IllySPN Tournament Commentary

DAY 2

Welcome to day 2 of IllySPN's coverage of The Harnessing the Elementals Tournament brought to you in today in association with StormCrow Vision (available on all good servers soon™).  Still early days in the tournament but here is the news and views. 

Yesterdays leaders at the top of the board, HotAttack [Crow] and Aridil [H?], are today joined by Tanis [Curse], Korg! [Curse] and Makanalani [CoK]. All 5 players have binded 3 elementals each to their cities.

The hottest contested alters over the last day are the Fire Alter at [-500,500] with over 70k casualties, the Water Alter at [500,0] over 60k casualties and the Air Alter at [-500,-500] with over 24k casualties.

Today's 'Should've gone to Spec Savers' Award for friendly fire goes to Sloter and Mandarin31 of [VIC]. Their confrontation at the Fire Alter at [-500,500] accounted for the lives of nearly 40k souls between them in only one encounter.... OUCH!  Unfortunately this reporter was too lazy to ask for sounds bites from either party.

Stay tuned to IllySPN for further coverage of the tournament.... Its not just the Alters of Fire that are heating up!

Tournament Rankings

Individual - Fire Elementals [-500|500] in Kal Tirikan Player Count 1. Tanis [Curse] 3 2. Thexion [H?] 2	Individual - Earth Elementals [0|500] in Norweld Player Count 1. AmrothAnguireal [REIGN] 2 2. Azreil [VALAR] 1 2. JCD64 [FDU] 1
Individual - Air Elementals [500|500] in Windlost Player Count 1. HotAttack [Crow] 3 2. G0DsDestroyer [Sir] 2 2. KillerPoodle [H?] 2	Individual - Water Elementals [500|0] in Mal Motsha Player Count 1. Korg! [Curse] 3 2. ThingelloAnguireal [REIGN] 2 3. Carl Zeis [CoK] 1 3. mrchocotaco [mCrow] 1
Individual - Fire Elementals [500|-500] in Turalia Player Count 1. Sloter [VIC] 1 1. Belargyle [Dlord] 1 1. ScottFitz [mCrow] 1 1. Underworld3 [Good] 1 1. Mandarins31 [VIC] 1	Individual - Earth Elementals [0|-500] in Arran Player Count 1. Makanalani [CoK] 3 2. themackd [TMOT] 2 3. Purple Rain [TMOT] 1 3. torshavn [H?] 1
Individual - Air Elementals [-500|-500] in Lan Larosh Player Count 1. Aradil [H?] 3 2. Llyorn Of Jaensch [H?] 2 3. Iduna [Curse] 1	Individual - Water Elementals [-500|0] in Keppen Player Count 1. Iduna [Curse] 2 1. Nesse [Druid] 2 3. fluffy [mCrow] 1 3. YourBestFriend [=EOQ=] 1

Tournament Altar History

	Altar of Fire [-500|500] in Kal Tirikan		Altar of Earth [0|500] in Norweld
Held by:	Tanis [Curse] from Tan Castle	Held by:	Silverfox [mCrow] from Cumberland
Recent History		Recent History
Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 12:36:15 Tanis' [Curse] Reinforcing army fromS.W. Tan 0 18 Jun 12:03:44 Iduna's [Curse] Occupying army from Aure 2,407 18 Jun 11:53:59 Hevneren's [=CE=] Attacking army from Nyborg 371 18 Jun 11:23:56 Iduna's [Curse] Occupying army from Hisime 4,508 18 Jun 11:15:04 Oxford's [Curse] Occupying army from Ox 1,580 18 Jun 11:05:25 Iduna's [Curse] Occupying army from Aure 3,850 18 Jun 11:00:12 Iduna's [Curse] Occupying army from Belethil 3,207 18 Jun 10:54:13 Hevneren's [=CE=] Occupying army from Miklagard 379 18 Jun 10:33:47 Iduna's [Curse] Occupying army from Mani Naa Ta ? 4,215 18 Jun 10:32:35 Oxford's [Curse] Occupying army from Firgo 1,716 18 Jun 10:30:18 Tanis' [Curse] Reinforcing army fromTan Valley 0 18 Jun 07:34:51 Tanis' [Curse] Reinforcing army fromTanville 0 18 Jun 07:00:24 Tanis' [Curse] Reinforcing army fromTan Town 0 18 Jun 06:48:24 Tanis' [Curse] Reinforcing army fromTan Dale 0 18 Jun 05:59:11 pepe's [Curse] Occupying army from1.TORREMS 17 18 Jun 03:41:37 Oxford's [Curse] Occupying army from Ford 1,330 18 Jun 03:29:41 Tanis' [Curse] Reinforcing army fromTan S.O.C. 0 18 Jun 02:57:19 Naper's [TMOT] Occupying army from 1. LC Hills 55 18 Jun 02:56:57 Naper's [TMOT] Occupying army from 1. LC Hills 5,639 18 Jun 01:52:34 Tanis' [Curse] Reinforcing army fromTan Castle 0		Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 12:16:12 Silverfox's [mCrow] Occupying army from Cumberland 883 18 Jun 11:05:39 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Raiding army from River Keep 336 18 Jun 10:17:38 Kurdruk's [VALAR] Occupying army from Fangcrags 0 18 Jun 10:11:52 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Attacking army from South Keep 0 18 Jun 10:11:41 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Attacking army from West Woods 1,824 18 Jun 09:59:57 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Raiding army from Warin 922 18 Jun 09:41:56 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Attacking army from Esgaroth 3,702 18 Jun 09:41:01 themackd's [TMOT] Occupying army from judgementDay 133 18 Jun 09:33:13 Kurdruk's [VALAR] Raiding army from Icenmoor 63 18 Jun 08:16:22 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Raiding army from Warin 106 18 Jun 07:06:50 Sho'Nuff's [H?] Occupying army fromBelgorad 1,983 18 Jun 05:49:15 JCD64's [FDU] Occupying army fromMJ12 319 18 Jun 04:43:34 Blexius' [Crow] Occupying army from Grummanland 68 18 Jun 03:53:25 Sho'Nuff's [H?] Occupying army fromCallisto 3,227 18 Jun 01:54:56 AmrothAnguireal's [REIGN]Reinforcing army from Haleth Drymgalladuer 0 17 Jun 22:45:34 AmrothAnguireal's [REIGN]Occupying army from Abbey of the Fountain 1,920 17 Jun 22:21:09 Nesse's [Druid] Occupying army fromSilver Hall 1,459 17 Jun 22:12:40 deansieboy's [FDU] Reinforcing army from T.N.T 0 17 Jun 21:49:29 deansieboy's [FDU] Occupying army from High Voltage 1,021 17 Jun 20:58:21 Sho'Nuff's [H?] Reinforcing army fromAtatoxis 0
	Altar of Air [500|500] in Windlost		Altar of Water [500|0] in Mal Motsha
Held by:	KillerPoodle [H?] from NE-Poodleville	Held by:	Korg! [Curse] from Temple of Korg
Recent History		Recent History
Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 00:26:53 KillerPoodle's [H?] Occupying army from NE-Poodleville 61 17 Jun 16:51:21 G0DsDestroyer's [Sir] Occupying army from Jötunheim 5,393 17 Jun 13:39:41 KillerPoodle's [H?] Occupying army from NE-Poodleburg 2,407 17 Jun 00:58:54 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Attacking army from Windlost Isle 340 16 Jun 17:27:11 HotAttack's [Crow] Occupying army from Utkant 0		Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 12:07:52 ThingelloAnguireal's [REIGN]Occupying army from Haleth Tinuviel 2,343 18 Jun 12:04:15 Hora's [VIC] Occupying army fromGermanium 2,686 18 Jun 11:52:21 ThingelloAnguireal's [REIGN]Occupying army from Haleth Nargarond 1,517 18 Jun 10:00:11 gixy's [Curse] Occupying army fromgixy V 8,086 18 Jun 09:57:33 gixy's [Curse] Occupying army fromgixy VII 1,759 18 Jun 09:19:06 Detritus' [VIC] Attacking army fromCori Celesti 1,122 18 Jun 06:49:53 Yeklef's [VIC] Attacking army fromDownTown 480 18 Jun 05:46:27 mrchocotaco's [mCrow] Occupying army from The Dreadfort 231 18 Jun 03:55:51 Korg!'s [Curse] Reinforcing army fromThe Citadel of Korg 0 18 Jun 00:57:28 Carl Zeis' [CoK] Occupying army from Dinas o Dân 240 17 Jun 21:26:15 Korg!'s [Curse] Reinforcing army fromKorg Keep 0 17 Jun 21:23:25 Korg!'s [Curse] Reinforcing army fromKorg Keep 0 17 Jun 21:22:38 Korg!'s [Curse] Reinforcing army fromSpear of Korg! 0 17 Jun 21:22:34 Korg!'s [Curse] Occupying army fromTemple of Korg 1,174 17 Jun 21:22:12 Korg!'s [Curse] Occupying army fromCastle Korg! 10,685 17 Jun 21:21:48 Korg!'s [Curse] Occupying army fromShield of Korg! 8,739 17 Jun 21:21:05 Korg!'s [Curse] Occupying army fromThe Crucible of Korg 2,976 17 Jun 20:55:23 Korg!'s [Curse] Occupying army fromCastle Korg! 13,357 17 Jun 20:50:51 Korg!'s [Curse] Occupying army fromThe Citadel of Korg 5,800 17 Jun 18:02:05 Chellyndrial's [REIGN] Occupying army from Abbey of the Morning Star 4,252
	Altar of Fire [500|-500] in Turalia		Altar of Earth [0|-500] in Arran
Held by:	Belargyle [Dlord] from 1. Argylian	Held by:	themackd [TMOT] from JaMacka
Recent History		Recent History
Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 12:23:36 Lune Noire's [Crow] Occupying army from Moork 722 18 Jun 06:44:00 Naper's [TMOT] Occupying army from 6. HFS 12 18 Jun 06:43:38 Naper's [TMOT] Occupying army from 6. HFS 3,011 18 Jun 05:41:21 Belargyle's [Dlord] Occupying army from 1. Argylian 1,020 18 Jun 01:19:17 Selwyn's [WE] Attacking army fromNew Settlement 6 18 Jun 01:07:38 Mandarins31's [VIC] Occupying army from # 1Carcas 10,790 18 Jun 00:15:24 Mandarins31's [VIC] Occupying army from #3 Lyons 15,349 17 Jun 23:27:51 beeftor's [VALAR] Occupying army from Ilium 1,169 17 Jun 23:24:01 Lune Noire's [Crow] Occupying army from Moork 255 17 Jun 23:03:54 Shuey707's [BSH] Occupying army from 01 R'lyeh 113 17 Jun 21:23:31 Mandarins31's [VIC] Occupying army from #2 Tolos 1,131 17 Jun 20:49:16 Sloter's [VIC] Occupying army fromPort Reef 12 17 Jun 19:39:31 Naper's [TMOT] Reinforcing army from 5. CarpLand 0 17 Jun 19:39:11 Naper's [TMOT] Occupying army from 5. CarpLand 0 17 Jun 19:16:46 Mandarins31's [VIC] Attacking army from #4 Paris 39,431 17 Jun 18:40:23 Sloter's [VIC] Reinforcing army fromVault 0 17 Jun 18:35:00 Sloter's [VIC] Reinforcing army fromPort Sands 0 17 Jun 17:47:52 Sloter's [VIC] Occupying army fromDeadwood 867 17 Jun 16:36:38 ScottFitz's [mCrow] Occupying army from Penzance 470 17 Jun 16:25:45 Michael keven's [Crow] Occupying army from Filiolus Alveus 59		Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 09:14:33 themackd's [TMOT] Reinforcing army from JaMacka 0 18 Jun 05:18:19 Makanalani's [CoK] Occupying army from Umbra 3,605 17 Jun 23:45:49 themackd's [TMOT] Reinforcing army from been there 0 17 Jun 23:19:34 Rupe's [WE] Occupying army fromHatherley 1,640 17 Jun 23:13:11 themackd's [TMOT] Occupying army from macmanus 414 17 Jun 22:53:44 Anjire's [H?] Occupying army fromDuncton Woods 646 17 Jun 20:21:29 Purple Rain's [TMOT] Occupying army from 1. Stone Haven 63 17 Jun 19:58:15 Nesse's [Druid] Occupying army fromNessetown 4,727 17 Jun 17:38:27 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Samarkand 452 17 Jun 17:01:49 Rhea's [0-0] Occupying army from1) Kolob 5,188 17 Jun 16:12:51 pepe's [Curse] Attacking army from8. Arroyo Seco 1,973 17 Jun 15:37:55 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Valhalla 1,051 17 Jun 15:27:56 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Udinshavn 431 17 Jun 15:25:09 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Heimdallshejm 579 17 Jun 15:20:18 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Fjolkyngi 1,045 17 Jun 15:18:35 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Udinsberg 558 17 Jun 15:01:53 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Torshavn 448 17 Jun 15:01:27 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Torsberg 378 17 Jun 12:58:58 Makanalani's [CoK] Reinforcing army from Juvendelphi 0 17 Jun 12:31:14 Makanalani's [CoK] Reinforcing army from Centreloc 0
	Altar of Air [-500|-500] in Lan Larosh		Altar of Water [-500|0] in Keppen
Held by:	Llyorn Of Jaensch [H?] from Munich of Bavprinc	Held by:	Iduna [Curse] from Belethil
Recent History		Recent History
Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 11:54:45 Jasche's [VIC] Occupying army fromMithral Hall 617 18 Jun 11:08:58 Jasche's [VIC] Occupying army fromFelbarr 769 18 Jun 08:48:22 beetchin's [H?] Occupying army fromz Forest North mage r 3,085 18 Jun 07:07:15 Jasche's [VIC] Occupying army fromSundabar 400 18 Jun 01:39:51 Llyorn Of Jaensch's [H?] Occupying army from Munich of Bavprinc 3,969 18 Jun 00:29:37 Jeaway's [T?] Occupying army fromNarnia 160 17 Jun 20:33:50 Iduna's [Curse] Occupying army from Atalante 2,956 17 Jun 19:51:29 Ricky500's [L W O] Occupying army from Ricky Ranch 7,667 17 Jun 18:39:17 Kellen Voreathel's [T?] Occupying army from Tor Vall 6 17 Jun 16:54:07 Othenan's [L W O] Occupying army from Chirakkal 36 17 Jun 16:50:22 torshavn's [H?] Occupying army from Torsberg 266 17 Jun 16:08:59 Llyorn Of Jaensch's [H?] Occupying army from Augsburg of Bavprinc 2,307 17 Jun 15:39:10 Selissa's [Curse] Occupying army from Forest of the Nymphs 0 17 Jun 13:24:43 Siro's [FDU] Occupying army fromAdlertown 501 17 Jun 10:36:39 nightfury's [T?] Occupying army from Small Town 1 17 Jun 07:22:32 Siro's [FDU] Occupying army fromAdlertown 125 17 Jun 05:31:20 Aradil's [H?] Reinforcing army fromElmwood 0 17 Jun 05:14:39 Danathan's [FDU] Attacking army from Alathant 85 17 Jun 04:48:17 Aradil's [H?] Occupying army fromElmwood 3,416 17 Jun 04:44:01 Finnnn's [L W O] Reinforcing army from um 0		Arrival Casualties 18 Jun 12:19:36 OZ the Magnificent's [VALAR]Occupying army from Ev 1,255 18 Jun 08:52:16 fluffy's [mCrow] Occupying army from Snickerdoodle(a) 4 18 Jun 08:50:01 Mr_Smiley's [T?] Attacking army from Cadsbury 990 18 Jun 04:09:18 Westy_000's [VALAR] Occupying army from Kentinkulamar 24 18 Jun 04:02:14 John Louis' [Curse] Occupying army from John Louis 28 18 Jun 03:00:17 Westy_000's [VALAR] Occupying army from Kentinkulamar 5 18 Jun 02:30:31 Iduna's [Curse] Occupying army from Belethil 164 18 Jun 01:28:22 darkone's [VALAR] Occupying army from Lonesome 1,195 17 Jun 20:15:40 YourBestFriend's [=EOQ=]Occupying army from 1) Wood 25 17 Jun 17:59:24 Siro's [FDU] Occupying army fromAdlerville 88 17 Jun 17:39:52 Ekis' [Calcr] Occupying army fromEkisisity 4 17 Jun 16:07:06 fluffy's [mCrow] Occupying army from Snickerdoodle(a) 0 17 Jun 13:59:03 Mr_Smiley's [T?] Occupying army from Buffalo 547 17 Jun 13:45:36 Robertum's [H?] Occupying army from Robville 183 17 Jun 13:33:25 Pure's [WE] Occupying army fromEpru 898 17 Jun 13:16:28 nipirt777's [TMOT] Reinforcing army from Sherwood Forest 0 17 Jun 09:18:05 nipirt777's [TMOT] Occupying army from Yasmine 0 17 Jun 09:05:28 pepe's [Curse] Attacking army from7.Alameda 0 17 Jun 08:17:24 Wild Blue Belle's [T?] Occupying army from Enoch 560 17 Jun 08:08:33 Mr_Smiley's [T?] Occupying army from Agoraphobia 383

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DAY 3 (Part One)

Welcome back to IllySPNs coverage of the latest blood drenched tournament to take place in Illyria. Today's coverage is brought to you in association with TC Fortune Tellers... One moment their there, the next they're gone!  Here's the news and views, the comings and goings from the last 24 hours.

Tied at the top of the leader board yesterday, today Tanis [Curse] made his bid for glory with a perfect day and ending up leading all comers with 7 fire elements binded to his cities. Nipping at his heels was another player with a good day, Llyorn of Jaensch [H?] was in fact tied at the top also with 7 elements binded to him from two different Altars. Leading the chasing pack with 5 elementals also from two Altars was Iduna [Curse], followed closely followed by Hora [VIC] with 4 water elementals binded to him.

The hottest contested Altars in the past 24 hours were the Norweld Altar of Earth with over 55k casualties and the Altars of Fire in Kal Tirikan and Turalia with over 35k and 22k lost souls respectively.

The largest confrontation of the day also took part at the Kal Tirikan Alter with Beserker [Curse] battling his opponent in an epic bout costing the lives of over 23k Illyrian souls.

The Blooper Award for the day is currently unconfirmed, however it appears since the tournament began one player has attacked his own alt not only once, but TWICE... OUCH!  Hopefully we will receive confirmation on this shortly.

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Welcome back Lords and Ladies to Day 4 of the IllySPN coverage of the Harnessing the Elementals Tournament. Today's post is sponsored by Gnome Brew 0.1...  'The beer so weak its like making love in a canoe!' Here's all the action from the last 24 odd hours.

Iduna [Curse] is now the stand alone leader at the top of the leader board with a massive 13 elementals binded to her across 4 different Altars. Llyorn of Jaensch [H?] is second with a total of 9 elementals binded to him across two Altars. Asked to comment on the secret of his success Llyorn commented, ' Protein's alright. Carbs are the enemy.' Trailing just behind is Tanis [Curse] with 8 fire elementals binded to his cities from the Altar at [-500|500]. Finishing of the top of the board with 4 water elementals each from the Altar at [500|0] are gixy [Curse] and Hora [VIC].

The hottest contested Altars yesterday were the Earth Altars with over 24k casualties in Norweld and over 23k lost at Arran. They were followed shortly behind by the fire Altar in Turalia with over 21k lost souls.

There we no epic battles (over 10k casualties) at any site yesterday, and the Altar of Air at Lan Larosh actually had no losses at all in the last day.

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Tournament Rankings

Individual - Fire Elementals [-500|500] in Kal Tirikan Player Count 1. Tanis [Curse] 8 2. Iduna [Curse] 3 3. Thexion [H?] 2 4. bow locks [H?] 1	Individual - Earth Elementals [0|500] in Norweld Player Count 1. Sho'Nuff [H?] 3 1. Silverfox [mCrow] 3 3. AmrothAnguireal [REIGN] 2 4. Sloter [VIC] 1 4. Azreil [VALAR] 1 4. Iduna [Curse] 1 4. pepe [Curse] 1 4. JCD64 [FDU] 1
Individual - Air Elementals [500|500] in Windlost Player Count 1. HotAttack [Crow] 3 2. G0DsDestroyer [Sir] 2 2. Jack Aubrey [Dlord] 2 2. KillerPoodle [H?] 2 2. Xaylia [Dlord] 2 2. Jake the Snake [mCrow] 2 7. Llyorn Of Jaensch [H?] 1 7. Belargyle [Dlord] 1	Individual - Water Elementals [500|0] in Mal Motsha Player Count 1. gixy [Curse] 4 1. Hora [VIC] 4 3. Korg! [Curse] 3 4. ThingelloAnguireal [REIGN] 2 5. Carl Zeis [CoK] 1 5. mrchocotaco [mCrow] 1
Individual - Fire Elementals [500|-500] in Turalia Player Count 1. Mandarins31 [VIC] 3 2. Fotis [Dlord] 2 2. Belargyle [Dlord] 2 4. ScottFitz [mCrow] 1 4. Purple Rain [TMOT] 1 4. Sloter [VIC] 1 4. Underworld3 [Good] 1 4. Rhea [0-0] 1	Individual - Earth Elementals [0|-500] in Arran Player Count 1. Rupe [WE] 3 1. Makanalani [CoK] 3 3. themackd [TMOT] 2 3. Pasi [WE] 2 3. G0DsDestroyer [Sir] 2 6. torshavn [H?] 1 6. Amorphias [H?] 1 6. Purple Rain [TMOT] 1
Individual - Air Elementals [-500|-500] in Lan Larosh Player Count 1. Llyorn Of Jaensch [H?] 8 2. Aradil [H?] 3 3. Trix [L W O] 1 3. Iduna [Curse] 1	Individual - Water Elementals [-500|0] in Keppen Player Count 1. Iduna [Curse] 8 2. Rymis [peac3] 3 3. Nesse [Druid] 2 4. fluffy [mCrow] 1 4. YourBestFriend [=EOQ=]

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