THE GRAND TOURNAMENT of Our Beloved Lady Nyx

[Swanthula]

nnWHEN: TUESDAY, February 2nd, 8:30PM SERVERnWHAT: THE GRAND TOURNAMENT of Our Beloved Lady NyxnnOn TUESDAY the 2nd of February at the stroke of 8 and one half Bells, the entirety of Tribe NYX shall participate in the GRAND TOURNAMENT of Our Beloved Lady Nyx. A series of three large battles shall be held to determine a champion from each match. Each match shall be held in gladiatorial tournament style, where everyone in the ring is against everyone else, and to the winner goes the spoils! The only rule is that there are no rules, so long as you stay within the pit of mortal combat. Gadgetry, cool downs, cheats, tag teaming, gang ups, trickery, stealth, potions and more will help to determine who among us is devoted, and posesses the cunning needed to be a champion of our beloved Lady Nyx. nnThe last man standing from each of the three Battles shall be deemed the champion, and removed from the arena so that the other matches may be completed. By the end of the three matches, three Champions shall be left standing. These three champions shall engage in deadly combat, from which only one woman or man shall remain… the GRAND CHAMPION of our beloved Lady Nyx. nnTHE two lesser champions shall each receive $150 gold as a prizenTHE GRAND CHAMPION shall receive $700 gold as a prize, and hold the title of Grand Championnn_____________________________________________________________________________________nnHOW IT SHALL COMMENCE: nEveryone interested in attending be on and ready 10 minutes prior to the event. Announcements shall be made over the guild stone and invitations to the raid will be sent out by Swanthula or Dracmorda. Once the raid is formed, the location of the event shall be announced. For security purposes, the location will be kept secret until the raid is formed.nnWe shall then usher onlookers into a “safe zone”, then gather the participants into a formationnOnce the battle has begun, those killed must stay down until the champion is declared, at which point our arena chaperones will raise the dead, defeated and dismembered, for the good Lady Nyx has not finished with you. You will have moments to prepare and pray for strength that you do not fail her again.nnnRULES OF ENGAGEMENTn-No OOC chat in party/raid/say or yell is permittedn-Inapropriate/OCC acts (dancing/Mohawk grenades/etc.) are not permitted and shall not be tolerated n-No one not dedicated to the banner of Lady Nyx is to be permitted to this eventn-Disobeying the patron (MC/announcer/organizers) will result in banishment from the eventnnnPOSITITIONS NEEDED------------nWe could use some help with this event! If anyone is interested in any of these positions, reply to the post here and we’ll contact you about a rehearsal time and your costume. Thanks!nnGladiators--------------------nWhat Is Expected: fight to the deathnHow To Apply: reply here with your name and GLADIATOR before itnnSecurity Scouts--------------nWhat Is Expected: monitor the area for possible Alliance raiding parties, keeping alliance andnUninvited guests at bay, protecting the partakers of the event. nHow To Apply: reply here with your name and SCOUT before itnnArena Chaperone----------nWhat Is Expected: preparing for a “safe zone”, chaperoning guests to the safe zone, organizing the fighters into an area before, during and after each fight; resurrecting fallen warriors between battle.nHow To Apply: reply here with your name and CHAPERONE before itnnWE LOOK FORWARD TO TESTING YOUR METTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Galeandra]

GLADIATOR Galeandra shall answer your call!nnSign me up =)nn~ Galeandra ^_^

[Naught]

Oh this looks like fun. If Naught were 80 I'd definitely be down for joining this.

[Scarhoof]

This was a blast, i look forward to seeing any pics/videos that might have been taken. Also, im very sorry for having to leave right after Georgehoof had defeated me in the final round, I had something come up that needed my attention ( I logged out as a ghost in blade's edge ), I hope we can do more events like this and I look forward to it being more healer friendly.

[Galeandra]

This was a great experience for us. Think the more we do events similar to this, the more confident we'll be on the battlegrounds since the who 'fear of getting killed by a player' issue would be long gone. That'll definitely make a difference!nnAs much as I loved the experience, I have to give my two cents in hopes of finding ways to improve the event =)nn- Everyone for themselves, no formed teams. However, there wasn't anything stated about enemies helping each other until they decide to kill one another . That was my tactic of survival. Remember, keep your friends close, your enemies, even closer.nn- Instead of having 3 all out melee competitions with the winners from the 3 competing at the end, let's get a tier system going:nnFirst Round: All out, no holds barred, fight with the last one standing. Only exception is if the last two fighting have a stalemate after 7 minutes of endless fighting. In that case, both win that round. Point of this round is pure survival.nnSecond Round: Selected team fighting. Four teams of 5 fight to the death (Ideally the 5v5 arena teams that are being formed this week). Point of this is teamwork. The winning team can select who goes to the final round (but can only select from those left standing. So if one is left, that one is going to the final round). However, the team as a whole will win a team prize.nnThird Round: All out, no holds barred, bridge fight. Similar to the first round except everyone participating has to remain on the bridge. If you are thrown off, or step off, you lose and must mount right away to get out of the way. The boundaries of the bridge is literally the bridge (The wood part), nothing else. Again, if more than one survives and the final 1v1 battle last more than 7 minutes, both will win that round. Point of this round is survival in close quarters.nnFourth Round: All champions from the last three rounds fight to the death. Last one standing wins. Should the last two fight for longer than 7 minutes, the leader of this event will time their fight for 2 minutes (with a yell warning) and the moment the two minutes are up, the one with the most HP wins. If both happen to have full health, we declare both the winner, split the earnings, and then everyone watching will go down and take them out =)nnSo, the point of all this is variety as oppose to 3 rounds of no holds barred. Hope you like my the idea ^_^nn~ Galeandra ^_^

[Aitana]

The event itself was very enjoyable. I am glad people had fun and we will hold other events in the future.nnI was very disappointed on one point that had nothing to do with the organization of the event. This was an RP event. We just got done having a guild meeting where people expressed the desire for more face to face RP. Here we all were in a setting that was perfect for face to face RP. So what happened? Lots of in character discussion? No. When we had a bunch of us standing around there was lots of silliness that had nothing to do with our characters. That's not to say that there was no in character discussion or behavior, but far less than I expected there would be and much more behavior that we would have reported had somebody from outside the guild started doing in the midst of our event. In discussing it afterwords, it was brought up that there are many people in Nyx that are new to RP. We will be working more on events that help people learn how to RP and develop their characters.