DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 02/04/2020 Duedate: 02/17/2020
SEAM ARENA
DM-20 TURN-121
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
RAMIREZ
80S FANTASY (60)
(20-748) [16-13-2,111]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
RAMIREZ MARK MARKSON
80S FANTASY (60) BIG LAKE NAMES (61)
(20-748) [16-13-2,111] (20-818) [3-1-0,36]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
CHANNEL MIXER GRAVEL
PIXELBENDERS (36) OAKLEAF (59)
(20-646) [22-19-0,85] (20-821) [3-2-0,29]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
80S FANTASY (60)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. 80S FANTASY (60) 64
2. OAKLEAF (59) 60 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25)
3. DARQUE KNIGHTS (22) 21 Unchartered Team
4. PIXELBENDERS (36) 9
5. BIG LAKE NAMES (61) 5 BIG LAKE NAMES (61)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1*BIG LAKE NAMES (61) 12 8 4 60.0 1/ 4 80S FANTASY (60) 10 5 1
2/ 3 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25) 224 159 10 58.5 2/ 5 LOST SENTINELS (19) 8 6 0
3/ 2 BOX IN THE ATTIC (58) 29 21 2 58.0 3/ 8 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22) 8 6 0
4- 4 I'M NOT EGGBERT (9) 257 205 19 55.6 4/ 3 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25) 8 7 1
5/ 7 80S FANTASY (60) 77 65 8 54.2 5/ 6 OAKLEAF (59) 8 7 0
6/ 5 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22) 316 277 22 53.3 6/ 1*BIG LAKE NAMES (61) 7 8 1
7/ 6 PIXELBENDERS (36) 260 233 10 52.7 7/ 7 PIXELBENDERS (36) 7 8 0
8/ 9 OAKLEAF (59) 88 80 1 52.4 8/ 9 BOX IN THE ATTIC (58) 7 8 0
9/ 8 THIRSTY THUGS (31) 299 285 8 51.2 9/ 2 HUCKLE'S CATS (23) 6 9 0
10/10 HUCKLE'S CATS (23) 243 278 8 46.6 10/11 THIRSTY THUGS (31) 4 8 0
11/11 LOST SENTINELS (19) 242 349 26 40.9 11-10 I'M NOT EGGBERT (9) 2 2 0
'*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn
(###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank
TEAM SPOTLIGHT
Dark Stoicism
The giant sword cut a furrow into the dirt. The night's light reflected from a few
patches on its slowly rusting blade, which rose out through an upturned mouth. The
ricasso head stretched past a crossguard of outstretched hands. The stylized fighter
handle stood on a pommel skull. Two beefy hands grasped the figure's body. The sword
was massive, like the warrior holding it, called Stoic. The sword was sleek and
battle-worn, the warrior was bloated and uncertain. Towering though he was, even under
plates of armor, fat rolls peeked out. One might wonder if the cook decided to go to
war while the soldiers stayed in the kitchen.
Stoic looked back. His manager, memory, had been there just a moment ago, but the tree
line had misted over, obscuring the entrance. He shrugged under the weight of the
armor and looked through his helmet. The moonlight was bright on a clearing in the
forest. All was deadly quiet, night mist roiling. His sollrets clunking through patchy
grass occasionally broke the silence. It would be serene, but he could feel eyes
everywhere and the promise of death. This was not a quiet forest and certainly not the
boisterous and sandy arena he normally fought in. This was the Dark Arena, final
resting spot of the failed gladiator.
* * *
"I can do better. I can! Please!" Stoic pleaded but memory was unmoved. "My decision
is final. You don't have the desire to live a life of war. You have not grown into the
gladiator name I gave you." Stoic was on his knees, begging, searching memory's
unseeing eyes for hope. Memory's mouth tightened as he let out an almost imperceptible
sigh. He pulled the hood of his tight black cloak over his head, turned, and drifted
away.
"Wyvern, please. Surely you can save me?" The trainer put a hand on his shoulder. With
Stoic on his knees, he and the diminutive trainer were eye to eye. An immortal warrior
with many years and many deaths behind her, she did not harbor his fear of the
unknown. "Today's fight is over. Tomorrow we will train for the next." She locked eyes
with him, passing on some of her inner resolve. "Come," she bade, as she led him from
the infirmary back to their training hall.
* * *
A biting pain seared through an exposed flap of skin on his stomach. His mind had
wandered away from the fight. His opponent, a Dark Arena champion, had entered
silently. An elf stood before him, two feet shorter, but standing tall and towering
above Stoic by confidence and bearing if not physical height. He might have been a
glimmering angel, moonbeams dancing on exquisite silver mail. The elf brought his
needle-thin sword up, hilt to face, blade skyward, in honorable warrior salute. He was
sure he had won, and everyone knew it. He had time to honor the walking dead.
* * *
Old Wyvern snaked a short spear under his guard, stopping just short of cutting. She
always used her deadly spear, even in training, such was her skill and control. He had
a greatsword, blunted for training, but massive. "I can barely move it. How can I
train or fight if it's too heavy?" He felt a familiar and painful whack from the blunt
end of Wyvern's spear. "Don't blame the sword. Desire victory and the sword will
move." She struck again and he moved to the side, not moving the sword so much as
standing it in the path of the attack. The parry was unorthodox but successful.
"That'll do. Now strike!"
* * *
Stoic tried to recall his training as the fight continued. It wasn't working. He was
bleeding profusely. He fell back on his reserves of strength and willpower. Slash,
cut, smash... the elf was striking every weak spot in his armor, inflicting damage at
will. Circle, stab, circle, slash, circle, cut. Stoic had been on the ground twice
before struggling to his feet, stumbling and throwing up defenses with little success.
He felt frustrated and clumsy but kept defending. Maybe the attacks were coming more
slowly...
* * *
The arena crowd was restless, only moderately attentive to the morning's rookie
warriors. The sand worked its way between his toes. He was just a boy. His parents did
not love their son so much as an arena bounty. Stoic was scared and slow and the man
in front of him wished him harm. And harm he did. Stoic cowered behind his shield,
without even a weapon. "It's better this way. Rely on your hands. I want to see what
you can do," memory had said. Stoic was bruised and bleeding. His opponent was more
tired than injured, exhausted, really. Under a slowly diminishing rain of blows, Stoic
heard calls from his teammates. "Now strike!" They were yelling frantically. He peered
over his shield to see his opponent, sweating, breathing heavily, grip loosening on
his sword. The attacking gladiator overextended above his head, ready to deliver
another hacking, unopposed blow. Stoic roared upward to his full height, at the same
time sending his shield through the surprised gladiator's face. Blood spattered, he
flipped once and landed face down with a thud, sword flying end over end to land ten
feet away. The crowd gasped for a moment then roared. His team roared. He looked to
see memory, gazing forward blindly as always, but clearly smiling at him.
* * *
Back in the night mist, he was tired and hurt. After a long fight, minutes under this
barrage. It must happen soon. Stoic knew he would die. But he wasn't dead yet. He saw
the elf circling, waiting for another attack. He saw the moonlight and the trees. He
felt the watching eyes. He felt memory and old Wyvern and his team. He knew they could
see. He felt his opponents and all the gladiators in him for this moment. He felt his
parents, who only saw in him a mouth to feed. He saw the high elf, still glistening,
now with sweat -- still looking down on Stoic -- looking down not with haughty
indignation as before, but the desperation of a man trying to chop down a stone tower
and just realizing his error. Stoic saw not confidence but desperation. For the first
time, resignation gave way to fury. "Strike Now," he heard in his mind.
The elf leapt forward, blade flashing. Stoic spun to his right, pulling the massive
blade in his wake. The elf and his blade shot through the spot Stoic had been, then
turned back in disbelief at the unexpected life in his easy quarry. "Strike Now,"
Stoic thought, as he continued his spin, continued his fury, pulling the blade full
circle, letting out a roar that called all the judging eyes to witness.
The blade felt warm in his hand. He struggled to catch his breath. The arc of the
blade had pulled him another half circle away from his opponent. He looked back at the
elf, ready for the next attack. The elf's body stood, head lying on its shoulder, neck
detached entirely where the blade had hewn through. The head's eyes were still open,
judging differently now, askew. Immortal these Dark Arena champions were, and
immortality makes death an odd thing. Stoic fell to his knees, sobbing. The fight was
over. And it might never end.
-- memory
SPY REPORT
I can't believe the violence in SEAM! I still haven't told Mom I'm writing
Spyreports. She'd have a cow! Well, here we go... Too bad, BIG LAKE NAMES, but 80S
FANTASY was just too good to be stopped. I don't wanna hurt anybody's feelings or
anything, but HUCKLE'S CATS really goofed with their 1-4-0. The guys at DARQUE
KNIGHTS like really pulled together to get a 3-2-0 this turn, moving up by 5. Cut
this out and put it in your scrapbooks, 80S FANTASY! 'Cause they got 5-0-0 and moved
up to 1st! MVP award for SCARRED? OAKLEAF's proud of him after beating FREDDIE FOX
and getting 21 points. Talk about yer major upsets! FREDDIE FOX's match with
SCARRED cost him a loss of 16 points! The Duelmaster isn't going to stop just cause
he's Number One! RAMIREZ knows this. He was challenged by the Duelmaster. Was that
a tear I saw in RAMIREZ's eye, as he took over Duelmastership? And wasn't MR.
GRUNKLE fit to be tied! I hear the top team insists all their warriors get nine
hours sleep. They want photogenic fighters for PR photos.
So just why would someone becomes a warrior anyway? It can't be for these
really neat Spyreports can it? The warriors of OAKLEAF must be getting lonely. They
were the most avoided team. Do you guys know something that I don't? I don't know
what BOX IN THE ATTIC's been doing. They certainly haven't been accepting many
fights from OAKLEAF, that's fer sher. Like, is MIXL popular, or what? It was
challenged the most in all of SEAM! It's got a 10-11-0, is that good?
Challenges, revenges, Bloodfeuds. All SEAM ever talks about is fighting! Me,
I'm more laid back. Fight, fight, fight. Is that all you guys can do?
I really didn't, you know, study when I was a kid. Who would've guessed I'd be
a famous Spyreporter? I know how much you like reading this stuff, but I really
should stop. Remember you guys, ease up sometimes! Chill out! Later, Debby Tonte
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
RAMIREZ 748 16 13 2 111 80S FANTASY (60)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MEG MUCKLEBONES 747 14 15 1 106 80S FANTASY (60)
-CLOUDZILLA 763 12 8 0 105 I'M NOT EGGBERT (9)
SCARRED 725 18 16 0 102 OAKLEAF (59)
MR. GRUNKLE 677 19 25 1 91 HUCKLE'S CATS (23)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
DUMBO 787 11 4 0 90 OAKLEAF (59)
CHANNEL MIXER 646 22 19 0 85 PIXELBENDERS (36)
XAPHA IRONJAW 760 14 13 2 85 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22)
TWOFEET D'GRAVE 757 16 11 2 82 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25)
FREDDIE FOX 768 15 10 0 79 HUCKLE'S CATS (23)
PATHAREA 765 16 9 0 77 PIXELBENDERS (36)
SAWDUST 717 15 20 2 77 HUCKLE'S CATS (23)
MIXL 777 10 11 0 70 THIRSTY THUGS (31)
-CRAGGY MATTERHORN 767 11 9 1 69 I'M NOT EGGBERT (9)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
REQUIEM 780 12 8 0 66 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25)
MUCK 736 11 20 3 66 LOST SENTINELS (19)
SLEEPLESS 752 15 13 1 59 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25)
-CPT. OCTOPUS 783 6 5 0 57 I'M NOT EGGBERT (9)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
HARUSHU 753 14 14 0 56 THIRSTY THUGS (31)
BLOODMOON 798 8 4 1 55 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25)
VOX SUNFIRE 773 13 10 0 53 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22)
VIKTORIA 809 4 4 0 51 OAKLEAF (59)
PURGE 785 7 9 1 50 LOST SENTINELS (19)
SUSIE SWOOF 784 9 7 0 48 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22)
YOUNG PICTURES 705 6 4 1 37 BOX IN THE ATTIC (58)
RUDOLF VON FLUGEL 811 4 3 1 37 HUCKLE'S CATS (23)
MARK MARKSON 818 3 1 0 36 BIG LAKE NAMES (61)
DITHER 792 9 4 0 35 PIXELBENDERS (36)
ALLMIGHT 782 8 9 0 35 LOST SENTINELS (19)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
TORQUIL 832 2 0 0 33 80S FANTASY (60)
MOTHBALL 704 8 2 0 32 BOX IN THE ATTIC (58)
JOHN JOHNSON 819 3 1 1 29 BIG LAKE NAMES (61)
MR READ-A-LOT 774 3 20 0 29 HUCKLE'S CATS (23)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
GRAVEL 821 3 2 0 29 OAKLEAF (59)
VALERIA 807 3 6 0 29 80S FANTASY (60)
SURGICAL GLOVES 702 5 5 0 24 BOX IN THE ATTIC (58)
RATTLECHAINS 826 3 0 0 24 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
DEAD ROACH 703 6 4 1 23 BOX IN THE ATTIC (58)
TARL 822 3 2 0 23 LOST SENTINELS (19)
TOM THOMSON 817 3 1 0 23 BIG LAKE NAMES (61)
SMUDGE STICK 799 5 6 0 21 PIXELBENDERS (36)
ANDY ANDERSON 816 2 2 2 21 BIG LAKE NAMES (61)
JAYCE 813 2 4 1 20 OAKLEAF (59)
BUTTERFLY COLLECTN 701 4 6 0 18 BOX IN THE ATTIC (58)
FAL ICETOOTH 810 4 4 0 16 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22)
PRINCE TARN 833 1 1 0 14 80S FANTASY (60)
BRAD BRADWELL 820 1 3 1 7 BIG LAKE NAMES (61)
KALISTA LYNXEAR 828 1 1 0 4 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22)
MOJO 834 1 1 0 4 LOST SENTINELS (19)
FLAZOR 831 0 2 0 2 THIRSTY THUGS (31)
CHIP 837 0 1 0 1 THIRSTY THUGS (31)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
POLLUX LYNXEAR 672 21 22 2 DARQUE KNIGHTS 22 SAWDUST 717 118 REVENGED
CPT. SEACRUD 788 0 1 0 I'M NOT EGGBERT 9 ANDY ANDERSON 816 118 REVENGED
MIGHT WIND MAKER 756 10 11 0 I'M NOT EGGBERT 9 TWOFEET D'GRAVE 757 119
GNAT 786 5 8 1 LOST SENTINELS 19 JAYCE 813 118
CROP 823 1 4 0 PIXELBENDERS 36 ANDY ANDERSON 816 121
ROY MCBRIDE 836 0 1 0 THIRSTY THUGS 31 SPYMASTER 121 NONE
PERSONAL ADS
Plungers and Pikers unite! They fought last turn!
Channel Mixer -- Why do I keep running into the experience monsters? Nice win. -- Two
Feet
icetooth -- That felt closer than it should have been. Nice matchup for me. --
Rattlechains
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
ROY MCBRIDE was butchered by SPYMASTER in a 1 minute Dark Arena fight.
MR. GRUNKLE was devastated by RAMIREZ in a 1 minute one-sided Challenge Title duel.
SCARRED handily defeated FREDDIE FOX in a 1 minute one-sided Challenge match.
DUMBO vanquished MIXL in a popular 1 minute mismatched Challenge brawl.
SUSIE SWOOF defeated RUDOLF VON FLUGEL in a 1 minute Challenge match.
MARK MARKSON was bested by VOX SUNFIRE in a 1 minute Challenge brawl.
VIKTORIA devastated JOHN JOHNSON in a 1 minute mismatched Challenge match.
TORQUIL handily defeated MR READ-A-LOT in a 1 minute uneven Challenge fight.
ANDY ANDERSON slaughtered CROP in a 1 minute uneven Challenge duel.
GRAVEL viciously subdued FAL ICETOOTH in a action packed 7 minute Challenge fight.
PRINCE TARN overpowered MOJO in a 2 minute one-sided Challenge fight.
TOM THOMSON outwaited DEAD ROACH in a slow 17 minute Challenge bout.
CHANNEL MIXER was demolished by MEG MUCKLEBONES in a 1 minute mismatched match.
REQUIEM was overcome by PATHAREA in a 3 minute brutal contest.
XAPHA IRONJAW demolished HARUSHU in a crowd pleasing 1 minute one-sided brawl.
TWOFEET D'GRAVE overcame MUCK in a 2 minute expert's fight.
SLEEPLESS was overpowered by SAWDUST in a action packed 1 minute uneven struggle.
YOUNG PICTURES was savagely defeated by PURGE in a 2 minute bloody brawl.
BLOODMOON devastated ALLMIGHT in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
DITHER demolished BUTTERFLY COLLECTN in a 3 minute one-sided bout.
MOTHBALL luckily beat JAYCE in a 2 minute bloody fight.
SMUDGE STICK viciously subdued FLAZOR in a 1 minute veteran vs. novice contest.
VALERIA demolished POLITE BEGGAR in a 2 minute uneven bout.
SURGICAL GLOVES vanquished BRAD BRADWELL in a 1 minute mismatched fray.
TARL defeated CHIP in a 1 minute novice's match.
RATTLECHAINS defeated KALISTA LYNXEAR in a 3 minute novice's duel.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|TOTAL PARRY 9 STRIKING ATTACK 43 - 28 - 2 61 |
|AIMED BLOW 8 WALL OF STEEL 26 - 19 - 2 58 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 8 TOTAL PARRY 36 - 28 - 1 56 |
|BASHING ATTACK 7 AIMED BLOW 39 - 31 - 1 56 |
|LUNGING ATTACK 6 SLASHING ATTACK 20 - 20 - 3 50 |
|WALL OF STEEL 5 PARRY-STRIKE 6 - 7 - 0 46 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 4 LUNGING ATTACK 34 - 41 - 3 45 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 2 PARRY-RIPOSTE 4 - 6 - 1 40 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 1 BASHING ATTACK 34 - 51 - 1 40 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 0 PARRY-LUNGE 4 - 8 - 0 33 |
Turn 121 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:
WALL OF STEEL 4 - 1 STRIKING ATTACK 3 - 5 3 BASHING ATTACK
BASHING ATTACK 5 - 2 LUNGING ATTACK 2 - 4 2 LUNGING ATTACK
AIMED BLOW 5 - 3 TOTAL PARRY 3 - 6 2 STRIKING ATTACK
PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 - 1 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 2 WALL OF STEEL
SLASHING ATTACK 2 - 2 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 1 1 SLASHING ATTACK
1 TOTAL PARRY
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
SLASHING ATTACK RAMIREZ 748 16 13 2 111 80S FANTASY (60)
TOTAL PARRY SCARRED 725 18 16 0 102 OAKLEAF (59)
BASHING ATTACK DUMBO 787 11 4 0 90 OAKLEAF (59)
LUNGING ATTACK CHANNEL MIXER 646 22 19 0 85 PIXELBENDERS (36)
WALL OF STEEL TWOFEET D'GRAVE 757 16 11 2 82 PHANTOM REGIMENT (25)
STRIKING ATTACK FREDDIE FOX 768 15 10 0 79 HUCKLE'S CATS (23)
AIMED BLOW VOX SUNFIRE 773 13 10 0 53 DARQUE KNIGHTS (22)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is CHANNEL MIXER 646. The most popular warrior this
turn was GRAVEL 821. The ten other most popular fighters were JAYCE 813, DUMBO 787,
REQUIEM 780, PATHAREA 765, MUCK 736, PURGE 785, BUTTERFLY COLLECTN 701, RAMIREZ 748,
SCARRED 725, and VOX SUNFIRE 773.
The least popular fighter this week was TOM THOMSON 817. The other ten least popular
fighters were DEAD ROACH 703, KALISTA LYNXEAR 828, CHIP 837, BRAD BRADWELL 820,
FLAZOR 831, ALLMIGHT 782, MOJO 834, FAL ICETOOTH 810, CROP 823, and MR READ-A-LOT
774.
The following warriors will travel to AD after next turn:
RAMIREZ (20-748) 80S FANTASY (60)