DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER Date : 05/08/2017 Duedate: 06/03/2017 CHIMLEVTAL ARENA DM-31 TURN-407 This Weeks Top Honors THE DUELMASTER IS KANEN VILESTAR SHADOWHOLD (640) (31-6601) [13-5-0,113] Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader KANEN VILESTAR SUN DROP SHADOWHOLD (640) POP LIFE (660) (31-6601) [13-5-0,113] (31-6822) [6-2-2,60] Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite ODACHI ODACHI AVENGERS (146) AVENGERS (146) (31-6569) [17-23-1,90] (31-6569) [17-23-1,90] THE CURRENT TOP TEAM THE STORM REAVERS (408) TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team 1. DEEDERS BULLIES (653) 48 2. BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 34 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 3. BOOK OF THOMAS (652) 31 Unchartered Team 4. THE CANUCKS (58) 28 5. SHADOWHOLD (640) 24 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) The Top Teams Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K 1/ 1*AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) 7 3 2 70.0 1/ 1 THE STORM REAVERS (408) 11 4 2 2/ 2 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 137 80 6 63.1 2/10*AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) 7 3 2 3/ 0*BOOK OF THOMAS (652) 17 13 2 56.7 3/ 4 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 7 5 1 4- 3 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U (378) 424 355 17 54.4 4/ 2 THE CANUCKS (58) 7 5 0 5/ 6 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 101 98 5 50.8 5/ 5 SHADOWHOLD (640) 7 7 0 6/ 5 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) 30 30 3 50.0 6- 7 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U (378) 6 4 0 7/ 8 SHADOWHOLD (640) 65 66 6 49.6 7/11 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 6 4 0 8/ 7 AVENGERS (146) 392 414 29 48.6 8/ 3 AVENGERS (146) 5 10 0 9/ 4*POP LIFE (660) 19 21 4 47.5 9/ 6 YUPPIE HORDE II (661) 4 7 0 10/ 9 THE STORM REAVERS (408) 217 246 22 46.9 10/ 8*POP LIFE (660) 4 11 0 11/10 THE CANUCKS (58) 352 415 30 45.9 11/ 0*BOOK OF THOMAS (652) 3 2 2 12/11 YUPPIE HORDE II (661) 24 30 1 44.4 12/ 9 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) 3 12 0 13/12*STABLE OF THORN (659) 6 10 0 37.5 13/12*STABLE OF THORN (659) 1 3 0 14/ 0*DEEDERS BULLIES (653) 1 6 0 14.3 14/ 0*DEEDERS BULLIES (653) 1 4 0 '*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn (###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank SPY REPORT Starting from the top... KANEN VILESTAR matched against a champion, since the only available challenger champion was otherwise occupied. PATRICK BATEMAN made a good fight of it, but KANEN remained our duelmaster. DEEDERS BULLIES and BOOK OF THOMAS both returned to the sands. The BULLIES did more getting bullied than actually doing any bullying, but it was still enough for the team on the move award. Those tourney fights do help with that! At the end of the day, though, the BULLIES should probably take lessons from BOOK OF THOMAS, who killed two of their opponents. Granted one was a beggar, but it could have been a real warrior! Though perhaps killing goes beyond bullying. I don't know. I certainly have respect for those that take the life of another warrior! (and I certainly would never want to be on the other side of their blade, either). No team performance stood out. You're all average! Except for those of you that are below average (yes, I'm including you in that second group, Lady Smith! Love that you participate in the ads, but when you go after my best work, I'll call you petty and little). Our undefeated group is pretty exciting right now! Two warriors have reached 6- 0. Anyone who keeps track knows that 6 is a high mark to start your career in wins with! And if you don't keep track, take it from me! GEORGE NELSON bravely challenged GUL'DAN, but bravery doesn't get you wins. Being good and picking your fights wisely does that! Congrats GUL'DAN on number 6! SILVER GLASS reached number 6 by beating up the .500 warrior, CHARLES FLOYD, also of the OUTLAWS. Hmmm, I'm noticing a pattern. At least THE OUTLAWS are willing to face the best, though! Not like some of you other, smarter cowards. Speaking of cowards, AFTER MIDNIGHT is the most avoiding teams, issuing 4 of the 10 avoids to our most avoided teams (shared by two this time), WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U and POP LIFE, each receiving 5 avoids (out of 26 total avoids, no other team got more than 3). The rest of the deaths were all in the Dark Arena. None of those warriors returned. And Lady Smith took some of her own medicine this turn. Perhaps more managers will pay attention as to HOW Lady Smith has taken and kept that Chartered Top Team Award for so long! OROKE STONEMAGUS made a 30 point bloodfeud downchallenge to beat UMBRELLA. And FIRST DATE made a 13 point downchallenge on LASSO. Apparently even USEFUL WEAPONS aren't immune to losing downchallenges!!! Two other downchallenges were made this turn. VOL'JIN made a successful one, SERENITY NOW! was less successful. If you only challenge up, you, on average, limit yourself to half of your prospective opponents! That alone should be reason to down challenge. Add that lower opponents are theoretically not as good and I see absolutely every reason TO downchallenge rather than upchallenge. Unless you want to be 'brave' or 'honorable.' Those are nice words and attributes, but I'll take the 'W' over labels! -- Belinda, the tired and slightly sick Spy Mistress DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME KANEN VILESTAR 6601 13 5 0 113 SHADOWHOLD (640) CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME -TAR 6553 7 1 0 126 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) QUEEN OF THE NORTH 6466 18 13 0 98 THE CANUCKS (58) CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME ODACHI 6569 17 23 1 90 AVENGERS (146) PRAIRIE FIRE 6527 16 12 1 90 THE CANUCKS (58) URAKO WITSTEALER 6505 14 14 3 87 SHADOWHOLD (640) SHARK 6525 18 27 0 81 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) OROKE STONEMAGUS 6603 12 8 2 80 SHADOWHOLD (640) PATRICK BATEMAN 6839 12 9 1 80 YUPPIE HORDE II (661) CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME GUL'DAN 6671 6 0 0 73 THE STORM REAVERS (408) CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME SUN DROP 6822 6 2 2 60 POP LIFE (660) ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME -POWERSLAVE 6724 10 5 0 56 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378) -DA ZAGAGNA 6672 10 1 0 56 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378) BROKEN GLASS 6753 6 6 0 51 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) ADIOS AMIGO 6634 10 17 3 50 AVENGERS (146) SILVER GLASS 6748 6 0 0 50 BOOK OF THOMAS (652) BONNIE PARKER 6732 7 5 1 49 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) DRANOSH 6631 6 6 1 48 THE STORM REAVERS (408) GEORGE NELSON 6734 7 5 2 46 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) UMBRELLA 6765 9 6 1 44 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) BUD FOX 6843 6 5 0 44 YUPPIE HORDE II (661) -LITTER BLASTER 6784 4 2 0 41 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378) -POOL CUE 6755 7 6 2 38 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) SPECTRUM 6776 5 9 1 38 AVENGERS (146) KLONDIKE 6632 7 8 1 36 THE CANUCKS (58) CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME CHARLES FLOYD 6730 6 6 0 30 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) RED PEPPER 6788 6 5 0 28 AVENGERS (146) ARCTIC NIGHT 6773 3 0 1 28 BOOK OF THOMAS (652) VOL'JIN 6684 4 3 1 27 THE STORM REAVERS (408) LAURA BULLION 6835 4 2 0 26 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) NECKTIE 6827 4 2 0 24 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) SECOND BASE 6873 2 0 1 24 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME STOLEN DANCE 6786 2 0 1 23 BOOK OF THOMAS (652) BRUTE FORCE 6772 3 1 0 20 BOOK OF THOMAS (652) ACID 6852 3 2 0 20 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) -RUMMUNDRA 6818 2 0 0 18 STABLE OF THORN (659) FIRST DATE 6872 2 0 1 16 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) JIM WILLY 6759 1 0 0 15 DEEDERS BULLIES (653) SERENITY NOW! 6840 4 2 0 14 YUPPIE HORDE II (661) GABBY 6757 0 1 0 13 DEEDERS BULLIES (653) TAIHO KOKI 6831 2 6 0 12 AVENGERS (146) LITTER 6869 1 0 0 12 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) HOT SAND 6870 1 0 0 11 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) -ALKRIN 6815 2 3 0 9 STABLE OF THORN (659) THIRD BEER 6874 1 1 0 8 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) SMOKES 6760 0 1 0 7 DEEDERS BULLIES (653) TERON GOREFIEND 6860 1 2 1 6 THE STORM REAVERS (408) LORD NIGHTMARE 6864 1 0 0 6 STABLE OF THORN (659) -GELATIUS 6819 1 1 0 5 STABLE OF THORN (659) DAVE MIELKE 6778 0 1 0 5 DEEDERS BULLIES (653) FOURTH SHOT 6876 1 1 0 4 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) COPS! 6875 1 1 0 4 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) LASSO 6865 1 1 0 4 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) TYPHOID MARY 6879 0 1 0 1 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) '-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn. THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge? PERSISTENT BEGGA 0 0 0 ARCTIC NIGHT 6773 407 NONE GREAT ESCAPE 6771 1 5 0 BOOK OF THOMAS 652 THE RAGE MAN 407 NONE NOPE 6855 0 1 0 DEEDERS BULLIES 653 LIGHTBRINGER 407 NONE DR. WHAM 6868 0 2 0 POP LIFE 660 ARENAMASTER LEVT 407 NONE FANTA 6824 4 4 0 POP LIFE 660 SHEWISH GIANT 407 NONE JOLT 6826 4 4 1 POP LIFE 660 PREACHER 407 NONE THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge? SHASTA 6825 4 4 1 POP LIFE 660 BANDIT PRINCE 407 NONE AKETI WARSINGER 6777 5 7 0 SHADOWHOLD 640 UMBRELLA 6765 406 JUST REVENGED KESE MIGHTSTRIKE 6821 0 5 0 SHADOWHOLD 640 LIGHTBRINGER 407 NONE LERRICK HARLON 6816 0 3 0 STABLE OF THORN 659 VOL'JIN 6684 405 ZSONCHA 6817 0 3 0 STABLE OF THORN 659 KLONDIKE 6632 404 SKANADOH 6859 0 1 0 THE CANUCKS 58 TERON GOREFIEND 6860 405 GROM HELLSCREAM 6861 1 2 0 THE STORM REAVER 408 STOLEN DANCE 6786 407 SEVEN IRON 6853 1 1 0 USEFUL WEAPONS 636 SHASTA 6825 404 BANSHEE 6877 0 1 0 WHAMMO & THUDDA 378 FIRST DATE 6872 406 BERNIE MADOFF 6866 0 1 0 YUPPIE HORDE II 661 SECOND BASE 6873 406 PERSONAL ADS Spy report? What kind of manure was that we just read? A humane, human spy report from an alleged Belinda? You can't fool us! That was a computer spy report given by a rookie computer spy reporter! Where have all the flowers gone? -- Lady Smith Third Beer, I think you miscounted; you were far more gone than three. -- Lasso (appreciating the easy win) Aketi Warsinger, I apologize for killing you. I do. I wanted to kill someone, but not necessarily you. Shucks! -- Umbrella (wiping off her poison tip) Dranosh, gasp! Someone exchanged my hydrochloric for citric! Was that you, Cheater?! -- Acid (having been burnt) Taiho Koki, whump, whump, whump. -- Pool Cue (the whumper) Muh wepins dun be fitin' gud. Yup. -- Smithy LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS SHASTA was butchered by BANDIT PRINCE in a 2 minute Dark Arena fight. GREAT ESCAPE was butchered by THE RAGE MAN in a 1 minute Dark Arena duel. FANTA was killed by SHEWISH GIANT in a 1 minute Dark Arena melee. KESE MIGHTSTRIKE was murdered by LIGHTBRINGER in a 1 minute Dark Arena fight. JOLT was barely slain by PREACHER in a 2 minute Dark Arena brawl. DR. WHAM was butchered by ARENAMASTER LEVTANI in a 1 minute Dark Arena fight. NOPE was assassinated by LIGHTBRINGER in a 1 minute bloody Dark Arena match. OROKE STONEMAGUS devastated UMBRELLA in a 1 minute one-sided Bloodfeud duel. SERENITY NOW! was beaten by SECOND BASE in a 2 minute bloody Bloodfeud brawl. QUEEN OF THE NORTH luckily beat ODACHI in a 3 minute expert's Challenge melee. SUN DROP was vanquished by URAKO WITSTEALER in a 1 minute uneven Challenge fight. DRANOSH won victory over SPECTRUM in a 1 minute Challenge fight. GEORGE NELSON was overpowered by GUL'DAN in a 1 minute uneven Challenge match. BUD FOX luckily beat KLONDIKE in a exciting 2 minute brutal Challenge fight. VOL'JIN bested TAIHO KOKI in a 2 minute Challenge conflict. NECKTIE devastated COPS! in a crowd pleasing 1 minute gory one-sided Challenge battle. FIRST DATE viciously subdued LASSO in a 5 minute gruesome novice's Challenge conflict. THIRD BEER defeated TERON GOREFIEND in a 2 minute beginner's Challenge struggle. KANEN VILESTAR slimly won victory over PATRICK BATEMAN in a 3 minute Title bout. SHARK was devastated by PRAIRIE FIRE in a 1 minute one-sided fight. RED PEPPER was demolished by BONNIE PARKER in a 1 minute one-sided bout. CHARLES FLOYD was overpowered by SILVER GLASS in a 1 minute bloody mismatched fight. ADIOS AMIGO was devastated by BROKEN GLASS in a 1 minute one-sided bout. STOLEN DANCE slaughtered GROM HELLSCREAM in a 1 minute gruesome one-sided match. LAURA BULLION unbelievably bested BRUTE FORCE in a crowd pleasing 3 minute fray. ARCTIC NIGHT assassinated PERSISTENT BEGGAR in a 1 minute gory one-sided match. ACID vanquished DAVE MIELKE in a 1 minute one-sided match. FOURTH SHOT was viciously subdued by LITTER in a 2 minute brutal novice's fight. GABBY lost to LORD NIGHTMARE in a 2 minute bout. JIM WILLY vanquished TYPHOID MARY in a 1 minute gruesome one-sided fray. SMOKES was overpowered by HOT SAND in a exciting 1 minute uneven competition. BATTLE REPORT MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS |FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT| |BASHING ATTACK 13 STRIKING ATTACK 39 - 24 - 3 62 | |SLASHING ATTACK 11 TOTAL PARRY 21 - 14 - 0 60 | |LUNGING ATTACK 10 WALL OF STEEL 29 - 23 - 0 56 | |WALL OF STEEL 7 SLASHING ATTACK 47 - 38 - 7 55 | |TOTAL PARRY 4 LUNGING ATTACK 26 - 23 - 5 53 | |STRIKING ATTACK 4 AIMED BLOW 21 - 30 - 2 41 | |AIMED BLOW 4 PARRY-STRIKE 2 - 3 - 0 40 | |PARRY-LUNGE 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 2 - 3 - 0 40 | |PARRY-STRIKE 0 BASHING ATTACK 28 - 51 - 4 35 | |PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 PARRY-LUNGE 5 - 11 - 0 31 | Turn 407 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: TOTAL PARRY 3 - 1 WALL OF STEEL 2 - 5 4 SLASHING ATTACK LUNGING ATTACK 7 - 3 AIMED BLOW 1 - 3 2 WALL OF STEEL SLASHING ATTACK 6 - 5 BASHING ATTACK 3 - 10 2 STRIKING ATTACK STRIKING ATTACK 2 - 2 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 1 1 TOTAL PARRY PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 1 AIMED BLOW PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 1 PARRY-LUNGE TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME WALL OF STEEL KANEN VILESTAR 6601 13 5 0 113 SHADOWHOLD (640) TOTAL PARRY QUEEN OF THE NORTH 6466 18 13 0 98 THE CANUCKS (58) SLASHING ATTACK PRAIRIE FIRE 6527 16 12 1 90 THE CANUCKS (58) PARRY-LUNGE PATRICK BATEMAN 6839 12 9 1 80 YUPPIE HORDE II (661) STRIKING ATTACK GUL'DAN 6671 6 0 0 73 THE STORM REAVERS (408) LUNGING ATTACK SILVER GLASS 6748 6 0 0 50 BOOK OF THOMAS (652) BASHING ATTACK GEORGE NELSON 6734 7 5 2 46 THE OUTLAWS 4 (650) Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above. The overall popularity leader is ODACHI 6569. The most popular warrior this turn was ODACHI 6569. The ten other most popular fighters were KLONDIKE 6632, BRUTE FORCE 6772, PATRICK BATEMAN 6839, FIRST DATE 6872, JOLT 6826, TAIHO KOKI 6831, NECKTIE 6827, TERON GOREFIEND 6860, LITTER 6869, and HOT SAND 6870. The least popular fighter this week was LASSO 6865. The other ten least popular fighters were TYPHOID MARY 6879, FOURTH SHOT 6876, DAVE MIELKE 6778, GROM HELLSCREAM 6861, ADIOS AMIGO 6634, CHARLES FLOYD 6730, RED PEPPER 6788, SHARK 6525, GEORGE NELSON 6734, and SUN DROP 6822. PAYMENTS BY CHECK AND MONEY ORDER -- CHANGE Please note that because of new bank regulations, we can no longer accept any check or money order drawn off a non-US bank, even if it is in US Funds. We were just informed by our bank that the fee to process these checks is $40, which is crazy high! Many apologies to our foreign players, but you will need to either get a check from a US bank (Chase, Citigroup, etc.) or pay via credit card. Armsilbar liked being Master of the Stronghold Academy, all except for one part. He had to talk to Sheila Greywand at least once a week, usually oftener. She was getting more erratic. More chaotic. That would be the effect of the Grey Wand. It was a powerful chaotic artifact, and she kept it with her always. She had turned his predecessor into a frog--or 164 frogs--and then summoned all the members of the Academy to a frog-leg dinner. That had been, ah, bad. Yes, very bad. But here he was entering her chambers. With, well, it couldn't be called GOOD news. And the look she turned on him--she was in an orcish mood today, all scowling black brows and bared fangs--that made him nervous. But some things had to be done. He cleared his throat, which seemed to have a frog in it, and said, "It's about the next tourney prize, Lady. I know it's more than two months away, but this isn't too soon to start thinking of some new, exciting prize--" "I have no intention of thinking about 'new, exciting prizes'," she snapped. Or was that a snarl? "These managers are getting above themselves. They act like I created the arena system for their amusement! There will be one standard prize for all the tourneys. Just one." He had a horrible vision of all the managers walking out in a mass. Perhaps it wouldn't be that bad, but it wouldn't be good. And if he said the wrong thing, well, the next frog-leg dinner might be him. "Er, ah, perhaps a specific prize for each tourney--a spring prize, a summer prize, and so on? The managers expect--" She exploded. A literal explosion, the force of the blast blew his hair off. She said several things in an obsolete dialect of orcish. He stepped backward, then again. The blast had blown the door open behind him. If he could make it out before something else happened-- "Ribbit! Ribbit!"