Summer 2021 All-Ranks Tourney Sign-ups!

[Mart]

It's Time for the Summer All-Ranks Tournament!

Beat the Heat (and the Rest of the Entrants!)

This Summer's ART will be held Sunday, August 15th, starting at 8PM by the Eastern Clock (participants must check in no later than 8:05PM on the dot; tournament entry will close at that point).

Fight for glory, to prove your mettle against your contemporaries, and to claim the legendary Fistmelda’s Tusk! Or fight for one of our additional fabulous prizes!

Additional prizes:

• 100 nobles x # of participants.
• A super-deluxe single/couples' spa day followed by a catered evening of karaoke for the winner and up to ten friends in a top-of-the-line karaoke lounge! Donated by Whitedown Retreat!
• A funtabulous ice cream party for the winner and their friends! Pick your favorite flavors and beat the summer heat! Donated by Pacarelli's Ice Cream Parlor!
• Have one of our hosts and our support staff on-hand, then choose the theme for your own night of dueling in the Outback! (Date TBD)

Seeding will be at random and the tournament format will be Double Elimination (Single Elimination if there are more than 16 participants).

Snowcones and slushies (normal flavors or augmented with your favorite spirits) will be served!

Sign up below! Early registration ends Friday, August 13th at 8PM ET. We look forward to seeing you Sunday the 15th!

-DoF Staff

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((This tournament will utilize Knockout Tourney Rules, as listed below

All participating duelists will have six (6) mods.
A Knock-Out move costs four (4) of your mods.
A Knock-Out move can only be an offensive move on the DoF Matrix.
Knock-Out moves cannot be used during round one (1) of a duel.
Knock-Out moves cannot be feinted.
Jab (JB) cannot be used as a Knock-Out move.
Knock-Out moves must hit cleanly. They will not knock out your opponent in trades.
To input a Knock-Out move, enter Fancy <Move> into the tool.

*KO Moves are optional. You can still win a duel by scoring five (5) points with at least a one (1) point lead on your opponent by using normal DoF tactics.

Once a duelist is hit with a Knock-Out move during a duel, that's it! They're considered KO'd and cannot continue on in the fight. It can be 4-1 in your opponent's favor, but if you score a clean Knock-Out move in the following round the duel will end then and there at 5-4 in your favor.

Example:

Player A / Player B

1: Jab / Jab - 1-1
2: Chop / Jumpkick - 1-2
3: Fancy Snapkick ( Knockout ) / Sweep - 5-2
Final: Player A wins by KO!))

[Haru Jeong]

I should be ok to participate.

[Ebon Ilnaren]

I'll sign up for this. Can't let Haru go out there alone, after all.

Ebon

[Goldglo]

Although a small tournament by recent standards, the ferocity displayed by the brawlers participating in the 2021 Duel of Fists All-Ranks Tournament was remarkable, and dare we say something to make Fistmelda proud! By nature of the tournament format, several DoF 'firsts' also occurred!

Entrants:
Droet the Bold
Caleb Feren
Ebon Ilnaren
Matthew Algiers Simon

The first matchups of the Round Robin Tournament featured Ebon and Droet while Caleb faced Matt. Matt was the first fighter to get KOed in the event as Caleb downed him in 3 quick rounds in The Pond, while Droet, in his first ever DoF tournament, KOed Ebon moments later up in Styx, also in 3 rounds!

The second set of matchups had Matt against Droet and Ebon against Caleb. Ebon got himself a KO against Caleb in 3 rounds over on The Fern while Matt took a bit longer before knocking out Droet in 4 rounds down in The Pit.

Matt and Ebon then went over to The Broiler while Caleb and Droet did an anti-grav balancing act on The Wheel. Caleb wasted no time at all, knocking out Droet as soon as he was able, just 2 rounds into the fight. Matt and Ebon tried really hard to waylay each other but their match took on a more traditional feel as time went on. Still, it was a relatively short duel with Matt coming out on top after 6 rounds.

With overall records at 2-1 for Caleb & Matt and 1-2 for Ebon and Droet and by virtue of the tournament tiebreaker (fewest rounds fought), Caleb earned the overall tournament victory as well as Fistmelda's Tusk with only 8 rounds fought on the night compared to Matt's 13!

Matt deferred his prize choice to last which paved the way for Droet to have his own themed dueling night in the coming weeks! Ebon's children will soon benefit from heaps of tasty goodness at Pacarelli's Ice Cream Parlor while Matt elected to treat his wife to a spa day and some off-key karaoke singing thanks to a generous donation by Whitedown Retreat!

Congratulations to Caleb and to all the participants on a Fistmelda-worthy event!

--Your DoF Staff

Historical Notes
KO Move Successes - SnapKick: 3 for 3; LegSweep: 1 for 3; Flip: 0 for 1; Hook: 0 for 1; SpinKick: 0 for 1; Chop: 1 for 1
Total KOs - Caleb 2; Matt 2; Droet 1; Ebon: 1
First brawler to win a DoF duel in 3 rounds: Caleb
First brawler to win a DoF duel in 2 rounds: Caleb
First brawler to earn a KO: Caleb