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Wysterian Summer Games; August 2014 events
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Topic Started: May 9 2014, 08:07 AM (377 Views)
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Matilda Love
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Aug 6 2014, 12:28 AM
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Turns out our very own favourite judge Mariko has a fetish for loud noises. Remember this from the games opening:
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Judge Santarosa Opened the tournament when instead of using a shotgun, made a squeaky voice that shocked half the guests & made Judge Nyrph look very unhappy.
This time they had trouble getting the gun away from Mariko
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Well we had an hack of a start today. While The 24 couples were waiting at the opening line to hear the gun fires….. Judge Mariko Santarosa, seemed to be having a problem with her gun. Apparently the Judge forgot that the “trigger guard” was on and she started banging the Gun “Hammer” on the judges table, which automatically made everyone back off from the table. Then she apologized stating it was a new chic la freak gun She recently received for singing the opening note at the Canadian Stampede.  Several people have asked her to let it go and just open the race already but she ignored them and decided to check the muzzle to see if something was stuck there, by sticking her finger inside. At that point & out of nowhere Judge Nryph grabbed Judge Mariko from behind and tackled her down while Judge Rogers quickly taking the gun away & firing his own personal gun – letting the couples start the race.
Here are the final results for the Love Boat Race:

And here is what our favourite commentator Herzil had to say about it:
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Well without to much Suspense lets move to the Winners in this lovely but long race::congrats: First we have Mr & Mrs Smithson from Elke and Elba. The two middle age couple started their race with a rather grumpy mood which resulted in a 8p Happiness. While Mr Smithson was able to answer 16 out of 24 question, he answered all the important one (to the MRS) as incorrectly which ignite a circle of violence with the wife inflicting her husband some serious injuries. To the couple luck, the injuries have Sparked Mr. Smithson Moral & put him into 1st gear – resulting in the Smithson’s getting first to the finish line and landing The Gold Medal:congrats: Second came Angelique Murcle & Kermit Jong-Un from Barrarabian Butlers which were very promote at pedaling but then Angelique got Turned On by dirty play and decided to damage another team chances of winning. Apparently, Angelique was rather annoyed with her spouse but decided it wasn’t wise to take the "Only Pedal Man on board" & the chance to win a medal. So she decided to take down another couple. Witnesses said that The Barrarabian couple spotted Hedda Lettuce & Snatch Hunter from Scow Creek. The Barrarabian couple started pedaling in full force in order to tackle them down, but Snatch Hunter with his quick wit was able to avoid the collision and resume pedaling in full speed to the finish line As one can see from this footage Angelique Murcle & Kermit Jong-Un in the are left behind: Judge Nyrph commented that the dirt game by Angelique have cost them greatly. With Scow Creek (14:17minutes) taking The Silver Medal & Barrarabian (14:57minutes) taking The Bronze. :congrats: And Finally, Elsa & Hansus Mass from Sepur Land, have graced us with an epic fail to comply with directions. It seems the two in their illusionist voyage decided to use their new and improved GPS which was promised according to the couple, to bring them in the shortest time to the other side… Well with both GPS on and Cruise control they took their mind of the water and found themselves 2 minutes later in the middle of nowhere with Crocodiles lurking in the water. The couple didn’t lose hope and asked a local "out of the bloom" fisherman for directions back. Due to the wife high aggression forward her husband and his love for idiotic gadgets, they were able to get to the finish line, scoring a 14:57minutes and landing the second Bronze Medal[/color] :congrats:
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Matilda Love
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Aug 6 2014, 12:37 AM
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Next is the Kayak race. Your nation's athlete will be paired with an athlete from another nation, as follows.


The results of the qualifying round are in. Canada had a whopping four nations entering into the finals:

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. ParrrrTay
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Aug 6 2014, 06:05 PM
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Woohoo
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Aug 6 2014, 09:01 PM
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Even though it gets counted as a win for Texas, I declare the Gold I won today in the Kayak for Canada!
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Aug 6 2014, 09:18 PM
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- lone star diplomatic mission,Aug 6 2014
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Even though it gets counted as a win for Texas, I declare the Gold I won today in the Kayak for Canada!
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Matilda Love
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Aug 10 2014, 08:31 AM
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Thank you lone star!
Second round results Kayaking:
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 While we are waiting for the judges to count all teams and publish results, we were told earlier that an official complaint was filed by Greg Moving TheArmz from Shy Guyia & Wilfred Woodfern from New Ecopia for what they considered a lack of proper boundaries during the race at the second round. According to the complaint , in mid race, they were lost their grip when they were cut by a Kayak with 3 Weirdos in a Rabbit Hat  The Olympic Park decided to compensate the team(Even though they moved to the last round) by sending them to an all expenses paid vacation at Devil HeartOld Fashioned Holiday Destinations  :rolleyes:
Stormaen's Meredith Patterson has a bit of trouble:
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Well, the judges have published the scores for the last round with some shocking results First is Meredith Patterson from Stormaen who led the Canadian-10KI Team. She was ”lucky enough” to get an un co-operative teammate. It seems Aersoldorf Kayak-er disapproved of the sitting position in the Kayak and actually neglected to start rowing at the start. This Stubborn has cost them both time and they finished at 13:02, about 2+ minutes longer from the Average of 10:46 minutes.
Cosa Agent 77238 from Aetaris and Nureta Chalupa from Almonaster Nuveo just missed out on the bronze, beaten in a 2 second difference by Mila Tova from Innato and French Vanilla from The Candy Lane.
Final results:

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. ParrrrTay
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Matilda Love
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Aug 10 2014, 08:35 AM
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Boxing:
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Hope Pugsy is feeling a little better Lad
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Next lot of rounds:
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[align=center] ***It’s the last round of the Boxing Championship where 3 matches will decide who will take the gold medals ***
The Lalic Combat Mastery Arena is humming with anticipation for the up and coming matches, which all 3 will be shown on the board at real time.
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And the results are here

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Jacques de L'escargot from HotRoda went head to head with Franky O’Sullivan from The Bruce.
They both circled to the right when L'escargot lowered his back hand giving O’Sullivan the impression that a heavy hook was coming up, while he actually used his leading hand to land O’Sullivan a powerful blow.
While one might think its enough to throw someone off his balanced, it simply made O’Sullivan Angry and he started a direct aggressiveness approach forward L'escargot, using 2 cross (right followed by left), followed by a leaping uppercut.
O’Sullivan dived when L'escargot tried to Cross him to the right and returned a favor by extending his Arm and with full power Sent an HayMaker.
That landed O’Sullivan The Gold Medal as he finished the entire match in 1:52minutes.
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Next we had Minti Sue Preez from Picos Elissa de los tres valles who went against Bob N. Weaver from Barrarabian Butlers.
Sue Preez started with a Check Hook that went Sour and South when Weaver used the ropes to do a jump to the air, that of course gave a Penalty point to Weaver which ended with him being dragged by the Judge from the boxing ring for a little chat.
When he returned a Fresh match started (with a warning to Weaver and time penalty for both). Sue Preez tried to do a PullCounter by leaning towards Weaver and then drawing her head back rapidly to evade the thrown punch and then counter it with a straight.
Well she miss calculated his intentions as the Thrown counter punch never came!!! Instead Weaver Counterbalanced her attack with a Gazelle Punch.
ducking low and rising full force to hit her in the face which knocked her down and landed Weaver The Silver Medal at 2:45minutes.
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Last but not forgotten was the fight between Mondragonia Athlete and Tucker Tomarson from Tukenzzia.
Mondragonia Athlete started the fight with an offensive stance going for the majestic Jab followed by Straight punch. While he did succeed at the two, the force that he implemented according to Judge Rogers wasn’t enough to knock Tomarson down, Instead Tomarson lost his balanced.
That didn’t stop Mondragonia from giving him an "High Hill Down low" Cross right punch which sent Tomarson swirling for 3 seconds.
While Tomarson regain Balance, Mondragonia athlete was busy showing off to the observers seats, boosting his ego.
When he turn he noticed Tomarson was already in a fighting position. He started moving forward Tomarson who backstep jab allowing him to do a little to no power punch while retreating.
Mondragonia moving forward Tomarson in order to close on him actually put him in Tomarson trapap who in a flick of a second changed his position from Defense to Offense – throwing a right hand followed by a rarely used Pivot clockwise on the front foot ending by a right Uppercut.
That sent Mondragonia to the floor and landed Tomarson The Bronze Medal at 2:57minutes.
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*** This Concludes our Boxing Championship with 3 Medalists ***[/align]
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Aug 10 2014, 08:43 AM
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Shooting:
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[align=center] *** It has been a heck of a day at the Bersa Archery Arena where 79 participants took their turn in shooting targets ***
** One could see how some of our participants were getting excited from just holding their guns or Rifles which is more than one could say for their spouses in the back **
Judge Rogers who gave the debriefing early morning stated that unlike Normal shooting events, this one will consist of 3 rounds in which first two will require Pistol 60 & Rifle 125.

While the last round will require them to do Pistol 60 + Rifle 125 + Rifle Double 1 Direction (250 Traps) + Rifle Double split Directions (250 Traps)
Well lets look at the Results:




Dr. Susan Kleberg from Picos Elissa de los tres valles who is the daughter of a well known Texan General, was Picos Hope to bring home a medal.
Unfortunately, while she had first two good rounds, gaining above 600p in both. Her downfall at the 3rd round was due to Pistol, getting only 463, and missing almost 30x2 traps in Rifle DB 1D.

Another known Persona was of course Paula Wifmere from Etild who was the only participant to Bullz-eye hit each of the Pistol 60 targets at the 1st round.
She landed the highest score at the 1st round with 709!!
Unfortunately it didn’t last long and she was down by 8 missed targets in the pistol 60 2nd round and while she was able to regain her mastery in the 3rd round in Pistol (557p), her Rifle 1Trap was simply too low, which made her lose the Bronze by 2 points. Truly a bitter end.

An Old Legend has graced us today. Alfred Kromhaus III from The Bruce. An Elder at the Royalist Society.
Seeing him in previous shooting events, one can truly understand the Old School Mastery & Charm.
In the First round he was able to show great technique while using the rifle, only missing 4 traps.
It seems that during the 2nd round his age got to him and he began to shake from excitement or because the Parkinson medicine stopped to influence, we are not sure which. Not only he missed 17 pistol targets but in his last try, he lost grip of his gun and while hitting the floor – triggered – and hit Judge Mariko Santarosa Fashionable hat!!

A Lot of Hopes were put on Steve Cain from Free Guns for All, who recently represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games.
It seems that while he might have shown great performance at his previous games, his 3rd round was simply Mediocre at best.
He gained 481p in pistol (90p lower than previous round) & had an average Rifle 125 of 102p. Showed nice shooting experience at the Rifle DB 1D but when the time for Rifle DB Split D, he failed miserably.
It seems that for Steve Cain, a Born & Raised cross-eyed, the two traps splitting to different directions, were just too much.

Data from Star Trek gave A bad performance in the 1st round hitting exactly 30 out of 60 targets with pistol. His trainer commented that Data had a twisted circuit which caused it.

Then Data moved to Rifle 125 and was able to show the worse performance in that category scoring 41p out of 125. Which we are sure couldn’t be explained by a silly malfunction.
Now to our Medalists:
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Captain Gavin Squall from Havensky gave us throughout the rounds a Superb performance in Pistol 60 targets, and didn’t go bellow 500p. While he did with a bad Rifle 125 score of 45.
He was able to regain tactics and coolness and got 110/125 traps in his 2nd round.
His 3rd round started with a great 587p in Pistol, a bit on the low 104/125p in Rifle but his quickness and precision in Rifle 250 traps 1D have landed him a nice 215/250p. With a final score of 1087p and landing him The Gold Medal

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Queen Chrysalis from The Changeling Horde, in her human form, gave also a superb performance through the competition.

With a nice score of 557p on pistol 60 and a good score of 97/125p traps. Unlike her rival from Havensky, Queen Chrysalis, while showing great performance in all 3 Rifle Categories in the 3rd round, Score bellow the 500 in Pistol 60 during her 3rd round.
Never the less she was able to land The Silver Medal.
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Last is Gustav Graves from Benevolent Thomas.
While he was never bellow 520p in Pistol 60, his rather low precision ability in Rifle DB 1D has granted him just 138/250p which summed to 1031p, Landing him The Bronze Medal
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*** This Concludes our Shooting Category tournament in Modern Pentathlon with 3 new Medalists ***[/align]
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. ParrrrTay
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Aug 10 2014, 10:50 AM
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Back to the important stuff!
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Aug 15 2014, 05:03 PM
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Yes! My reporting continues a bit slap dash unfortunately, still on holidays!
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[align=center] *** It’s a stormy day outside but to our luck we are all tucked in The Devnir Aquatic Center which due to new renovations done lately by donations from Tutlee Springs & Quark’s Bar, it is now boosting 65,000 seats split on 4 Olympic size pool venues ***
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Well its been an interesting day with our 79 participants from yesterday shooting category “taking their time” – Literally – in competing in 200m Freestyle swimming.
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Originally Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple III was suppose to be head judge in this tournament but it seems last night he got totally drunk, and tried to make a pass on Judge Nryph, who in return made sure he will pass out.
So while Judge Hornsnapple is resting at Nurse NightInJail Memorial Hospital & Judge Nryph is still nowhere to be found.
The Swimming 200m has been ran all morning, by once Again Judge Rogers with the Mild help to no help of Judge Santarosa.
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Lets check the results:
Gustav Graves from Benevolent Thomas who yesterday won the Bronze Medal in Shooting, have gave us a 1st round Superb performance, scoring the shortest time in this tournament of 1:34:59 minutes and breaking the previous record of 1:40:00 minutes.
The broken record has landed him an “Ellise Heroes” Award.
In his 2nd round he continued with a nice 1:36:55 minutes which granted him a pass to the 3rd round, but failed miserably to get the bronze by getting + 5seconds.
A footage of his face Impression after he saw the 3rd round results:

Then we had Inigo Montoya from Woonsocket who decided to bring a Duck lookalike floating cushion.
Two ushers appeared out of nowhere and confiscated it. It seems Inigo couldn’t take his mind off of the Cushion which probably got him his downfall, scoring the worse finish time of 2:21:48 minutes. Annoyed by the results he marched to the Judges table and announced loud & clear: “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You took away my Floating Cushions, prepare to die”,
one could have seen his wife in the background rolling eyes & saying: “not again”. Judge Rogers was quick to put his hand on his gun but Judge Mariko intervene, putting her hand on Inigo shoulder, saying : “we will get you a new Cushion” and nodding to the medical personal to come and sedate him.
Soo much drama... & What is a Tournament without some Barrarabian Mellow Drama ?!
Well Bruse’Car Dachien from Barrarabian Butlers, who showed a Mediocre at best performance, yesterday during the shooting tournament, decided he wont leave his winning to a “chance”.
He used a floating shark decoy to divert the guests & judges attention, while he was using diving instruments to swim (without taking his head above water) - giving him an advantage on others.

To Bruse’Car Dachien lack of luck, he dived with his head to deep, letting water enter instead of air, which caused him to chock.
While Judge Hyacinth Aciditéi was more than willing to disqualify him from the race, it seems that his delegation connection with the "De Gent" Family House Manager altered that decision.

Now to our tournament Winners:
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Kosmo Tausendsassa from Theostelos, gave us a great performance in all 3 rounds, with time score not going above 1:39minutes.
He was the only swimmer to start the first round with Backstrokes – his strongest style. Finishing at 1:35:22 minutes.
In his 2nd round he went again for Backstrokes although due to his need to perfection he put more emphasis on the technique rather than strength and finished at 1:38:48 minutes (3seconds more than 1st). In his last round he went for Crawl, showing a great Old School performance without a single water drop splashed to the sides and finished at 1:36:15minutes, landing The Gold Medal.

Second we had Erik Firako from Elici, who was able to score almost same finish time in both 1st & 2nd round with 1:43: ++ minutes.
Unlike Tausendsassa, Firako went from the start to his strongest style – The Crawl.
In his last round he seemed too exhausted. Several observers stated it looked like he was trying to catch more air by the way he raised his head above water.

Never the less he finished the 3rd round at 1:41:20 minutes and landed The Silver Medal
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Finally, Greg Moreau from Dendor a Talented athlete, had several weird choices of styles. He started the 1st round with breast strokes which frankly looked odd style for a sprint.

Which made him finish the 1st round at 1:48:14 minutes. The worse 1st compare to the other 2 medalists. Then he chose Butterfly, a powerful and exhausting style and while he showed a true mastery of it, he was only able to reduce his time by 3+- seconds.
In the last round he decided to go with Crawl and finished at 1:43:42 minutes, landing The Bronze Medal.
:congrats:
*** This Concludes our Swimming Tournament with 3 Medalists and Elisse Heroes Award ***[/align]
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Aug 15 2014, 05:11 PM
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[align=center] *** It’s the 3rd day of the Modern Pentathlon, with 78 participants competing in Fencing ***
Early arrivals to the stadium couldn’t but not notice an Exotic Fencer helm made from Diamonds that was put next to the judges judges table

It seems the Helm was a donation by Tengri Airlines

While the Stadium was half way full during the first and second rounds, it seems the anticipation for the final round made more fans and guests take their seat and around mid afternoon, The De Gent Olympic Stadium was fully packed.
Judge Mariko debriefed us early today, stating that the Fencing today will be judged according to Épée Rules.
In Other words the entire body is a valid target as long as the rival touches the body with his or her weapon tip and not the sides. In Addition both fencers can hit each other simultaneous.
She continue explaining that due to amount of participants and the need to level the requirements, there will be different summarized points for winning in each round: going from 5p in the 1st round to 10p in 2nd round, again to 5p in 3rd round and then 15p for the 4th and 15p for the final round.
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While most of the 1st round was rather dull in events, 2 fencers are worth mentioning:
Queen Chrysalis from The Changeling Horde showed an extreme mastery of the weapon when she was the first in the 1st round to take down her opponent Ana Tanda Riel from Innato in an offensive deadly & very precise movements, winning the match 5 to 0.
The match ended so fast, Judge Mariko had to do a rewind on the monitor to see each tip strike movement.
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COSA Agent 134 from Aetaris used his Flexibility to enhance his movements – mostly on the defense, in order to avoid the rather rouged attacks by his opponent Buuron from The Grendels. In mid fight, Agent 134 decided to change his tactics to offense and with 2:3 (in favor of Buuron) was able Counter attack and gained eventually 5:4, a close call indeed.
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During the 2nd match a great performance was seen by Jane Goodenough from UmmaGumma who was matched against Maggy Sho'da Willow Von Eden.
First the two entered into a full offense mode both arching their tip at each other and gaining point.
Then Sho’da decided for unknown reason to go for ” pas de bourrée couru” which made Judge Nryph rolled her eyes & smack her head against the table. Well that movement sure mesmerized Goodenough and Sho’da was able to gain another point. By that time, Goodenough was already annoyed with the pace of the match as one could have seen on her face.
She then decided to demonstrated her famous ” bouquet of sympathy”technique by miming with her left hand picking flowers to smell then throw it in the air while secretly touching her rival body with the tip of her weapon. It seems that “The Coin” didn’t drop for Sho’da till it was 4:10 in favor of Goodenough

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While 3rd round wasn’t much different from the other two, it is worth mentioning Morgan de Selby from Ater Nox who was matched against COSA Agent 134 from Aetaris.
Before 1 minute was over, Selby was already with 4:1 in favor. The matched however ended with 5:1.
The 1p in favor of Agent 135 was granted because when Selby hit the last point – winning, she opened with a Degrading “Duckling Surreal” Dance, laughing at her opponent, which ended with a penalty point.

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4th round we were graced with a performance by Anton Friberg from The Arendellenske Union, a well known persona in the fencing world who was matched against Thomas Thompson from Zedale.
Friberg started the match with a full defense circle, blocking each of Thompson attacks but was short on breath half way through, which Thompson abused to gain points with a rarely used ”Cour soumise” technique.
Its important to note that Friberg best strategy for winning in previous tournaments was going on defense and striking while the opponent got tired. Unfortunately for Friberg he received an old school rival that was able to take Friberg out of defense mode into offense(his weakest style). The match ended with 15:11 in favor of Thompson.
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To our Winners:
It is important to note that unlike other fencing competitions , today the winners were declared by the difference between each 2 opponents.
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Queen Chrysalis from The Changeling Horde was matched against Thomas Thompson from Zedale.
It is worth mentioning that while Her Majesty had several quick battles in previous rounds and were able to finish on top, she finally found a match who used quick footwork as she used her hands.
Never the less, half match through and Her Majesty got tired of Thompson.
She entered into a frenzy attack which was described by Judge Nryph as a “Mach 2 Psychosis” & by Judge Rogers as a “Splitting bullets”.
She was able to tip Thompson body in 5 different spots at the same time, gaining the score required for a win 15:11 and landed The Bronze Medal

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Jerry Judge from Palman, a well known defense attorney & Dualist was matched against Anomander Rake from Ananke II.
Rake from the start went into defense but gave up too much distance on defense instead of keeping the distance tight so he can take over Judge miss.
Unfortunately for Rake, his rival used a Negotiation Tactic. Jerry Judge used a simple minor Attack then Parried, Riposte & Counter-Attack with Ducking while Rake wasn’t expecting which granted him points.
At 14:7 in favor of Palman fencer. Rake tried a simple attack which Judge was able to avoid by ducking his head while counter attacking and hitting Rake hand with his tip. Resulting in 15:7 and Landing Jerry Judge The Silver Medal

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*** Due to Lack of Participants during the final round, The Fencer from Ananke II was granted a second chance against the Finalist from The Bruce ***
Finally, Alfred Kromhaus III from The Bruce, who is a member of the Royal Society, has not only shown great Old School techniques but also a rather creative flexibility While fighting against Anomander Rake from Ananke II.
Our Old School fellow was able to control the entire match, luring Rake into his playground.
Rake used “The Jump Lunge” (ballestra) in order to attack, in which he received 3 points and failed on the 4th due to Kromhaus stepping back, avoiding the tip of his rival.

Kromhaus didn’t hold obligated and used The “Othello” technique to finish his opponent - earning him the last point and landing him The Gold Medal.

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*** This Concludes our Fencing Tournament with 3 New Medalists ***[/align]
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. ParrrrTay
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Aug 15 2014, 05:18 PM
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[align=center] *** This the Final day of the Modern Pentathlon ***
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*** Our 79 Athletes have started the Marathon an hour and a half ago ***

Unlike previous MP events, this is a very technical category, where our participants suppose to finish 42.5km. While most of the time the runners will be required to run through cities and villages. They will have to pass “Pale Nox” which is a Gray Rainy mix with snow Rural zone.
To those who weren’t present during the debriefing Judge Mariko commented earlier that she would love to see one of the athletes breaking the previous record of 2:01:27 hours.
When Judge Nyrph was asked what are they doing to prevent athletes cheating with power drinks, such as the Famous Dire Bear Soda

She said: “absolutely nothing!!”. Later she corrected her statement, saying: “We do have ways to check who is using boosters during the running” and pointed up where a small flying object with a cam was hovering above us.

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While most of the marathon was technical, we did have the pleasure of seeing some interesting runners:
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Ljados Ördea from Scepez was able to demonstrate to her fans back at home, why she was picked out of so many other talented athletes.
She might have scored the 2nd worse finish time of 2:28:21 hours, but at least Her Extravaganza shoes were the talk of the day.

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It seems that Jeff Spranglångt from Shy Guyia got drunk yesterday during a frenzy booze marathon at the Barrarabian Butlers Delegation Tent. He found himself waging his house against his ability to run in a “special outfit”. Well that outfit cost him a medal and landed him the Worse finish time in the history of Marathon running: 2:29:53 hours.

Then we had the pleasure of witnessing Hazardous weather. It seems that during the marathon it started snowing & five minutes later changed sharply to rain, which made the surface slippery Luckily no one got hurt.

About 10km to the finish line one could see many athletes exhausted from the running. Some even started walking.

Well lets move to the winners:
Anomander Rake from Ananke II, was seen doing Giant steps from start to finish. The 2.20 meter Nordic fellow, was caught passing 3 meters in one throw of his leg forward. Needless to say he wasn’t just the first to finish the marathon, but at 1:54:26, he also broke the previous record of 2:01:27. He landed Both The Gold Medal & an “Elisse Heroes” Award.

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Some fans could have sworn they saw an enormous bird flying during the Winter Blizzard event but that was Tojo St. Louis from Syd Vicious, who decided to grace us with A Yellow Bird Costume.

While the Costume looked like a “Foot-dragging” nightmare, it didn’t hinder St. Louis who finished the marathon at 1:54:43 hours, and Landed The Silver Medal
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Last was Xia Shangri-La from NeoPacificus, who decided to surprise her fans by wearing a traditional Medieval Princes Outfit.

Well The Silky Princes Conical Hat was a deal breaker against the harsh wind and half way through the blizzard she had an icy Conical Hat that was a major setback. Never the less she was able finish at 1:54:45 hours, and landed The Bronze Medal
:congrats:
*** This Concludes The Marathon with 3 Medalists , A New Broken Record & an “Elisse Heroes” Award ***
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[align=center] *** It’s a fine day today at the The Tracks & Field Arena with 79 riders competing for the 4th event of the Modern pentathlon – Horse Jump ***
According to Judge Nyrph The competition was split into 2 rounds.
The first required riders to compete in track with 15 obstacles in which 12 were dry such as: Brush/Log Fence, Bullfinch, Coffin, Arrowheads, Ditch, Corner. 3 were water obstacles.
The second round consisted of 20 Obstacles from the previous round, but more complex in requirements of height, combinations and proximity from each other.
In both rounds, riders were judged base on Number of times the horse touched the obstacle, the water, or obstacle fell. In the 2nd round, they were also judged by whether the horse stopped before a jump. Starting points were 15 in the 1st round and 20 in the 2nd round.

Several riders are worth mentioning from the first round:
Cessna Miller from Herzil gave a smooth performance on all 15 obstacles, without a single touch of water or obstacles, she was able to finish the track without a single penalty point.
Kosmo Tausendsassa from Theostelos, who already won the MP-Swimming category, touched the water in 2/3 obstacles which granted him 8p penalty. One could have seen Tausendsassa disappointed face after the 2nd water incident, as if he lost his spirit. He continue riding forward the 14th obstacle an Oxer – Triple Bar and his horse not only touched the 2nd bar but actually made both bars drop resulting in a 4p penalty, which resulted in a total score of 2points which disqualified him from the 2nd round.
Lyra Perchania from Wuufu seemed to have traded her luck from the beginning of the Modern Pentathlon. Not only she hit A Shark’s Teeth, A Skinny & a Drop Fence.
She also managed to dip her horse legs 3 times in the water and knock 2 fences down. It of course resulted in her getting a flat Zero, which disqualified her from the race.
But if you think she received the lowest score?! -----> Guess again!!
Steve Cain the 100m sprint wonder boy, from Free Guns for All, has failed miserably when his horse, who seemed too tired to carry Cain weight, has touched 4 obstacles.
He Knocked 2 fences and Practically crossed by foot the 2 water obstacles and stopped to drink from the 3rd . He received 16p penalty which resulted in a -1p total score.
A Fan captured horse knocking fence knocking cain moments:

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The one hour break in between rounds was a great time to experience A Fashion for horses Event. 7 exquisite hats for horses were brought into auction. The Crown Jewel of the auction was a red silky hat

That was bought for 12,700 NSD by none other than Choco Twigs Food Industries:

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** 24 riders moved to the 2nd round which results can be found bellow **


Its interesting to note that while 24 of the best riders have moved from the 1st to 2nd round, the gap between last round result was huge.
Lt. Col. Uranus DeVries from Lysandrion, gave one of the worse ever demonstration of strategy, horse footwork and spirit. Guests could have heard his screams and swears at the horse – at the Observers Seats. Beside the fact that he touched 3 dry obstacles (3p) & 2 wet (8p), he also knocked 2 fence bars (8p) and stopped before a water ditch (8p), which resulted in a total score of -7 points.
Judge Rogers commented that “he could have just walked the horse by foot. It would have saved both him & the horse an agony”
Captain Gavin Squall from Airship Armada was the only rider to jump smoothly on 18 out of the 20 obstacles. Unfortunately for him, his horse did knock two fences down which resulted in an 8p penalty and stopped before The Apex (Corner Obstacles which resulted in another 8p penalty.
It resulted in a total score of 4 points, which is a shame consider he was able to demonstrate a smooth jump over the Apex, in the 1st round as can be seen in this footage:
Winners
:congrats:
** Its important to mention that all 3 medalists were able to control their horses in away that prevent the horse from feeling insecure. In other words, none of the horses stopped before an obstacle **
Cessna Miller from Herzil unlike her 1st round where everything ran smoothly, she was able to demonstrate in the final round a less old school techniques. While her horse didn’t stop before any of the obstacles, and was able to jump over 14 dry obstacles without a problem. She did touch the first water ditch (4p) and her horse knocked the 2nd bar on the Wood Parallel Oxer (4p).
Her total score was 12 which landed her The Gold Medal
:congrats:
Second was Queen Chrysalis from The Changeling Horde. Her Majesty showed great technique & control of the horse. Guests could have sworn she was “one with the horse”.
While her horse didn’t stop for a second and dropped no bars. He did touch 5 dry obstacles including the famous “Brush me Tender” Bull Finch

Which resulted later in 5p penalty and 1 wet, resulting in 4p penalty which granted her a total score of 11points and landed her The Silver Medal
:congrats:
Last is Natsumi Tsujimoto from Goddess Relief Office a well known rider in The Apres-Wet Jumps scenery. Tsujimoto, Showed great skills while jumping all 5 of the wet obstacles, without a single drop of water touching her horse.

She did however touched A Trakehner & A large Picnic table which resulted in 2p penalty & later knocked a Triple Bar which gave her 8p penalty and resulted in a total score of 10points and landed her The Bronze Medal
:congrats:
*** This Concludes our Horse Jumping Tournament with 3 Medalists ***
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[align=center] *** The Gent Olympic Stadium has been fully packed since early morning as guests arrived to watch The Gymnastic Floor Exercise Tournament ***
According to an early debriefing by the Head judge this tournament, Judge Hyacinth Aciditéi, The Athletes were to be judged by 7 Parameters. Number of Exercises required were set to 3. Winning was based on a Combination of points given to each of the Parameters

The 12mx12m carpet floor has seen more feet in the past 10 hours than it has seen since it was donated half a year ago by Boom Candy Inc.

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Several Exercises are worth mentioning:
Natasha Iecava from Elici did A Back Handspring, A Front Handspring & A Cartwheel. The judges were hammered by the lack of creativity in between flips & while she did grace the audience with an Eggplant color outfit which matched her Choreography of a Vegetable Garden, it just wasn’t enough. She Received the lowest Points in the tournament, 57.

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Next was Raul Hernandez from Earth Federation. He graced the judges with 8 different flips. He started with a Front Handspring, followed by Forward Sommersault, then he mesmerized the judges with a little Manly Dance & got to the north west east corner. He started running, doing an Aerial Cartwheel, followed by a Front Walkover, followed by “Kick to the Moon”. He was given 8p for the amount of flips and 10 points for Choreography. Unfortunately, his flips, while were creative, lacked flexibility or difficulty. Judge Mariko commented that they expected much more "off hand flips" which is why he was given 1/5 points for difficulty. He finished with a score of 168.

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Daniel Xavier from Lullary gave a rather unusual and creative performance. He was able to do 6 rather complex moves. He started with a Double Layout Half In, Half Out (2 flips with 180 degree + 1 twist), and finished with a Butterfly kick. He then continue to a full blown ,"Peter & the Wolf Choreography", got to the south west corner and started running doing 2x 360 full flip, finishing with back handspring.
While the judges gave Xavier 10p for Choreography & a nice score for Difficulty, Artistry & Elements as he was able to show great talent!! He only used 3 out of 8 points of the floor which in total resulted in a 180 total score.

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Now to our Winners
* It is interesting to note that all of today medalists have done 8 flips and were differ by the other parameters *
Felisin Paran from Ananke II, gave a superb performance & while the judges only gave her 3 out of 5p for difficulty, she was still able to demonstrate every possible “element in the book” which granted her 5p.
She started with a Simple Back Handspring and finished it with a Split leap. She then continue into her Routine Choreography & got to the other side. She started running doing A Round Off - BackFlip –Stand Full followed by another Flexibility demonstration of a swan dying. Then she moved to the south west corner, started running and did A 2x 360 and finished with a Scissors Leap. Her ability to use the entire floor helped her receive 258p total score and she landed The Gold Medal

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Next was Karolina Khorokova from GALICIA-VOLHYNIA. A well known ex Acrobat and Yoga instructor - scored high on Flexibility 5p out of 5.
She did 8 exercises, she started with an amazing Double Layout Full In, Full Out - two flips completed in the layout body form with the first & second flip having a 360 degree twist.
She then did a Flash Nick with an Aerial Cartwheel and finished with a nice Triple Tuck (Three flips completed in the tuck body). She received just 3p in elements and due to not using the full floor. She received a total of 248 points, landing The Silver Medal.
:congrats:
Tracy Winn From Wuufu decided to grace us with “I’m one with the Hood” Choreography by “Tutu Zambulee”.
Throughout the Exercise she was able to demonstrate great Native techniques and movement of the Isle’s.

She was the only athlete to gain Max points for Difficulty, Artistry & use of Elements. Her Downfall was due to lack of flexibility while only using 5 out of the 8 spots on the floor. Total score was 240p which landed her The Bronze Medal.
:congrats:
Our Final Medalist was Mary Eldridge from New Ecopia. While Eldridge was able to use all spots of the floor, her Choreography was less of expected from a champion of the Gymnastic world. She did give a fine elegant performance, using all 5 elements required while doing: Forward Somersault & an Aerial Walkover executing a complete revolution of the body without touching the ground. She then continue doing an Half Twisting Front Flip & Barany. Her Dance around the corners of the floor didn’t seem to work well with her flips. She finished her exercise with a nice Double pike & a Tuck.

Her total score was 240 which landed her The Bronze Medal
:congrats:
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[align=center] *** What an Adventure we had today at Montagne épuisé where 77 athletes competed in the Down the Mountain Down we Fall, Rum event ***
While the transfer to the area was smooth for most of us, it wasn’t that ease to Judge Nyrph who due to her huge Body structure, looked as if she was trying to import something and stuck it on her body. When the security guard tried to cavity search her, he was knocked down and over several meters away.
Our Debriefing today was done for the first time with a presentation device. It seems the judges thought we will lose us after 10 minutes, so they tried to be as creative as possible – well they were right.
:jester:
We will try to bring the Complex journey with at ease as possible:
We should first state that this isn’t a timed tournament but actually based on points gained vs reductions. First Athletes were taken to the lowest peak of Mount épuisé.
The tournament started with their need to decide whether to drink 1 or 2 liter of rum.
Then they had to ride a wooden log or any other type of barrel shaped log/ vehicle down the mountain slop till bottom (1Km).
They were judged on Navigation of the Log/Barrel, & Stunts they did during the slide.
At the bottom of the mountain they had to drink again 1 or 2 liter of Rum.
Then decide how many mini barrels of (2kg each) they would like to carry (we should emphasis that the barrels are full with Rum but without the seal).
They had to carry the barrels for 1km without spilling Rum.
Once they got to the Waterfall. They had to choose a huge Barrel and ride it down the 160m water fall by doing more stunts.
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** Today athletes had to show not only Endurance but also their ability to hold their liquor along with sense of direction, maneuvering a huge object and strength **
Captain Red Mustach from Innato decided to be bold, draining 2 liters of rum which effected his Navigation Mastery. He was able to do 2 swirls, & 3 side jumps with his barrel, which made him puke his breakfast of Mashed potatoes blueberry and eggs inside the barrel.
When he got to the bottom, & was barely able to get out of his barrel. He decided to drink just one liter of rum (probably had an insight of the up and coming). He then continue to take 4 mini rum barrels, waiting in total 8kg and while slow pacing. He was able to get to the river without spilling a single drop from all 4 barrels which landed him the highest score of 35p.
He then chose to enter this fine Hand painted Rum Barrel. 
And rode it down the waterfall scoring 86p for handling and stunts. Unfortunately his total score was just 157p.
:fans:
Anita Margarita from Scow Creek was a truly troubles waiting to happen. First of all she decided to pick this interesting log She “took” last night from the hoot pub.
She drained 2 liter of Rum (that added to the 7 in total she drank in the past 24 hours). She was barely able to navigate her Log getting 6p in total. Luckily her log was stuffed with pillows which broke the heavy bumps she endured during the sliding. Due to being Hammered during the slide she done 1 jump (by accident we might add) at the beginning and then passed out which granted her just 4p for stunts. She decided to disregard her “Marbles” and drank 2 more liter of rum at the bottom of the mountain. While she was "wise" enough to take just 1 barrel of Rum. She Spilled half of it!! receiving a bad score of (-25p).
When she got to the Waterfall she entered a barrel 3 times her height

& went down getting a bad score of 43 and landing The Worse Tournament score of 28p
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Behemoth Heart from Devil Heart, a well known a Maple Distillery Owner and an AA member Decided like many others to drink 2 liters of Rum. He was able to show some creativity navigating the wooden barrel getting a nice score of 24p for Mastery. While going down he was able to do 12 interesting side slides and jumps including the famous “Loch Dive” which require the barrel to be on the seal edge while sliding & “Leap me away” which requires the barrel to bump twice after jumping like stone on water. He received a nice 48p for Stunts. At the bottom he drank another 2 liter of Rum (How surprising) and decided to carry 4 barrels which he did without spilling a single drop.
He brought his own Canadian maple leaf painted barrel 
Unfortunately for him he received only 77p which landed him a total score of 179p.
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Jack Caraship from Argosalsia was the only Islander to perform 20 stunts during Down the mountain part.
He made several unique, never seen before Jumps, including: “720 Flip” letting the barrel jump and swirl in air for several times before landing. “Gazelle Flip” which has 240 spin in air followed by continue to spin on slop 360. Several seal hedge and crooked hedge. The entire stunts have granted him the max of 80p.
He Received an "Elisse Heroes" award for the “720 flip Eggplant roll” sliding on the seal while swirling, jumping and doing 720 flip.
Now lets get to our Winners:
Aersoldorf athlete was wise enough to go down the mountain which just 1 liter of Rum in his Stomach. Not drunk enough he was able to show great mastery, navigating the barrel without a single scratch (above logical). He receive an high 20 and was granted 38 out 40 points for NM. It is interesting to note that while he was able to control every aspect of the ride he chose to just do 11 stunts. He did the famous “Bean Pivot” using momentum to flip the barrel backward. When he got to the bottom he again drank just 1 liter of rum and decided to carry 4 barrels. He spilled just 1 time which granted him 30p. His Navigation Mastery proved again when he went down the waterfall scoring 100p.

He Received a total of 212p which landed him The Gold Medal.
:congrats:
Next we had Matti Varis from Great-Bohemia, a well known Race Car driver who won several award in recent years. He showed up in a Hand built Barrel Bad-Ass Machine which was approved for the competition by The Committee.

Like our previous participant he was also smart enough to drink just 1 liter of Rum. His Navigation skills on the road have proven worthy also here when he scored 18 out of 20 NM. He was able to perform 15 stunts including the famous “Upside Down Boy you Turn me” followed by “Inside Out, Round and Round” granted him a nice score of 60p.
At the bottom he decided to go for 2 liter of rum, took 4 barrels and didn’t spill a single drop. Unfortunately for him he was granted just 83p for Waterfall which resulted in 207p and landed him The Silver Medal.
:congrats:
Last is Earl Evermind from Lullary who decided to show up half drunk with a luxury & exotic Wooden Bed for the competition.

For some odd reason and against his own logic he decided to drink just 1 liter of Rum. He was able to show above average control of the luxury bed getting 34p. when he got to the bottom he drank 2 liter of rum and it seems that if he could, he would have drank more. He took 3 Barrels of Rum but drank 1 during the 1km distance which resulted in just 2 calculated no spill barrels. Its interesting to note that while he showed up in prestige outfit and luxury bed, he picked a rather Gloomy Barrel for his waterfall ride.

Never the less he received a great score of 94p which landed him The Bronze Medal.
:congrats:
*** This Conclude our long Journey of Rum, with 3 Medalists and an Elisse Heroes Award ***
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[align=center] ** What an hectic day we had today at The Devnir Aquatic Center where 154 athletes demonstrated flexibility, strength and Synchronization **
The Aquatic Center has seen several worthy tournaments in recent years but not as competitive as the one held today.
Out of 77 nations who competed, 47 have moved to the 2nd round and 27 remained in the competition for tomorrow 4th of 5th round.
** The Divers competed in 2 venues: GraceHall & Summerknit **

The Early debriefing suggested 5 rounds: each of the first 3 rounds consist of one jump only, which will be judged on 5 Synchronized marks: Taking off, Height Attained, Synchronized Rotation and twisting, Entering Water and Forward Body position. Score could go from 0 to70 max on each.
Its interesting to note that According to Judge Mortimor the 1st jump was categorized as qualification jump and therefore was much harder than normal starter jumps. As such we would have expected to see many failure dives. Instead more than 50% received high scores, suggesting that we would have a taught competition.



** In the First Round which was also the qualification round, Divers were asked to do Forward 2 1/2 Somersaults in the Pike Position **
The ”Yaar” from The Grendels were able to demonstrate superb Taking off although they missed several inches in the attaining height which judge Nryph was quick to suggest – due to the furry head one of them had(never the less they scored (48/70). They continue with great demonstration of technique and received max 70p on Synchronized rotation and twisting. However, their setback was when entering the water. As for some unknown reason, one of them entered in a Y hands position (by that hitting the water 2seconds after his teammate). Never the less they were able to score a nice 275p which granted them a passage to 2nd round.

Hallie Parker & Annie James from Benevolent Thomas have graced us with one of the worse ever diving experience. Judge Mariko stated she would rather had her hair colored pink than see “that exhausting I cant watch it anymore dive”. Hallie took off 3 seconds after Annie did, which resulted in a bad 9p which of course ruined the height attained. They then moved to the rotation which was disorganized at best. They received 7p for it and should have received 0 but it seems Judge Mariko in an attempt to not look at the bad demonstration pushed the wrong score button which granted them 7p. :rolleyes:
The two were able to improve the lousy score when they entered the water : one entering with her head no hands and one demonstrated a Bouquet. They received the worse score points : 87.
A News Channel was able to catch this very creative 3rd finger in disguise they did when they emerged from the water and saw the score:

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** In the Second Round the remaining divers were asked to do A Reverse 1 1/2 Somersaults in the Pike Position **
Marco & Enzo Paraguas from Almonaster Nuveo famous twins known for their reverse one and a half somersaults with three and a half twists, in the Free position. They Were able to demonstrate less than expected performance. Their take off was mildly damaged due to Enzo positioning himself too far from the edge. As a result they attained different height which resulted in another bad score. They started the rotation with a different backward cycle which they were able to fix but still received just 53/70 points. While they did get a nice 213p it wasn’t enough for the 3rd round requirement of 220.

"Alica Honbergová" from Tukenzzia showed an amazing ability to recover from a bad start. The two divers started with one of the worse Taking off in history of Reverse Somersaults receiving a bad score of 29p which continue with even worse Height attaining. While one diver reached the required height her teammate was 20cm bellow her. Therefore she started the flip with 2seconds delay which resulted in both of them rotating at the same time. This intuition fix was able to land them a nice 69/70p for Synchronized rotation and twisting. They were able to enter the water with a mild difference that resulted in 60p. Receiving a nice score of 245p which enabled them to move to the 3rd round.

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** In the 3rd Round the divers were asked to do A Back 1 1/2 Somersaults, 1 1/2 Twists in the Free Position **
Hans & Franz from NewTexas who are famous for their “Inward Sausage 1 ½ Somersault in tuck position” gave us a midicore performance at best. Franz started his jump with a small delay which resulted in 40p. While their attaining height was of good mark, mostly thanks to Franz being 6’4” while Hans is just 5’8”, they measured rather nicely (although it didn’t impress the judges much as they gave them 60/70). Their setback was at the rotation part. As Hans twisted his body too early and to the wrong side, resulting in a bad synchronized twisting. While they did score 243p which qualified them for the 4th round. They gained the second lowest score from the Texas region.

** This Concludes our First day of Diving with 27 Divers moving to the 4th round **
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[align=center] *** It’s the final day of the Synchronize Diving Tournament with 27 teams moving to the last rounds ***
The competition started 2 hours ago and we already have the results of the 4th round.
Unlike yesterday where each round consisted of one tricky dive, the 4th round consisted of 2 dives in which one was classed as 4.7/5 in difficulty and the second as 3.6/5 in difficulty. Divers received their points according to 4 parameters: The Taking off, Height Attend, Synchronized rotations & twists and Water Entry.
Moving to the final round was based on the summarizing of the 2 jumps & a 340p requirement.

** In the Forth Round, divers were asked to do An Armstand Reverse 2 Somersaults in the Tuck Position & A Forward 2 ½ somersaults, 1 Twist in the Pike Position **
A lot was said & promised for Chickaboo Chancy & Alice Flyte from Improving Wordiness, a famous Triplet that due to an awful accident several years ago remained a Duet. While they weren’t the worse team on the 4th round they weren't good enough to pass the 400p. Their first jump required a lot of balance on both hands and it seems it was too much for Chickaboo who gained a bit of weight during the year which resulted in her starting the jump a bit earlier resulting in a 66p/70. The taking off incident resulted in a slow rotation cycle moments later and bad water entry, granting them a 205p. Their second dive was simply a Mediocre combination of mistakes at best. This Time Alice Stumbled forward taking off before Chickaboo which resulted in a bad 44p. They didn’t attain the same height and therefore Alice started the twist before Chickaboo finished her Somersault. Then Chickaboo out of horror tried to correct the timing mistakes and entered the water the same time as Alice but without doing the Twist which resulted in bad 35p for rotation and 64p for Water entry.
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Syd Vicious Divers were able to show us today that one can always change his colors (for the best). The Team of divers trained by the Famous George Meade, has struck Clay in the first jump. Both divers didn’t show endurance during the Armstand which resulted in a trembling forward the edge and started the jump too quick for which they gained 37p/70.
Their rotation was with a 2.2 seconds delay between the two somersaults which they noticed as one can see from their face expressions:

They ended receiving a bad 189p for the first jump. At the Second jump they were the only divers to receive a 60+ points in a row for Taking off, Height attained and Rotation. The 2nd round truly showed their greatness when they scored 252p, a 60 points upgrade from the 1st round.
One must admit that seeing all these fine divers jumping all day long, does require a lot of hard, solid nerves and patience which is why our Judges have received 1 day of SPA & relaxations at
Dendor Gardens, a serene retreat in the beautiful city of Ebona
 Which they will be able to enjoy tomorrow while teams are getting ready for the final event – The Bossaball.
:jester:

We can see that the 5th Round – Final Round Results have arrived
** For the Final Round, the divers were asked to perform An Inward 4 ½ Somersault Tucked & Back 1 ½ Somersault + 1 ½ Twists in the Free position both dives were marked as 4.8 difficulty **
The Smith Sisters from Wild Mustanges were able to show us interesting creativity during the last round. While they took off almost at the same time, their height attained was off at best. As a result they were able to attain same rotation only during the 2nd to 3 ½ cycle which resulted in a bad 52/70 for S.R.T, they did however enter the water at the same time which results in a 64/70. Their second jump started badly with the youngest taking the take off a bit too early. & while they were able to achieve good score for Height & Rotation of 60/70 for both, it wasn’t enough to get them a Medal.

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The ”Deep Dive” Team from Argoslasia started with a great take off at the first jump (70/70) that deteriorated from there on. It seems their ability to attain same height for the inward was malfunctioned at best and resulted in a bad Rotation of the Somersault tucks, they received a penalty of 19 points for not tucking their legs enough during the rotation.

Some of the fans at the Observers seats, called it an Harsh Judgment & “Booooo” Judge Rogers, who was quick to pull his gun waving it in front of the Fans who mellow down instantly. It seems the first diving was enough to change the Deep Divers Moral & Spirit which resulted in a small change to their points in the second jump, but not enough for the Bronze.
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Winners:
“Yaar” From The Grendels have graced us with a great performance during the first jump. They had a perfect Take Off gaining 70/70 points. They were able to attain almost same height which landed them a nice 66/70. Their rotation did have a small delay between the 1st and 2nd somersaults which resulted in a 66p instead of 70. Their Setback was at entering the water. It seems one of the divers swimsuits was loosen during the dive and it slipped down (or up) during the str8 dive into the water. He tried to catch the briefs from falling which resulted in entering the water in head first, landing them a bad 47p. Their Second Dive was Average but it should still be worth mentioning as they were the only divers to receive a Perfect 70p score for the Rotation and Twists. Never the less they received a 497 points total which landed them The Gold Medal.
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Next were Hans & Franz from NewTexas. The Divers performed same level of Professionalism in both Jumps, getting almost the same score in both dives (a rather rare occasion). They received a nice 497p in total which put them with The Grendels, Landing them A Gold Medal.

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Grand Sir Mondo Skruvetůp and Dame Michelle Montisquew from The Duckyian Empire, have shown us that Old School diving never dies.
They gave a remarkable performance at the first dive mostly due to their ability to correct the Height attained (which received a bad 41p). In the Second dive, they were the only divers to achieve consecutive Max points (70/70) on both Height Attain & Synchronized Rotation & Twists. Their final score of 486p landed them The Silver Medal.
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The Tallin Jumpers from Scepez had a rough start with the Take Off resulted in a bad 44p. They were however able to correct themselves during the Height Attained which resulted later on in A Superb Somersaults Rotations landing them 70/70.

But for some unknown reason one of them withdrew his hand during the water entry which resulted again in a bad 41p.
They were able to start the second dive with a great Take off which landed them a 70p, but due to an problem in the height mark their somersault resulted in a small delay. Never the less they gave a great twist rotation Which they received 68p for.

The Received a total of 469p which landed them The Bronze Medal.
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*** This Concludes our Synchronized Diving Tournament with 4 Medalists ***
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Aug 21 2014, 03:49 AM
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[align=center] *** It’s a fine blue skies with a bit of feather clouds, here at De Gent Olympic Park where 78 teams were matched up for the Bossaball Tournament ***
** To Those who aren’t familiar with the Game. Try to think about it as a combination of Volley ball, soccer, gymnastics and capoeira. All body parts included on a Huge air bed & Trampoline **
Judge Mortimor was nice enough to drew us a map earlier which we couldn’t understand as he was “half drunk” from last night-early morning-early afternoon Hula parties, so he was excused and retired to rest his head at the Sea & Oysters pub at De Gent Beach.
We were however able to get our hands on this lovely Brochure distributed by the Olympic Committee

According to Judge Rogers while the points are given for same reason, aka hitting the other side Trampoline or court. It seems that it differs on whether the hit was done with the hands or with other body parts – giving much higher points earned if it was delivered by body parts other than the hands.
Each round consist of 3 matches between the two teams, those who move to the next round need to obtain 25p.

First we had The Guyopolis Bossaball Club from Shy Guyia, against Earth Bossaball Division from The Earth Federation. The Team from Shy Guyia, have graded us with one of the fearsome, no time to rest attack 3 matches. They were able to score 25-6, 25-4, 25-10 in a matter of few minutes for each of the matches.
Practically Hi-jacking each match.
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The Bridgeburners from Ananke II, decided to show up in An Hula Islands Team outfits which brought the wrath of the gods or in our case, the anger of their rivals The Ephesians from Deep South Borland. The 2nd match escalated when the head of The Ephesians team directed his attack at the Bridgeburners teammates after one of the girls on the Bridgeburners team decided to do a little red riding hood dance which resulted inher hit in in the stomach by the ball.
One can see in this footage her body several seconds after the hit

While Ananke II team protested, Judge Nyrph declared that the match should continue as it didn't contradict the rules.
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Finally The Emu Kings from Great-Bohemia gave a nice counter fight after losing the 1st match to Balls of Nobreloen from Elke and Elba.
The kings team consisting of 5 brothers, were able to demonstrate great flexibility and soccer techniques while on the defense at the 2nd match.

The footage was captured while their team counter Elke and Elba 6th hand serve (at 22p to 20). The Counter attack with the foot landed directly at Elke and Elba Trampoline area granting The Emu Kings 5 points and the match.
The 3rd Match was an interesting change of Tactics. The Emu Kings who received the first serve, shifted from Defense to Aggressive Offense. They were able to gain 4 consecutive serves in a row. They did however had 2 penalty points during a counter attack when The Emu Kings Server Hit the fence with his leg.

Never the less they were able to regain the points to win the 3rd match and moving to the 2nd round.
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[align=center] ** What an interesting morning start here at the Bossaball Tournament **
The results of the 2nd round were published moments ago and it seems some ego stabbing emerged

Aersoldorf national Bossaball team was able to defeat De Gent Bossa League from Herzil: 25:17, 22:25, 25:6.
Worth mentioning is the close encounter 2nd match in which Aersoldorf had the upper hand delivering 6 serves in a row but were penalized twice due to hitting the net once and hitting the ball from the outer boundaries.
De Gent team were able to land two consecutive 5points attacks, once by their server throwing the ball in the air with his thighs then kicking it to the other side.
And once by counter attacking a ball from Aersoldorf, in which De gent back “left defender” caught the ball with his hands, then did a back flip ,360, throwing the ball in the air in which the server back flip himself, hitting the ball in the 180 upright position, landing another 5p and taking the match.

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Another Bash against the wall match was between Flying Monkey Attack Squad from Hydroponic Nation & Antilopa Milkies from HodHasharon.
While we would like to say that it was a fair match…...- it wasn’t!!!
Antilopa Milkies being a Vegetarians team family, spread thinly on power and were barely able to jump let alone counter attack or defend the Balls of fire sent from the Flying Monkey Attack squad.
This footage sent to us by an Islanders Sport Channel was able to capture the lack of spirit and strength demonstrated by Antilopa Milkies:
The Attack Squad (left side) server is seen going for a flat serve while the Antilopa Veggies (right side) look mesmerized & paralyzed unable to move or meet him for a counter attack or defense.
Suffices to say that Hydroponic Nation team won all 3 matches in a quick average time of 2:50minutes per match.
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** 3rd match is schedule to start in an hour from now **[/align]
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