SOLARIS CITY, SOLARIS VII – Welcome back, fight fans, to INN’s Season Recap of the 3132 Solaris VII Grand Championship. The most intense week of BattleMech combat ever seen outside of a major war, and it’s all for your entertainment. Today’s Recap brought to you by Descartes Computers Unlimited, makers of the Descartes Mk XXIX PCs; “Descartes Computers: Second Only to the Human Brain.”

For those of you who might have missed it, Day Four of the Grand Tournament may just go on record as one of the most explosive since the riots of 3062, with excitement both on and off the tournament circuit all across Solaris City. Tonight, the sixteen remaining warriors became eight in a spectacular series of clashes charged with tension as the final championship rounds loom on the horizon.

In the arenas, tonight’s bouts saw Cenotaph’s Danai Centrella-Liao tear through her DeLon Stables challenger, eighteenth-ranked “Fantastic” Phoebe Itasha, in an all out brawl under Ishiyama’s Stone Mountain. At the same time, in the simulated desert of Davion Arena, Silver Dragon Stables’ third-ranked champion, “Ravager” Raul Kalso, suffered a horrific defeat at the hands of Blackstar’s Shayne “Shockwave” Kirkpatrick. Furious over his defeat from overheat, Kalso challenged Kirkpatrick to a grudge match almost immediately, and the two are expected to square off again tomorrow afternoon. Kalso may wish to rethink that, because Kirkpatrick, who is slated to face Centrella-Liao tomorrow night, appeared to be on fire, following up her spectacular victory against Kalso with another in her much-anticipated grudge match against Kyle DePaik on the very same battlefield.

In the Factory Arena, the duel between White Hand’s number twenty champion, Byron “The Blaster” Ulmer, and Toranaga Stables’ eighty-second ranked “Magnificent” Mario LeMar became a brutal slugfest after both combatants, piloting light, ballistic BattleMechs, exhausted their ammunition after close to thirty minutes of fierce combat. LeMar finally managed an upset, taking out Ulmer’s overheated Blade, with a rapid series of flamer strikes from his modified Firestarter, to claim his shot at Round Five, where he’s set to face Galahad Stables’ Omar “Demolition” Durand. If defeated tomorrow night, however, at least LeMar can take comfort, because the winner of that bout gets to face the unstoppable force that is “Roaring” Ronald Ghost Bear, who once again annihilated his opponent in a rare match at the Hartford Gardens Arena.

Piloting a Black Hawk for this match, Ghost Bear’s trademark alpha strike finish cored the Shadow Cat II piloted by his opponent, Armis “the Avenger” Hathaway, setting off a dazzling plasma explosion that the Starlight MechWarrior was lucky to walk away from.

But the real show this evening of course, didn’t happen in the arenas! Stay tuned, fight fans, and check out the box scores for tonight’s matches and tomorrow’s schedules at the SBC link-site. When we come back, the rumble in Silesia will be our focus for tonight’s Grand Champion Recap. I’m Dennis Stanzio for Solaris Broadcasting Center, an affiliate of INN, with your Championship Recap, and I… will be right back!

+Ooo! I almost forgot about the mini-riot that happened in Round Four! This ought to be good!
:-GropoM

+A lot of highlight on Shockwave this time. Gosh, in retrospect, do you think SBC knew who was gonna win this season?
:-TVBluFist

+There’s a shocker! Actually, considering that Shayne took out not one but two opponents within hours of each other in the same field, I guess it qualified as newsworthy this time around. Boy! The egg on DePaik’s face when he got trounced by her AGAIN was priceless, though!
:-LevEOsa

+Truly one of the greatest moments in sports! LOL!
:-BNCFanatic

+Next year, BNC. Next year….
:-TVBluFist