Slaughterfest 2001 Summary
11/22/2001

1. Highlight: Punisher dominates
2. Jaws a threat?
3. Mauler loses top average to Godfather
4. 1st Bloodmatch Mauler/Hammer
5. 2nd Bloodmatch Mauler/Punisher
6. 3rd Bloodmatch Mauler/Hammer and Punisher
7. Slaughterfest 2001 results
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1. Highlight: Punisher dominates
The highlight of the Slaughterfest 2001 saw Peter "Punisher" Kreten dominate the his home turf at Kreten Kourt. Winning 2 of the 5 golden sharpshooters brings his career total of sharpshooters up to five, tying him for second place with the Hammer for amount of career Golden Sharpshooters. It would be a safe guess that if more games are played on Kreten Kourt, look for the Punisher to continue his dominance and move up in the rankings.

Punisher almost had the opportunity to win 3 sharpshooters, but Erik "Hammer" Maldre pulled a narrow win in the first game.
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2. Jaws a threat?
But Punisher struck back with avengage to win the second game, with a shocking second place finish by Kristina "Jaws" Maldre. Hammer and Mauler were left stunned with 3rd and 4th. This was only the second career game by Jaws, and it left the Mauler and Hammer wondering if this rookie will be a dominant force in the future.
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3. Mauler loses top average to Godfather
Mauler's 4th place finish in the second game also heralded an important event in Squirearchy history. This last place finish dropped his average below the Mati "The Godfather" Maldre's average. Giving the honour of top champion to the Godfather. The Mauler held the top average for 27 consecutive games, a Squirearchy record that will stand for the ages.
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4. 1st Bloodmatch Mauler/Hammer
Then the heralded bloodmatch betwixt the Mauler and Hammer occured. The raging debate on which twin would win. Even before the game began, Hammer the challenger, was going to cancel the match because he did not want to play double-ball. Is there a great fear within the Hammer to play double-ball? The Mauler was quoted as saying, "Not only does Hammer shake his knickers whenever someone mentions double-ball, he poops his trousers as well."

The ongoing question was the bloodmatch belt really worth anything to the Hammer? Would he cancel this much anticipated event? Reluctantly he succummed to the pressure and allowed himself to perish in a double-ball match.

However, it was an extremely close matchup at the end of the game. But with a mental error of Hammer hitting the wrong ball, the match turned around for the Mauler. We seem to have seen this occur with the Hammer before. Will he be able to shake the habit of mental miscues?
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5. 2nd Bloodmatch Mauler/Punisher
Then Punisher challenged the Mauler for a Bloodmatch chamionship match. The Hammer was trying to claim that only one bloodmatch championship match should be played per day. "Hogwash!" declared Punisher. "imbecility!" declared the Mauler. And the bloodmatch between punisher and mauler occured.

For the sake of time, a single ball match was played. Plus the Mauler wanted to prove that he could retain the title by playing not only double-ball but single-ball as well. And this did hold up to be true as the Mauler kept his iron grip on the bloodmatch belt for the second defense.
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6. 3rd Bloodmatch Mauler/Hammer and Punisher
Then a third defense did occur as the Hammer challenged the Mauler AGAIN. Oh my! It is amazing how turncoat the Hammer became as just before he was claiming there should only be one bloodmatch per day.

This third defense entailed a completely new type of game. The Punisher was to participate in this match as well. However, the Punisher could not win the belt in this game. He could only influence the results. But to keep Punisher honest, this was a game that would count in his standings. This type of match is called a "3rd factor."

It looked throughout the game that Punisher would not even be a factor in the game, but he pulled an incredible comeback blazing to the finish in first place! The Hammer finished in second and the Mauler third. So the Hammer is the first challenger to win the belt, despite the fact that he didn't even win the game. A true bloodmatch champion? Perhaps not.
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7. Slaughterfest 2001 results
76.7 Punisher
50.8 Hammer
50.7 Mauler
20.0 First Lady
86.7 Jaws*

Game 1
1 Hammer
2 Punisher
3 Mauler
4 First Lady

Game 2
1 Punisher
2 Jaws
3 Hammer
4 Mauler

Game 3
1 Mauler
2 Hammer

Game 4
1 Mauler
2 Punisher

Game 5
1 Punisher
2 Hammer
3 Mauler
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Mauler = Matt Maldre
Hammer = Erik Maldre
Punisher = Peter Kreten
First Lady = Kelly Kreten
Jaws = Kristina Maldre

* indicates only one game played





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