DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 09/16/2024 Duedate: 10/12/2024
CHIMLEVTAL ARENA
DM 31 TURN 503
This Week's Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
DA ZAGAGNA
WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)
(31-6672) [21-3-0,122]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
LITTER BLASTER NILE PRINCESS
WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378) JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681)
(31-6784) [13-6-0,133] (31-7274) [3-2-0,53]
Popularity Leader This Week's Favorite
HAOMARU BAKERS 7
AVENGERS (146) 2212 BOURBON ST (680)
(31-7142) [13-24-1,78] (31-7257) [7-3-0,90]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378) 41
2. MILITARY MAYHEM (89) 38 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
3. USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 25 Unchartered Team
4. 2212 BOURBON ST (680) 18
5. JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681) 3 JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 2 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 294 202 14 59.3 1/ 4 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378) 7 8 0
2/ 1 2212 BOURBON ST (680) 7 5 0 58.3 2/ 6 MILITARY MAYHEM (89) 6 4 1
3/ 3 MILITARY MAYHEM (89) 450 349 30 56.3 3/ 1 ASSASSIN NATION (515) 6 7 1
4/ 4 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)456 389 19 54.0 4/ 3 AVENGERS (146) 5 4 0
5/ 0 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 258 256 11 50.2 5/ 5*JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681) 4 4 1
6/ 5 ASSASSIN NATION (515) 472 483 66 49.4 6/ 8 2212 BOURBON ST (680) 3 1 0
7/ 6 AVENGERS (146) 593 658 44 47.4 7/ 2 THE OTHER ONES (404) 3 3 0
8/ 7 THE OTHER ONES (404) 114 139 13 45.1 8/10 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 3 6 0
9- 8 BOOK OF THOMAS (652) 56 69 6 44.8 9- 9 BOOK OF THOMAS (652) 2 2 0
10/ 9 BIRDS (647) 40 52 1 43.5 10/ 7 BIRDS (647) 1 2 0
11/10*JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681) 6 10 1 37.5 11/ 0 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 0 3 0
'*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn
(###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank
SPY REPORT
It is good to be back, even if you all make my job hard and boring!!! Only two
warriors had challenges recognized. The first challenge was POWERSLAVE challenging up
27 points to SEAGULL. The victory gave about half of the recognition that WHAMMO &
THUDDA 4U! needed to take the Team on the Move award. I'll talk about W&T4U's other
exploits later in this report. Delay all the bad news as along as possible.
10 teams were active this turn and sent a total of 30 warriors to the sands. 6
Dark Arena challenges, the 2 challenges, and 11 random matchups (which saw two
standins fight). Strikers remain the most popular style and Total Parries continue to
be the best over 10 turns.
And how is this for some unique spy reporting... There was a six way tie for the
most avoided team. Each of MILITARY MAYHEM, AVENGERS, ASSASSIN NATION, USEFUL
WEAPONS, BOOK OF THOMAS, and JUNGLE CRUISE 2 received 3 avoids each. I am sure I've
never seen this before. It almost makes me wonder if the commission forgot to
recognize an avoid of 2212 BOURBON ST (if they'd received one more avoid, it would
have been a seven way tie). I guess WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! was the most avoiding team,
since three of their warriors issued avoids.
I can delay the inevitable just a bit longer and report that SGT. ROCK went to the
Dark Arena in his graduation fight. He faced the formidable Bandit Prince. The
result?!? 11 minutes of intense fighting and at the end, SGT. ROCK walked out of the
arena victorious. Many past Lord Protectors have been shipped in a box to the Isle of
the Eye, especially when facing one of the harder dark arena matches. I would have
loved to have caught this fight, but I had already gone to bed.
Finally, I must close with some very bad news! Our once beautiful throne has been
defiled. No, not by graffiti artists or pagans. Simply by LASAGNA. We'll have to do
some deep cleaning later. I can only hope and pray that LASAGNA has wit enough to
graduate quickly! I have mostly given up my dreams of LASAGNA being spilled across
the sands highlighting the dead column. But my second best result would be a quick
exit from the arena. Go to ADM and leave us and my reporting alone! 21-3 record?!?
Leading WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! to 4 awards, including the coveted current top team? This
so called warrior is the bane of my existence and I'll never again try to say his name
correctly. It is simply a bad bowl of LASAGNA to me. Yes, I will admit that LASAGNA
is the real deal... 1-2 against aimed blows and otherwise perfect except one bad day
against an older warrior. But I can still hate a warrior with a ridiculous name.
-- Belinda, back in action after a busy and eventful summer
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
DA ZAGAGNA 6672 21 3 0 122 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
LITTER BLASTER 6784 13 6 0 133 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)
OCTOPUS 7207 13 4 1 111 AVENGERS (146)
RESENTMENT 7038 18 14 0 97 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
BAKERS 7 7257 7 3 0 90 2212 BOURBON ST (680)
POWERSLAVE 6724 18 10 1 88 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)
WAND 7113 12 3 0 87 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
VILENESS 7110 12 8 1 85 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
-HATRED 7068 12 9 1 83 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
SEAGULL 6637 16 24 1 78 BIRDS (647)
HAOMARU 7142 13 24 1 78 AVENGERS (146)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MAJOR SNAFU 7059 14 8 0 65 MILITARY MAYHEM (89)
CHARYBDIS 7119 10 11 1 58 THE OTHER ONES (404)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
NILE PRINCESS 7274 3 2 0 53 JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681)
CAPTAIN MARVEL 7173 5 2 1 52 MILITARY MAYHEM (89)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-FAIRY TAIL 7018 10 7 0 38 BOOK OF THOMAS (652)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
BROKEN GLASS 7224 3 5 0 33 BASH BROS OCEAN (627)
-YOMAZU 7228 1 1 0 26 BOOK OF THOMAS (652)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SWIFT DEMISE 7290 4 1 2 23 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
MISSISSIPPI QUEEN 7293 2 0 0 23 JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681)
-RIVER WILD 7206 1 2 0 19 BOOK OF THOMAS (652)
TIRE IRON 7297 1 0 0 19 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
CAPTAIN HOOK 7241 1 1 0 19 MILITARY MAYHEM (89)
-SHOVEL 7279 2 2 0 17 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
AMAZON BELLE 7288 0 2 0 14 JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681)
GANGES GAL 7285 1 1 1 9 JUNGLE CRUISE 2 (681)
-AZUMA 7229 1 1 1 9 BOOK OF THOMAS (652)
BLOODTHIRST 7291 2 2 0 8 THE OTHER ONES (404)
BASEBALL BAT 7298 0 1 0 1 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
HOOCH 4 7305 0 1 0 2212 BOURBON ST 680 HIGH ELF 503 NONE
INFECTATION 7225 3 6 0 BASH BROS OCEAN 627 CUTTHROAT 7204 499 NONE
JELLYFISH 7302 0 1 0 BASH BROS OCEAN 627 BLACK ORC 503 NONE
STINGRAY 7303 0 1 0 BASH BROS OCEAN 627 PREACHER 503 NONE
FRYING PAN 7294 0 1 0 USEFUL WEAPONS 636 SWIFT DEMISE 7290 501
DA1 7306 0 1 0 WHAMMO & THUDDA 378 PREACHER 503 NONE
DA2 7307 0 1 0 WHAMMO & THUDDA 378 HIGH ELF 503 NONE
PERSONAL ADS
Haomaru -- That completes the lessons. Appreciate the learns. -- Resentment
Sgt Rock -- Congratulations on graduating. Vileness will try to look you up one more
time on your way the door. Don't know if this is your last fight or if you will take
up arms in the next level. -- Assassin Nation
Bishamon -- Well fought. Your style tends to give me some trouble, which is inherent
to the style I fight with. Congrats on the title and graduation. Good riddance! --
Vileness & Assassin Nation
Seagull -- Didn't see that coming. I'll be resting up for the October Mail-In as I've
hit my threshold. Otherwise, I'd likely look for the rematch as I think that was one
that got away. -- Hatred
Yomazu -- Good win for you. The best way not to die is to win! -- Swift Demise *just
here for a few laughs*
Fairy Tail -- Seemed like more of a nightmare for you. It was a nice, back and forth
battle until the blows started to hit flesh and bone. Until we meet agin. --
Charybdis
Captain Hook -- Avast ye! At least you didn't walk the plank. Until next time. --
Bloodthirst
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*official TURF WAR 14 (TW14) RULES* (revision 9-6-24-WS)
Starting Turn 480 (Feb 10, appx date), just after the FTF, 10 turns
Bring acclaim and glory to the North Fork (DM47) arena.
Anyone may participate: known alliances, new alliances, or temporary alliances created
solely to compete in the Turf War! To participate, each alliance must:
1. Indicate in the newsletter or on the RSI site the three team alliance.
(3 Team names, 3 manager names, and an alliance title)
2. Pay RSI or deduct from account ($15) per manager as entry fee indicating for TW14.
(a change from past TWs). RSI will hold as "certs" in a separate account for TW14
and distribute as Team RUs to winners of TW14.
DO NOT send, or have sent, certs to the Moderators.
Must be completed prior to Dec 31, 2024.
3. Teams and alliances will not start scoring until the turn after they appear in the
newsletter and are announced. This means that to start scoring on turn 1, the teams
must be listed in the newsletter on Turn 479.
Other rules and discussion.
1. Only one (1) team per manager/player may be active in the arena.
2. If at any time, the Moderators determine that any non-TW team, whether a 2nd team
or a non-TW manager's team, in the arena is aiding and/or abetting any TW alliance
or team, the affected points won by the gifted team/alliance will be disallowed and
the aiding non-TW team will be asked/demanded to desist from play in the arena
until after the Turf War concludes.
3. As usual, any Turf War team must be shown/be posted in the DM47 Newsletter just
prior to the actual scoring/participation start on T480 (e.g. new teams, transfers,
current teams must show up in the newsletter prior to the beginning of
participation, allowing opponent knowledge and challenging/avoiding). Violations
could result in immediate manager disqualification (including team point
adjustments) from the Turf War, so be sure to take any multiple teams OFF of Team
Maintenance and be certain not to run any other teams' warriors.
4. The moderators will score the Turf War and settle any and all disputes as they
arise. Their decisions will be final. (Note: the intent is to have a very thorough
set of rules so that few decisions, if any, are required from the moderators.)
5. Definitions:
Team = individual Manager's 5-Team Stable
Alliance = three Teams united
6. No warrior may be substituted without the proper use of the DA or arena death or
death in a tournament or graduation. There must be a maximum of five only on a team
at any point and time. (The penalty for such substitution is -10 points.)
7. It is not the spirit of competition to challenge fellow members of the same
alliance. Hence, challenges as such will be scored as losses for both warriors.
8. Downchallenges: A downchallenge is defined as a warrior challenging a warrior with
lesser recognition points.
No challenge or bloodfeud by The Duelmaster shall be deemed a downchallenge.
No challenge of the Duelmaster shall be deemed a downchallenge.
Bloodfeuds against warriors with lesser recognition are deemed downchallenges.
9. Tournament participation is allowed and encouraged as a great form of acclaim and
recognition for North Fork and is an opportunity for warriors to gain skills and
preferred challenging within the Turf War.
10. There will be NO alliance or team changes once the contest has begun. If you begin
the Turf War with Alliance A, you must end the Turf War with Alliance A. If you
begin the Turf War with Team A, you must end the Turf War with Team A.
11. The Dark Arena may be used at any time without penalty. However, only one win
against a D.A. Monster per each stable warrior shall count as a win. Additional
wins will count as a loss for that warrior.
12. It is highly recommended that managers direct RSI to place your team ON
MAINTENANCE for the TW14 duration so that your team will fight (and earn points)
even if your submitted new strategies are delayed or don't make it.
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SCORING will be as follows for Fights:
Team Points
a. Wins earned:
0 = -1 points
1 = +1 point
2 = +2 points
3 = +4 points
4 = +6 points
5 = =8 points
b. Down Challenge = (-10) points to the challenger and opponent is credited with a
win for point scoring. The DM is exempt from DC rule/penalty.
c. Four teams will score. The lowest scoring team per round will count duplicate as
the 4th team.
d. Team with most wins per round earns 3 additional points; if ties, no points
awarded; no tiebreaker on wins.
Alliance Points
a. If the three-team alliance fights all 15 fights = 5 Points
Team points (from 3 teams plus the duplicate) + alliance points = Total Alliance
Points(TAP) for the round.
Round Modifier:
a. Round Modifiers (Multiplier times TAP(Total Alliance Points
Rounds 1-4 = 1.0; rounds 5-8 = 2.0; rounds 9 and 10 = 3.0.
The Alliance with the most points after turn 10 is THE WINNER!
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PRIZES:
The Turf War is meant to be a near "winner takes all" contest. Moderators will submit
a list of each prize won (by each Manager) at the completion of the contest. RSI
awarded prizes must then be claimed by the manager from RSI Customer Service within 4
months. The team rollups won will be distributed by RSI to the winners shortly after
receipt of the prize list from the Moderators.
Entry Fee Awards:
*** Winning alliance gets 80% of the pooled team rollups.
*** 2nd place alliance gets 10% of the pooled team rollups.
*** Individual Team with most wins in 10 rounds gets 10% of the pooled team rollups
RSI awards may only be applied to DM47 warriors who fought in TW14. These prizes
cannot create an out-of-bounds warrior, and only one prize may be applied to any
warrior, meaning that if you win two prizes they cannot be applied to the same
warrior. All prizes must be used within 4 months.
Winning alliance: Each manager/team receives:
** One Limited Damage Bump (bump one level damage)
** One Stat replace (remove 2 SZ, replace 2 to any single other stat)
** One Favorite weapon knowledge
** One +1 base skill potion.
2nd place: Each manager/team receives:
** One Favorite weapon knowledge
** One free stat raise (not SZ)
Participation Award:
*** to all teams/managers who fight 45 to 47 fights (of 50) = 1 base skill potion
*** if 48+ fights (of 50) = 2 base skill potions (each to a different warrior)
______________________________________________________________________
Moderators:
The Moderators for this event will be Oz, Master Darque, and Assur, the TW
Triumvirate. They will arbitrate all dealings during the course of the contest. Their
decisions will be final. All questions, comments, and scoring disputes may be directed
to Land of Oz or Darque Forces or Bash Bros Park via diplo in DM 47. Managers with
internet access may send a private message to [The Consortium] or [Master Darque] or
[Assur] on the Duel2 Forums. Lastly, you may also email questions, comments, and
scoring disputes to jawastomp@gmail.com or wfms101@aol.com or assurnasir@yahoo.com.
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
SGT. ROCK barely slew BANDIT PRINCE in a crowd pleasing 11 minute Dark Arena fight.
JELLYFISH was murdered by BLACK ORC in a 1 minute Dark Arena melee.
DA2 was murdered by HIGH ELF in a 1 minute Dark Arena fight.
HOOCH 4 was viciously butchered by HIGH ELF in a 2 minute bloody Dark Arena brawl.
STINGRAY was assassinated by PREACHER in a 1 minute Dark Arena fight.
DA1 was murdered by PREACHER in a crowd pleasing 1 minute Dark Arena competition.
DA ZAGAGNA luckily beat BISHAMON in a 3 minute veteran's Challenge Title struggle.
POWERSLAVE defeated SEAGULL in a 2 minute expert's Challenge melee.
LITTER BLASTER vanquished VILENESS in a 1 minute uneven duel.
RESENTMENT was defeated by OCTOPUS in a popular 1 minute gory uneven duel.
HAOMARU beat KUNG-FU MASTER in a popular 1 minute one-sided melee.
BAKERS 7 savagely defeated MAJOR SNAFU in a crowd pleasing 3 minute master's match.
WAND demolished CHARYBDIS in a 1 minute mismatched match.
NILE PRINCESS overpowered AMBITIOUS GUARD in a 1 minute mismatched conflict.
BROKEN GLASS was overpowered by CAPTAIN MARVEL in a 1 minute one-sided duel.
AMAZON BELLE was devastated by SWIFT DEMISE in a 1 minute uneven duel.
BLOODTHIRST was overpowered by TIRE IRON in a 1 minute mismatched brawl.
MISSISSIPPI QUEEN overpowered BASEBALL BAT in a 1 minute one-sided bout.
GANGES GAL was beaten by CAPTAIN HOOK in a 2 minute novice's bout.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|STRIKING ATTACK 7 TOTAL PARRY 16 - 13 - 1 55 |
|TOTAL PARRY 5 AIMED BLOW 16 - 16 - 0 50 |
|WALL OF STEEL 5 LUNGING ATTACK 22 - 23 - 1 49 |
|AIMED BLOW 4 STRIKING ATTACK 29 - 31 - 5 48 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 3 SLASHING ATTACK 11 - 12 - 3 48 |
|BASHING ATTACK 3 WALL OF STEEL 17 - 21 - 1 45 |
|LUNGING ATTACK 2 PARRY-RIPOSTE 4 - 5 - 0 44 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 BASHING ATTACK 7 - 9 - 2 44 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 0 PARRY-STRIKE 3 - 7 - 1 30 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 2 - 0 0 |
Turn 503 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-RIPOSTE 1 - 0 SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 2 3 WALL OF STEEL
TOTAL PARRY 3 - 2 BASHING ATTACK 1 - 2 3 AIMED BLOW
STRIKING ATTACK 4 - 3 WALL OF STEEL 1 - 4 2 STRIKING ATTACK
AIMED BLOW 2 - 2 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 1 TOTAL PARRY
LUNGING ATTACK 1 - 1 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 1 LUNGING ATTACK
1 SLASHING ATTACK
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
TOTAL PARRY DA ZAGAGNA 6672 21 3 0 122 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)
STRIKING ATTACK LITTER BLASTER 6784 13 6 0 133 WHAMMO & THUDDA 4U! (378)
LUNGING ATTACK OCTOPUS 7207 13 4 1 111 AVENGERS (146)
WALL OF STEEL RESENTMENT 7038 18 14 0 97 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
AIMED BLOW BAKERS 7 7257 7 3 0 90 2212 BOURBON ST (680)
BASHING ATTACK CAPTAIN MARVEL 7173 5 2 1 52 MILITARY MAYHEM (89)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is HAOMARU 7142. The most popular warrior this turn
was BAKERS 7 7257. The ten other most popular fighters were HOOCH 4 7305, POWERSLAVE
6724, OCTOPUS 7207, BLOODTHIRST 7291, GANGES GAL 7285, HAOMARU 7142, WAND 7113, DA1
7306, DA ZAGAGNA 6672, and SEAGULL 6637.
The least popular fighter this week was BASEBALL BAT 7298. The other ten least
popular fighters were AMAZON BELLE 7288, BROKEN GLASS 7224, CHARYBDIS 7119,
RESENTMENT 7038, VILENESS 7110, STINGRAY 7303, DA2 7307, JELLYFISH 7302, MISSISSIPPI
QUEEN 7293, and CAPTAIN HOOK 7241.
The following warriors have traveled to AD after fighting this turn:
SGT. ROCK (31-6775) MILITARY MAYHEM (89)
BISHAMON (31-7069) AVENGERS (146)