IceDancer Challenge Results.

[DoF Archive]

Date: 3/22/2003 10:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: HOST Game Snow


Outback, March the twenty-second. 
Seven bells of the evening. 

Multiple-time opal holder Anubis Karos pressed challenge upon new-minted defender Grayson MacLeod for the rights to bear the blue opal, IceDancer. 

Battle the first:

As is customary, the participants were sent first to the Ice Rink for the elemental battle.  Grayson would open with the first point, hastily punching over the Egyptian's attempt at a low attack.  This would be the only lead the defender would see in this match for a while, as Karos would feint and counter, then score with the previously ill-fated sweep to gain an early 2-1 lead. 

The score would shift back and forth a few times with Grayson pulling even and Anubis pulling ahead again, until with a duck and counter and a cursed kick Grayson would realize an important 4-3 lead in the eigth round.  Though Karos had shown formidible resolve thus far, he would fall to Grayson's last evasion.

Final: Victory for the Defender, 5-3 in 9 rounds. 

Battle the second: 

Challenger's choice of ring led us to Styx, the high beams.  This battle would be competely one-sided, as Anubis would take whole advantage of the environment to pummel his way to an early 3-0 lead with only one pause for posturing.  In the two successive rounds, the combatants would trade straight punches and then again straight kicks, but Anubis had the better position. 

Final: Victory for the Challenger, 5-2 in 6 rounds. 

Battle the third:

Defender's choice would see the two men decend into the barely-functional Pit.  In this final test, the first three rounds saw both leaping and dodging in tandem, then apart, never with solid contact.  Finally Karos would be the first to land a blow, his fast jab securing him a lead that would only last one round, as Grayson would once again flaunt the curse and land the kick.  The men would exchange blows for a 3-3 score, then Karos would take his turn to secure the clutch 4-3 Match Point lead with an unexpected low block.  In a juxtoposition of the first match, Karos would evade and counter Grayson's final grapple attempt to secure the match. 

Final: Victory for the Challenger, 5-3 in 8 rounds. 

IceDancer now has a new holder, by right of combat. 

Thus witnessed under the eyes of Jack O'Donnelly.