SOLARIS CITY, SOLARIS VII – Welcome back, fight fans, to
INN’s Season Recap of the 3132 Solaris VII Grand Championship,
Part Three. One week of battles, one-hundred and twenty-eight
MechWarriors to fight them, and only one champion when it’s
all over! Today’s Recap brought to you by the folks at
Defiance Industries of Hesperus II; “DefHes Knows ’Mechs!”
Day three of the annual Grand Tournament brought sixteen of
the most spectacular tournament duels yet, and a host of
exciting grudge matches to boot! Highlights from tonight
included another of “Roaring” Ronald Ghost Bear’s savage,
all-or-nothing victories. Last year’s champion from Zellbrigen
Stables, once more piloting his arctic blue Kodiak
“Ursa Rex,” annihilated the modified Atlas driven by
twenty-fourth-ranked “Blazing” Augr Steinhammar of Overlord
Stables at the Steiner Coliseum in a brutal, three-minute
fight.
At the Factory Arena in Montenegro, seventeenth-ranked
“Vanquishing” Varick Geralyn of the Breakdown Division Stable,
suffered a terrible upset when his custom Legionnaire
“Close Cutter” took a hit in the magazine from last-year’s
seventy-first-place up and comer, Ian “Boltster” Smythe and
his stock Centurion “Mack”. The victory will be sure to rocket
the Wraith Stable’s Smythe up through the rankings, if he can
hold onto his luck for the next four nights, while Geralyn
will have to wait till next year for a shot at the title
again.
But for all the excitement in the big matches, it was the
tag-team filler duel in the Jungle Arena, between pro-CapCon
Zelazni Stables and the DiNappoli Stable team, which drew most
of the crowds. Led by tenth-ranked Olivia “Queen Liv” Tyler in
her deadly custom Ghost, the Zelazni warriors tore into
the DiNappolis’ without mercy. Gerald “T-Mister” Taylor (III)
of DiNappoli, piloting his Griffin “Gladiator,”
suffered multiple injuries when Tyler ambushed his ’Mech from
behind, demolished his gyros, and emphasized her victory with
a chainsaw strike to the head. Though DiNappoli officials
decried this demonstration of “excessive force” by the Zelazni
champion, judges did not disqualify Tyler or her teammate,
Jerry “Heat” Seeger. After the ruling, Tyler and her DiNappoli
nemesis, “Daring” David Strauss, verbally sparred at a
post-battle interview, with Strauss promising Tyler “a nasty
end” in their upcoming fifth-round duel. Strauss refused to
elaborate on his threat.
As always, fight fans, box scores for tonight’s matches and
schedules for the Round Four line-up can be found on our
link-site, including the latest odds, for all you betting
junkies. Also as always, I’m Dennis Stanzio for SBC, an
affiliate of INN, with your Championship Recap, and I am out
of here!
+Dude! The attached vidclips showed that
tag team match. Wow, that Tyler’s one lethal !
:-KevvyCone
+You can say that again, KC! Zelazni’s people had to weasel
their way out of fines for her last move, there. I mean,
chainsaw to the head of a disabled ’Mech ordinarily is an
instant suspension!
:-GRibaldi
+Unless they’re in the Championship, that
is. If Tyler’s teammate has done something like that with his
Hatchetman, the Solaris Gaming Commission would have booted
him right out and gave the purse to DiNappoli’s boys, but
Tyler’s in the Tourney, and the bad behavior to disqualify her
has to be a lot more severe than “losing control of the saw”.
(I *loved* that excuse, though!)
:-BNCFanatic
+Oh, was that the defense Zelazni used?
:-TVBluFist
+Yup. Claimed a hit earlier in the match
and the vibration of the saw caused Tyler’s arm to twitch
every now and then. Natch, the Commission bought it.
:-BNCFanatic
+Blah. That’s just not right…
:-TVBluFist
