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Contests

The Shadow Sands Bazaar

TRANSMOG WINNERS

DRAGON RIDER:Pleades Galeweaver TREASURE ADVENTURER: Cartery

The Shadow Sands Bazaar PUNCH CARD WINNERS

1st Place: Marnie

2nd Place: Helana Glowstalker

Fighting

Month's End Brawl JUNE'S WINNERS

1st Place: Victoria

2nd Place: Vela

3rd Place: Captain Fishtail

Tiragrade Trot BARREL RACING WINNERS

1st Place: Gale on Drakka

2nd Place: Reyandra Dawnbinder on Jaxith

3rd Place: Finnegan Quill on Calamari Joe

Tiragrade Trot ARCHERY WINNERS

The Serpent's Den SKIRMISH WINNERS

1st Place: Mifara Fel-Flayed

2nd Place: Renalis Raveneye

3rd Place: Narasia

Races

JUNE'S

Enthrall in the Brawl WINNERS

1st Place: Slyvyanna Morrowood

2nd Place: CiCi Everfall

3rd Place: Zeto Irestrike

69th Annual Hatherford Cheese

Roll WINNERS

Elysara Rosewood

Sir Temperance of Falconhurst

1st Place: Maeve Kavanagh on Caoimhe

2nd Place: Nightshade Hellsong on Briseldur

3rd Place: Finnegan Quill on Calamari Joe

Tiragrade Trot SHOW JUMPING WINNERS

1st Place: Finnegan Quill on Calamari Joe

2nd Place: Sebastien Bordellain on Apocalypse

3rd Place: Lady Terez Ascania, Duchess of Eastburg on Heathcliff

Tiragrade Trot FLAT RACING WINNERS

1st Place: Lady Terez Ascania, Duchess of Eastburg on Heathcliff

2nd Place: Vynlorin Shandaumath on Quel'ashal

3rd Place: Adeim Lighthand on Challenger

Marnie's 4th Annual Superfantastic Ocean Extravaganza SEAHORSE RACE WINNERS

1st Place: Samaysia

2nd Place: Fisk

3rd Place: Marbarose the Month’s End Brawl (MEB) and starting a fighting competition that has outlived two Warchiefs and multiple defining eras of Azeroth.

While originally a Horde only event, the MEB has always had Alliance and neutral participants, often taking part wearing shoddy disguises made of greasepaint and cardboard With the dawning of the fourth war, Corta officially opened the MEB to Alliance participants.

“When equal powers clash, the truth is revealed” pronounces Corta at the beginning of every brawl, quoting her old master Adarealin before continuing, “You do not truly know someone until you fight them ” And that is the intent of the MEB, empathy through violence. People are quite practiced at social deception, lying with words and propaganda, but in the fight, these lies become more hollow

“ To show that we are not all that different, for there is no more honest language then that of fists. To understand that we all bleed, and have desires and are all mortal... not just Neutral or Horde or Alliance

If you learn the name and personality of your enemies, t is harder to keep calling them enemies.

The MEB has become an institution, held every last Friday of the month at the temple of the Jade Serpent in Pandaria

Signups begin at 8:00 pm, all you have to do is line up between the red and blue markers. Signups close at 8:30 pm and from there, the bracket is announced and the fighting begins

The MEB has more rules than most tournaments, sometimes taking up to ten minutes to discuss, but all the rules have been made for good reason, reactions to incidents and upsets along the Brawl’s long history. Despite over a hundred events, and brackets of forty combatants or more, there hasn’t yet been a single death This doesn’t mean the fighting competition isn’t dangerous, and there have been a few close calls along the way

All this background brings us to today, where I entered the MEB myself, joining twenty-five other fighters for the chance for the prize and the glory that comes with it

Reporter: Xulk

Ten years ago, a forgotte mercenary company started th Redfang Rumble, a brawlin tournament and an ill-fate attempt to outrun a poo reputation While the Redfang failed, the tournament’ founder, Corta Nosesplitter endured, changing the name to