Tournaments-Of-Respect Three-Man (person)Team Tournament
April 13, 2003
Site was Camp Carpenter - Manchester, NH.
Event Holder was James Murphy.
Event Description
BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER THE ATHLETINC FIELD WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE I AM MOVING THE EVENT 1/10 OF A MILE DOWN THE ROAD TO THE NEXT RIGHT AT THE STORE. THERE WILL BE A TOURCH OUT AT THE ROAD. BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE I AM LOWERING THE COST OF THE EVENT AS IF YOU ALL PRE-REGED --- $5--- I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE Please come to the first three-man team tournament. There is respect to be earned fights to fight and puzzles to figure out (and maybe a prize or 9). This tournament is sponsored by The Ugly Foamsmith when you see an ugly weapon they probably made it. THE UGLY FOAMSMITH WILL BE RENTING WEAPONS AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF ARMOR. RENTALS WILL GO TO THE FIRST PERSON TO PUT GOLD ON THE TABLE. This tournament will have teams of three people. They will compete in several combat and a few non-combat or low combat tournaments. (All listed below) one of the big differences in this tournament is that spell casters are allowed to use most or all of their spells in each fight. During most tournaments, spells and armor will reset between bouts. There are regional spells for each and every circle, each and every path. Most to all are combat oriented. Several of them take odd or different props. YOU MUST PRE-REGESTER YOUR REGIONALS TO GET THEM! this way you know what odd or different props to bring. You can pre-register by e-mail, snail-mail or if you happen to see me in person. Magic pre-regs do not have to be paid to count. (But any paid pre-reg's would be appreciated) Players not on a formed team will be thrown together by chance or design. [I have had several questions about singles, if you are not on a formed team then I will try to get you on one. If I end up with one or two extra people I have things for them to do as well] The tournaments are; Trivia, puzzles, and general realms knowledge Three man duel Circle of death Tank war The Race Small, Medium, and Large (run at or about the same time) Swarm Last man standing AND ANYTHING ELSE I CAN THINK OF TO THROW AT YOU (can you hula?) Trivia/puzzles - These will be handed out at the beginning of the event and turned in a little before the end. Some of the questions will be OOC and some will be IC. Three-man duel - Teams duel each other. Most spells and armor reset between fights. Each team is allowed 15 of weapons. Arrows and javelins are counted as one foot per missile. Shields are free but you cant bring a shield into combat if you do not intend to use it normally. [I.E. you cant lean it up in front of you] Circle of death (needs a new name, I will give an almost useless prize to the person who can give it a better name) teams fight to be the first to get a hula-hoop from the middle of the field and put it over a wooden post. To compete in this event at least one member of the team must be a spell caster. Teams must still follow the 15 of weapons rule Tank war two people, one tank one gun. Full armor, no spells. The guns can not be hurt. The Bowmen start with 6 arrows a little bit away from the tanks. [The ugly Foamsmith will rent bows and arrows] the tanks will be allowed any melee weapons, but they are still subject to their own spell restrictions. The race one runner from each team runs a race with full weapons, spells and armor allowed but not required. While their teammates try to stop all the other runners from out side the race area. All runners will be given the ability to regen. Teams must still follow the 15 of weapons rule. I may run this a couple of times and average out the results. The small - One 18 or less weapon, armor/spells allowed but weapon/armor restrictions still exist. The medium Flouretene, sword and board, and single weapons up to 5.Full armor and all missile weapons are allowed. Spells and armor will reset between fights. The large - weapons greater then 5 No spells (duh) Full armor. No shields. Armor will reset between fights. Swarm each team will fight a kobold swarm. Maybe other monster swarms as well. Teams must still follow the 15 of weapons rule. Other teams will be recruited to play the swarm. Last man standing - This is a grand melee with all teams competing at once. This event may be rerun several times depending on time available. The last team standing gets there highest score from the other tournaments eliminated. If we get to do it again the first winner steps out. And the next team to win gets their second highest score eliminated. etc If any team does not make a real attack within a 5 minutes, then they will be disqualified and they are out for good. Teams must still follow the 15 of weapons rule. Teams may at their option put one gold piece in the gold pool. The team that does the best will get the purse. It is up to the individual teams to decide to enter or not. BUT THE SPONSER WILL BE PUTTING UP SOME PRIZE MONEY AS WELL. Most tournaments will randomly break the teams into smaller groups. With the winners going on to a winners heat, the middles going to a middles heat, and the not so good going to the low end of the pool. How big the groups are, and how they will be divided up will depend on the number of teams that enter. Your odds of winning depend on the number of entries, void where prohibited, your mileage may very.
Event Wrap-up
I would like to apologize to any one that did not have a good time. I am sorry for ruining anyones fun. I would however like to address some issues that are in the reviews; If you asked for a quest for your spell instead of learning it from someone else you had to Finnish well in a tournament. The formula is correct 8-circle you wanted to learn. For example if you wanted to learn a 5th circle spell you needed to come in 3rd in any one tournament. This was a tournament event I thought that the quests for spells should be linked to them. Potions could not be transferred except inside a team because spell effects on people and spells reset once a tournament started. For instance if you wanted to cast purity, you had to recast it in each and every tournament. If the alchemist had transferred any potions to anyone that was not on there team then they would have been reset at the beginning of the next tournament. When the team that bought the potions started there next tournament then the potions would have gone poof and reset back to the caster. I thought it better to tell the alchemist that they could not sell potion to other teams then have the teams get really mad when the potions they bought did not work. When I oked someone to run some crunches at the people who were not on teams fighting for what ever reason, I was told by them that it would not interfere with the running of my tournaments. (Which were not happening often enough anyway). So when many PCs responded to the crunches, (which I would have done as well), it delayed the running of a tournament. I then told them to stop it so I could try to get some of the tournaments to happen. As to the armor situation I realized I was wrong very quickly. I apologized to Tom in person at the time of the incident. I will continue to tell people I was wrong and made a bad call. I did not immediately realize that there were two layers of leather. The outside layer of was made from the thickest leather available which added the second point to the armor. In my closing remarks at the field, I said that I would never hold another event like this one, either because I will never hold an event again (I can here some of you cheering!), or because I have learned something. Well, I have learned something and time will tell
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