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[Kalam]

My fellow Americans and those courageous Europeans who dare the challenges of a high ping, it is my pleasure to announce the beginning of The Tournament of Champions.

This will take place as a round-robin tournament followed by a single-elimination.

It is up to you to contact your opponent using whatever means available (their forum names are provided in parentheses for ease of access) and arrange a time and date to duel your opponent. The best 3 of 5 duels is declared a winner, and you will both report the results to all officiants (Whalen, Lt_Anders, Kalam) in a forum message. If there are any disagreements, you will seek out a tournament official to resolve it.

You each have until March 2nd to contact and duel each of your opponents in every round.

 Check this table for reference, scores, and standings.

The Competitors:

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Ninja_Kenkyaku (Torp)
Jaer_Selorn (Dunecat)
Hospitaller_Oneriot (Oneriot)
FF_JohnAdams (JohnAdams)
Orange_Crush_ATS (Duster)
Dracul_Allers (Allers)
ManOfWar_Takeda (ManOfWar)
Apathy (Huey Newton)
SingingintheRain (Deafening)
Aemaelius (Aemaelius)
Balton_the_Benevolent (Balton)
Brogg_The_Backstabber (Bromagi)
Merc_Shpongled_RS (Shpongled)
Guts_ATS (Guts)
Haru2_Takeda (Haru_Takeda)
Brunchlady_BRD (Marathon)
Miley (Miley)
Matey_BRD (Matey)
Balbaroth_The_Wanderer (Balbaroth)
DL_Braeden_Rahl (Braeden)
ThaBigBoss (BigBoss)
The_Last_Spamurai_PxC (DrKronic)

Rules:
Duels are to take place in the NA Strategus server. You may ask Braeden for a map change if he's around.
Duellists may not continue running away from their opponents for more than a minute unless one is unhorsed and the other has a horse.
Each duel round only ends when one of the duellists is killed by the other.
Both duellists must report the result of the duel. If neither report the duel, points are subtracted from both.
Best 3 out of 5.

Approved Equipment:
Everything.

Any rule suggestions or complaints should be submitted to me.

Special thanks goes to Aemaelius for preceding us.

[Earthdforce]

Gee, thanks for not putting me up there QQ

[Deafening]

Great, first round Guts. Hmmm.

Wait, so are these robins going to take 15 weeks to complete? I'd think it'd make more sense to split this up into 3-4 randomized pools, then seed the DE bracket from the results of that.

[DrKronic]

I was like "who am I fighting?" Then my brain clicked that link duh

Torp contact meh

[Allers]

Idk If ai can make that

Kal add me on steam donners789 please

[Matey]

yeah... if it takes a week per duel... itll take a LONG time... do we have to do the duels in order? or can we just duel whoever is available and report results and fill em all in as we go until we finish our 21 duels?

[Kalam]

Duel three opponents per week!

[Hauptmann]

Why am I not in this? I'd love to be in.

[Kalam]

You didn't register for it in time. That said, there are three other competitions that are still open for registration.

[Matey]

can we just duel everyone in 2 days (if we can get ahold of them all that fast which is unlikely)

[Kalam]

NUU YOU WILL TAKE 5 WEEKS TO FINISH THIS

[ManOfWar]

I will find you.. and duel you...

[Tristan]

I pm'ed people and no one pm'ed me. No one responds

[Kalam]

D:

Well, if no one responds after the first week, we'll just have you auto-win against poor Sphong, who often has PC issues or something.

[Braeden]

Oneriot or associates of Oneriot, anyone want to contact me?  I got some killing to do with you.