PAXLAIR CITY, FELUCCA - January 13, 2006

Mayor Winfield opened PaxLair's 8th Anniversary with a Fight Night Tournament in PaxLair City.  Eight fighters dueled for more than an hour to determine the Champion.  After a grueling 5-minute final match between Merton (FwAe) and Morpheus ({X}), Merton came out victorious!  All the results are here.

There were other key rounds with decided movement up in the List.  One in particular was the fight between Pious Martyr and Stormgazer which had to move to a "sudden death" second match.  In that case, after three minutes, both fighters were exactly tied in points with no death.  The judge stepped in, stopped the match, and started the sudden death for an additional two minutes.  Pious Martyr then won by points after two minutes.

Mayor Winfield had more to say about the Tournament and the Anniversary.

"It is fitting that the Anniversary open here in Felucca," Mayor Winfield said in an interview, "since this is where PaxLair started.  The combat situations of the fighters and some earlier attacks outside are reminiscent of earlier days of PaxLair."

"I wanted this Tournament to be a Grand Tournament with a winning prize, but I failed to get enough information out to the public to draw the fighters here.  Therefore, I will try hard to arrange another time during the Anniversary or perhaps next Friday for a larger tournament.  The Grand Tournament will only allow fighters who have fought before in PaxLair Fight Nights.  This is to honor those fighters who have been with us for several fight nights."

When asked about the attacks outside earlier, Mayor Winfield said, "it is unfortunate that some people can not calm down for just an hour or two in this community to cooperate.  In fact, those people who attacked were the same people that PaxLair helped host a fight tournament for last year -- right in this very arena spot."

PaxLair also started a "Quest for Knowledge".  More information is already published in the PaxLair News on this quest.

PaxLair will continue it's 8th Anniversary celebrations this week, culminating on January 19th with a parade and ceremonies.  Watch the news and events listings for more information as it is updated throughout the week.