LLD101

[Dao Jones]

Yes sports fans, it's time for the inaugural tournament of the Dao Jones' Cow King Cup! (For those of you that can't say my name without spitting in disgust, you may call this the "White Tourney".) This freestyle, few holds barred open tournament may be the first of its kind on US West, and certainly the first of its kind in these hallowed forums.

What makes it unique? All duelers are completely barred from using any magical items of any kind! No blue, yellow, green, orange or gold gear may be in your character's inventory or equipment screen. No charms, runewords, nothing! Only non-magic items and gems are allowed. This first tournament will allow a maximum of 16 duelers, and enrollment is first come, first serve. (And free!)

And why would you want to enter? What, other than violence and glory would beckon you to this battleground?

A prize!

And not just any prize, either. A chance at the most unique, hard-to-find item in the entire game. So rare, only one of its kind exists. So valuable, men have killed to get a mere glimpse at it. What is this amazing device?

The Dao_Jones' Cow King's Hooves!



This item is unique among its fellows in that it possesses three additional abilities the mundane variety of CK boots sadly lack:

1. These are the ONLY magical item that may be worn in this, or any future tournaments of this series
2. They, unlike other CK boots, have my name on them
3. It is said that the dueler who wears these boots will never lose a pub dueling match (this may have more to do with the skill of the wearer than the power of the boots, but why take chances?)

Full rules of the tournament are as follows:

1. All classes can go to level 30.
2. Dueling process is discussed on page five, post five.
3. Characters may not pass normal difficulty.
4. All skills are allowed except Holy Freeze and Bone Prison
5. No magic, crafted, set, rare, unique or runeworded items may be used. This includes rings and amulets! (Unless you can find non-magic rings or ammys that are also not dupes...) All items must be non-magic, although they can be superior, ethereal, and socketed.
6. No charms of any kind can be used. All duelers must carry 5 polearms in their inventory (non-magic, of course), and present them via trade screen prior to dueling.
7. No runes may be used at any time. All gems are allowed without restriction.
8. No potions may be used at any time during the duel, nor may shrines or wells be activated.
9. No mercenaries of any kind may be used during the duel. Summoned creatures are allowed without restriction.
10. All duelers will meet in the Clan-Honor channel prior to a duel. We will try the honor system (take screenshots) of adjudicating duels, and duelists will have a certain timeframe (4 days) to compete against their opponent. Duels will not necessarily have third-party moderators. If both duelists cannot agree who won, we will have to add moderators to the duels, which will dramatically slow down the speed of this event. (I'm not always on, and even the LLD101 mods need days off, assuming they even agree to help at all...)

Failure to abide by these rules will result in: an automatic 1-duel loss (first offense), and disqualification from the tournament (second offense), not to mention the burning humiliation of knowing you weren't good enough to compete with real duelers.


THE TOURNAMENT WILL BEGIN AFTER JUNE 1ST. In the event less than 16 duelers enter the competition, adjustments will be made to the dueling schedule and competing brackets. If less than 8 duelers sign up, I will probably cry. But as long as at least two people try this out, we have ourselves a tourney. Interested duelers have until June 1st to build and perfect their characters.

Duelers in the Tourney

01. Coatol2
02. Chewie
03. Ehhh
04. lpb
05. DDRFreak
06. T_Maldo


Please post to this thread if you are interested. You are not expected to post your intended character right away, but you will eventually be expected to post the account / character name in your reply post.

Gentlemen, start your engines.

[coatol2]

Wow great idea, this should be fun.

I'm in.

[Chewie]

May I say I'm in for now, just in case it fills up and I regret it? (I may need to drop out due to work/school/whatever)

[Medalmonkey]

[B[x]]

[VoicesLLD]

im in. but...ladder?! man, iv been collecting my gear on NL.

[Medalmonkey]

[ATOMICMAN]

im in

[Ehhh]

Hm count me in for now.

[giantsquid]

[Dao Jones]

[pwned.nl]

Count me in im switching to west realm right now

[Deadly]

I definetly want in this is an awesome idea you had. My preferance is ladder but I'd be willing to resarect a non ladder character and start running cows if I have too.

[VoicesLLD]

the only reason flaw i would see to people starting fresh on west, or fresh on ladder is, getting to cow games in nm/hell. where all the flawless gems and good socketables are. that means they have to make a character for doing cow runs, THEN a character to compete with.

thank god i have a high level hammerdin on ladder. unfortunately, limited socket quests >.<

[Deadly]

Within a day or so I was going to rebuild my norm ladder cower with my new set up. She will have lots of leftover pts I was going to stick into enchant. If your non ladder or comeing from east, I will most likely be willing to enchant lvl to 25 and rush you. Then rush you Nm and hell and hell after you baal on your own. I would need several interested people before I did this. For a large enough group I might even run the baal runs too.

This offer is not available to someone allready on west ladder who just wants to make a new character. I'm rushing cow killers who want to get ready for this tourney and have no other way to really get ready in time.