May the 4th Be With You - May 1, 2026

Ewok Village

It is official.  We've now logged TWELVES years of play for our TWELVE-WAY Duel League.  What an incredible journey!!!  202 unique Duelers have sat at the round table over the years, and 182 games have been played.  It's absolutely bonkers.  To all who have contributed to the madness over the last dozen trips around the sun...THANK YOU!  PEW PEW!!!

May the 4th Be With You!

This Duel was all kinds of kooky.  Riley was playing her last Duel as a minor - she turns 18 next week! But she managed to log 72 Duels before reaching legal voting age.  David C. joined us for the first time in...over ten years!!!  His last match was the Valentines Duel back in 2016!  

But the craziest character at the table was newbie Chris, a senior from Brooks who had played in the BRC games but never a 12-way.  He had Migs and Q9-0 in the back corner of the dark side of Ewok village...and started shooting Riley/Beckett!  All kinds of chaos erupted after that, and Chris was running his mouth and cracking jokes the whole time.  Meanwhile, David C./K-2SO defected from the light side and high-tailed it across the big bridge.  It was a lot to process!

Mark serving Sic 'Ems to everybody at the table.

Chris' shenanigans couldn't be tolerated, so the dark side enveloped him and Jonah's KX Security Droid cruelly ended his night in last place by playing Hang.  Ouch!  But Jonah found himself in trouble when the light side concentrated shots across the bridge to his spot near the Ewok hut, including some pestering attacks from Rob's/Obi's maniacal Clone Trooper (bloody clankers!).  It would be Junior, though, playing his first game as a professional who would do the most damage to poor Jonah.  His Luthen emptied his own hand with Sacrifice Everything and Kleya made the eventual kill shot.  Jonah was out in eleventh, but shout out to him for being our super-sub this semester, we're calling him back up to the active roster in the fall!

The main bridge saw a big standoff between the Jedi of the light side (Curtis/Yoda, Rob/Obi, Kat/Ki-Adi) and the rest of the dark side alliance.  David M., playing the Clone Commandos, couldn't find his footing or choose a side.  When he declined to detonate his well-placed Magnetic Thermal Detonator, the Jedi had enough and David M. was out in tenth, with the last Clone falling to Obi-Wan's Jedi Attack.

A CL class padawan's first Dueling action...

Hans, playing Darth Vader, was also making his debut at May the 4th.  He'll be a CL next year, but he was bent on taking down his CL class instructor, Rob!  He did manage to Choke one of the Clones, but Obi's Force Control moved Hans into his first kill box.  Is there anything quite as cute as a Dueler stuck in their first kill box??  Give Hans credit, he wrecked some shop during the game, but Curtis' Yoda struck him down in ninth.  Play with us again in the fall, Hans!

The Jedi somehow managed to hold the bridge, but the dark side finally got wise and concentrated all of their attacks on a specific character.  Unfortunately for Curtis, they chose his Yoda.  His own son Miles, playing Reva, managed to knock his old man down to his last couple of health points.  David C. used the card effects of K-2SO's Clear A Path to auto-damage Curtis into the night.  It was eighth place for Yoda.

David using his "readers".

Things were still very much up in the air with multiple characters carrying damage.  But Mark/Dryden decided to flip sides and join Luthen and the Jedi!  That was back-breaking for the dark side alliance, none more so than Miles.  Miles passed on the chance to flip a round or two earlier, and despite a couple of expert uses of In The Gutter, Rob's Obi-Wan used a 5 point attack to finally eliminate the Third Sister.  Congrats to Miles, though, who has been promoted to the amateur rankings!

With six Duelers to go, it looked like Riley/Beckett and David C./K-2SO would be the next two to go, but those two were still feeling sour about Mark's flip, and Rob and Kat thought they saw Mark trying to organize the shooters against Obi-Wan and Ki-Adi-Mundi, so Dryden became the new target!  There were too many corners to defend so Mark was out.  Sic 'Em Sixth Place.

The Tiny Titan all growns-up.

It was deep into the night at this point, and that's never a good sign for sleepy Riley.  Give her credit, she was the first person attacked in the game, and here she was still in the top five.  But she and David parted ways, and the light side alliance used that rift to isolate her.  Junior's Kleya got another kill shot and Riley was done in fifth.  Give it up for Rob's first born - 70+ Duels, 3 wins (including the 2025 Championship!), and all before she turned 18.  Next year she'll be a college student Dueler...where did the time go?!?!?!

Speaking of the passage of time...David C., with ten years of rust to shake off, was still in the game!!!  He was the first defector and had a heck of a night, even if he spent too much time at the Pizza Hut.  But the octave-raising Kat used her Binary Brain to strike down the program director in fourth.  The early word on the street is that David won't wait ten years again to play his next Duel!

Just Jedi doing Jedi things.

And then there were three!  Junior/Luthen, Kat/Ki-Adi, and Rob/Obi.  Poor Junior's Luthn had been stuck on his final two health points for hours, thanks in large part to Riley's Double Blasters.  And he was bummed to discover the Jedi were going to stick together against the slippery founder of the rebel alliance.  But Junior indirectly determined the outcome of the game when he focused most of his final shots on Rob's Obi-Wan.  Rob got a little revenge by knocking him out with a Force Control.  But Junior turned pro and had his strongest performance to date in the league.  Well done, sir!

Rob knew he had his work cut out from him, because Junior/Luthen had roughed him up and Kat had wisely healed up over the past hour (and had Griffin make an In 'n' Out run).  It took a few rounds, but Kat navigated multiple Force Balances throughout the night and emerged victorious against Rob - congrats Kat!!!  She becomes the first female Dueler to win four games in the league - and did so after taking a year off from her last Duel!!!  This also marks Ki-Adi-Mundi's first career win!  He's quickly proving to be a formidable presence on the Dueling board.

New office decor!

The final order of finish:

12.  Chris/Migs & Q9-0

11.  Jonah/KX Security Droid

10.  David M./Clone Commandos

9.  Hans/Darth Vader

8.  Curtis/Yoda

7.  Miles/Reva

6.  Mark/Dryden

5.  Riley/Beckett

4.  David C./K-2SO

3.  Junior/Luthen

2.  Rob/Obi-Wan

1.  Kat/Ki-Adi-Mundi

In all seriousness, for those members of the league graduating and/or moving on from the department, please know how much you are loved and appreciated and that you made such a positive impact in our little Dueling universe.  May the Force be with you.  Always!

And stay tuned - Rob will try and organize a movie Duel for the new Mando & Grogu movie.  It looks like Dueling the afternoon of May 23rd and then headed to the movies for an evening showing could be the plan.  He'll email more info on that soon!

Twin Sun Slam #2 - June 3, 2023

 

Kamino Platform

Game #2 started a bit later than intended thanks to the length of the first Duel and the dramatic ending of Episode III that was playing in the Loser's Lounge during dinner.  But once the burgers were consumed and a fresh vat of Yoda Soda was poured, we were ready for the dark side Duel!

Everyone grumbled when Ian, who had won the first match of the day, once again got the first pick!  The complaints only grew louder when he selected Darth Maul!!  Here's how the draft went down:

1.  Ian picked Maul

2.  Isaiah picked Dooku

3.  Grant D. picked Gideon

4.  Rob picked Captain Phasma

5.  Kat picked Vader

6.  Michael picked Grievous

7.  Riley B. picked Snoke

8.  Curtis picked Krennic

9.  Chris K. picked Palpatine

10.  Grant H. picked Cad Bane (!!!)

11.  Caleb picked Boba

12.  Riley E. picked Kylo

Not picked:  Jango and Beckett

Don't get comfortable, Caleb...

When everyone had placed their characters on the Kamino Platform...history was made in the first round of play.  It's not an official record, but Caleb, big brother to Miles and padawan of Curtis, had his Boba Fett attacked by Ian's Maul right out of the gate!  Sith Speed, a 4-point attack, and Athletic Surge killed the rookie in less than 5 minutes of game play!!!  It was the fastest (most brutal?) elimination ever seen!  It was so mean, which is to say, so like Darth Maul.  BRUTAL!!!

As you could imagine Curtis was quite ticked to see his progeny destroyed that fast, so he took out his anger by destroying the Super Battle Droids of Isaiah's Count Dooku.  But a series of minor characters from the other end of the board started whittling Krennic down, which enabled Riley E.'s Knight of Ren to come out of hiding behind Jango's ship (can you believe nobody picked Jango on Jango's board?) and strike him down in eleventh.  Not a great day of Dueling for Clan Curtis!

School's in session and Chris is teaching!

It was great to have retired Dueler Chris K. play with us in game 2!  He's soon to depart to visit the studios where they shot the original Star Wars, and though he wasn't pleased to see all the new characters, he had no problem schooling newer Duelers on the ways of Emperor Palpatine.  Riley B. used Snoke's Tied To A String and Force Lightning to send Chris/Emperor to a kill box on the other side of the board.  Folks got nervous when Chris didn't look at all fazed.  On his turn he used Royal Command and You Will Die to go right back to his hiding spot behind the ship while dumping Riley B.'s hand!!!  *insert laughing Emperor GIF*  The side Riley B. tried to defect to turned on him after that catastrophic sequence and Riley was out in tenth.

Ian's early aggression against Boba, combined with a dust-up against Riley E.'s Kylo Ren, had him retreat deep towards his alliance but banged up and low carded.  He slowly realized he was in trouble, and Grant D.'s Dark Trooper proved it when a Concussive Punch put the game one winner down in ninth.

The Dark Troopers weren't done, though.  On that same turn they managed to kidnap Chris' Emperor and bring him into a kill box.  That's where Isaiah's Dooku used a 5-point attack to end the Emperor's reign.

The end of the table that was having the most fun.

We were quickly down to seven Duelers (we should have played Kamino first!).  Grant H. hilariously was playing with Cad Bane AGAIN, but not having as much fun as he had hoped.  He was pinned in the back corner with both Michael/Grievous and Riley E./Kylo bearing down on him.  He was desperate to find Rocket Boots but his card luck wasn't there for him.  When he was down to two health points Kat's Vader Wrathed him into seventh place.  Grant H. still reserves the right to play with Cad Bane at all future Duels, though.

Riley E.'s Kylo Ren was the last character standing from her end of the board.  She tussled with numerous folks throughout, but her luck was finally running out.  Grant D.'s Moff Gideon used Astute Panic to end Ben Solo's night in sixth.

Isaiah dictating the flow!

The final five would prove to be new Dueler Isaiah's coming out party!  Michael/Grievous and Kat/Vader had put the target on Grant's Gideon, and Rob's Captain Phasma followed suit by making an attack.  But when it came time for Isaiah to join in...he didn't!  He passed on his first round by drawing, and then on his next turn he made it be known he was more worried about Michael's General Grievous.  This caused a lot of unrest on the board.  When Michael's Grievous started moving toward Rob's Phasma, Rob took that as a sign of aggression and used a Let's Make This Hurt on one of Grievous' minor characters.  That further muddied the waters, but eventually, largely by Isaiah's will, Michael became the target and was out in fifth, killed by a Storm Trooper.

With four to go it became quite clear that Isaiah/Dooku and Grant D./Moff Gideon were sticking together, which forced Rob and Kat to align.  They managed to concentrate their efforts on a loaded Dooku, thanks in part to Kat playing Your Skills Are Not Complete on Gideon.  Captain Phasma, playing just her second Duel, finally got to play New Recruit on the last remaining minor character on the board, Kat's Storm Trooper.  But Rob was loaded with minor character cards, and now that FN-216 was on his team, he fired a volley of shots that finally ended the wily Isaiah's night in fourth!  Holy cow we have a great new Dueler in our ranks, folks!

Final three silliness.

Rob and Kat were galvanized to stay together against Moff Gideon.  Rob was in rougher shape than Kat but kept popping shots, and Kat stayed active too.  She eventually knocked out Gideon in third.  Grant played a heck of a game, though.

At the final two it looked like Vader would trounce Captain Phasma, but Vader wasn't pulling great cards and Phasma had a few tricks up her sleeve.  Rob managed to start docking health points on Kat's Vader, but Kat stayed calm and collected, and eventually landed a Dark Side Drain for the win!  Kat becomes the first woman in league history with three wins!!!  Congrats, Kat!  Vader's win increases his league-leading total to 16.  

Like a boss.

With all the new boards in the league, it's nice to be reminded how fun the original four arenas can be!  Kamino was a great battleground for the dark side to do combat.  Here's the final order of finish:

12.  Caleb/Boba

11.  Curtis/Krennic

10.  Riley B./Snoke

9.  Ian/Maul

8.  Chris K./Emperor

7.  Grant H./Cad

6.  Riley E./Kylo

5.  Michael/Grievous

4.  Isaiah/Dooku

3.  Grant D./Gideon

2.  Rob/Phasma

1.  Kat/Vader

Our next 12-way Duel will be in August, when we kick off year ten (!!!) at CL Training.  Before that, though, we have our annual Singles Tournament!  It looks like we'll play that on Sunday, July 30, starting at 2PM.  We need 32 Duelers to sign up!  It's one of the coolest things we do each year, and it uses a very different part of your Dueling brain.  Stay tuned for more info on that, but mark your calendars now!

Congrats again to Kat! 

The Imperial March - March 19, 2022

 

Naboo Reactor Pit

Sometimes in this glorious league of ours, the stars align and we get beautiful, poetic, and historic endings.  This is a major spoiler alert - in the Naboo Reactor Pit, we literally had an Episode I ending!  To the recap!

They're smiling now...

This Duel marked the first time we got to play the Naboo Reactor Pit live and in person.  The previous two Duels on this board were in the online dark-ages.  For some reason we let Miguel control the remote to change the lights of the laser walls, and he promptly tried to start a discotheque.  He finally settled down, put up the red walls, and we were off!

For the first time in quite a few Duels, nobody played a card until everybody was loaded with ten.  Evan went first, so he was the first to have to play a card, and he took a potshot with a Dark Trooper (Evan had Gideon back to back games!) at Corona's Padme.  Rob seized that opportunity and his Snoke Force Lightning-ed Gideon into a kill box on the other end of the board!  The others pounced on poor Evan, and Duncan's Mando used Disintegration to shockingly kill him in last.

This board is beautiful.

The Naboo Reactor Pit is a hard board to navigate natural geographic alliances.  As such, it was hard for Duelers to figure out who they were actually working with.  JD got caught on unsure footing when he sent his Greedo a few spots over to start attacking.  That united a group of Duelers against him, so he Rocket Retreated to the narrow end of the board.  Unfortunately, Miguel's Jango soon joined him on the same end, and was determined to take him out.  A wounded Boba flew back towards Kat's Maul, who was chomping at the bit to unload.  JD was donezo in eleventh.  Prior to that, though, he and Corona introduced a league-first: speaking at the table in another language!  The Spanish speakers elicited nervous laughter as most of us were scared about what they were actually saying.

Rob's Snoke was still stuck in the middle of the corridor, and he caught whispers of a Corona/Anakin, Rico/Yoda, and Miguel/Jango kill box.  So with the invitation of Kevin's Qui-Gon Jinn, Rob used Tied to a String and pulled Yoda into a separate kill box, the same group who dispatched Gideon!  Rico defended to the best of his ability, but it was no match for so many angles of attack.  Curtis' Jyn Erso knocked him out, and Rico was free to drown his sorrows in the 12-pack of Dr. Pepper he generously provided.

Can you spot the sleeping teenager?

Grant H.'s General Grievous was stuck in a tough starting spot, and got caught in the mix with minor attacks throughout the night.  His on again/off again relationship with Maul didn't help either.  It would be a Rocket Retreat from Miguel, who was bouncing around all over the board with Jango, that continued Grant's hard luck streak with a ninth place finish.

With eight Duelers to go, the loose alliance in the pit half of the board were giving the silent head nods to target Riley's Luke Skywalker next.  It was Rob's turn, but he was the only one directly adjacent to her.  He was unsure how to proceed, but reluctantly killed Leia to prove his allegiance.  Sure enough, the laser walls went up, and Snoke was stuck with a JUSTICE seeking Luke.  Snoke took five points of damage, and then Riley dropped an I Will Not Fight You for good measure.  When the walls opened Corona and Miguel allowed Snoke to retreat to the back line.  Riley wasn't as fortunate, and got picked off by Duncan's Mandalorian for an eighth place finish.

Kat surveys the field.

From here it was pretty obvious Duncan/Mando and Curtis/Jyn were working together, and Kat was happy to join along.  Kevin's Qui-Gon, though, was secretly trying to plan his divorce from that duo.  While he waited for the right opportunity, Duncan pulled the move he's famous for with The Mandalorian, the daring Rising Phoenix/Grappling Line combo.  He used it to pull Corona's Anakin into a kill box.  Corona lasted a bit longer than expected, but he finally got offed in seventh when he escaped but got caught in the same laser room as Mando.  The kill shot?  WHISTLING BIRDS.  Brutal!

While this was going down Rob used Force Lightning to bounce Miguel's Jango down to Qui-Gon's side of the board, where they could both start attacking Curtis' Jyn.  Curtis was none too pleased by that turn of events, but Kevin stayed mostly committed to it.  Curtis managed to switch his main character status to Cassian and peel off.  He used the newly minor Jyn to off Jango in sixth place.

The attrition continues...

That left five Duelers, and Rob/Snoke, Kevin/Qui-Gon, and Kat/Maul finally agreed they should work together to eliminate the remaining shooters.  At that point Maul was close to Cassian, and Curtis didn't have much health or defense left.  Kat used an Athletic Surge to knock out Jyn.  Two strong finishes with Jyn by Curtis, though, has sent her rocketing up the character rankings.  Nice job, Curtis.

Duncan was without partners at this point, but still proved dangerous.  He landed a second Disintegration on Rob's Snoke, which badly wounded the already gnarly looking Sith puppet.  Snoke got the last laugh, though, and used a 4-point attack to retire Duncan in fourth place.

Are you kidding me???

Kat was in great position in the final three.  Both Kevin and Rob were badly wounded.  Rob hoped Kevin would partner with him as a result, but he chose to stay loyal to Kat.  Rob thought he was going to pull off some theatrics, though.  He had sneakily got Snoke down to one health point left, hoping he could use his I Cannot Be Beaten defense card to regenerate his Guards and keep playing.  But Kevin, who still had Jar Jar on the board, used Accident Prone to kill him.  Argh!!!

In the final two Kat had the early advantage, but Kevin pulled out There's Always a Bigger Fish to even their hands.  In the end, though, Maul proved too overwhelming, AND JUST LIKE IN EPISODE I, DATH MAUL KILLED QUI-GON JINN IN THE NABOO REACTOR PIT!!!  Hilarious!!!

Let's give a big hand to Kat, who during Women's History Month, becomes the first female Dueler to win multiple Duels!!!  And she won playing mostly as a lone wolf, which was equally impressive in a 12-Way Duel.  Let's also tip our hats to Kevin, who turned pro and finished in a career-best second place.

The final order of finish:

12.  Evan/Moff Gideon

11.  JD M./Boba Fett

10.  Rico/Yoda

9.  Grant H./General Grievous

8.  Riley/Luke Skywalker

7.  Corona/Anakin Skywalker

6.  Miguel/Jango Fett

5.  Curtis/Jyn Erso Cassian Andor

4.  Duncan/The Mandalorian

3.  Rob/Supreme Leader Snoke

2.  Kevin/Qui-Gon Jinn

1.  Kat/Darth Maul

Congrats again, Kat!  Next month's Duel is DUEL OF THE FATES, and we're playing back on Arvala-7.  And if you've never played the April Duel...we play "Duel of the Fates" on a loop for the WHOLE NIGHT.  It's wonderfully stressful.  We've targeted April 9th for that.  Stay tuned for more info!

Fight Night - October 23, 2021

 

Emperor's Throne Room (via Mustafar)

Though the campus was quiet due to Fall Break, there were still the deafening sounds of light sabers clashing and blasters blasting in the North Village Classroom on Saturday night!  PEW PEW PEW!!!  Fight Night featured the debut of two new Duelers as well as a couple of historic firsts in the league.  Onto the recap!

Thank the maker - finally, a round table!

Fight Night technically took place in the Emperor's Throne Room, but we used the 3-D Mustafar edition (we miss you Ryan!).  Out of the gate the light and dark sides of the board tried to tempt the other into a flip, and though each side maintained the status quo through the first two rounds, it would be Kat's Rey who made the first shocking turn as she took a shot on Rob's Yoda on her way to defecting.

Not long after that Evan deployed his Dark Trooper next to Corona's Anakin Skywalker and Kidnapped him deep inside a dark side kill box.  Brutal!  Corona tried to hold out, but it would be a Force Lightning from Grant H.'s Supreme Leader Snoke that would sadly end Corona's night in last place.  He had to lug the Golden Jar Jar all the way back to East Village.

The light side was in chaos by that point.  Rob's Yoda tried to hold the line, but newbie Kevin, playing with Mace Windu, started shooting the little green Jedi!  The ultimate betrayal would come from Rob's daughter, Riley, who joined in on the mutiny with her Han Solo.  Rylie's Jango Fett landed the kill shot, and Rob was out early.

Miguel heralds Duncan's doom

With ten Duelers to go Peach's Jyn Erso was the next target for the mega-alliance.  She fought valiantly in her first Duel, but with no partners left and all of her good defense stuck at the bottom of her draw pile, she couldn't hold out long.  It would be Riley's Chewbacca, using a Wookie Toss, that would send her to the rails in tenth.

It was at this point of the game Miguel, playing with Darth Maul and bound and determined to get his first career top-six finish, called open season on Duncan's Count Dooku.  Duncan got cranky while Miguel was incredulous.  Duncan tried to talk his way out of it but others in the alliance jumped in too, and it would be Grant's Guard that delivered the death blow.  The defending Fight Night champion was out too soon!

The Force trying to exert his will.

It was about this point in the game where Miguel let it be known he was good with Evan's Moff Gideon and Grant's Supreme Leader Snoke.  The other five Duelers did not like the sound of that three-person alliance, forcing all three to back track from the declaration and start attacking each other.  Evan's Gideon, a key contributor to the early alliance, all of a sudden found himself with no partners.  Curtis' Kylo Ren moved in for the kill, using his Laser Cross-Guard.  Poor Evan was stuck in eighth.

Gideon inflicted major damage on Grant's Snoke before bowing out of the game, so he was ripe for the offing when Miguel excitedly rolled in to eliminate him in seventh place.  I don't recall a time seeing somebody so excited to finish in the top six of a Duel before, but it marked a personal best for Miguel, and he was overjoyed!  Unfortunately for him, he was low carded and low health.  Curtis' Kylo was in the neighborhood, and he reluctantly capped him in sixth.  Miguel was still happy.

Liquid-hot MAGMA

That made it five to go, and that's when Kat went into boss-mode.  As soon as Curtis' turn ended, she put the target on him.  Rey and Kylo drama!!!  So on brand.  Kevin/Mace, Rylie/Jango, and Riley/Han had no issue with that.  Kylo dropped some hits here and there, but he eventually fell to a lowly Mace Clone Trooper attack.  Still, that fifth place finish for Curtis marked a career-best finish for Kylo!  Curtis is playing so well right now an off-night still lands him in the top five!

And then there were four!  We had Kevin the rookie...and three women who said, out loud, it would be pretty cool to have the first-ever all-female top three!  And that's what they set out to do!  Though Kevin had a lot of cards in his hand, it turned out they weren't the right combination to last long.  He did manage to inflict damage on Han before Rylie's Zam ended his first Duel in fourth place.  Congrats Kevin, that's a heck of a debut!  You would never have known it was his first game with us.

History!

So, for the first time in league history, we had women in the top three spots!  Riley and Rylie were both banged up, and so was Kat, but she used her Rise of Skywalker heal card.  It was a good thing, too, because Riley's Chewbacca hit her with the second Bowcaster on the night!  Even though Riley and Rylie were both shooters, they ended up working against each other in hopes of gaining favor with Kat's Rey.  Riley's Han would fall first, after Rey hit her with a four point attack.  And after a brief chase around the board, Rylie's Jango was out in second...Kat won her first career Duel!!!  Congrats Kat!!!  And this also marked Rey's first win in the league!  That means the combined Palpatine win record is...

What a great night of Dueling!  And guess what?  It took just over three hours to play, start to finish!  AS IT SHOULD BE!  *hint hint*

Let's see that final order of finish:

12.  Corona/Anakin

11.  Rob/Yoda

10.  Peach/Jyn

9.  Duncan/Dooku

8.  Evan/Moff Gideon

7.  Grant/Snoke

6.  MIGUEL/DARTH MAUL

5.  Curtis/Kylo

4.  Kevin/Mace

3.  Riley/Han

2.  Rylie/Jango

1.  Kat/Rey

Thanks everyone for a historic night!  Next month is November, and that means... THANKSDUELING!  Right now we're looking at Saturday, November 6th, but we'll wait and see what the game time is for Baylor football at TCU before confirming.  This will also be the last chance to qualify for the 2021 Championship Duel in December!  Any Dueler who won in 2021 gets an automatic bid, and we'll fill the last chairs based on professional rankings.  Until then...may the force be with you.  Always.