Good news! After the fallout from ex-president Bill Wendland Prime's untimely demise, the AADA is pulling itself back together. The old groups are coming back, and new ones appear all the time. In total, the AADA now consists of 30 clubs - not bad for a full restart. Bill's clone (who hates being called that) is still feeling a bit tender, but is expected to take over his old post within the next few weeks.
As we were shuffling through Bill Prime's office, we stumbled across a hidden cache of old ADQs, which had been presumed lost. So we now have a limited quantity of back issues for ADQs 3/1, 3/2 and 3/4 available at the usual price.
For the record, here's the current list of AADA Chapters eligible to participate in the 2039 World Championships. If your club isn't on this list, then hurry up!
Berkeley Autoduelling Association
President: Leslie Fish
6331 Fairmont, #335
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Big Red Death
President: Bruce A. Moyer
RD #1 Box 186A
Emmaus, PA 18049
Coalition of Oregon Duelling
Establishment (CODE)
President: Dimitri Ashling
4065 N. Mississippi
Portland, OR 97227
Driving Tigers/Road Wolves
President: Christopher Burke
156 11th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215-3816
Flaming Lakers
President: Paul Schwartzberg
2728 Upton Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Frozen Northern Outlaw Road Duellists (FNORD)
President: David N. Searle
1104 Bishop St.
Antioch, IL 60002
Sponsored by: DELETED FOR SECURITY REASONS
JADE East
President: Christian J. Alipounarian
727 Chestnut Street
New Milford, NJ 07646
Lex Talionis
President: Pete "Havoc" Hallenberg
9647 Wenzel St.
Fairfax, VA 22032
London, England Autoduel Assoc.
(LEADA)
President: Phil Radley
12 Wordsworth Close
Romford, Essex
RM3 7PD, England
LEADA Nubile Virgin Whipped Cream
President: Ian Brotzman
153 St. Anthony's Drive
Chelmsford, Essex,
CM2 9EJ
England
Sponsored by LEADA
LEADA Turbo Wicked Scary Nutter Bastard
President: John Davies
17 Garry Way
Rise Park
Romford, Essex
RM1 4YU, England
Sponsored by LEADA
London's Dark Knights of Destiny
President: Greg Seales
261 Rainham Road,
Rainham, Essex
RM13 75H
England
Sponsored by LEADA
Missouri Autoduel Division (MADD)
President: Craig Sheeley
1619 South Broadway
Springfield, MO 65807
New Omaha Vehicular Association
(NOVA)
President: Norman McMullen
2201 Joyce Circle
Bellevue, NE 68005
North American MONDO and Duellist Society (NOMADS)
President: Joe Rudynski
2013 W. 245th Street
Lomita, CA 90717
NOMADS After Six
President: Amn. MacDonald, Sean
c/o A1C McCoy, Craig
PSC Box 1407
Hill AFB, UT 84056
Sponsored by NOMADS
NOMADS, North Division
President: Tom Stuckel
4160 N. Buhach
Merced, CA 95340
Sponsored by NOMADS
Northern Outrageous Renegade Autoduellists (NORAD)
President: John Hill
122 Lodge Pole Dr.
Hinton, Alberta
CANADA T7V 1E4
Ramblin' Wreck Autoduel Association
(RWADA)
President: Keith Graham
RO. Box 33468, GA Tech
Atlanta, GA 30332
River City Autoduel Association
President: Tim Ray
8910 Research, #C-2
Austin, TX 78758
Sponsored by Republic Motors
One Republic Square
Austin, TX 78748
Riverside Organized Autoduelling Society (ROADS)
President: Eric Gregory
1255 Nicola Drive
Riverside, CA 92506
Royal Autoduel Association of Great Britain
President: Mike Wyvill
3/B Richmond St.
Hull, N. Humberside
HU5 3JY
England
Southern HQ AutoDuelling Organization (SHADO)
President: Jay Eskridge
2700 Peterson P1. Apt. 62-B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
S. P.L.A.A.T.
President: Fred Dobratz
7549 - 29th Ave. NW
Seattle, WA 98117
SKULLs
President: Jason Wallace
6342 Rhea
Reseda, CA 91335
Southern Pacific Autoduel Elites
(SPADE)
President: Mike Smith
9620 Graceland Way
San Diego, CA 92129
Tennessee River Autoduel Society in Huntsville (TRASH)
President: Jesse Hamner
2916 Barcody Road
Huntsville, AL 35801
Unbalanced Force
President: Kirk Utterback
7906 Rollingwood Blvd.
Columbia, MO 65202
Warmongers from Hell
President Craig Kember
371 7 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
WoodinviIIe Auto Rangers (WAR)
President: Gavin Shearer
6620 197th Avenue NE
Woodinville, WA 98072
So far, we've got three club champions to report: Ben Ellinger of the RCADA, Pete Hallenberg of Lex Talionis, and David Searle of FNORD. Anyone else out there? Let me know about it.
JADE is hosting the Northeast Regionals at Gamecon on April 8. Contact Cathryn or William at Gamemaster, Ltd. Village mall, Lower Promenade, Bergen Mall Shopping Center, Paramus, NJ 07682 for further details.
MADD is hosting the Midwest Regionals at NameThatCon 2, April 21-23. Contact Craig Sheeley of MADD (address above), or the NameThatCon 2 staff at P.O. Box 575, St. Charles, MO 63301.
Regional championship events (taking place between March and June) will only count if there are 20 or more AADA members in attendance. A club champion, for this purpose, counts as 5 members. So a Regional event could have four club champions participating, or twenty At-Large members, or any combination of the above. There can be more than twenty participants, if your referee doesn't mind.
Also, one other stipulation: You have to tell me about it, allowing plenty of time for me to notify nearby clubs of your event If I don't know about it, it didn't happen.
The regional events should follow the Qualifiers and Eliminations rounds below, unless all participants agree to use another arena and game format.
The format of the championship season was discussed in ADQ 6/4 and has not changed. This is a description of the arena events themselves.
The first, qualifying round of both the Regionals and the Worlds will be the same. The competitors (any number up to 8) will start out behind the gates at any speed up to 40 mph. The event is over at the end of the phase in which any participant has four or more points; this person is declared the winner, and second and third place finishers (if required) will be determined on the basis of points scored up to that time. Points are scored in the following manner: For eliminating the maneuverability of a vehicle, 1 point; for eliminating the vehicular firepower of a vehicle, 1 point; for losing your own maneuverability or firepower, -1 point each. Killing (or losing) the maneuverability of a vehicle that never had weapons is worth double.
The second round of the Regionals and Worlds will also be the same. All participants will start out at the same end of the arena, and the first to loop around the two obstacles at the far end of the arena and cross the starting line will be the winner (the race will continue to find second- and third-place finishers if necessary). There are three restrictions on this event: 1) No vehicle may be fired on until it has passed the pylons in the second section of the arena, 2) No gas engines or gas tanks will be allowed, and 3) Dropped weapons may only be fired as single shots (i.e., no automatic fire).
This will be a point-based event, with point awards for kills and laps. The specific details will be available during Origins - just ask at the Steve Jackson Games booth in the dealer's room. All entrants in the Semi-Finals must also have their Division 15 designs ready for the final round and turn them in when the third round begins, so that they can be checked before the final event. The Gladiator map can be found in The AADA Duel Circuit: L'Outrance.
The final eight competitors will finish each other off in the Stardust Memorial (L'Outrance, p.10). Thevictory conditions will be based solely on points, awarded for completing laps, making kills and other accomplishments. As above, the specific details will be available during Origins.
The following restrictions will be in effect for all of the above duels:
Each participant is limited to a single vehicle per event, and that vehicle must be a motorcycle (with or without sidecar), trike or car. No flying vehicles, oversized vehicles, trailers or hovercraft may be used.
The vehicle is limited to a maximum of two crew: one driver, and (optionally) a gunner. No passengers will be allowed. Each character is to be built on a maximum of 50 points, with no more than 30 points in any one skill.
All official equipment and gadgets published up to 1 month before the event may be used, with the following exceptions: Extra gas tanks, Spare tires, Racing bodies (Formula One/Indy, Can-Am, Sprint or Dragster), Cargo safes, MiniSafes, Armored Beer Refrigerators or mini-fridges (sigh), Car-Top Carriers, Remote Control Guidance Systems, Searchlights, Armored Searchlights and Portable Searchlights, Anti-Theft Systems, Computer Gunners, Autopilots, ATADs, Weapon Timers, Bollixes, Kamibombs, Plastique and other shaped explosives, Stealth, Bulk Ammo Boxes. Vehicles with cargo space may not put component armor around that cargo space.
In addition, vehicles that use gas engines must have enough gas to travel 200 miles at their base MPG, in order to balance them with electric power plants.
In the interest of speeding up play during the World Championship, this optional Five-Phase Movement Chart will be used. It works just like the standard Movement Chart, with a couple of exceptions: Dropped weapons that formerly took two phases to ignite (FOJs, etc.) now ignite on the next phase, and a vehicle is allowed to maneuver during any single inch of its move in any given phase. Spinouts, rolls and skids take effect in the first inch of movement for every phase.
In close situations where both players are moving at high speeds, they may alternate 1" moves.
Five Phase Movement Chart
Speed 1 2 3 4 5 Ram 0 - - - - - 0d 5 - - .5 - - 1d-4 10 - - 1 - - 1d-2 15 - 1 - ,5 - 1d-1 20 - 1 - 1 - 1d 25 - 1 - 1 ,5 1d 30 - 1 - 1 1 1d 35 1 1 1 ,5 - 2d 40 1 1 1 1 - 3d 45 1 1 1 1 ,5 4d 50 1 1 1 1 1 5d 55 1 1 1.5 1 1 6d 60 2 1 1 1 1 7d 65 2 1 1 2 .5 8d 70 2 1 1 2 1 9d 75 2 1 1 2 1.5 10d 80 2 1 2 1 2 11d 85 2 2 1 2 1.5 12d 90 2 2 1 2 2 13d 95 2 2 2 2 1.5 14d 100 2 2 2 2 2 15d 105 2 2 2.5 2 2 16d 110 2 2 3 2 2 17d 115 2 3 2 2.5 2 18d 120 2 3 2 3 2 19d 125 2 3 3 2 2.5 20d 130 2 3 3 2 3 21d 135 3 3 3 2.5 2 22d 140 3 3 3 3 2 23d 145 3 3 3 3 2.5 24d 150 3 3 3 3 3 25d 155 4 3 3 3 2.5 26d 160 4 3 3 3 3 27d 165 4 3 3 3.5 3 28d 170 4 3 3 4 3 29d 175 4 3 4 3 3.5 30d 180 4 3 4 3 4 31d 185 4 4 3 4 3.5 32d 190 4 4 3 4 4 33d 195 4 4 4 4 3.5 34d 200 4 4 4 4 4 35d
