Roleplayer #4, February 1987

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GURPS AUTODUEL

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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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