<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=111594.msg5464447#msg5464447">Quote from: DomShark on 12-11-2011, 22:48:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Closer to the later. It's similar to Melee contests, except <em>no rules</em>. If the brackets don't fill up, I might throw a bear into the mix. It's popular with the pesants because pesants like watching people get killed. Also, it's one of the few categories that the common born can compete in (even if they're not criminal). <br/><br/>If there's a desire for it, I could add a swordplay/fencing category to cover for the swordspeople who want to compete but have more to lose. Use dull weapons and compete through forms, scoring points as opposed to cutting someone down until they can't go on. Less "Ring of Fire", more Olympic Fencing.<br/><br/>Thoughts?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think a nobles only melee. Just as dangerous. so real sharpened blades. So it can have a danger element, drawing the crowd. But also, people fight with a code of honour, so no striking down someone who yields. and people have proper armour. Death is possible, maybe a few every tourney, but not as commonplace as gladiator fighting.