From goldenbrewtavern.com
Proclamation of the champions!
By EMSeppo
goldenbrewtavern.com
We started out as a crowd, each with a dream!
A dream to become the champion of their peers!
After an astounding 48 duels, we were left with the best of the participants. It was time for the finals!
Mage Finals
The finals began with a loud thump as we went straight into the mage finals. Both of the contestants had to go through an intense pool of challengers to get thus far. In the case of Mage Chushingura, his very first duel in this competition was a nail biter, one that went all the way into a death match. A duel that is bound to be remembered as one of the highlight of the tournament. Mage Taslin Hoffstah, on the other hand, had a more confident road to the finals and was relatively unchallenged.
Needless to say, it was going to be an exciting match up of skills and the crowd knew it. Both duelists had their supporters who were willing to kill each other if needed.
The duel began with each side trying to gain an upper hand on the other. Both of them took turns attacking and defending, but there were no breakthroughs. Soon, as we saw in previous duels involving Mage Chushingura, it was a fight for space to stand as both sides tried to gain an advantage by using poison fields.
Back and forth they went till the entire arena was painted in green. Approaching 17 minutes into the duel, only three minutes away from a death match, Mage Taslin Hoffstah made a critical mistake. Getting overzealous about casting poison fields, he failed to read a full fledged attack by Mage Chushingura. A delay of few seconds was more than enough to break through his defenses and the duel came to an unexpected end.
With this, Mage Chushingura was rightfully proclaimed as, “Chad, The Greatest Magician of All Lands.”
Melee Finals
If anyone in the audience felt cheated with the unexpected end of the mage duel, then the duel between Raza and Taslin in the melee group more than made it up. There were sudden unexpected twists just when you thought that the duel was going nowhere. Raza was on attack for the better part of the duel and he came very close to getting his reward. Once, he had Taslin by the hair! However, Taslin showed that sometimes defence can be the best offence as he survived each of the onslaughts. With no result, the duel entered the death match. Again, Raza started with an upperhand as he was able to get the first disarm in. It seemed all lost for Taslin but he proved to be stout when most needed. When he finally made his move, Raza proved unable to cope with it and folded!
Taslin had won the first duel of the melee final against all odds!
Now, the only person standing between him and the coveted champion title was Stel. Yet unproven due to an aborted semifinal contest, it was hard to prejudge how this will play out. The duel began with each contestant testing the other. It was promising to be another exciting ride when Taslin switched into a full-fledged attack mode. Stel was unable to defend himself and the duel was finished with Taslin as the winner.
With this, Warrior Taslin was proclaimed as, “Taslin (PvM), The Greatest Warrior of All Lands.”