With only minutes to go before the tournament started last month's winner Deophite was nowhere to be seen, leading many to believe that a new champion was guaranteed. Like all great warriors though, Deophite showed up just in time to defend his honour.
The setup was changed slightly this month, to help prevent players getting too many chances to enter the tournament. Instead of the usual 'first 2 people to PM the GC' style summon spars we switched to using the new event queue, with priority given to those who had not yet had a chance to fight.
Here are this month's results in full:
Qualifying Rounds
Night's Qualifying Rounds- Rufus vs. Deophite - Rufus won by 1hp.
- Mystic vs. Jet - Mystic won by 3hp.
- Jade vs. Smile of Shadow - Jade won by 4hp.
- Crono vs. Luda - Crono won by 5hp.
Death's Qualifying Rounds- Mystic vs. Laura - Laura won by 5hp.
- Thor vs. Luda - Thor won by 2hp.
- Contego vs. Albus - Contego won by 2hp.
- Nisube vs. Jet - Nisube won by 1hp.
Gemini's Qualifying Rounds- Shimmy vs. Rob - Rob won by 2hp.
- Deophite vs. Shimmy - Deophite won by 2hp.
- Squirt vs. Ryukuh - Squirt won by 6hp.
- Ziplock vs. Gotenks - Gotenks won by 2hp.
Gladius' Qualifying Rounds- Tatsumi vs. Crono - Tatsumi won by 1hp.
- Gotenks vs. Spyke - Spyke won by 6hp.
- Ares vs. Gotenks - Ares won by 2hp.
- Zack vs. John Redcorn - John Redcorn won by 1hp, after a first match draw.
First Round Elimination- Tatsumi vs. Rufus - Tatsumi won by 2hp.
- Laura vs. Rob - Laura won by 1hp.
- Crono vs. John Redcorn - Crono won by 1hp.
- Gotenks vs. Nisube - Gotenks won by 4hp.
- Deophite vs. Spyke - Deophite won by 4hp.
- Mystic vs. Thor - Mystic won by 1hp.
- Jade vs. Squirt - Jade won by 3hp.
- Ares vs. Contego - Ares won by 3hp.
Quarterfinals- Crono vs. Gotenks - Crono won by 4hp.
- Tatsumi vs. Laura - Tatsumi won by 4hp.
- Mystic vs. Deophite - Deophite won by 1hp.
- Ares vs. Jade - Jade won by2hp.
Semifinals- Deophite vs. Tatsumi - Deophite won by 3hp.
- Crono vs. Jade - Crono won by 1hp.
Final- Deophite vs. Crono - Deophite won by 1hp.
So despite turning up at the 11th hour, Deophite was able to defeat all challengers and retain the title for another month, earning himself 10 more GC tickets for the achievement. Crono takes 5 tickets for making his way to the finals.
The Classic Monthly Spar Tournament is held on the second Saturday of every month. A quick look at the calandar tells me that's the 13th of June. I'll see you all then for more bloodshed.