Highlighting the February 3338 Birthday (6) Blitz
The mood of the crowd was festivity, but also tired. Five climbs in a very short time, two of them Chronos, take their toll on both Mechs and men.
Add in numerous Circuit Challenges and liberal amounts of alcoholic beverage and you are approaching saturation.
Still, there were games to be held, this time it was a short, unlimited Blitz. The few who were still standing shambled towards the arena. There massive doses of hatoraides transformed them into berserk killing machines, at least for a while.
I wasn't there, the med staff had grabbed me and taken me back to the infirmary. I went along willingly, but only after I had been promised some footage from the event.
Going through it now I see the winners were:
[Highest leveled Commander in Division]
- Div 1 [358] (10 Commanders): Jeff Haas, Warlock (16m,12s)
- Div 2 [256] (4 Commanders): Bob Schlomer, Spirit of Bunny (37m,57s)
- Div 3 [152] (3 Commanders): Jim Prockter, Death`s Brethren (29m,56s)
- Div 4 [142] (4 Commanders): Steve Nanning, Northwind Dragons (5m,10s)
- Div 5 [111] (5 Commanders): Justin Bertelli, Phoenix (8m)
- Div 6 [85] (6 Commanders): Craig Robb, mad pork bbq2 (1m,18s)
- Div 7 [69] (5 Commanders): Map Chap, Smurf War Patrol (5m,41s)
- Div 8 [57] (7 Commanders): Baron Fish, T.B. 1st K. Highlanders (19m,4s)
- Div 9 [40] (10 Commanders): Recoil, JC`s Rowdy Bunch (4m,40s)
- Div 10 [29] (8 Commanders): Douglas Rainey, Punishers Guild (4m,37s)
- Div 11 [22] (4 Commanders): Michael Arnold, Ex Angels 2(26m,3s)
- Div 12 [4] (3 Commanders): Alfredo Mendez (38m,2s)
Total Contestants: 69, Total medals claimed: 69 (of 180 possible)
The festivities were definitively taking a massive toll. Compared to the recent Selfsame we lost more than half the contestants (77 to be exact).
No tops were fully manned, in fact less than half of them had Commanders competing for Bronzes. As a result seven Silvers in addition to hundred-and-four Bronzes were sent for resmelting.
While the number of contestants were low, the fighting spirit among those who showed up were fierce. Ten Golds changed hands the last half-hour, and none were held past the three-quarter-hour mark.
This fighting spirit was not limited to just the Gold fights, in fact it was one of the most ferocious events ever. Just look at the low number of medals held for more than 30 minutes in this event:
.............Silvers......Bronzes
Div 1 ....0 of 4.........0 of 5
Div 2 ....0 of 3.....…...N/A
Div 3 ....0 of 2...….….N/A
Div 4 ....0 of 3...….….N/A
Div 5 ....0 of 4...….….N/A
Div 6 ....2 of 4.........0 of 1
Div 7 ....1 of 4...….….N/A
Div 8 ....0 of 4.........0 of 2
Div 9 ....0 of 4.........0 of 5
Div 10 ..0 of 4.........0 of 3
Div 11 ..0 of 3...….….N/A
Div 12 ..1 of 2...……..N/A
A total of six medals from four tops were held, out of sixty-nine. That is less than nine percent !!
Yet again an event where no clan secured more than one Gold. The sole unaligned winner this time was Alfredo Mendez on K12. We also had a repeat winner here. Jim Prockter from Death`s Brethren triumphed yet again.
(By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184)
