[i]Greetings from the Luchalliance.

It is a sad day for competition, and unfortunate news I must sadly bear to all of you assembled for the 2017 TZDL competition, and yet my scorn outweighs my sadness, my anger outweighs my caution, and my disdain outweighs my amicability.

When I was personally invited by name to attend the Duel League event being held in RPGuild this year, I reached out to friends and allies to create something memorable.  We desired to make a splash, inject some life and color into the event, and promote the spirit of heated competition and showmanship often lacking in such events.  In pursuit of this goal, we banded together to create an alternative collective of beloved characters – our [/i]Luchalliance.  [i]We were told that the Duel League was a competition for characters on the higher end of the ‘medium’ power classification – a place where many Luchalliance players excel.  We were told there would be honor and glory to be won.

We were sadly misled.

After being [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4254257][u]forced to make concessions[/u][/url] to La Màquina’s sheet that not only break the spirit of her character, but render her easy elimination in the preliminary rounds of the tournament a nigh-certainty, I conferred with the other fighters of the Alliance and discovered many similar stories.

My friend AtlasRize was summarily rejected from the tournament with little explanation given, no chance offered to correct grievances with his entry, and informed that he need not reapply to this TZDL event, or any TZDL event held in the future.

My friend Tezcatlipoca was informed that Rey del Oscuridad II’s sheet was bitterly contentious and on the verge of outright rejection, and yet has gone for close to two weeks without a single word offered by way of advice, correction requests, or indeed anything else which could be used to correct this ‘bitterly contentious’ sheet.

I myself was subjected to the revocation of my approval to compete immediately following what I perceived to be a respectful, if somewhat heated, discussion of the Luchalliance usage of the term ‘ether’ and our methodology of inclusiveness rather than exclusiveness concerning the use of mystical phenomena-based powers and abilities.  This revocation came with a list of requests which resulted in the forced reduction of La Màquina to very nearly low tier levels of ability should I wish to compete at all – and this in the face of a tournament where a single character is permitted to consist of two full-sized dragons able to devastate the entire battlefield at once with unavoidable bombardments of lightning.

I am not afraid of Jason – indeed, I had looked forward to putting my Dragon Slayer skills to the test, as such a battle is precisely what I’d hoped to find in a tournament advertised to me and mine to be squarely up our alleys.  There are many names in this competition I had been fondly anticipating the opportunity to test, eager to see for myself the extent of RPGuild’s power when it was unleashed in full in high-tier combat.  Sadly, my backhanded rejection from the tournament and the questionable treatment of my fellows does not afford us the opportunity to meet you on the field of glory.

The Luchalliance has decided as a unit to withdraw from the Duel League Tournament.  We will not waste our time further with a man who clearly does not desire our presence and ‘invited’ us merely to try and inflate his numbers.  To those of you who were in turn anticipating testing yourselves against the Masked Warriors of the Alliance, I invite you to seek out individual challenges against warriors you favor.  I myself hear that [@Doc Doctor] is in search of ranked matches often denied him here  As a demonstration of good faith, as my last match ended rather anticlimactically, and because Gonad amuses me, I offer such a match to you, Doc, should you be willing to contest with La Màquina as she was originally written – the way she was intended to be played.  Win, and you may claim your season points with my blessing.  Lose, and Gonad must wash his beard.  With actual soap.

May your masks go forever unsullied, fellow champions of the Ring.  And to the TZDL management team, I say this:[/i] good fucking riddance.