It was decided on beforehand that the Orcs would get the Necromancer tower and the Fellowship would take the Paladin tower, both guilds warred, and the matchup for the first side to 20 deaths began!

The battle began with a stalemate on the tower roofs, and neither side looked like it would budge, until brave Tancred RedStar jumped over to the necromancer tower and nearly got clomped.  Then the Orcs beat the Fellowship back into their own tower, and chased them all the way down to the rez room, where some of the Orcs got a bit mouthy, and were quickly taken down by Jon and his axe.

Both sides regrouped, rezzed up, healed and went at it again!  The Fellowship had a particularly interesting strategy of group attacks, with one or two mages casting spells, but this proved to be little match for the Orc team whom a few of were armed with DP'd weapons.  The byrdue's (Virtue's in orcish) slowly fell one by one, and moved back into their tower, however brave fighters Kara and Magni patrolled the stairs and soon ended the reign of the Orc Poisoner, Te'kug.

The klompfezt continued up and down the stairwells, along the halls and over the teleporters and the Fellowship's tough group attack strategy started to break apart as more and more of their key fighters died.  Most of the Orcs, especially Grim Falcon and Ga'kuct survived the slaughtering fest without much harm, and in the end only three Orcs died.  Rezzer Andariel De Fran was happy that she didn't have to do much work!

But the clompin was good—and fast, and the match was over in no time at all.  Even though the Fellowship won the first practice match, the Orcs took home the victory (and the ebil globe of valor) in this one.

Final Score:  Orcs (20 kills) to Fellowship (3 kills)