ROUND 8 and Season Grand Final!!!

Well, I do not know about you, but what an evening of excitment and nail biting fencing that was!!!

Congratulations to all our winners last night and of course throughout this season!!!

Round 8 team battle was won by Sultan Qinan of Escorts Lounge Elite, defended bravely by Hope Coakes of Kilt by Antiquity

The Round 8 final was a battle between Sultan Qinan and Gary Kumaki, a very close and exciting match!!! Congratulations to Gary!!!!!!

The Grand team battle, which was a selection of the winning teams from this season. The team captains put forward representatives of their finest and eight players stepped up to the tracks!! Sultan and Joyce each won a semi final, so we didn't need to play the final, as the Escorts won!

Praise indeed must go to Acru Joliat for his 4 consectutive wins during the festivities - he was awarded $L5000 for his noble task!!

Round 8 - Rankings - FINAL - CORRECTION

****** For the sake of correctness, the scores have been updated. Sissy and Joyce's notecard was lost in mail, and was not in before the deadline. This was due to a misunderstanding, and - as the match was played within the time limit, we have chosen to accept the score as valid. The correction will have no impact on the 8 finalists, or the teams qualified for team battle. However, Sissy will move ahead one place in ranking.*********

Yay-yay!!!! The finalists are ready, based on following calculations:

1. Sum of scores (averages until all games are played); if equal, then:
2. Number of wins; if equal, then:
3. Win margin

We are sorry to report that Zephyr and Johan had to withdraw. 

1. Tyr Akina (4.8 points)
2. Acru Joliat (4.70 p)
3. Joycelyn Liotta (4.50 p, 8 wins) (was #7 before correction)
4. Aries Oh (4.50 p, 7 wins, 2.4 win margin)
   
5. Dusty Merlin (4.50 p, 7 wins, 2.3 win margin)
6. Sultan Qinan (4.30 p, 8 wins)
   
7. Gary Kumaki (4.30 p, 5 wins)
8. Erik Rossini (4.20 p, 7 wins)
   
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10. Clairvaux Debevec (4.10 p)
    
11. Brook Yifu (3.90 p)
12. Serpentino Eel (3.80 p)
    
13. Alissa Munro (3.70 p)
    
14. Juls Rosca (3.50 p, 4 wins, 4.0 win margin)
15. Tamil Cerveau (3.50 p, 4 wins, 3.8 win margin)
16. Sissy Stardust (3.50 p, 4 wins, 2.8 win margin) (was #17 before correction)
17. Aldo Blanco (3.10 p)
18. Tai Koltai (3.00 p, 3 wins)
    
19. Manannan Amat (2.70 p)
    
20. Sandra Frascati (2.20 p)
    
21. Zephyr Washborne (withdrawn)
22. Johan Binder (withdrawn)

Detailed score is here.

Team rankings:

1. Kilt by Antiquity (4.5 p)
2. Escort Lounge Elite (4.2 p)
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3. Heart of Dragons (3.23 p)
4. Team Vaux (3.08 p)
   

En garde!

Round 8 - Status halfway through the round!

40% of scheduled games have been played! 11 more games, and we will start posting the ranking! Some players will have a busy few days to finish their remaining games:

• Juls (10 games)
• Joycelyn (10)
• Acru (10)
• Johan (9)
• Erik (9)

The deadline for handing in notecards is Saturday, noon SLT, as always!

It will be a tough fight to be one of the 8 finalists. After 40% of the games, the cut-off is at 4.0 points!

Schedule for Fall Season 2008!

We haven't even finished our last round in the first season before people want to know when the next starts up! Great!

So... After a nice summer break we start up mid-August with qualifications for Round 1. The scheduled finals will be held on the following Sundays:

• Round 1: August 31
• Round 2: September 14
• Round 3: September 28
• Round 4: October 12
• Round 5: October 26
• Round 6: November 9
• Round 7: November 23
• Round 8: December 7

(The En Garde Champions League Christmas Party will be held on December 21!)

So mark your calendars!

Postcards from Round 7

Summing up a season of good fencing fun!

As we are drawing close to the end of the season, it's time to sum up the results. If you can't remember winners, here is a list:

Spring 2008:

• Round 1: Sophia Debevec & Escorts Lounge Elite
• Round 2: Joycelyn Liotta & Heart of Dragons
• Round 3: Clairvaux Debevec & Heart of Dragons
• Round 4: Sultan Qinan & Heart of Dragons
• Round 5: Clairvaux Debevec & Team Vaux
• Round 6: Gary Kumaki & Escort Lounge Elite
• Round 7: Juls Rosca & Escorts Lounge Elite
• Round 8: ? & ?

The individual winners will get their prizes in a little ceremony at the finals on June 8th.

We ask the team leaders to name their team for the Ultimate Team Battle the same day! As it stands now, we need following nominations:

• Escorts Lounge Elite: 4 fencers
• Heart of Dragons: 2 fencers
• Team Vaux: 1 fencer
• In addition the same three teams plus Kilt by Antiquity must be prepared to nominate a player for the 8th round.

Round 8 - Draw!

21 players in this round! 10 games each! As always - you find your opponents here.

Play your games before Saturday, June 7th, noon. You have 11 days to play 10 games. But try to schedule your games as soon as you can - to avoid time squeeze and desperation right before deadline!

Send notecard of each match with players, score, place and time after the game - to Aries Oh. After 50% of games are played, we will start announcing ranking (without scores) daily. When 75% of games are played, we will post detailed scoring.

Wish you all the best of luck!

En Garde!

Round 8 - SIGN UP!

OK! 12 more hours to deadline for signing up for Round 8. As you see below, the final will be a special day in the league!

Send your notecard with name and team plus L$100 to Juls Rosca! Before midnight today, Tuesday, May 27th.

En Garde!

GRAND FINALE!

The end is near! At least the end of this season! Let us go out with a BIG BANG - and fireworks! June 8th is a day for all Champions League players and our friends. All are welcome!

Of course! We will have the same routine as the previous finals:

• Final between the 8 qualified finalists of Round 8
• Team battle between 2 best teams of Round 8

This will be held at 11 AM SLT, June 8th. And ran according to tradition.

Following this, we will have the ULTIMATE TEAM BATTLE. Winning teams from each round will meet. The winning team is this season's Team of Champions! (More info to follow soon.)

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You think that is it? Think again!!!! The Grand Finale will last for 24 hours! From Midnight SLT Saturday night, to Midnight SLT Sunday - making it possible for all fencers from all continents to participate.

In addition to the main event half way through the 24 hours, we will have 3 separate, exciting competitions running:

1. "Casual Tournaments"
2. "Longest-Winning-Streak"
3. Photo Competition

Casual Tournaments: Choose an 8-man or 16-man tournament. Anyone can sign up, the random seeding is done when the board is full. You can operate boards yourselves, but we will be around to assist you. (More details to follow.)

Longest-Winning-Streak: During the 24 hours, we will award the player with most consecutive wins. The challengers sign up on a waiting list. There will be 2 winners, one for timed and one for untimed games. (More info will follow.)

These games MUST be played on Heart of Dragons island. The will be run all day, only interrupted by the main event (which starts at 11 AM SLT). They are casual, almost self-organized, but we will be there to assist you.

Photo Competition: Hang your pictures on the wall and let fellow residents cast their votes. Any picture related to En Garde, fencing or Heart of Dragons can enter. (More info will follow.)

PRIZES:

Yes - of course we have those!

• Round 8 Final: L$
• Round 1-8 winners will be awarded a unique prize designed for the league.
• Ultimate team battle: Prizes to all members of the winning team
• Casual tournaments: L$ and prizes
• Longest-winning-streak: L$
• Photo Competition: Prizes

We have a big purse!

We encourage you all to dress according to the sim's Medieval theme. (Try the shops in our village if you need a good shopping tip!)

More detailed information will be added as we come closer to the day!

FINAL Results for round 7!!!!!

Well round 7 drew to an exciting close on Sunday 26th May in Heart of Dragons arena. Some great games to watch - which is always a bonus!!! The results are as follows;

1st place Juls Rosca - Heart of Dragons

2nd place Sultan Qinan - Escorts Lounge Elite

An exciting final again!!! A big congratulations to all who took part in this round. The preliminaries are going very smoothly and it is class to see how everyone is playing their games within the time frame!!

Some pictures to follow later on today!!

Round 7: 8 FINALISTS are ready!

Eight of 13 great players have qualified for the final tomorrow, Sunday. Ranking is based on average score untill all games are played. If players have the same score, number of wins and win margin are used to determine ranking.

Finals will be held at Heart of Dragons, Sunday, May 25th, at 11 am SLT.

1. Serpentino Eel, 4.5 points
2. Dusty Merlin, 4.33 p. (5 wins)
3. Sissy Stardust, 4.33 p. (4 wins, 2.8 win margin)
4. Sultan Qinan, 4.33 p. (4 wins, 2.3 win margin)
   
5. Johan Binder, 4.17 p. (4 wins, 3.0 win margin)
   
6. Juls Rosca, 4.17 p. (4 wins, 2.3 win margin)
   
7. Manannan Amat, 3.67 p.
8. Aries Oh, 3.33 p. (3 wins, 2.3 win margin)
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9. Hope Coakes, 3.33 p. (3 wins, 1.7 win margin)
10. Erik Rossini, 3.33 p. (2 wins, 2.5 win margin, won over Zephyr)
    
11. Zephyr Washborne, 3.33 p. (2 wins, 2.5 win margin, lost to Erik)
12. Lisa Pye, 3.17 p.
13. Aldo Blanco, 2.67 p.
    

The team battle is ranked like this:

1. Escorts Lounge Elite, 4.33 points
2. Kilt by Antiquity, 3.83 p.
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3. Heart of Dragons, 3.81 p.
4. Team Vaux, 3.72 p.
   

The details can be found here.

Draw for Round 7!

We have a cute, little draw for Round 7. As you can see here, we will only have 6 games each. Which means each of them will be even more important. Because of this, we would like to remind you how ranking is calculated:

1. Actual score from games
   but if this is equal,
2. Number of wins
   but if this is the same too,
3. Average win margin

The scores and ranking will also be posted from the first game. We will try to keep the information as up-to-date as possible, but will promise to make at least one daily update.

Remember to hand in your game scores* before 6 PM on Saturday, May 24th.

Finals between the 8 best players will be held on Sunday, May 25th.
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*) Note cards with names, score, time and place, should be sent to Aries Oh.

SIGN UP for round 7!

Oh! Spring has sprung and we are drawing close to the end of this season. However - Round 7 is open for registration - for those of you who can't resist a good En Garde game! The usual routine, please:

• Notecard with your name and team
• L$100

All to be sent to Juls Rosca before midnight SLT on Tuesday! The qualifying games will start the following morning!

The final of round 7 will be held on Sunday, May 25 - so mark your calendars!

FINAL Round 6!

Congratulations to Gary Kumaki and Escorts Lounge Elite!

Mother's Day, holiday weekend in Europe and new sims being delivered aside, Sunday's final turned out to be the most efficient tournament ever held on the grid!  After two weeks of qualification games, this round was nicely wrapped up in 1.5 hrs of suspense! Our brave fencers did what they could to win, but in the end Gary proved to be the best fencer - at least in this round.

1. Gary Kumaki, Escorts Lounge Elite
2. Tamil Cerveau, Team Vaux
3. Brook Yifu, Team Vaux and Aries Oh, Heart of Dragons

Escorts Lounge Elite beat Team Vaux in the Team Battle as well!

PS! This final also showed that even if you don't make the cut, I might be worthwhile turning up for the final. We had 2 forfeits on the day - which meant we had to go down to player #10 in the qualifying round!

Preliminary ranking - Round 6!

All games have been played (or forfeited)! The latest update shows the final scores for this round's qualifying games! The detailed scores are here.

1. Sultan Qinan, 45 p
2. Gary Kumaki, 43 p
3. Clairvaux Debevec, 42 p
4. Alissa Munro, 40 p
   
5. Kati Voom, 38 p, 6 wins, 2.8 win margin
6. Sissy Stardust, 38 p, 6 wins, 2.0 win margin
7. Tamil Cerveau, 35 p
   
8. Brook Yifu, 34 p, 4 wins, 4.0 win margin
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9. Erik Rossini, 34 p, 4 wins, 3.8 win margin
10. Aries Oh, 34 p, 4 wins, 3.0 win margin
11. Manannan Amat, 33 p, 5 wins
    
12. Serpentino Eel, 33 p, 4 wins
13. Johan Binder, 32 p
    
14. Aldo Blanco, 26 p
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15. Galahad Courtois - computer problems
16. Tyr Akina - withdrawn

The team ranking is:

1. Team Vaux, 3.89 p
2. Escorts Lounge Elite, 3.56 p
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3. Heart of Dragons, 3.18 p

En Garde!

See you all the the finals - at Heart of Dragons Arena, 11 am SLT. Oh - and if you didn't reach the 8 top places, be there anyway. History shows that things may happen in RL and we have experienced no-shows. 

Draw for Round 6!

Everybody is playing everybody else! Almost! And still only 9 games in this round! Find your opponents here.

Start playing! But NB!!!! Hold your notecards for a couple of days, until further notice!

Deadline for playing games:

• Saturday, May 10, 6 pm SLT

Finals:

• Sunday, May 11th, 11 am SLT
• 8 best players
• 2 best teams

En garde!

ROUND 5 - FINAL!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!! to Clairvaux Debevec who took home the ROUND 5 champions title!!

The Team game was between TEAM VAUX and ESCORTS LOUNGE ELITE with Clairvaux Debevec for Vaux and Joycelyn Liotta for Escorts. TEAM VAUX took the Team title this round.

Well done to all who played!!!

Let's start start round 6!

Remember to sign up for round 6!

Next finals: Sunday, May 11th, 11 am SLT.

Send notecard with -

• Name 
• Team
• and L$100 (not in notecard.....)

to Juls Rosca - before Tuesday, midnight SLT

Draw will be announced Wednesday, before 10 am SLT.

The qualification round is over!

Well done, fellow fencers! The qualification round is over - and you have all done a fantastic job! The final list looks like this:

1. Sultan Qinan (49)
2. Joycelyn Liotta (48)
3. Acru Joliat (45: 7 wins, 2.4 win margin)
4. Johan Binder (45; 7 wins, 2.0 win margin)
5. Clairvaux Debevec (44)
   
6. Tyr Akina (43: 8 wins)
7. Galahad Courtois (43: 6 wins/2.5 win margin)
8. Sissy Stardust (43: 6 wins/2.0 win margin)
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9. Brook Yifu (42: 7 wins)
10. Reigan Reinhard (42: 6 wins)
    
11. Kati Voom (41)
    
12. Dusty Merlin (38)
13. Sidney Fredriksson (36: 4 wins, 2.8 win margin)
14. Sandra Frascati (36: 4 wins, 2.8 win margin)
    
15. Hope Coakes (36: 3 wins)
    
16. Aldo Blanco (35: 4 wins)
17. Manannan Amat (35: 3 wins)
18. Tamil Cerveaux (32)
    
19. Aries Oh (31)
    
20. Motoon Orochi (29: 4 wins)
    
21. Vulpine Eldrich (29: 2 wins)
    
22. Hunny Halfpint (25)
    
23. Gary Kumaki (24: 4 wins)
24. Sevilla Carter (24: 1 win)

Detailed scores can be found here.

Escort Lounge Elite will meet Team Vaux in the team battle:

1. Escort Lounge Elite (4.12)
2. Team Vaux (3.78)
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3. Antiquity (3.70)
   
4. Heart of Dragons (3.52)

See you all at Heart of Dragons - at 11 am SLT - for an exciting final!

ROUND 5 results

Could all results regarding matches be sent to Aries Oh. Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!

ROUND 5 - Draw!

Wow - nice turnout this round! More than 24 eager players! We don't like turning people away - so remember to register early.

Here is the draw - 10 games before Saturday afternoon.

ROUND 5 - details to note

Good day to you fellow En Garde Champions league players!!

As the registration for ROUND 5 draws to a close (still a few hours left if you have not entered yet) we thought it would be good to point out a few things with regard to playing your matches.

As before, we will be posting a link to the table of the draw and you can go there and create your own notecard for your matches. This seemed to work well last round and is much more efficient.

With regard to the deadline for matches to be played, this will be 6pm slt on Saturday 26th April. Please remember that this is your league and the matches being played within this time frame is your responsibility. Again as we are a slightly shorter session, please aim to arrange and play matches earlier in the week (even I managed to do this last round!!??) So please do try and schedule your games early. Any matches not played will be reviewed by the committee.

The final will run as an eight player event. We felt the four player final was ace and nice that so many of you turned out to support your peers. Eight finalists will however make this more of a fun and engaging happening, and at the same time not monopolizing on your SL Sunday. We hope that changing the number of players in the final will mean we can have this regular event without us all having to give up several hours in our weekends to do so. We appreciate that everyone has a first life and therefore we need to find a number that works for the collective!! This also shows how important the qualifying matches are!!

The final will be held at 11am slt in Heart of Dragons on 27th April. This will be the regular venue for the finals. Many thanks to the game/sim owners who have previously hosted the finals. The final will be played as single elimination - and the team game will be too!!! The seeding is done by random draw on a tournament board.

That is all for now folks, the draw for preliminary matches will be posted by 10am slt today.......

Be well and much fun!

ROUND 5... ready or not here we come!!!!!!!!!!!

So a few changes afoot in the committee, while we get those established, lets get on with registration for round 5. Please submit a notecard to Juls Rosca with fee of L$100. Closing date for registration will be Saturday 19th April 9am slt.

Details regarding the rest of the round to follow!!!!

Be well

ROUND 4 is over.................phew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS SULTAN!! and HEART OF DRAGONS - SERPENTINO!!

Well I do not know about the rest of you, but that one was pretty hectic. Plenty of teething problems in this first round of the season. We had a few instances of "role swapping" within the committee as some people just had too many other committments. So we would like to thank those of you for sticking with us through it so far!! We are just human (not actual pixels) and unfortunately communicating is difficult for many reasons!? Anyway, we understand that there need to be more concrete methods and timeframes, so this will be done!!!!!!!

Feedback is much appreciated and is the only way we can really know what you would like for the league. It is also a great way for everyone to see what the majority would like to happen in the league and not just have the committee make those decisions, or appear to do so. Before the next round there will be a set of rules drawn up to account for what we have learnt and heard from all of you.

There will be information on the next round as soon as we get a few things in place!!!

Be well

Final for ROUND 4 - players!!!!!!!!!!

For this round's final we will be watching the four top players from the qualifying matches!!!! Congratulations to all who took part so far and please come along to the final and support your peers!!!

Sophia Debevec - Escorts Lounge Elite - 40pts

Joycelyn Liotta - Escorts Lounge Elite - 37pts

Sultan Qinan - Escorts Lounge Elite - 36pts

Serpentino Eel - Heart of Dragons - 36pts

Really well done to the four finalists and lets hope we have a crackin' good few games at the amazing venue created by Sophia Debevec!!

The team game will be between Escorts Lounge Elite and Heart of Dragons - players to be confirmed by team captain.

Final held at Deliliah and in-world notice will have LM - will commence at 11am slt

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p.s. Aries is better at all the techie bits and percentages and we will have more details later!!!

Team battle......

There are only 3 teams in the current round. Based on the preliminary scores, it seems like Escourt Lounge Elite and Heart of Dragons will meet.

Escort Lounge Elite: 4.3 p average

Heart of Dragons: 3.8 p

Team Vaux: 3.1 p

As we still have games to play - I ask all team leaders to nominate their representative for the battle.

Ready for finals?

OK - as of Saturday, 6 am SLT, we have 93% of qualification games in. And 10 players have completed all their games. The results for these are:

1. Joycelyn Liotta - 37 p
   
2. Serpentino Eel - 36 p/6 wins/3.3 win margin
3. Sultan Qinan - 36 p/6 wins/3.0 win margin
4. Galahad Courtois - 35 p
5. Brook Yifu - 31 p/5 wins
6. Juls Rosca - 31 p/4 wins
7. Gary Kumaki - 30 p/4 wins/3.2 win margin
8. Elvan Kamachi - 30 p/4 wins/1.75 win margin
9. Tyr Akina - 29 p
   
10. Aries Oh - 27 p
11. Genevieve Braver - withdrawn

The ranking among those who still have games left:

1. Sophia Debevec - 30 p
2. Acru Joliat - 29 p/5 wins
3. Tamil Cerveau - 29 p/4 wins
   
4. Erik Rossini - 28 p
   
5. Johan Binder - 27 p
6. Alissa Munro - 26 p
   
7. Sissy Stardust - 24 p/2.5 win margin
   
8. Motoon Orochi - 24 p/1.5 win margin
9. Sandra Frascati - 23 p
10. Aria Dragonash - 20 p
11. Manannan Amat - 16 p

As you may see from these numbers - we can't know who will be in the finals tomorrow! OK - only one player is already qualified, rest of the slots are still open. So get your games done, guys! (Missing games will receive 0 points for both players.)

We draw the line at 4 players as previously announced!

Progress on ROUND 4..........

Just an update on the games played so far...... Hope you are all having fun!!!!!!

April 5th matches

Brook 5 Sultan 2
Motoon 5 Sultan 4
Sissy 5 Manannan 3
Sultan 5 Tam 3


April 6th matches

Galahad 5 Manannan 1
Sophia 5 Serp 3


April 7th matches

Juls 5 Alissa 4
Aries 5 Brook 1
Alissa 5 Elvan 4
Elvan 5 Galahad 3
Serp 5 Motoon 2
Elvan 5 Juls 3
Elvan 5 Sandra 3
Aries 5 Motoon 4
Serp 5 Elvan 1
Serp 5 Manannan 3
Serp 5 Tam 3
Sultan 5 Sissy 0
Tam 5 Johan 1


April 8th matches

Alissa 5 Aria 1
Brook 5 Galahad 3
Galahad 5 Erik 2
Aries 5 Erik 1
Gary 5 Motoon 2
Motoon 5 Alissa 3
Erik 5 Sissy 2
Sandra 5 Aries 1
Serp 5 Aria 1
Galahad 5 Sissy 4
Sultan 5 Sandra 3
Tam 5 Sissy 4
Elvan 5 Joycelyn 4
Joycelyn 5 Motoon 4

ROUND 4 - Table of opponents

PLEASE NOTE THE LIST OF PLAYERS FULL NAMES IN POST BELOW THIS ONE!!!!!

A few differences to note this season:

1 - We will no longer be typing out your matches on a personal notecard. Please follow link to table of opponents.

2 - This round will be a very short one (6 days to play games) We realise this will put some of you under pressure and therefore cannot emphasis enough to schedule your games with ALL opponents as early as possible. Do not do what I do and leave them all to the last two days!!!!!!

3 - The final will be held in Escorts Lounge, by our gracious hosts Sophia and Alissa. LM will follow, Sunday 13th April 11am slt.

4 - Please remember to send outcome of games played to Brook Yifu on a notecard. Include name of players, venue, time and outcome.

Any problems queries or compliments, please use blog comments in the first instance, and if we just are not fast enough at responding then please IM!!!!!!! We would like the blog to be the main forum for discussion regarding the league as this allows all to contribute!!!

Be well!!

En Garde! Champions League Committee

ROUND 4 - Registration closed - players list

Here are the names of the people who have registered for this round!!!


INDEPENDENTS
Acru Joliat
Sandra Frascati

ESCORTS
Alissa Munro
Galahad Courtois
Gary Kumaki
Joycelyn Liotta
Sophia Debevec
Sultan Qinan

HEARTS
Aries Oh
Johan Binder
Tyr Akina
Juls Rosca
Serpentino Eel
Sissy Stardust

VAUX
Aria Dragonash
Brook Yifu
Tamil Cerveau
Elvan Kamachi
Erik Rossini
Genevieve Braver
Manannan Amat
Motoon Orochi

The draw is being done as we speak and will be posted here asap!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck everyone!!

Fencing anthem????

I do not know how you all feel, but I think it is time we had a theme tune!!!!!! An anthem we can all have a go at when the going gets tough. The choice of this song should be made by the community!! So let us have your suggestions posted as comments. The rousing song below was discovered by Heart of Dragons Team Queen and league founder Aries Oh. Anyone willing to sing it on voice at next final???

The Fencer's Song(to the tune of "The Lumberjack Song" by Monty Python)

I'm a fencer and I'm okay

I attack all night and retreat all day

I wear a mask, a leather glove

A jacket and lamé

In my dreams, I'm d'Artagnon

The hero of the day

He's a fencer and he's okay

He attacks all night and retreats all day

He wears a mask, a leather glove

A jacket and laméIn his dreams, he's d'Artagnon

The hero of the day

I'm a fencer and I'm okay

I feint all night and deceive all day

I parry four and circle six

I have a master plan

To be the greatest fencer

To come from Salle Duran

He's a fencer and he's okay

He feints all night and deceives all day

He parries four and circles six

He has a master plan

To be the greatest fencer

To come from Salle Duran

I'm a fencer and I'm okay

I lunge all night and ache all day

My knees are shot, my feet are numb

In traction I should be

Bear the pain to get the gain

Endorphins are the key

He's a fencer and he's okay

He lunges all night and aches all day

His knees are shot, his feet are numb

In traction he should be

His doctors think he's crazy

And frankly, so do we!

ROUND 4

Here it is folks!!! The moment you have all been waiting for with bated breath I am sure!!!!!! (?)
Spring break is over and it is time to draw your weapon and get those steels out to sharpen them!!





A few changes this season due to feedback from league members and evolution! We will no longer be having tedious 16 player finals which take up a huge chunk of time for us all. This season will be based on the performance in the preliminary rounds and a final will be played between the four best players based on those results. We will still be having the team final, but this also will be based on the preliminary rounds.

All registration and results will now be directed to Brook Yifu and any queries regarding the league and any aspect of the management of same will be directed to Aries Oh, Brook Yifu, Juls Rosca or Tyr Akina.

Registration and L$100 to Brook Yifu please - will close at 4pm slt Saturday 5 April and final will be held at Escorts Lounge on Sunday 13 April at 11am slt.

Also of note is the addition of the "Instant En Garde" created for the craic when we all fancy a flutter!!!!!! Check it out in groups for details.

Looking forward to a great season!!!!!

The committee (rock on!!)

Good things come in three's......................

We are taking a break in between tournaments. We will start back up again with new elimination rounds after the 1st of April as we all have commitments over the next few weeks. In the meantime continue playing and enjoying the game!!!

Hopefully you all enjoyed the three rounds we have had and we look forward to hearing some feedback on the league and how things are going..... be well!!!!!

Results from Round 3 - Finals!

The third final was arranged at Antiquity last Sunday, and we can congratulate Clairvaux Debevec and Team Vaux, winning individual and team competitions!

The winners:

1. Clairvaux Debevec, Team Vaux
2. Joycelyn Liotta, Escorts Lounge Elite
3. Brook Yifu, Team Vaux/Alissa Munro, Escorts Lounge Elite

In the team battle, Escorts Lounge Elite (Joycelyn Liotta) won over Team Vaux (Clairvaux Debevec).

The detailed results from the finals are as follows:

Round 1:

• Dusty Merlin - Genevieve Braver (5-2)
• Clairvaux Debevec - Juls Rosca (5-3)
• Joycelyn Liotta - Hope Coakes (5-0)
• Sultan Qinan - Manannan Amat (5-2)
• Brook Yifo - walkover
• Aries Oh - walkover
• Alissa Munro - walkover

Round 2:

• Alissa Munro - Dusty Merlin (5-3)
• Brook Yifu - Aries Oh (5-3)
• Joycelyn Liotta - Sultan Qinan (5-1)
• Clairvaux Debevec - walkover

Semifinals:

• Joycelyn Liotta - Alissa Munro (5-3)
• Clairvaux Debevec - Brook Yifu (5-4)

Final:

• Clairvaux Debevec - Joycelyn Liotta (5-4)
  

Pictures from the finals are here.

Finalists for Round 3!

Corrections in blue.
Phew! Then we are ready for our finals - Sunday, noon SLT, at Antiquity! I will update the table shortly - but due to technical problems you will have to make do with the ranking for now. Sorry!

1. Erik Rossini
2. Clairvaux Debevec
3. Alissa Munro
4. Serpentino Eel
5. Brook Yifu
6. Aries Oh
7. Manannan Amat
8. Sidney Fredriksson
9. Juls Rosca
10. Joycelyn Liotta
11. Genevieve Braver
12. Kati Voom
    
13. Hope Coakes
14. Dusty Merlin
    
15. Sultan Qinan
16. Belladona Rossini (withdrawn)
17. Cael Janus (withdrawn)
18. Tyr Akina
19. Tiberius Thyben (withdrawn)
20. Gary Kumaki (withdrawn)

*) Dusty and Sultan has identical score, same number of wins, and same margin on won games.

This means that all remaining players are qualified for the finals.

Before the finals, the team ranking is as follows:

1. Team Vaux (4.00)
2. Heart of Dragons (3.60)
3. Escorts Lounge Elite (3.34)
4. Kilt by Antiquity (3.25)

See you all tomorrow!

Welcome to Antiquity for the finals!

This final tournament is held at Antiquity.

Sunday, March 2nd

Noon SLT

As Antiquity is a Victorian sim, we ask you to respect this when choosing attire.

Prizes for the winners, will be:

1st place: 3,500 L

2nd place: 2,000 L

3rd place: 1,000 L

4th place: 1,000 L

First preliminary ranking for Round 3!

We have passed 54% of all games needed and the first preliminary ranking is ready. This is based on games played up until February 26th.

1. Clairvaux Debevec
2. Brook Yifu (4 wins)
3. Tyr Akina (2 wins)
4. Erik Rossini
5. Serpentino Eel
6. Alissa Munro
7. Aries Oh (4 wins)
8. Sultan Qinan (3 wins)
9. Manannan Amat (2 wins)
10. Sidney Fredriksson (1 win)
11. Genevieve Braver (0 wins)
12. Juls Rosca (3 points margin)
13. Belladona Rossini (2 points margin)
14. Gary Kumaki (1 points margin)
15. Dusty Merlin
16. Cael Janus
17. Kati Voom
18. Joycelyn Liotta
19. Tiberius Thyben
20. Hope Coakes

Current team ranking:

1. Team Vaux
2. Heart of Dragons
3. Escorts Lounge Elite
4. Kilt of Antiquity

And - as usual - things are still open, as these results are based on everything from 2 to 8 games, and we have 46% of the scheduled games left!

Final of the second round!

Again - my apologies... But for those who missed the exciting tournament at Isla Clairvaux last weekend or the results from the same, here is the vital information!

1. Joycelyn Liotta, Escorts Lounge Elite
2. Aries Oh, Heart of Dragons
3. Tamil Cerveau, Team Vaux
   Acru Joliat, independent player

In the team battle, Heart of Dragons (Aries) won 5-4 over Escorts Lounge Elite (Joycelyn).

The detailed results were as follows:

Round 1:

• Aries Oh - Sultan Qinan (5-1)
• Cael Janus - Sophia Debevec (5-4)
• Gary Kumaki - Randa Loon (5-2)
• Joycelyn Liotta - Juls Rosca (5-4)
• Tamil Cerveau - Serpentino Eel (5-4)
• Clairvaux Debevec - Sidney Fredriksson (5-2)
• Alice Plante - Zer0 Zhao (5-1)
• Acru Joliat - Tyr Akina (not played)

Round 2:

• Aries Oh - Clairvaux Debevec (5-1)
• Joycelyn Liotta - Cael Janus (5-1)
• Acru Joliat - Gary Kumaki (5-3)
• Tamil Cerveau - Alice Plante (5-2)

Semifinals:

• Aries Oh - Tamil Cerveau (5-3)
• Joycelyn Liotta - Acru Joliat (5-4)

Final:

• Joycelyn Liotta - Aries Oh (2-0)

Pictures from the tournament are taken by Clairvaux Debevec, and more of them will be posted soon.

Pictures and scores

We have got pictures from Clairvaux Debevec from the finals of Round 2. If you have pictures from qualification rounds or finals you want to share, send them to Aries Oh so she can post them here.

The scores from the 3 first days of Round 3 have been registered. 39% of the 80 games have been played. Ranking will be posted as soon as we pass 50%. Currently the team ranking is as follows:

1. Team Vaux
2. Escort Lounge Elite
3. Heart of Dragons
4. Kilt by Antiquity

So..... grab your epee and go and do something about it! En garde!!!

Better late than never....?

A little later than usual - but finally the draw for the 3rd round is ready! Due to this delay, we will only play 8 games in the qualification round. As always: Try to schedule all your matches now - we are spread all around the world and time differences are working against us when finding possible time slots for that exciting game of ours. (We really don't want to deem a game 5-0. We want the finals to reflect real results!)

From this round the final game will no longer be done as a "best of 3". From now on, there will only be one game deciding the winner of the finals in each round.

So - "En Garde!", my friends! Draw your epees and start fighting your way to the finals of round 3:

Time: Sunday, March 2nd, noon SLT

Place: Antiquity

Qualification games are done for Round 2!

All 100 games have been played. And we have 16 people qualified for the finals today!

1. Gary Kumaki
2. Joycelyn Liotta (8 wins)
3. Sophia Debevec (6 wins)
4. Acru Joliat
5. Serpentino Eel (7 wins)
6. Brook Yifu (5 wins)
7. Tamil Cerveau (7 wins/2.7 points margin)
8. Clairvaux Debevec (7 wins/2.0 points margin)
9. Tyr Akina (7 wins)
10. Sultan Qinan (5 wins)
11. Alissa Munro
12. Aries Oh
13. Cael Janus (3 wins/2.3 points margin)
14. Randa Loon (3 wins/1.7 points margin)
15. Zer0 Zhao
16. Juls Rosca (5 wins)
17. Alice Plante (2 wins)
18. Sidney Fredriksson
19. Genevieve Braver
20. Manannan Amat

Alissa and Brook have withdrawn due to RL commitments. Hope we will see you all back in the next round!

The draw of the first round of the tournament will be posted at Isla Clairvaux at 2AM SLT.

The team ranking after the qualification rounds:

1. Escort Lounge Elite (4.34)
2. Heart of Dragons (3.62)
3. Team Clairvaux (3.58)

Get ready for an exciting tournament!

Almost there!

90 % of the preliminary round is finished and you find the updated score here. Today the preliminary ranking looks like this (based on average points per match):

1. Gary Kumaki
2. Joycelyn Liotta
3. Sophia Debevec
4. Brook Yifu
5. Serpentino Eel
6. Acru Joliat
7. Tyr Akina (7 wins)
8. Clairvaux Debevec (6 wins)
9. Sultan Qinan (5 wins)
10. Alissa Munro
11. Tamil Cerveau
12. Aries Oh
13. Randa Loon
14. Cael Janus
15. Zer0 Zhao
16. Genevieve Braver
17. Juls Rosca (4 wins)
18. Sidney Fredriksson (2 wins)
19. Manannan Amat
20. Alice Plant

Team ranking is also still open:

• Escorts Lounge Elite (4.34 points)
• Heart of Dragons (3.63 points)
• Isla Clairvaux (3.56 points)

Wow - 86% of all games are played!

We are soon approaching the finals on Sunday! And we are starting to see a preliminary ranking. However, some games are still missing, so things may change! Based on the scores I have received, the preliminary ranking (based on average points per match) is:

1. Gary Kumaki
2. Sophia Debevec
3. Joycelyn Liotta (8 wins)
4. Serpentino Eel (7 wins)
5. Brook Yifu
6. Acru Joliat
7. Tyr Akina (7 wins)
8. Sultan Qinan (5 wins)
9. Alissa Munro
10. Tamil Cerveau (5 wins, 3 point difference)
11. Clairvaux Debevec (5 wins, 1.6 point difference)
12. Aries Oh
13. Randa Loon
14. Cael Janus
15. Genevieve Braver
16. Juls Rosca (4 wins)
17. Sidney Fredriksson (2 wins)
18. Zer0 Zhao
19. Manannan Amat
20. Alice Plant

First results from Round 2!

Update: Table now updated with Tuesday's games. 71% of scheduled games are done!
Sorry it took time, but you can find a table with scores here. These results represent 62% of the scheduled games. When we reach 75% - I will add preliminary rankings.

As far as I can see, we have greater variations in scores, and it's still quite open...

Sign up for round 2!

Deadline for signing up for round 2 is Tuesday, February 5th, noon SLT. Send notecard and 100L$ to Brook Yifu. 

Finals will be held at Isla Clairvaux, Sunday, February 17th, at noon SLT.

Team battle - round 1!

Escorts Lounge Elite won 5-1 over Heart of Dragons in the first team battle - ever! Congratulations to the team and especially Sophia who fought on behalf of them in the final battle. (Juls represented Heart of Dragons.)

Final of the first round!

Congratulations to all the contestants of Saturday's finals! Especially to Sophia who is our first champion of the league.

1. Sophia Debevec, Escort Lounge Elite
2. Juls Rosca, Heart of Dragons
3. Acru Joliat, independant
   Clairvaux Debevec, Isla Clairvaux

The team battle will take place on Monday (February 4th), between Escort Lounge Elite and Heart of Dragons.

Get ready - the next round is starting soon!

Complete results from finals February 2nd - Heart of Dragons

Round 1:

     Acru Joliat - Gary Kumaki (5-3)

     Sophia Debevec - Kati Voom (5-3)

     Aries Oh - Cael Janu (5-3)

     Tamil Cerveau - Serpentino Eel (5-1)

     Juls Rosca - Joycelyn Liotta (5-4)

     Manannan Amat - Tinchen Jun (5-2)

     Clairvaux Debevec - Sultan Qinan (5-4)

     Belladona Rossini - Alissa Munro (5-3)

Round 2:

     Acru Joliat - Aries Oh (5-4)

     Sophia Debevec -Belladona Rossini (5-1)

     Tamil Cerveaux - Clairvaux Debevec (2-5)

     Juls Rosca - Mannanan Amat (5-2)

Semifinals:

     Acru Joliat - Sophia Debevec (4-5)

     Juls Rosca  - Clairvaux Debevec (5-4)

Final:

    SOPHIA DEBEVEC - Juls Rosca (2-0)

Team Competition Scores:

1. Escort Lounge Elite, 4.2
2. Heart of Dragons, 3.9
3. Team Vaux, 3.6
4. Kilt by Antiquity, 3.5
5. Caledon Foiled Again, 2.8
6. Ocean Park Tigers, 2.4

Final battle to be held Monday, February 4th.

Finalists!

• Cael Janus/47 pt/8 wins/2.6 margin
  
• Sophia Debevec/47 pt/8 wins/2.5 margin
• Acru Joliat/46 points
  
• Serpentino Eel/44 pt
• Tamil Cerveaux/43 pt
• Clairvaux Debevec/42 pt
• Kati Voom/41 pt/6 wins/3.2 margin
  
• Sultan Qinan/41 pt/6 wins/2.2 margin
• Joycelyn Liotta/41 pt/5 wins
  
• Aries Oh/40 pt
• Belladona Rossini/39 pt
  
• Brook Yifu/38 pt/6 wins/2.8 margin
• Gary Kumaki/38 pt/6 wins/2.5 margin
• Tinchen Jun/38 pt/4 wins
• Manannan Amat/37 pt/6/2.5
• Alissa Munro/37 pt/5 wins/2.6 margin

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• Juls Rosca/36 pt
  
• Johan Binder/30 pt
  
• Elegia Underwood/28 pt
  
• Yep Wise/26 pt
• Genevieve Braver/25 pt
• Castor Vandyke/24 pt
• Espra Tomsen/21 pt
• Monte Halderman/14 pt
• Obi Woebegone/37 pt - withdrawn

The finals will be held at Heart of Dragons Arena, Saturday starting at 1 pm SL. 

After the individual finals, we will have the battle of the best two teams (based on average score in qualification rounds and finals). The current ranking among teams:

1. Escorts Lounge Elite/4.1
2. Heart of Dragons/3.9 (5.4 wins)
3. Kilt by Antiquity/3.9 (5.0 wins)
4. Team Vaux/3.2
5. Caledon Foiled Again/2.8 (4.0 wins)
6. Ocean Park Tigers/2.8 (3.0 wins)

Be there to cheer for your team!

Qualification Round 1

• Kati Voom - Espra Tomsen/5-0
• Johan Binder - Monte Halderman/0-0
• Aries Oh - Espra Tomsen/5-0
  
• Obi Woebegone - Elegia Underwood/0-0
• Manannan Amat - Espra Tomsen/5-0
• Monte Halderman - Espra Tomsen/5-0
  
• Monte Halderman - Castor Vandyke/0-0
• Kati Voom - Elegia Underwood/5-2
• Genevieve Braver - Sophia Debevec/2-5

• Aries Oh - Monte Halderman/5-1
• Aries Oh - Genevieve Braver/5-4
  
• Yep Wise - Elegia Underwood/0-5
• Juls Rosca - Espra Tomsen/3-5

• Juls Rosca - Yep Wise/5-0

• Acru Joliat - Johan Binder/5-2
• Tamil Cerveau - Joycelyn Liotta/2-5
• Monte Halderman - Sophia Debevec/0-5
• Monte Halderman - Elegia Underwood/4-5
• Yep Wise - Sultan Qinan/4-5
  
• Sophia Debevec - Belladona Rossini/5-3
• Obi Woebegone - Espra Tomsen/5-1
• Acru Joliat - Kati Voom/2-5
• Clairvaux Debevec - Elegia Underwood/5-0
• Brook Yifu - Elegia Underwood/5-1

• Johan Binder - Brook Yifu/3-5
• Juls Rosca - Clairvaux Debevec/5-4
• Tamil Cerveau - Tinchen Jun/5-4
• Genevieve Braver - Joycelyn Liotta/5-4
• Serpentino Eel - Genevieve Braver/5-1
• Acru Joliat - Espra Tomsen/4-5

• Genevieve Braver - Belladona Rossini/0-5
• Serpentino Eel - Elegia Underwood/5-2
• Acru Joliat - Aries Oh/5-0
• Tamil Cerveau - Gary Kumaki/5-2
• Tamil Cerveau - Belladona Rossini/5-1
• Aries Oh - Clairvaux Debevec/1-5
• Clairvaux Debevec - Tinchen Jun/3-5
• Brook Yifu - Tinchen Jun/2-5
• Cael Janus - Espra Tomsen/5-1
• Juls Rosca - Joycelyn Liotta/1-5
• Juls Rosca - Sultan Qinan/2-5
• Kati Voom - Tamil Cerveau/1-5
• Juls Rosca - Elegia Underwood/5-4
• Sultan Qinan - Elegia Underwood/2-5

• Alissa Munro - Castor Vandyke/5-2
• Sultan Qinan - Espra Tomsen/3-5
• Yep Wise - Joycelyn Liotta/1-5
• Juls Rosca - Belladona Rossini/5-4
• Obi Woebegone - Genevieve Braver/5-0
• Aries Oh - Sultan Qinan/3-5
• Aries Oh - Brook Yifu/5-2
• Johan Binder - Belladona Rossini/3-5
• Johan Binder - Genevieve Braver/2-5
• Cael Janus - Tamil Cerveau/5-2
• Monte Halderman - Gary Kumaki/0-5
• Yep Wise - Gary Kumaki/5-2
• Yep Wise - Castor Vandyke/5-1
• Serpentino Eel - Joycelyn Liotta/5-4

• Clairvaux Debevec - Belladona Rossini/5-2
• Clairvaux Debevec - Sultan Qinan/3-5
• Cael Janus - Belladona Rossini/5-4
• Cael Janus - Clairvaux Debevec/3-5
• Johan Binder - Sultan Qinan/5-4
• Cael Janus - Joycelyn Liotta/5-3
• Aries Oh - Tinchen Jun/5-3
• Aries Oh - Gary Kumaki/2-5
• Johan Binder - Alissa Munro/4-5
• Gary Kumaki - Tinchen Jun/5-4

• Monte Halderman - Sultan Qinan/1-5
• Juls Rosca - Sophia Debevec/5-4
• Juls Rosca - Brook Yifu/3-5
• Juls Rosca - Manannan Amat/3-5
• Serpentino Eel - Belladona Rossini/2-5
• Serpentino Eel - Alissa Munro/5-4
• Serpentino Eel - Tamil Cerveau/3-5
• Johan Binder - Castor Vandyke/3-5
• Johan Binder - Tinchen Jun/5-4
• Acru Joliat - Clairvaux Debevec/5-4
• Acru Joliat - Tamil Cerveau/5-4
• Acru Joliat - Alissa Munro/5-1
• Manannan Amat - Joycelyn Liotta/4-5
• Serpentino Eel - Castor Vandyke/5-2
• Kati Voom - Joycelyn Liotta/5-3
• Genevieve Braver - Tinchen Jun/3-5
• Serpentino Eel - Sultan Qinan/4-5
• Serpentino Eel - Yep Wise/5-3
• Serpentino Eel - Monte Halderman/5-2
• Acru Joliat - Manannan Amat/5-2
• Acru Joliat - Genevieve Braver/5-2
• Acru Joliat - Tinchen Jun/5-1
• Kati Voom - Genevieve Braver/5-3
• Sophia Debevec - Castor Vandyke/5-3

• Joycelyn Liotta - Espra Tomsen/5-4
• Yep Wise - Tinchen Jun/3-5
• Yep Wise - Alissa Munro/1-5
• Tamil Cerveau - Sophia Debevec/5-3
• Tamil Cerveau - Alissa Munro/5-1
• Brook Yifu - Gary Kumaki/2-5
• Brook Yifu - Castor Vandyke/5-1
• Clairvaux Debevec - Sophia Debevec/3-5
• Manannan Amat - Elegia Underwood/5-3
• Clairvaux Debevec - Alissa Munro/5-3
• Obi Woebegone - Brook Yifu/3-5
• Obi Woebegone - Monte Halderman/5-1
• Cael Janus - Yep Wise/5-4
• Aries Oh - Sophia Debevec/4-5
• Johan Binder - Gary Kumaki/3-5
• Kati Voom - Castor Vandyke/4-5
• Kati Voom - Sophia Debevec/2-5
• Brook Yifu - Sultan Qinan/5-2
• Brook Yifu - Alissa Munro/2-5
• Manannan Amat - Belladona Rossini/1-5
• Manannan Amat - Castor Vandyke/5-2
• Obi Woebegone - Belladona Rossini/3-5
• Obi Woebegone - Castor Vandyke/5-3
• Obi Woebegone - Joycelyn Liotta/5-2
• Obi Woebegone - Alissa Munro/3-5
• Obi Woebegone - Sophia Debevec/3-5
• Cael Janus - Tinchen Jun/5-2
• Cael Janus - Alissa Munro/5-3
• Cael Janus - Gary Kumaki/4-5
• Kati Voom - Gary Kumaki/5-1
• Kati Voom - Manannan Amat/4-5
• Manannan Amat - Gary Kumaki/5-3
• Cael Janus - Manannan Amat/5-0

Well done!