We bring you continuing coverage of the 2012 BatMUD Olympic Games!

ARCHERY
-- Wren Haz-gon and Bodor swept gold in the women's and men's competitions,
respectively. In an interview following, Bodor was quoted as saying
"Seriously, there must be at LEAST one other archer mob in the game. I'm up
there competing with my own arrow spray. Could a mage with golden arrow or
something step up? Come on."

EQUESTRIAN
-- All seven events were won by the only competitor left standing at the end
of the event. Judges marks for poise and deductions for missed jumps were
irrelevant as the athletes immediately turned on each other, maiming their
competition right out of the gate. Joribund, the default winner of the
100-room obstacle course, said on the matter "I didn't even know they made
mounts for speed or agility. I've just been triggering guided strike like
everyone else." The interview was ended when Joribund's chaos drake mauled the
reporter with back-to-back sting attack specials.

JAVELIN
-- A dismal outlook for a no-show event was only techincally salvaged when
several members of the alchemists' guild showed up with flasks labelled
"javelin" for the event. Nomad guildmasters were uniformly disappointed in
their inability to enter. Sable called the lack of throwing weapon skills in
the game "ridiculous" adding "I mean, you'd think at least tigers would have
shuriken by now. They're freaking ninjas, man."

BADMITTION
-- The big news out of the badmitton tournament was the ejection of
Kizarwexius from the Olympics, after accusations of match-throwing losses.
Kizar later posted in a scathing blog "I have a scaling turbo that gets better
each time I lose. Throwing matches is a perfectly viable strategy. This
decision has ruined my dreams of hitting a tiny rubber object with a miniscule
tennis racket."

VOLLEYBALL
-- The unannounced decision prior to the round-robin part of the tournament of
replacing the standard volleyball with Newbie Orbs caused far more of a change
in gameplay than the officials predicted. Most teams, flooded with highbies
and rebirthers, found themselves literally unable to return the ball after six
blocks. The final match is set for next Tuesday between a team of six
secondaries versus Nazrix and five guests with idenical IPs.

FOOTBALL
(that's "soccer" to you Americans)
-- Most of the interviewed teams had the same techincal issue, namely, the
difficulty of fielding eleven competent players within the limitations of a
three-by-three party code. "Some of us wanted to use the party linking
feature, but most of us don't know how to use it," said one unnamed nightlife+
member. "We ended up using a riftwalker entity and a five-ton durandium golem
goalie." NL+ is currently favored to reach the final game, where they are
expected to face Asmodeus and ten players with red cards.

RUNNING
-- Mithrandir defended his three-time gold medal streak in the 400-room,
1600-room, half-marathon and marathon runs. Questions about the legality of
casting earth blood during a summer Olympics were dismissed, as he quipped
"look, I spawn one room away from a shop with 50 mistletoe every reboot, and
my plant lore skill is set to 600. I don't even need magic to keep this kind
of pace up."

GYMNASICS AND FENCING
-- In a controversial move, the committee merged these two sports based on the
use of "dodge" and "tumbling attack" as combat skills, and the traditional
weapons of foil and epee, which nobody even uses, were replaced with a more
crowd-pleasing "whatever you can forcewield in one hand" matchup, where GMT is
the heavy favorite. Meanwhile, Trilloch is expected to hold the vault since
someone just robbed it, and the anti-abuse code makes him a "lock".

Shinarae "bronze medal in bs" Lluminus