DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 01/14/2013 Duedate: 01/26/2013
LYRATILAN ARENA
DM-25 TURN-699
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
COMIC BOOK GUY
ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509)
(25-5571) [13-3-0,102]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
COMIC BOOK GUY CLIFF
ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509) DREAM TEAMS (276)
(25-5571) [13-3-0,102] (25-2649) [0-3-0,3]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
BEETLEJUICE GASPAR HUELCO
SAY MY NAME (510) THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
(25-5583) [19-16-0,90] (25-5610) [7-14-0,62]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
SAY MY NAME (510)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. SAY MY NAME (510) 58
2. ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509) 30 BASH BROS CARS (508)
3. HAREM (418) 1 Unchartered Team
4. DREAM TEAMS (276) 1
5. THE EMPIRE (516) 0 DREAM TEAMS (276)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1 BASH BROS CARS (508) 35 12 1 74.5 1/ 5 SAY MY NAME (510) 7 4 2
2/ 2 ANDROID DUNGEON 01 (509) 32 26 1 55.2 2/ 1 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464) 7 8 0
3/ 3 SAY MY NAME (510) 75 63 4 54.3 3/ 3 HAREM (418) 5 5 0
4/ 5 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464) 622 613 18 50.4 4/ 6 ANDROID DUNGEON 01 (509) 4 1 0
5/ 4 HAREM (418) 40 40 1 50.0 5- 2 THE EMPIRE (516) 3 2 0
6- 6 THE EMPIRE (516) 121 133 10 47.6 6/ 4 BASH BROS CARS (508) 2 4 0
7/ 0*DREAM TEAMS (276) 5 7 1 41.7 7/ 0*DREAM TEAMS (276) 0 1 0
'*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn
(###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank
TEAM SPOTLIGHT
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---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===---
Duelmasters
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 356): PORT-A-FORTRESS of THE CHOSEN (?, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 715): REPRESENT of ILLMATIC (Howlin' Wolf, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 714): MARIA of WU-TANG FOREVER (Howlin' Wolf, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 699): MEDAN QUIZZAR of MIDDLE WAY 15 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 702): WHAT? of TRIBE (Howlin' Wolf, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 698): FLAT TIRE of BAS BROS CAR (Assurnasirbanipal, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 695): SCALES of SERPENTS HOLD (Khisanth, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 696): PANAMA JACK of ALL JACKED UP (Pat Sajak, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 660): MENDAL KORDIN of BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 657): DANCING SHADOW of WANDERERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 648): UNCLE JUNIOR of FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 304): GLOATING GARDINIA of FLOWER GIRLS (Lady Fern, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 542): GYPSY JUNE of WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 258): HALIFAX of BOMBS AWAY (Crip, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 600): KHRISTOPHER of WRATHMEN (Kharadmon, mgr.)
Top Teams
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 356): MIDDLE WAY 11 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 715): WRATHMEN DM 20 (Kharadmon, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 714): WU-TANG FOREVER (Howlin' Wolf, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 699): MIDDLE WAY 15 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 702): MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 698): THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 695): SERPENTS HOLD (Khisanth, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 696): LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 660): BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 657): FLAGG'S FIVE (Flagg, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 648): FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 304): BASH BROS ROAD SIGN (Assurnasirbanipal, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 542): WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 258): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 600): SUPERIOR FORCES (Manager, mgr.)
Recent Graduates
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DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 715): GREEN WITH ENVY of COLORIFIC (Purple People Eater)
(turn 714): YELLOW BELLY of COLORIFIC (Purple People Eater, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 713): REUNITED of WU-TANG FOREVER (Howlin' Wolf, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 698): FLAT TIRE of BAS BROS CAR (Assurnasirbanipal, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 695): SENATOR SMITH of LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 660): MENDAL KORDIN of BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
(turn 659): PRINCESS BUBBLEGUM of ADVENTURE TIME 2 (The Muffin Man)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 303): JASMIN of JADE WARRIORS (Brandon Massingale, mgr.)
LI KUI of WAH CHING (Pec Killer, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 541): KUNG PAO KOLACTAN of SHEWISH BUFFET (One Armed Bandit)
DUELMASTER'S COLUMN
Notes from the arena champ.
First I need to thank those who beat me for letting me live. Thank you to
Shoulda 8 Steak, Cogsworth, and Candyman! I also lost three times in my Rookies
tournament, but that was a long time ago.
Assur expected me to die long ago, and was pleasantly surprised. He hasn't
decided which one or even how he plans to train me. Time will tell, I suppose.
Off to the Dark Arena for my last fight. The team will go inactive until Assur
gets that Dead Battery going again.
-- Flat Tire
SPY REPORT
Greetings, warriors of LYRATILAN! Once again I've been called out of retirement
for my abilities and insights into Spyreporting. Bein' on top is great while it
lasts, THE MIDDLE WAY 4. But how many friends do you have now? Up 'n down. Up 'n
down. Rankings always change. Up 'n down. I think I'm gonna be... Well, SAY MY
NAME's 1st moved them up to 4-0-2 place. What's with RADIOACTIVE MAN? It actually
beat BASH BROS CARS' DOOR DINGS, and walked away with 22 more points from the fight.
Major screwup at THE MIDDLE WAY 4. HUBERT KOMBUN lost 18 points to CANDYMAN. Some
new strategies, perhaps? Maybe HUBERT KOMBUN will provide more easy wins... See how
the Duelmaster Dark Arena Challenged DARK ARENA's ROWAN ORC? That sort of initiative
is how he got where he is now. The crowds were amazed this turn, as ROWAN ORC killed
the Duelmaster, FLAT TIRE, leaving BASH BROS CARS in mourning. So now COMIC BOOK GUY
gets to be LYRATILAN's Duelmaster. But what comes around goes around. I suppose you
want to hear some rumors and dirty gossip about your fellow fighters? Tough!
No matter the time or place, men will always duel. The most avoided team was
HAREM. The bums at BASH BROS CARS couldn't face the challenges from HAREM! No
excuse for that! What do people see in SAURON? His 8-2-1? SAY MY NAME ain't
talkin', but he's got 97 points. SAURON didn't quite know what to make of a
challenge he received from HEATHER of HAREM, who is 19 points below him. HEATHER
perhaps got hers just desserts, seeing as she was put to death by SAURON and ended up
with 63 recognition points.
There have been some calls to lengthen the time limit. Do you want the fighters
to walk away, or not? SAURON of SAY MY NAME got 12 points for removing another young
punk. Tough luck, HAREM! Many a warrior has met his fate in a hungover stupor. You
young rapscallions, take note!
Many other cities have retirement homes for aged warriors. Any plans here?
LYRATILAN is a nice place to live, but I don't like to live in nice places. Time for
my medication, so I'll leave now. Practice, practice, practice!-- Olaf Modeen
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
COMIC BOOK GUY 5571 13 3 0 102 ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-ANTONY 5636 18 17 1 100 THE EMPIRE (516)
SAURON 5581 8 2 1 97 SAY MY NAME (510)
-ANTONIAS 5632 16 13 1 96 THE EMPIRE (516)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
BEETLEJUICE 5583 19 16 0 90 SAY MY NAME (510)
CANDYMAN 5582 19 16 0 90 SAY MY NAME (510)
-ELECTRIC SHEEP 5602 7 2 0 85 ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509)
JOSH LITTLE 5574 20 21 0 81 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
MELONDIE PRINN 5586 15 19 1 72 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
HUBERT KOMBUN 5587 10 20 2 70 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
WYANADA ZOAR 5621 13 6 0 62 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
GASPAR HUELCO 5610 7 14 0 62 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
RADIOACTIVE MAN 5600 6 1 0 57 ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
DOOR DINGS 5559 14 7 0 49 BASH BROS CARS (508)
-DEAD BATTERY 5558 4 1 1 46 BASH BROS CARS (508)
-SARRIUS 5630 8 8 1 43 THE EMPIRE (516)
DEBBIE 4498 7 4 0 41 HAREM (418)
-JULIUS 5653 3 2 3 39 THE EMPIRE (516)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-KENNY 2651 2 3 1 36 DREAM TEAMS (276)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-UP AND ATOM!! 5649 3 2 0 31 ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509)
STACI 4712 2 0 0 25 HAREM (418)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-ANNE 4521 4 3 0 19 HAREM (418)
-DARYLE 4364 2 0 0 17 DREAM TEAMS (276)
DMX 5675 1 0 1 14 SAY MY NAME (510)
-DEMETRIUS 5652 3 2 0 11 THE EMPIRE (516)
CLIFF 2649 0 3 0 3 DREAM TEAMS (276)
-MONIQUE 4602 0 2 0 2 HAREM (418)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
SHIFTYEYED VOLUN 0 0 0 DMX 5675 699 NONE
FLAT TIRE 5557 17 4 0 BASH BROS CARS 508 ROWAN ORC 699 NONE
HEATHER 4583 4 3 0 HAREM 418 SAURON 5581 699
PERSONAL ADS
Hot Flash! The Face-to-Face Tourney will be in the 18th, 19th, and 20th of this
month. Get your strategies in by the 17th, please and thank you.
Flat Tire -- Truly, I am blessed by your favors! More not-doing-errands! I love it.
-- Hubert Kombun
Debbie -- Take that, eh? -- Wyanada Zoar
Heather -- Better you shouldn't have done that. Now I'm all embarrassed, and you had
no call to do that to me! -- Melondie Prinn
Candyman -- Good teeth, eh? -- Josh Little
Door Dings -- Because of you, I've spent a lot of time in the body shop lately. --
Gaspar Huelco
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
FLAT TIRE was dealt death by ROWAN ORC in a crowd pleasing 1 minute Dark Arena fight.
HEATHER was murdered by SAURON in a popular 1 minute one-sided Challenge melee.
DEBBIE was viciously subdued by GASPAR HUELCO in a 3 minute bloody Challenge brawl.
COMIC BOOK GUY overpowered JOSH LITTLE in a 1 minute one-sided Title fight.
WYANADA ZOAR was vanquished by BEETLEJUICE in a exciting 1 minute mismatched fight.
CANDYMAN handily defeated HUBERT KOMBUN in a action packed 1 minute uneven fight.
MELONDIE PRINN won victory over NOBLE ASSASSIN in a 2 minute duel.
RADIOACTIVE MAN overpowered DOOR DINGS in a 3 minute gory uneven duel.
STACI overpowered CLIFF in a 1 minute uneven match.
DMX executed SHIFTYEYED VOLUNTEER in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|AIMED BLOW 7 PARRY-RIPOSTE 7 - 3 - 0 70 |
|TOTAL PARRY 3 LUNGING ATTACK 20 - 11 - 5 65 |
|LUNGING ATTACK 2 AIMED BLOW 30 - 20 - 1 60 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 2 SLASHING ATTACK 11 - 9 - 1 55 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 1 PARRY-LUNGE 6 - 5 - 0 55 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 1 STRIKING ATTACK 9 - 8 - 1 53 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 BASHING ATTACK 2 - 2 - 1 50 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 0 TOTAL PARRY 10 - 15 - 0 40 |
|BASHING ATTACK 0 PARRY-STRIKE 2 - 3 - 0 40 |
|WALL OF STEEL 0 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 3 - 0 0 |
Turn 699 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:
PARRY-LUNGE 1 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 5 AIMED BLOW
LUNGING ATTACK 2 - 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 1 2 LUNGING ATTACK
SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 0 BASHING ATTACK 0 - 0 1 PARRY-LUNGE
AIMED BLOW 4 - 3 TOTAL PARRY 0 - 3 1 SLASHING ATTACK
STRIKING ATTACK 1 - 1 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 0 1 TOTAL PARRY
1 PARRY-RIPOSTE
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
LUNGING ATTACK COMIC BOOK GUY 5571 13 3 0 102 ANDROID DUNGEON 010 (509)
AIMED BLOW SAURON 5581 8 2 1 97 SAY MY NAME (510)
PARRY-LUNGE BEETLEJUICE 5583 19 16 0 90 SAY MY NAME (510)
SLASHING ATTACK CANDYMAN 5582 19 16 0 90 SAY MY NAME (510)
PARRY-RIPOSTE WYANADA ZOAR 5621 13 6 0 62 THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (464)
TOTAL PARRY DOOR DINGS 5559 14 7 0 49 BASH BROS CARS (508)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is BEETLEJUICE 5583. The most popular warrior this
turn was GASPAR HUELCO 5610. The ten other most popular fighters were RADIOACTIVE
MAN 5600, COMIC BOOK GUY 5571, CANDYMAN 5582, SAURON 5581, BEETLEJUICE 5583, MELONDIE
PRINN 5586, DEBBIE 4498, STACI 4712, HEATHER 4583, and WYANADA ZOAR 5621.
The least popular fighter this week was CLIFF 2649. The other ten least popular
fighters were DOOR DINGS 5559, HUBERT KOMBUN 5587, JOSH LITTLE 5574, DMX 5675,
WYANADA ZOAR 5621, HEATHER 4583, STACI 4712, DEBBIE 4498, MELONDIE PRINN 5586, and
BEETLEJUICE 5583.
The following warriors have traveled to AD after fighting this turn:
FLAT TIRE (25-5557) BASH BROS CARS (508)
AVOIDS, BLOODFEUDS, & CHALLENGES
by Pagan
Ever wonder how the whole challenge/avoid thing works?
Who you fight depends on exactly how it works. We will never know exactly how it
works unless we can get a look at the coding for the program, but this is how I think
it works:
The Situation:
The system allows a warrior to make two separate challenges and two distinct
avoids.
Avoids are distinct in that they MUST indicate a specific team to be avoided, so
a "double avoid" indicates a single team twice, which by default means you are
avoiding one team. In this case, the second avoid is a duplicate and therefore a
waste of an avoid.
Challenges are to specific warriors. You have a first challenge, and then you
have a second challenge.
The Process:
First the computer removes all Dark Arena challengers from the list of available
warriors.
Second, the computer checks for WHO fights WHO by going though all TVs and
bloodfeuds, which are 100% sure to go through except in four instances:
1. the warrior challenged does not fight,
2. the warrior challenged is also making a bloodfeud or TV challenge and that
challenge has already been assigned,
3. the warrior has already been assigned to a Dark Arena fight,
4. that warrior has declared your team to be one of his warrior's avoids,
reducing your challenge to 50%.
Third, the computer assesses all the regular first-challenge warriors and assigns
fights. All other challenges are at 100% chance of success except in a few instances:
warrior challenged is going to the DA, warrior challenged is involved in a previously
assigned challenge, warrior challenged is not running this turn, or warrior challenged
has avoided your team at 50% chance to avoid.
Fourth, the computer assesses and assigns all secondary challenges of warriors
not so far assigned for bloodfeuds and TVs.
Fifth, the computer assesses and assigns all the regular second challenges.
Sixth, the computer assigns random matchups in each available class starting with
the highest class first.
Seventh, the computer finds the remaining warriors that have successfully avoided
all first and second challenges and/or who also did not get randomly assigned, AND for
whom no more available warriors remain in their class for random pairing. All of
these warriors get RSI-generated warriors to fight based on their class.
So, if I'm right and avoids reduce the chance for a challenge to 50%, then:
In the absence of an avoid
single challenge = 100% success
double challenge = 100% success, then an additional 100% success
Where an avoid is involved
single challenge vs avoid = 50% success
double challenge vs avoid = 75% (chance to avoid is 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25; 1 -
0.25 = 75% chance to succeed
Bloodfeuds and TVs may increase the percentage chance of success above 100%, or
they may not. I feel that their increased ability to get through is based solely on
the way the computer assigns challenges. They are first, so they are most likely to
go through. The 100% chance for a challenge to succeed is 100% if it's a TV bloodfeud
and you are the first one to get assigned a fight that day because you are also the
Duelmaster. But after that the chances start to diminish rapidly.
The run-through for second challenges theoretically means your challenge should
be 100% but it's not the case if you are the LAST guy the computer goes to for finding
challenges.
If you don't double challenge, you significantly lower your chance to get your
challenge through. The second challenge is not equal to the first challenge.
Pagan