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 | ||||
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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