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NEWS ARCHIVE We have a planned Winds of Change
pre-release scheduled for Tuesday 29th July. This is pending at the moment,
waiting for enough commitment to the event from players. A copy of the e-mail
inviting players to participate can be found here.
_____________________________________________________________________________ I've at last managed to get round
to removing frames from this website. Hope you find it better than the
previous version! _____________________________________________________________________________ As far as tournaments go, the new
Clan Rivals has started to kick in; I've got 3 Clan Rivals: Dragon vs Monday 14th July - Saturday 2nd August - Monday 11th August - Details are also posted on the
upcoming tournaments page. As far as the Monday night rivals go, we will endeavour to make sure everyone gets a chance to get the cards. You should mail me directly if you want to express your interest. _____________________________________________________________________________ I'm back from the Irish Kotei,
which was extremely enjoyable. A harty thank you to all the Irish players and
Gordon O'Keefe the TO. Congratulations to Mark Wooton on
winning a kotei on his second attempt this year. This month I will also be going
to GenCon Indy for the end of the Story Arc, but before that we are running a
couple of Clan Rivals events. I have seen the new cards and folders and they
look superb. I would not hesitate to say that they look even better than the
season kits. I would strongly encourage anyone
planning on going to this Sundays Clan Rival event to Pre-Register for the
event. There are only 16 place available and trust me you do not want miss
out on these promos. For the top 4 there are clan
rivals binders which look fantastic. Plus every one will get the new _____________________________________________________________________________ I will be away in http://www.geocities.com/yoritomokurikaeshi/default.htm In the meantime, I have all the
tournaments up-to-date with correct times and dates on the "Upcoming
Tournaments" page. Please avail of the pre-registration page as I will
still be replying to these mails. I will update results upon my return. _____________________________________________________________________________ From 86 players, after 7 rounds
of swiss and 3 knock-out rounds, Ben Palmer from Ben is only a new player to L5R,
having started playing the game in October/November 2002. He is a bright talent
and quickly showed his potential by winning many tournaments and placing
highly in his local area. You can see Ben's consistency on the results page
of this website. In the final, Mark Armitage
(runner-up) playing Corrupt Agasha Rats, conceded the seed at GenCon to Ben
as he knew he would not be able to make the event. It was a most honourable
decision from Mark who has been at the backbone of L5R in this country for
many years. Mark had only just returned to
L5R after a 6 month period. He had all but quit the game and was 2 expansions
behind. For his decision though, he was
more than worthy of his prize as most honourable player, and received an AEG
mug with 200+ rare & promo cards donated by the players who attended the
event. Well done and congratulations to
both of them! * We also had 2 other * Team Jade Cat from * The other top 16 players were: 3rd - Mark Wooton ( Losing Q/finalist - Ben Davies ( Losing Q/finalist - David Slater
- Corrupt Scorpion military 10th - Jim Brophy ( 12th - Angelos Tryfantallyou ( 14th - Chris Marples 15th - Justin Walsh ( A lot of credit for the smooth
running must be placed with Dave Robotham and MC Justin Walsh.. As event TO, Dave kept a calm
head at all times and the event would never have gone so smoothly if not for
his efforts. Justin was fantastic as the very
essential tournament MC, organiser and judging authority. _____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday 12th June: The UK Kotei is almost upon us. I
will be the non-playing judge this year, and I think I'm probably more
nervous about that than if I was actually playing. Anyway, this is just a
quick note to wish everyone good luck this Saturday in The details for the Kotei are
below and on Hidden Fortress' home page (http://www.hidden-fortress.com): The Kotei is being held at the
same venue as last year, the Queens Walk Community Centre in _____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday 27th May: Congratulations to Keith Anderson
on winning Minicon X on Saturday and Alex Jones on winning Hidden Fortress
Sword tournament on Sunday. _____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday 20th May: Best laid plans of mice and
men... Well I've had my first little
hiccup with this site; the tournament pre-registration was not working as the
aliases for the domain had been reset with the webhost when they had a
service outage. It's been restored, but unfortunately any pre-registrations
over the last while have not been received. So I've updated the "Thank
you" page to place a reminder to mail me direct if you do not receive a
confirmation within 12 hours (in practice I reply within 1 hour). I also
posted a message to the L5R-UK list about it. I hope it catches everyone who
may have tried to pre-register while that facility wasn't working. Gotta get that mail
auto-responder working properly for new mail in my mailbox... _____________________________________________________________________________ Friday 16th May: Ok Minicon won't be the first
Heaven & Earth legal tournament, but dammit it will have good prize
support! All players pre-registering for
Minicon X this month will not only receive a £1 discount on the entry fee,
but will also receive an additional Foil Small Farm at the event. Get
registered now by going to the registration page. _____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday 29th April: After a question yesterday about
where to play L5R in _____________________________________________________________________________ Monday 28th April: Seeing as I've just had a plug
for this website from Hidden Fortress on the L5R-UK mailing list today, I
think it only necessary to advise you of an upcoming weekend of tournaments
called Hand of the Shogun they are planning the May Bank Holiday weekend.
This is the same weekend of the Minicon tournaments, but their main L5r
tournament is on the Sunday, whereas Minicons is on the Saturday. So those
addicts among you can get twice the fun! Hidden Fortress upcoming events: http://www.hidden-fortress.com/events.htm I've also added a little page
where I will update the results of this years Kotei winners. For those who
take an interest in the meta-game. GenCon Players planning on travelling to
Minicon X this month will be interested to know that this will be the first
Heaven & Earth legal tournament in the South-East. So it'll be the first
real testing ground for the Kotei in June. Get those games in while you can. |