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Mar-31-2015 10:50

Greetings, citizens of Sleuthville! The time has come once more for the annual Sleuthville Arch-Villain Hunt Tournament. This year’s tourney is being held a month earlier than usual so that we’ll have enough time in the Fall for other fun planned activities. The format, just like last year, will be one-on-one matchups. I welcome and encourage all old and new players to participate. Drag yourselves out of those doldrums and come enjoy yourselves with a little friendly competition.

The format will be 16 detectives, each randomly paired off by a magic baseball hat to face one other person. For this competition, players going through Cairo will have a day taken off their totals. The fastest player(s) from each round will go on to the next round until a winner is determined. In the case of a tie (same day capture), both players will move on to compete in a triple threat matchup. Failed hunts will not count against you; you will not be disqualified. If you fail your hunt and would like to start another, you may, but the day count will start from the official start date of the round. The last one standing wins.

The rules:
- Either PM me or post here as soon as possible if you find that your hunt goes through Cairo, so I can keep accurate records.
- In the spirit of competition, trash-talking is allowed, just as long as it is friendly and appropriate.
- You may not PM me to ask for any AVH hunt help or advice.
- If you are unable to compete in a round for whatever reason, you are allowed to ask someone to sub in for you for that round only. This privilege may only be used once, and only in emergencies. The player who is subbing in for you may be anyone who is not competing in the current round, even someone who was not initially entered in the competition.

You may:
-travel to Shangri La the night before, but NOT start the hunt
-use a travel kit
-use head of faction privileges
-use agencies and apartments to swap gear

May-6-2015 08:29

Congrats, ctown! Nice going.

It is possible that the only thing more annoying than getting 'west of the tailor's' in London five times out of ten clues is getting 'west of the tailor's' in London five times out of ten clues when you also get 'west of the detective shop' three times and therefore 'west of the tailor's' is completely redundant information.

*attempts to breathe slowly and calmly*

May-6-2015 08:53

Cordelia, I feel your pain. If I had gotten "is a fan of Agatha Christie" ONE MORE TIME, I was gonna scream. Loudly. Possibly with curse words. I had some good ones too. Some were even in another language.

But I finally beat the much needed final clue out of my suspect and managed to leave the desert behind me. It's good to be back home, albeit briefly (I hope ;D).

May-6-2015 10:32

Congratulations Ctown and Sal Iva for successfully completing your hunts.

May-6-2015 10:33

..And to Bela Talbot, who completed her hunt after I originally checked.

May-6-2015 10:47

Thanks Yeti, and congrats ctown and Sal! :)

May-6-2015 11:25

Good going Bela and you also ctown, and good luck to everyone who is still working their cases..

May-6-2015 12:37

I'm in Cairo.
Congratulations to those who've caught their villains.

May-6-2015 22:20

Cairo seems to be the Tatooine,

"And these blast points, too accurate for sand people. Only imperial storm troopers are so precise"

May-7-2015 01:39

Congratulations to Anneith for capturing their villain, and it looks like I'm fifth past the gate:

The notorious criminal Joaquim "the Mosquito" Dimitrijevic was brought to justice by Yeti Face after a painstaking hunt in which the heroic detective successfully tracked the villain around the world.

Doubtless the second of many captures today.

May-7-2015 15:33

Congrats to all who've captured!

After 6 'west of the tailor's' and 5 'west of the detective shop's I have finally escaped London and ended up in... Cairo. Groan.