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!!)