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Quarters' Histories

GRUPPO A

Results
WINNER: Aenglish Wildfire
2dn : Accident
3th : Accident
4th : Gladius Albus

In the first race of this Ludi already is obvious a change. The whites are prepared to be the surprise for once. The driver Damnator of Gladius Albus lashes mercilessly the drivers green and red, who relax and suffer terrible accidents on the spina. But he can not stop Aenglish Wildfire, who wins the race. A blue and a white classified.
The majority green and red public is amazed. Blue scarves appear in the steps and a white flag even. Really a beginning of ludi very strange for this year.

GO IN SEMIFINAL: Aenglish Wildfire and Gladius Albus

GROUP B

Results
WINNER: Accident
2dn : Accident
3th : B.S.D. Liber
4th : Proliaetor

The greatest surprise of the evening. The superchampion Essedum suffers a stupid accident, knocking down an absent-minded pretorian doing guard in the spina and of rebound hitting with the blue Orionis Draco. Both break in the middle of the track. B.D.S. Liber and Proeliator enjoy a hard sprint that the first one wins. White victory!! Incredible!! A group of white fans extends more flags with their color, it seems that today is a white day, but the greens stain the flags spitting liquor of kiwi on them. The passion and violence grows in the steps.

GO IN SEMIFINAL: B.S.D. Liber and Proliaetor

GROUP C

Results
WINNER: Accident
2dn : Impactus Infrenatus
3th : Niquèlia Cupro-Cobaltosa
4th : Brokenus Skoderus

The evening continues being horrible for the Praesina and marvellous for the Albata fans, which are taking revenge for the past affronts in before Ludi. Malleus Nolens and his Impactus Infrenatus stopped their self-destructive impulses pushing the chariot Volatilis of Pelops Celer, which hit on the wall. After this, nobody dared to go forward to the evil white. Niquelia and Brokenus Skoderus fought for the second post. But Damonus Hillus's assaults were extinguished by Electroliticus's discharges. Other red in semi-final!
The greens shout to the sky, asking why Gods send curses on them....

GO IN SEMIFINAL: Impactus Infrenatus and Niquèlia Cupro-Cobaltosa

GROUP D

Results
WINNER: Crux Australis
2dn : Italica
3th : Accident
4th : Ars Longa

Blue victory and other red chariot in the second post. Crux Australis increases the small reputation of his factio (for the present) and Ars Longa reduces the good luck of his factio with a lamentable race. His driver Petronius sneezed on having turned a curve of the track, lost the control of his chariot, went out to the street and he couldn´t stop his horses up to the capitolium.
The greens lose again. But in this race the green chariot was not a victim of the bad luck. The driver of Leo, T. Lupercia Silo, suffered a mysterious and frightful diarrhea. He could not take part in the race, but his shouts from lavatories were heard in all the Circus: Sabotage, Sabotage, aayah.. The reds has given me a lollipop poisoned with laxatives..aayah! But the pretorians couldn´t found probes of the crime for denying to dive in the lavatories.

GO IN SEMIFINAL: Crux Australis and Italica

GROUP E

Results
WINNER: Massilia
2dn : Metella Maxima
3th : Accident
4th : Macedonica

Three red chariots against the solitary green one. Bad luck for the veteran and wise Basilea. The Red Armada doesn´t forgive her enemies. Besides, the divine plot against the Praesina provokes for Basilea an curious accident in the spina. An accident "induced" by the red chariots, certainly. After this accident, the race was a walk for the red chariots. In the final sprint, Macedonia was slower, maybe because its driver Perseus relaxes cutting the head of the statue of Medusa. Massilia wins the race and its red companion Metella Maxima is second!
The red fans start enjoying so much as the whites and blues, while the greens cries distressed.

GO IN SEMIFINAL: Massilia and Metella Maxima

GROUP F

Results
WINNER: Furor Teutonicus
2dn : Accident
3th : Golden Age
4th : Delecta Mea

Yes, again, three reds against one green. The Red Armada crushes with her power. One of the three reds is Furor Teutonicus, led by the wicked, cruel and bastard Scissor, who lights a green flag before the fans of this factio, receiving sonorous insults about all his family. It is the war on the steps against the insane Scissor! But in the race, this madman pushes on the wall his own companion, the veteran Volans, in an irrational and incomprehensible action. Scorpìanus of
Delecta Mea prefered to live and to leave that the surviving pair of reds wins the race. Undoubtedly, today is a damn day for the greens. The second one, Kronus of Golden Age, after the race asks for explanations for his evil behavior to the bastard Scissor and he receives as answer a tremendous slap and a bite in the ear. I think that this Scissor is a danger for everybody in the semifinals. Of course, now he´s a hero for the more radical reds.

GO IN SEMIFINAL: Furor Teutonicus and Golden Age

GROUP G

Results
WINNER: Hyacintha Magna
2nd: Accident!
3th: Attia Clusia

Three reds fight among them for two posts in semifinals without any chariot of rival factiones. The dream of any red fan! The race seemed to be therefore boring, a walk of friends and polite people, but Ius Sanguinis and Attia Clusia fought hardly to be the second chariot behind an unstoppable Hyacintha Magna. It was a hard and dangerous combat for both. Finally, Attia Clusia winned the fratricidal struggle. Ius Sanguinis was pushed on the wall of the steps, having
an not dangerous accident, but mortal for the ambition of its owner.
The red fans enjoyed very much. The others fans, very scornful, prefered to read the newspaper or to play boardgames on the steps.

GO IN SEMIFINAL: Hyacintha Magna and Attia Clusia

GROUP H

Results
WINNER: Incitatus
2nd: Accident
3th: Fulminatora

A race with clear red superiority. But where a great scandal has happened. A professional assassin failed in the attempt of strangling to Q. Lanius Paulinus in the wardrobes with a string of piano, because he was recognized by a angry pretorian, owner of the damned piano. He was arrested at once and "convinced" by the pretorian guard for confessing who contracted his services. The assassin blamed the red Sextus Arminius Remus, but this citizen denied the accusation very angry. Nevertheless, the judges decreed that his chariot was not taking part in the race. Therefore only two chariots ran on the track: Metella Vermelha and Incitatus. Lanius Paulinus, much angrier than Arminius, pushed Metella Vermelha and lashed mercilessly its
driver Rosatia up to hitting on the wall. A vindictive and terrible action! Then the red fans tried to accuse Paulinus of assassination.
But what is not legal in the wardrobes it is legal on the track. Incitatus wins and is the only green chariot in the semi-finals!

GO IN SEMIFINAL: Incitatus and Fulminatora

Tournement schedule

Regulations

Informations:
- Cohors Aedilis Website - Section Ludi: http://italia.novaroma.org/cohorsaedilis/victoria/
- Scriba Aedilis Cursus Equorum Curulis Aedilis Gnaeus Salix Galaicus: salixgalaicus@hotmail.com
- Quaestor Franciscus Apulus Caesar: sacro_barese_impero@libero.it