DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER Date : 01/08/2013 Duedate: 01/21/2013 KATI-TEI ARENA DM-41 TURN-657 This Weeks Top Honors THE DUELMASTER IS DANCING SHADOW WANDERERS (329) (41-4520) [20-25-0,102] Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader DANCING SHADOW MAGNOLIA WANDERERS (329) LAZY SUNDAY (411) (41-4520) [20-25-0,102] (41-4586) [3-0-0,44] Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite DANCING SHADOW ARSENAL WANDERERS (329) FLAGG'S FIVE (170) (41-4520) [20-25-0,102] (41-4635) [4-0-0,36] THE CURRENT TOP TEAM FLAGG'S FIVE (170) TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team 1. LAZY SUNDAY (411) 27 2. FLAGG'S FIVE (170) 21 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) 3. WANDERERS (329) 4 Unchartered Team 4. DA DOG POWNDAZ (111) 0 5. DAN'S TEAM (262) 0 LAZY SUNDAY (411) The Top Teams Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K 1- 1*DAN'S TEAM (262) 1 0 0 100 1/ 1 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) 12 2 0 2- 2 LADY OF THE MOON (330) 60 34 3 63.8 2/ 2 WANDERERS (329) 5 10 0 3/ 3 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) 88 52 4 62.9 3- 3 DA DOG POWNDAZ (111) 2 1 0 4/ 4*LAZY SUNDAY (411) 8 5 0 61.5 4/ 5*LAZY SUNDAY (411) 2 2 0 5- 5*RAGEBOURNE (414) 7 6 1 53.8 5- 6*DAN'S TEAM (262) 1 0 0 6- 6 DA DOG POWNDAZ (111) 411 361 28 53.2 6- 7 LADY OF THE MOON (330) 1 0 0 7/ 8 WANDERERS (329) 831 898 17 48.1 7- 9*HELL FROZEN OVER (412) 1 1 0 8- 9*HELL FROZEN OVER (412) 1 2 0 33.3 8- 4*RAGEBOURNE (414) 1 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 * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * ---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===--- Duelmasters ----------- DM 8 ARKERS (turn 356): PORT-A-FORTRESS of THE CHOSEN (?, mgr.) DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 714): FENCHURCH of THE HITCHHIKERS (Deep Thought, 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 701): SERGEANT 4 of MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (The Anarchist, 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 659): PRINCESS BUBBLEGUM of ADVENTURE TIME 2 (The Muffin Man) DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 656): FDNY of FLAGG'S FIVE (Flagg, mgr.) DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 647): 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 541): KUNG PAO KOLACTAN of SHEWISH BUFFET (One Armed Bandit) DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 257): SINCEMILLA of WRATHMEN XIV (Kharadmon, mgr.) ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 599): KHRISTOPHER of WRATHMEN (Kharadmon, mgr.) Top Teams --------- DM 8 ARKERS (turn 356): MIDDLE WAY 11 (Jorja, mgr.) DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 714): COLORIFIC (Purple People Eater, 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 701): 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 659): RANDOM (Papa Bear, mgr.) DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 656): FLAGG'S FIVE (Flagg, mgr.) DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 647): FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.) DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 304): BASH BROS ROAD SIGN (Assurnasirbanipal, mgr.) DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 541): WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.) DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 257): PIZZA TOPPINGS (?, mgr.) ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 599): SUPERIOR FORCES (Manager, mgr.) Recent Graduates ---------------- DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 714): YELLOW BELLY of COLORIFIC (Purple People Eater, mgr.) (turn 713): RED-EYE 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 659): PRINCESS BUBBLEGUM of ADVENTURE TIME 2 (The Muffin Man) DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 655): JEHAN of FLAGG'S FIVE (Flagg, mgr.) 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) DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 256): DANNY HEATLEY of OTTAWA SENATORS (Crip, mgr.) SPY REPORT Like the magnificent Sun, rising upon the Dawn and exiling the Night for a Day, I, Novgorodny Vir, return once again! Those betting on RAGEBOURNE lost their shirt, as RAGEBOURNE lost their fighting abilities: 0-0-0. Practice pays for MAGNOLIA, who pummelled RAMBLING ROSE, to pocket 20 points. DUSTY MILLER certainly had a baffled expression on his face, after losing to BIPOX and losing 13 points in the process! What can be a greater victory? DANCING SHADOW has taken his place as the top, as KATI-TEI's new Duelmaster. Word has it one team in KATI-TEI is using psychics to predict wins. They lead a charmed life! A Zenmaster once told me, 'Does not the spinning wheel turn? And do not the little birds cry out?' Any ideas? Everyone is famous for fifteen minutes, and WANDERING SHADE is it right now. Most challenged warrior. Isn't WANDERERS proud! Them's the breaks, WANDERING SHADE. Expecting fair challenges from FLAGG'S FIVE is evidently too much to ask. ARSENAL beat WANDERING SHADE with a point difference of 16. So this is what KATI-TEI calls a duel. This will make an interesting tale. Ah, the duel! The roar of the oppenent, the smell of the crowd! Ask not for whom the sword slashes; it slashes for thee. Leave me now, you base fools! More important duties call me. Can anything compare to the pleasure of writing Spyreports for KATI-TEI? On that giddy note I take my leave-- Novgorodny Vir DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME DANCING SHADOW 4520 20 25 0 102 WANDERERS (329) CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME LAVO VAUGN 1892 17 6 0 94 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) -DIANA 3674 11 7 1 93 LADY OF THE MOON (330) CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME FDNY 3887 15 8 1 86 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) -HECATE 3741 8 6 0 74 LADY OF THE MOON (330) CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME -TRIPLE DAWG DARE 4535 12 8 0 66 DA DOG POWNDAZ (111) ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME -ANNA MAHL LAY 4553 8 5 0 46 DA DOG POWNDAZ (111) MAGNOLIA 4586 3 0 0 44 LAZY SUNDAY (411) RAMBLING ROSE 4572 9 14 1 42 WANDERERS (329) ARSENAL 4635 4 0 0 36 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) -BONEDANCER 4623 5 2 1 35 RAGEBOURNE (414) CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME GHOST LIKE SWAYZE 4584 3 0 0 32 LAZY SUNDAY (411) -SKITZOID SNOOPY 2140 1 1 0 26 DA DOG POWNDAZ (111) -DOUBLE TRUE 4585 2 0 0 25 LAZY SUNDAY (411) INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME -FLYING PIG 4605 1 2 0 23 HELL FROZEN OVER (412) -PRIME TIME POOCH 4564 4 3 0 22 DA DOG POWNDAZ (111) BIPOX 3950 2 2 0 19 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) MAN UNITED 4641 1 0 0 15 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) WANDERING SHADE 4627 3 5 0 14 WANDERERS (329) -DONKEY 4591 1 0 0 13 LADY OF THE MOON (330) -TINKLE 3150 1 0 0 12 DAN'S TEAM (262) DUSTY MILLER 4634 2 3 0 9 WANDERERS (329) FALLENTREE 4633 1 5 0 8 WANDERERS (329) -ONDO 4628 1 2 0 5 RAGEBOURNE (414) -STEAMBEAST 4621 1 1 0 4 RAGEBOURNE (414) '-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn. THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge? 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. Lavo Vaugn -- Right, it was luck and nothing but. Still, I'd rather have won mysefl. Oh, well. -- Dancing Shadow Arsenal -- Darned dwarves. -- Wandering Shade Flying Pig -- I was going for the "pulled pork" effect. -- Rambling Rose Bipox -- What kind of an ox is a bip ox? No, wait! I don't want to know. -- Fallentree Cool! At least I can trust the Trustworthy Scribe to lose when he should. -- Dusty Miller LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS ARSENAL devastated WANDERING SHADE in a 1 minute mismatched Challenge fight. BIPOX unbelievably bested DUSTY MILLER in a 3 minute beginner's Challenge battle. FDNY was defeated by DANCING SHADOW in a crowd pleasing 1 minute master's Title duel. LAVO VAUGN defeated VIRGINAL CONCUBINE in a crowd pleasing 3 minute veteran's fight. RAMBLING ROSE was vanquished by MAGNOLIA in a 1 minute mismatched fight. GHOST LIKE SWAYZE overpowered FALLENTREE in a 1 minute mismatched brawl. MAN UNITED overpowered POLITE BEGGAR in a 1 minute uneven melee. BATTLE REPORT MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS |FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT| |LUNGING ATTACK 4 AIMED BLOW 11 - 2 - 0 85 | |TOTAL PARRY 3 SLASHING ATTACK 10 - 2 - 1 83 | |AIMED BLOW 1 LUNGING ATTACK 18 - 14 - 2 56 | |SLASHING ATTACK 1 PARRY-STRIKE 1 - 1 - 0 50 | |PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 TOTAL PARRY 11 - 12 - 0 48 | |STRIKING ATTACK 1 WALL OF STEEL 6 - 8 - 0 43 | |WALL OF STEEL 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 4 - 6 - 0 40 | |PARRY-LUNGE 0 STRIKING ATTACK 4 - 9 - 0 31 | |PARRY-STRIKE 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 - 0 0 | |BASHING ATTACK 0 BASHING ATTACK 0 - 4 - 0 0 | Turn 657 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: AIMED BLOW 1 - 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 5 LUNGING ATTACK SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 2 AIMED BLOW LUNGING ATTACK 3 - 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 1 1 TOTAL PARRY TOTAL PARRY 2 - 1 STRIKING ATTACK 0 - 1 1 PARRY-LUNGE BASHING ATTACK 0 - 0 1 STRIKING ATTACK WALL OF STEEL 0 - 1 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME TOTAL PARRY LAVO VAUGN 1892 17 6 0 94 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) LUNGING ATTACK FDNY 3887 15 8 1 86 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) AIMED BLOW ARSENAL 4635 4 0 0 36 FLAGG'S FIVE (170) Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above. The overall popularity leader is DANCING SHADOW 4520. The most popular warrior this turn was ARSENAL 4635. The ten other most popular fighters were DUSTY MILLER 4634, DANCING SHADOW 4520, LAVO VAUGN 1892, GHOST LIKE SWAYZE 4584, FDNY 3887, MAGNOLIA 4586, MAN UNITED 4641, WANDERING SHADE 4627, BIPOX 3950, and RAMBLING ROSE 4572. The least popular fighter this week was FALLENTREE 4633. The other ten least popular fighters were RAMBLING ROSE 4572, BIPOX 3950, WANDERING SHADE 4627, MAN UNITED 4641, MAGNOLIA 4586, FDNY 3887, GHOST LIKE SWAYZE 4584, LAVO VAUGN 1892, DANCING SHADOW 4520, and DUSTY MILLER 4634. 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