In this weeks sporting news, the player city of Guardians Gate hosted many of the finest archers in the realm inside the cities famed Coliseum. Fourteen competitors from near and far took aim at the nights 1,000,000  gold purse as six rounds of tight matches took place with many of those coming down to the final shots to be decided.

        In the end there was no match for Lady Sweet Touch as she swept her way through the nights field undefeated not only claiming the nights grand prize but also racking up the nights best ten shot score of 530! Her efforts were worth 2,000,000 gold! Rounding out the top three were Lord Aliric and Lady Pandora respectively. Congratultions to the nights Champion and all who came out to compete!

The following was posted on Stratics Catskills EM Forum  and on EM Barnaby’s Website

by Barnaby

Wednesday, February 13, 9:30pm – Investigator Promotion Ceremony

Saturday, February 16th, 8:30pm – TBD

Sunday, February 17th, 6pm – Catskills Archery League Championship

Sunday, February 24th – “Orcs vs. Savages”

Details for each event will be provided soon.

<Discuss this Article>

The following was posted on Stratics Catskills EM Forum  and on EM Barnaby’s Website

by Barnaby

After seven competitions and thousands of arrows fired, the regular season of the Catskills Archery League has come to a close. Congratulations to Adrian Monk, who finished atop the standings with 48.6 points, including two impressive victories during the season. For the complete final standings, please visit this page.

The CAL Championship Tournament will be held in February, with the top archers from the regular season being invited. Thank you to all the participants this season, and congratulations to the invitees.

CAL Championship Roster:

Adrian Monk

Kyrnia Lathiari

Lil Ernie

Balerion Drogon

Gallion

Jonah Black Heart

Lora DeBlood

pk ghost

Spanky

Dr. Sucio

Psych

Irulia D’Arkaith

Nynaeve

Catlord

CAL Championship Alternates:

Tristan

Blackhawk

Todd

If your name is on this list and you did not fill out a registration book during the season, please contact me with your character name and email.

by Barnaby

As promised, there is one last event in the regular season of the  Catskills Archery League. It isn’t too late to compete and possibly earn  entry in to the Championship that will be held next month.

Registration will begin at 8pm at the EM Hall in Britain. Please note  that this is for Archers only – as usual bows will be provided for your  use. The format for this final event will be a little different than we  have used in the past.

Also, the start of a small event arc will begin late this month and run  through early March – I will be announcing the dates of the first events  after the competition, as well as some other information for upcoming  happenings on Catskill (this information will of course be posted here  as well).

[Discuss This Article]

The following was posted on Stratics Catskills EM Forum  and on EM Barnaby’s Website

by Barnaby

Calling all archers!

The first season of the Catskills Archery League is drawing to a close this month with two events before the big Championship Tournament. Meet EM Barnaby at the EM Hall in Britain at 8pm EST on January 5th. Once everyone has arrived and registered, a moongate will be opened to the location of the competition.

For full rankings, visit THIS PAGE. Points for each event are awarded based on how you finish, and how many people participate. There will be 14 spots in this year’s Championship, with the winners of each regular season event gaining automatic entry. The rest of the spots will be filled based upon the final season rankings. This means that even if you have not participated in one of the previous five events, a good showing in the remaining two could get you into the Championship! For those of you sitting high in the standings, don’t sit these last two events out – finishing in the top spots will give you an advantage during the Championship.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

{Discuss this Article}

The following was posted on Stratics Catskills EM Forum  and on EM Barnaby and EM Leonidas’ Website

by Barnaby

King Blackthorn has ordered gold and supplies be sent to Yew in  order that that town may hold a feast. The purpose of this feast is not  only to feed the hungry, however, as he hopes the gold will be used to  “spruce the town up” and make it attractive to potential residents  (especially those skilled in a craft).

The King himself will be making an appearance from roughly 2pm until  3pm, during which time all citizens (especially those who reside in Yew)  are invited to share the ideas for improving the town as well as all  the realm. Once this is finished, a small mini-event shall be held until  about 4pm, to be immediately followed by an archery competition that  will count towards the rankings in the Catskills Archery League (The season is drawing to a close! This is the next to last event to  earn points before the top archers are invited to a Championship  tournament!).

{Discuss this Article}

Submitted by an Anonymous Author:

Many archers gathered at the fairgrounds for the monthly Best Shot in the Realm last Saturday night, hosted by Misfits of Society. The weather was fair and there were low winds and and as always the spirits were high at the start of the evening. A lucky number of 13 archers registered for their chance to walk away with the 1 million gold prize and an engraved bow deeming the recipient “Champion, Best Shot in the Realm, February 2012.”

The rules were read by Toni Fierce and Round 1 of the contest got underway. James, Aerowyn Faeryn, Grey Eagle, Nemesis, TOBY (last month’s champion), Llama, Richard Lionhart, Bucko, Ahebban, Debi, Claudia, Handalf and Aleecia were called up by two’s to take their best shots. Grey Eagle, Handalf, Debi and Aleecia were the night’s first casualties, with scores of 30, 22, 30 and 57, respectively.

The judges quickly realized the buttes must still be “off” because Debi and Grey Eagle are legendary archers. Grey Eagle has even been known to shoot apples off the heads of many of his companions with nary a fatality!

Lady EM Godiva appeared suddenly like an angel, accessed the situation, and offered two more buttes in front of the existing ones. Again the archers were called up in pairs of two and did their best to get a robin hood, something they were all more than capable of. Round 2’s casualties included James, Nemesis, Llama and Richard Lionhart. It seems the new buttes didn’t work any better than the original buttes, in spite of the efforts of our angel.

Round 3 saw Aerowyn Faeryn, TOBY, Bucko and Ahebban prepared to give their best effort to walk away with the night’s prize. A score of 150 was required to move to Round 4. The archers were called up to shoot one by one. Aerowyn Faeryn took her best shot, but this legendary archer finished with a score of 30! The crowd gasped in shock and offered their heartfelt consolation to Aerowyn. Next up was TOBY, January’s winner, who finished his turn with a score of 160, enough to go to Round 4, if there would be one. Next up was Bucko, who gave his best effort, but finished with a score of 70. Ahebban followed Bucko’s lead and also ended with a 70.

Congratulations TOBY on winning the February 2012 Best Shot In The Realm!