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La Lucha is the quintessential hordian event. Its principle is simple :

• Teams of 5 players will fight each other remotely in different towns, or not.
• Each team has 9 days (surviving even one day longer is strictly forbidden) to complete their mission : get as much distinctions as possible.

You compose your team yourself. Then you jump by yourself, in the town of your choice (the same town for the 5 team members). Distant towns, small towns or hardcore, the choice is yours. Anybody can participate. You just need to get registered.

Points will be attributed or subtracted based on which distinctions the team earned as a whole. This event is in now way a hunt for distinction in hiding. Participant to the previous editions would be able to tell you how such an idea would be wrong. Rather than the distinctions by themselves, you'll need to see the points each of them represent and how they will affect your team final score when all of them are summed up to decide if your team won the competition or not. Points for each distinction are balanced in such a way that victory will be the result of merit and skillful play rather than dumb luck. Distinctions in the end are more of a matter of roleplay, what truly matters are the points behind them.

Getting help from an allied coalition or metacoalition of players is strictly forbidden. Nothing stops you from asking help from citizens randomly met in town, but reveling you're doing the Lucha to them can be a risky move. It is within the event's rules for a whole town of complete strangers to help a team. Despite this, if it is judged that a team played outside the idea of of fair play, it is possible for that team to be disqualified. You're here to win the Lucha by respecting its rules, and nothing else.

You can of course get distinctions through collaboration with the town citizens. The collaborating citizens must not be collaborating in order to have you win the Lucha. The core concept behind the Lucha is not for a whole town of strangers to help a team, but for a team to make as much points as possible through tricks and deception, not with the town help.

In the same way, it will be asked to each teams to not grief another team's attempt, please do not engage in any shenanigans such as noticing another team's jump and from a distance, complicate their attempt by for example private messaging the town citizens and telling them a Lucha team is here to wreak havoc. Shenanigans are to be done in your town, and then, compare yourself to each others when the results are announced.

That code of honor must stay within your mind. What makes this event be of any interest is the respect of said code. A team going overboard and forgetting that may be disqualified based on the gravity of the offense.

In this image you'll find how many points each distinction is worth, it hasn't changed from the last edition, as the season 15 changes weren't judged to be enough for a rebalancing.

[Lien vers le sujet du FM]

First myHordes edition de la Lucha de los Pictos (format libre)

Registered teams will be able to join a town at any time during the 6 months period starting from the 31th Mars 2023 to the 30th November 2023 at midnight! At absolutely any desired time within that period! Though it will be absolutely necessary for the 5 team members to be dead and have their death validated by the end of said time period. It is also asked for the team to not do their jump in a town where another event is occurring, except in the special case where the other event organizers are okay with a Lucha team doing their things in the same town as their event.

To register your team you'll need to contact tchekof using the in game private message system at least 3 days before the planned jumping date, the 5 team members will need to be included in the message. Without that, your participation will not be taken into account. Don't hesitate to create the conversation sooner than 3 days, that would help making my planning easier, as I'm not always here. Right after jumping a message saying you did jump will need to be sent. Then afterward, after each death from a team member you will need to inform me of death by message. Once notified, you will need to wait for my confirmation before joining a new town(to give me the time to take a soul snapshot). If you don't wait for the confirmation, the points earned by the person that jump in another town too early will be rendered void.

When the jumping day has come, only jump is authorized. You're not authorized to jump, decide a town is not suited for your attempt and abort (commit suicide) in order to join another one. You will have to make do with the town you picked. In the worst case scenario, you can report the jumping day and wait for a town more suited to your linking to be available.

La lucha is an event where anyone can participate anonymously. It's not possible for any other participant to know that you and your team participate to the Lucha, except if you were to publicly share the info obviously.

Each player can only individually participate twice within that edition, if you were to participate a second time you'll need to compose a team with 4 different players that weren't in your first attempt's team. Each team composition and associated score will only be shared once the event has finished, all of them at the same time, during a final ceremony. It's only then that the winning team will know they did won.

As an indication, here are the results of Hordes' final edition
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ipi9BFxQsvg5h023pc4Y4QSm32Xz3KYMgivK4WeogyI/edit#gid=1

1. Cherry / 6425 points (tchekof, Bargouzine, Eliam, Saint_Jacky, Comte_Hades)
2. Apricot / 3188 points (Skopeion, AQUATOURELLES, MALTHAEL, GAYGOLOS, Comte_Hades)
3. Kiwi / 2994 points (Belle-Gunness, basichou, LouLouRed, Troubadour, Ribaute)
4. Blackberry / 2966 points (SaBra, lechanceux, Rastapopoulos, Bebelama, WonderDog)
5. Prune / 2805 points (Skopeion, Trotk, Deren, TheArchitect, KIPPOUR)
6. Banana / 2703 points (Sand, Poucet, Westcoast, Badiane, Mckagan)
7. Mango / 1947 points (AQUATOURELLES, Azrathorn, FIXATION, Trotk, Fofotre)
8. Grape / -160 points (Ross, SirConflex, Thibaut3000, Irony, Phaenyx)

This section gathers all the different official outfits made for the greatest fights of your favorite luchadors. They all are in format 100*100. Do not hesitate to send me your custom made, Lucha's avatars (in private message to tchekof) so that they can be added to the displayed list bellow.

You're participating to a Lucha? You want to display your admiration for a luchador or the concept of the Lucha in itself? Or perhaps you simply want a stunning outfit?

Then hesitate no longer, these avatars are just waiting for you!

The base for your outfits:

Los outfits del Luchador Nouméro ouno:

Los outfits del Luchador Nouméro dos:

Los outfits del Luchador Nouméro trés:

Los outfits del Luchador Nouméro quatro:

Los outfit del Luchadors made by the community

First of all, thanks to Lukrainien for imagining the concept working with us to make it a reality.
Thanks to Morvandieu for the amazing graphics.
Fenryl isn't to be forgotten as well, for making the event even more popular by creating a dedicated application (now defunct), and organizing past editions.

And finally thank you darMK, for keeping the Lucha alive until the end of Hordes.

The responsibility to keep the Lucha and its spirit alive on myHordes now falls upon us. Let's live up to its name!