Excelsior Royale
Royal Cup Prequel
Date: July 30th
Type: Big Bad Battle -- Ranking
Terrain: Open Plains
Battlemode: 1101-0980
Distance: 500 meters, spaced equidistantly around the Ajax Kong, clockwise based upon initiative.

Prizes For the Tourney
Sole Survivor: 30,000 credits
Best Show: Royal Cup Byes for all teammates
Best Sportsman: Custom Zoid/Modification Slip
Participation: 20,000 credits

Zoid pilots look to this battle with boundless eager anticipation, and their managers look to it with equal dread. The ZBC hosts it every year just before the Royal Cup Tournament as a means of helping their pilots prepare to participate in that greatest of battles. While the ZBC usually does not like to use the Big Bad Battle event style, they use it in this event for inane and obscure reasons. The pilot is traditionally one of the people who won the Cup last time around, and this time is no different. Winona Stutgart of the Tyrant Saurers is piloting the ZBC's Ajax Kong, a monster of a zoid designed to dish out amazing amounts of damage while able to survive a beating that would demolish a Gojulas.

Ajax Kong
Type: Silverback Gorilla
Length: 12.5 meters
Height: 19.7 meters
Weight: 221 tons
Speed:
150 kilometers per hour
41.55 Meters per second

Equipment:
Composite Sensor Unit
Modified CP-03 Beam Gatling Unit x2
Rocket Hammer Knuckles x2
Liquid-Cooled Particle Beam Cannon x4

Prizes -
Hector Jacobs: 24,285 credits
Kisuna Hakumei: 24,285 credits
Gregory Clark: 24,285 credits
Silberner Falkestern: 24,285 credits
Siren Falkestern: 24,285 credits, Byes for all members of Pointy Darkness in the NC 92 Royal Cup Tournament
Craters: 24,285 credits, Custom Zoid/Mod Slip
Raziel Kurogane: 24,285 credits

Rank Adjustment -
Gregory Clark: +1 Win
Hector Jacobs: +1 Loss
Winona Stutgart: +1 Win, +1 Loss (Posthumous)

This battle has seen the death of ace pilot Winona Stutgart. All ZBC matches have been suspended pending official inquiry. This has been the first death in the matches since they resumed roughly fifteen years ago. Stay tuned for further announcement.