DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 01/29/2013 Duedate: 02/25/2013
TELORINTHE ARENA
DM-83 TURN-75
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
CONTRACT BRIDGE
OLDIES (5)
(83-308) [22-8-1,117]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
CONTRACT BRIDGE POSITION IS EMPTY
OLDIES (5)
(83-308) [22-8-1,117]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
CONTRACT BRIDGE ROID FLOYD
OLDIES (5) PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
(83-308) [22-8-1,117] (83-61) [12-4-0,103]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. PUNY ORC PELOTON (8) 37
2. NONSUCH HOUSE (39) 17 OLDIES (5)
3. OLDIES (5) 4 Unchartered Team
4. MIDDLE WAY 21 (40) -15
(-1)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1 OLDIES (5) 259 116 9 69.1 1/ 2 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8) 10 5 0
2/ 2 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8) 50 30 1 62.5 2/ 1 OLDIES (5) 8 7 0
3/ 3 NONSUCH HOUSE (39) 36 24 1 60.0 3/ 4 NONSUCH HOUSE (39) 6 4 0
4/ 4 MIDDLE WAY 21 (40) 123 147 6 45.6 4/ 3 MIDDLE WAY 21 (40) 5 10 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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---===SLOW ARENA NEWS===---
Duelmasters
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 356): PORT-A-FORTRESS of THE CHOSEN (Longshot, mgr.)
DM 28 MORYA (turn 354): POSTAGE of EXPENSE ACCOUNT (Finance Manager, mgr.)
DM 31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 352): DRONE-ON of BAD NEWS BEES (Stinger, mgr.)
DM 39 XOCHITHLAN (turn 306): MASSEY of KIWI CONNECTION (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 45 STORMCROWE (turn 330): ROSELYN of DARQUE FORCES (Master Darque, mgr.)
DM 47 NORTH FORK (turn 324): SOUTH SPOON of OTTODROME TW (Otto X, mgr.)
DM 50 SNOWBOUND (turn 311): MOLDAR NAY of MIDDLE WAY 6 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 305): GLOATING GARDENIA of FLOWER GIRLS (Lady Fern, mgr.)
DM 54 TROCAR (turn 289): DIAN WEI of ASIAN INVASION (Pec Killer, mgr.)
DM 59 ILLIS (turn 282): JOHN WAYNE of TALL TALES (A-Sop, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 258): HALIFAX of BOMBS AWAY (Crip, mgr.)
DM 72 DRAGONHEAD (turn 259): TOO SHORT of BASH BROS HAIR CUT (Assurnasirbanipal)
DM 73 ERINIKA (turn 259): FRISBEE of FOUND IN THE SAND (Assurnasirbanipal, mgr.)
DM 83 TELORINTHE (turn 74): CONTRACT BRIDGE of OLDIES (Coach, mgr.)
DM 106 CRYSALIS (turn 257): GABBER KNIGHT of 500 BPM (The Mun, mgr.)
Top Teams
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 356): MIDDLE WAY 11 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 28 MORYA (turn 354): LORD OF DISCIPLINE (Longshot, mgr.)
DM 31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 352): BAD NEWS BEES (Stinger, mgr.)
DM 39 XOCHITHLAN (turn 306): KIWI CONNECTION (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 45 STORMCROWE (turn 330): DARQUE FORCES (Master Darque, mgr.)
DM 47 NORTH FORK (turn 324): OBG! (Howlin' Wolf, mgr.)
DM 50 SNOWBOUND (turn 311): LIFE IMAPACTS (Coach, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 305): BASH BROS ROAD SIGN (Assurnasirbanipal, mgr.)
DM 54 TROCAR (turn 289): ASIAN INVASION (Pec Killer, mgr.)
DM 59 ILLIS (turn 282): IMPROVED ILLUSION (Phantasm, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 258): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 72 DRAGONHEAD (turn 259): MIDDLE WAY 9 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 73 ERINIKA (turn 256): SUPER STARS (Crip, mgr.)
DM 83 TELORINTHE (turn 74): POSITION IS EMPTY
DM 106 CRYSALIS (turn 257): WAH CHING (Pec Killer, mgr.)
Recent Graduates
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DM 39 XOCHITHLAN (turn 305): WOXTON of KIWI CONNECTION (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 47 NORTH FORK (turn 324): LATKA of SECOND BANANAS (Mannequin, mgr.)
(turn 323): FROSTY of FAST FOOD (Madwand, mgr.)
DM 50 SNOWBOUND (turn 310): MATH of LIFE IMPACTS (Coach, mgr.)
DM 59 ILLIS (turn 281): KING MIDAS of TALL TALES (A-Sop, mgr.)
(turn 280): INUYASHA of IMPROVED ILLUSION (Phantasm, mgr.)
DM 72 DRAGONHEAD (turn 259): NAEFAN ORDH of MIDDLE WAY 9 (Jorja, mgr.)
DUELMASTER'S COLUMN
Notes from the arena champ.
All right! Duelmaster!? How many master points do I get for that? Will it
elevate me above Life Master?
I was lucky. I think Roid Floyd forgot to take his stuff. That wasn't the
"real" him out there. It was the real me, though. I had the HEART and like a
DIAMOND in the rough CLUBbed him in SPADES!
A salute, in my column, to teammate Life Scout, who was granted Lord
Protectorship. He will now retire to The Isle. A tribute....
12-17-13-6-19-9-9 mode TP
"roided" to 14-19-13-7-21-9-11
adex parry
FAVES -- couldn't even guess
Are you going to try me again this time Roid Floyd? I hope so.
Contract Bridge, Duelmaster
SPY REPORT
Greetings, Warriors of TELORINTHE. Allow this humble servant Novgorodny Vir to
give you a respite from the fights in the form of this Spyreport. The boys at OLDIES
left the arena dejected, after being kicked out of the top spot by PUNY ORC PELOTON.
Good show! OLDIES had cause to celebrate, after LIFE SCOUT got 12 points by beating
STEEL MUSE. Win some, lose some. Speaking of which, WHITEY D'EAGLE was winsome,
after beating SPORT and seeing him lose 9 points. MELANIE OBERN found out that
TELORINTHE isn't a democracy. You've gotta be the best to be Duelmaster here! Word
has it one team in TELORINTHE is taking speech lessons to try to bore their opponent
to death. I'll bet it works.
A Zenmaster once told me, 'Does not the spinning wheel turn? And do not the
little birds cry out?' Any ideas? Like a horde of jackals fleeing from the lion, so
did the "warriors" in TELORINTHE avoid NONSUCH HOUSE. As a woman of good breeding
scorns the "warriors" of OLDIES, so did that sorry team shy from NONSUCH HOUSE Is it
charming personality? Conversational abilities? Good oral hygiene? Whatever it is,
SAM TALL is the most challenged warrior.
Ah, the duel! The roar of the oppenent, the smell of the crowd! Oh hard! that
to strike a flame, the match itself must needs be wasting!
Leave me now, you base fools! Keep those sands bloody and the buzzards fat!
TELORINTHE, I leave you now. The Duelmaster has agreed to foot my bill at The
Swinging Aardvark. 'Til next time-- Novgorodny Vir
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
CONTRACT BRIDGE 308 22 8 1 117 OLDIES (5)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
ROID FLOYD 61 12 4 0 103 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
SAM TALL 293 20 34 0 94 MIDDLE WAY 21 (40)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MELANIE OBERN 324 12 13 2 87 MIDDLE WAY 21 (40)
STEEL MUSE 287 8 4 0 85 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
BAD BAD BASSO 58 12 4 0 67 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
CIRCLE K 354 11 5 0 66 OLDIES (5)
WHITEY D'EAGLE 289 8 4 0 66 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
CUSTODIAN 325 11 13 1 62 OLDIES (5)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SPORT 368 5 3 0 45 OLDIES (5)
CORNELIUS 285 7 5 0 43 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
ROOK 286 8 4 0 42 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
PETRO SALM 337 9 14 0 41 MIDDLE WAY 21 (40)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
POSTAL TURNCOAT 369 4 3 1 29 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
SPANISH BEEF 366 6 3 0 28 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SILVERBACK 288 5 7 1 23 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
OLOVOR PARIS 371 3 2 1 16 MIDDLE WAY 21 (40)
SKY HIGH OMERTA 383 1 0 0 12 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
TAMARIND URLIK 370 1 4 0 7 MIDDLE WAY 21 (40)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
LILLIPUTAIN LEVI 62 8 4 0 PUNY ORC PELOTON 8 MELANIE OBERN 324 71 REVENGED
PERSONAL ADS
Contract Bridge -- Well, that didn't go well. Hope to meet you next time running
dodge. -- Roid
Coach -- 1-1 this turn and 9-3. I'm on a roll so watch out. -- slugbait
Sport -- Well, you're a smarty pants -- Bad learner Basso
Corneliius -- Well, so much for trying to stab you in the back with a dagger. --
Turncoat
Silverback -- You can hammer in the morning, you can hammer in the evening, but if my
shields get in the way it will do you no good. -- The beef
slugbait, slugbait, slugbait -- You sandbagger! You tell everyone those negative
things and then "whammo", you are writing DM Columns. Silly! We know better. --
Coach and the Oldies
Uh, slugbait, wasn't that Big Bad Basso that just beat me? Phbbbtttt! -- Sport (a
sad Oldie)
Sam Tall -- It was my pleasure. Thanks for boosting me to Lord Protector. I feel
almost like I might if I attained Eagle. -- Life Scout
Steel Muse -- I must give you credit. Well fought! -- Circle K (the loser)
Rook -- You should have castled. -- Custodian
Roid Floyd -- Sometimes one gets too tricky on the bid and should just jet to slam.
Perhaps I just did? -- Contract Bridge
Health. Humility. Honor. -- Coach
Our congratulations to Life Scout. -- Jorja and those who walk the Middle Way
Custodian -- Because your clock is always dirty. What do you DO to that poor clock?
Always giving it dirty looks, maybe? -- Melanie Obern
Or talking dirty to it?
Life Scout -- Sorry, I got bored and went to sleep. -- Sam Tall
P.S. Was it the rating that put you over the edge?
I found the Virginal Gigolo offensive, so I offended him back. -- Melanie Obern
Whitey D'Eagle -- Oh, a hotshot. Damn. -- Petro Salm
And a couple of Convicted Thieves. We hear the arena imports them. -- Tamarind Ulrik
and Olovor Paris
Certainly. We don't have NATIVE thieves here, you know. -- Arenamaster Salgreid
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
ROID FLOYD viciously subdued SAM TALL in a crowd pleasing 4 minute Challenge fight.
SPORT was demolished by WHITEY D'EAGLE in a 1 minute one-sided Challenge melee.
CORNELIUS luckily beat PETRO SALM in a 2 minute bloody Challenge duel.
POSTAL TURNCOAT bested OLOVOR PARIS in a 2 minute Challenge fight.
SILVERBACK was luckily beaten by SPANISH BEEF in a 2 minute bloody Challenge match.
CONTRACT BRIDGE devastated MELANIE OBERN in a 1 minute one-sided Title duel.
LIFE SCOUT devastated STEEL MUSE in a 2 minute mismatched match.
CIRCLE K was handily defeated by KHALHUMS DWARF in a 1 minute uneven fight.
BAD BAD BASSO won victory over CUSTODIAN in a action packed 3 minute duel.
ROOK slimly won victory over FRATSFA SLAVE in a 8 minute expert vs. beginner fight.
TAMARIND URLIK was defeated by SKY HIGH OMERTA in a 3 minute gory beginner's match.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|AIMED BLOW 3 STRIKING ATTACK 15 - 4 - 0 79 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 3 AIMED BLOW 17 - 10 - 1 63 |
|TOTAL PARRY 3 PARRY-STRIKE 6 - 4 - 0 60 |
|WALL OF STEEL 3 TOTAL PARRY 20 - 18 - 0 53 |
|LUNGING ATTACK 3 SLASHING ATTACK 15 - 14 - 1 52 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 2 WALL OF STEEL 16 - 15 - 0 52 |
|BASHING ATTACK 2 PARRY-LUNGE 2 - 2 - 0 50 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 1 BASHING ATTACK 5 - 5 - 1 50 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 0 LUNGING ATTACK 12 - 13 - 1 48 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 1 - 0 0 |
Turn 75 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-STRIKE 1 - 0 LUNGING ATTACK 1 - 2 2 STRIKING ATTACK
AIMED BLOW 2 - 1 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 2 AIMED BLOW
STRIKING ATTACK 2 - 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 2 TOTAL PARRY
TOTAL PARRY 2 - 1 SLASHING ATTACK 0 - 2 2 SLASHING ATTACK
WALL OF STEEL 2 - 1 BASHING ATTACK 0 - 2 2 LUNGING ATTACK
1 WALL OF STEEL
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
STRIKING ATTACK CONTRACT BRIDGE 308 22 8 1 117 OLDIES (5)
AIMED BLOW ROID FLOYD 61 12 4 0 103 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
TOTAL PARRY BAD BAD BASSO 58 12 4 0 67 PUNY ORC PELOTON (8)
LUNGING ATTACK WHITEY D'EAGLE 289 8 4 0 66 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
SLASHING ATTACK SPORT 368 5 3 0 45 OLDIES (5)
WALL OF STEEL CORNELIUS 285 7 5 0 43 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
PARRY-STRIKE ROOK 286 8 4 0 42 NONSUCH HOUSE (39)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is CONTRACT BRIDGE 308. The most popular warrior this
turn was ROID FLOYD 61. The ten other most popular fighters were CUSTODIAN 325,
TAMARIND URLIK 370, PETRO SALM 337, POSTAL TURNCOAT 369, CONTRACT BRIDGE 308, WHITEY
D'EAGLE 289, CORNELIUS 285, OLOVOR PARIS 371, SILVERBACK 288, and SPANISH BEEF 366.
The least popular fighter this week was ROOK 286. The other ten least popular
fighters were SKY HIGH OMERTA 383, CIRCLE K 354, MELANIE OBERN 324, SPORT 368, SAM
TALL 293, BAD BAD BASSO 58, STEEL MUSE 287, SPANISH BEEF 366, SILVERBACK 288, and
OLOVOR PARIS 371.
The following warriors have traveled to AD after fighting this turn:
LIFE SCOUT (83-316) OLDIES (5)
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