, bloodfeud challenges only
Gameplay proceeds according to standard DM rules, except for a few notable exceptions:
BLOODGAMES ROLLUP -- Your Bloodgames team is ten warriors, one of each fighting
style, each warrior designed from scratch! (All are DYOs (design your owns) with 84
points, 3-21, as usual.) To submit your rollup, just write/type them up and send them
in. We'll mail or email your overviews and you can write up your strategies. Your
warriors must be created and have strategies entered by the first due date.
DEATH -- As the name implies, the Bloodgames will leave the arena sands somewhat
darker before they're over. It's a dangerous sport intended only for the tough and
spirited. The Arenamaster will be less likely to intercede on behalf of a dying
warrior. Even at a 1 kill desire, kill attempts will occur.
REPLACEMENTS AND ROLLUPS -- There will be no replacement characters.
CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES -- In the turn-based bloodgames, there are no regular
challenges, only bloodfeuds. There will be no DA challenges in any of the bloodgames
arenas.
TURN PROCESSING AND DUE DATES -- DM 95 is due August 1 and will process on a 28-day
schedule. The other two bloodgames arenas will be processed at the summer Face-to-
Face. (Note: there will also be bloodgames at the next winter FTF.)
MISSED TURNS -- All warriors fight each round. Only the dead may rest.
ERRORS -- If we make an input error, that warrior will be awarded a win and kill.
Errors must be reported before the next turn processes.
NEWSLETTER -- Warriors are ranked according to their number of kills. Champions of
Bloodgames may write a column for the newsletter at the end of the games.
FEES -- A Bloodgames rollup costs a $10 set-up fee. Managers may roll up more than
one team but may run only one team in each arena. The fee for all ten rounds is $49.
AWARDS -- The Bloodgames last ten rounds. Only warriors who survive to the end of
Turn 10 will be eligible for an award. However, a consolation award of a Bloodgames
T-shirt will be awarded to the dead warrior with the most kills.
The living warrior with the greatest number of kills will be the Bloodgames Champion.
Bloodgames Victor titles, 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded to those living warriors
with the greatest number of kills at the end of Turn 10, with one other important
consideration: Each of these three warriors must be of a different fighting style.
Win/loss records and, if necessary, recognition points will only be used to determine
awards if there is a tie.
The Bloodgames Champion fights for free in Advanced Duelmasters, and all Champions and
Victors earn Tournament Victor status, which allows them to challenge once per turn
with increased priority. These awards last for six months. The manager of the
Bloodgames Champion and Victors will receive Bloodgames T-shirts.
A Bloodgames T-shirt will be awarded to the manager of the team with the most kills.T-
shirts will only happen if someone gives us a nice design. One shirt per person.
AFTERMATH -- Warriors from the Bloodgames may not transfer to any other arena. Once
the games are over, the arena and teams will be disbanded. The fighters have won
their freedom and will never more be seen in the gladiatorial games. A special bonus
will, however, be awarded to the 1st through 3rd place warriors. Lady Sheila
Greywand, of the Isle of the Eye, has consented to allow the top three gladiators in
each Bloodgames admission to the Advanced Duelmasters games. Any special training
required to qualify those three warriors for Advanced Duelmasters combat will be
conducted before transfer into ADM. Astute managers will note that this means that
three warriors that are designed from scratch will survive the Bloodgames, win one of
the top three places, and go on to immortal glory! One of those warriors could be
yours!
The challenge is yours to take. The final plans are yours to make.
When the dust settles, remember: To the victor goes the spoils!