Roleplayer #4, February 1987
GURPS AUTODUEL
An AADA Circuit Example
The AADA Circuit rules appear on page 76 of GURPS
Autoduel. Space limitations prevented us from including
the example written to illustrate those rules -- so here it is. This is
a look at duellist Danielle Adair's last season.
Dani Adair, as most of you know, was a veteran on the duel circuit. This
was her tenth and final season (her seventh winning season); she has now
retired to sportscasting. Adair was a Division 30 duellist on the Overdrive
Circuit. Her season looked like this:
Date(month/weekend)..Arena Site..Placed/Field of..Purse Won..Points(new/total)
March/2nd Portland 1st/9 $10,000 10/10
March/4th Seattle 3rd/16 3,500 6/16
April/2nd Ontario 4th/33 5,000 7/23
April/4th Baltimore 8th/35 600 3/26
May/2nd Evansville 2nd/14 10,000 8/34
May/4th Muskogee N/19 - 0/34
June/2nd Memphis 3rd/22 7,500 7/41
June/4th Tulsa 4th/14 5,000 4/45
July/2nd Austin 3rd/38 7,500 8/53
July/4th Boulder 6th/21 1,000 3/56
August/2nd Las Vegas K/24 - 0/56
August/4th Salt Lake 1st/29 15,000 10/66
September/2nd Fresno 3rd/26 7,500 7/73
September/4th Seattle 4th/35 10,000 7/80
October/2nd Chicago 1st/41 100,000 10/90
October/4th Baltimore 5th/26 45,000 4/94
N = Did Not Place Among Point-Scorers
K = Killed
She started off the season with an Adair tradition, a first place finish
at the Portland arena. Her next few matches, except for a disappointing
eighth-place finish at Baltimore JoustDuel and a critical power plant fire
at Muskogee, were quite successful ones.
In Las Vegas in August, Adair was killed by local Nevada duellist Tommy
Puzo driving a stock Acme Galahad, who declined Adair's surrender and became
only the second person to kill the Washington ace.
Though this sort of calamity has stalled the season of many a competitor,
Adair bounced back from the deadly defeat during the next match, where she
swept the Deseret Division 30 field and took the first-place cup for the
event. Her next match brought her a respectable third place and put her
within two points of the 75 mark.
Her retain to Seattle for the regional championship was not a triumph --
only fourth place -- but her placement and standings were sufficiently high
that she advanced to the national championships in Chicago, where she sustained
a concussion but still won. At the international championships in Baltimore,
fierce fighting on the field and recurrent problems from the earlier injury
led to a disappointing fifth-place finish; but she still held the title
of U.S. Division 30 Champion.
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