Editing Solaris Class Six Champion

In all the years since the [[Solaris Games]] began, only 14 [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] have served as champions for four years or more. Of these fourteen, two were champions for five years, and a single MechWarrior - the legendary [[Gray Noton]], the Legend-Killer - served for an unbelievable seven years.<ref name=SOLARISPBp12>''Solaris VII Box Set'', p. 12, "Players Handbook - The Great Ones"</ref><ref name=MWGTSp65>''MechWarrior's Guide to Solaris VII'', p. 65</ref>


==The Grand Tournament==
In order to win, 128 [[MechWarrior]]s competed in the seven-day, Open class, single-elimination tournament that has been the heart of the Solaris Games for centuries. And like an annual changing of the guard, the top 20 ushers in a new generation of the [[Inner Sphere]]‘s finest competitors.<ref name="DA-LA3136p7-8">''Dark Age: LinkNet Articles (3136)'', pp. 7-8, "Solaris VII Grand Tournament Recap"</ref> MechWarriors compete against opponents chosen by lot in all of the Class Six Arenas. Their rankings set with each Grand Tournament, modified over the between-season matches, and verified in pre-Tournament qualifying rounds, these modern-day gladiators slug it out throughout the Tournament, knowing that it only takes one lucky engine hit, one devastating gyro crash, or even one lucky—yet tragic all the same—cockpit breach to make or break their careers. The battles aren‘t to the death, but with live ammunition and fully charged lasers one never knows what‘s going to happen. And though most odds makers may disagree, the Tournament matches are balanced, both for the benefit of the combatants and spectators alike. Opponents are matched by comparative weight classes and weapons loads by the Tournament committees, who also choose the best venues for these warriors and judge on the outcome in event of a tie. Fight fans are encouraged to bet and bet often, but try not to lose your shirt, because even the longest odds can come through with an unexpected turn of events.<ref name="DA-LA3136p279">''Dark Age: LinkNet Articles (3136)'', pp. 279, "Solaris VII: Where Legends are Born"</ref> 


==Historical list of Class Six (Open Class) Champions==
{|class="wikitable" width='600px' style="background: #gray; border: 2px solid black;"
! colspan="3" align="center" style="border-bottom:2px solid black"| Class Six Champions
|-valign="top" style="border-bottom:2px solid black"
!width="100"|Period
!width="200"|Pilot
!width="300"|Mech
|-
| 2812-14
| [[Cabol Hirsch]]
| ''[[Warhammer]]''
|-
| 2815-18
| [[Marco Moliotti]]
| ''[[Archer]]''
|-
| 2819
| [[Andrea Haskell]]
|
|-
| 2820
| [[Drew Onada]]
|
|-
| 2821
| [[Falai Fouadi]]
|
|-
| 2822
| [[Victoria Shandell]]
|
|-
| 2823-24
| [[François Drullet]]
| ''[[Stalker]]''
|-
| 2825
| [[Shinobu Kanedo]]
|
|-
| 2826
| [[Xin Lee Kiang]]
|
|-
| 2827
| No Champion
|
|-
| 2828-29
| [[Peter Grigg]]
|
|-
| 2830-31
| [[Charlene Madan]]
|
|-
| 2832-35
| [[Casai Iusang]]
|
|-
| 2836
| [[Tetsuo Kanawa]]
|
|-
| 2837-38
| [[Oliver Two Horse]]
|
|-
| 2839
| [[Maki Murahashi]]
|
|-
| 2840-41
| [[Oliver Two Horse]]
|
|-
| 2842
| [[Michael Craddock]]
|
|-
| 2843-45
| [[Robert Singharaj]]
|
|-
| 2846
| [[Shola Umoja]]
|
|-
| 2847
| [[Shih Fenh]]
|
|-
| 2848-49
| [[Robin Wolfram]]
|
|-
| 2850
| [[Trent Barton]]
|
|-
| 2851
| [[Cuatemoc Cardenas]]
|
|-
| 2852
| [[Viktor Petrov]]
|
|-
| 2853
| [[Mohammed al Ibrahim]]
|
|-
| 2854-55
| [[Arleta Gordon]]
|
|-
| 2856
| [[Winston Carter]]
|
|-
| 2857-58
| [[Roger Bostwick]]
|
|-
| 2859
| [[Harriet Granger]]
|
|-
| 2860
| [[Yi Hiang]]
|
|-
| 2861
| [[Danielle Jenner]]
|
|-
| 2862-64
| [[Martin Essex]]
|
|-
| 2865
| [[Letitia Donovan]]
|
|-
| 2866-67
| [[Kyle Burton]]
|
|-
| 2868
| [[Arvid Shiner]]
|
|-
| 2869
| [[Samui Chichi]]
|
|-
| 2870-74
| [[Paul Fokker]]
| ''[[Stalker]]''
|-
| 2875
| [[Jenette Hart]]
|
|-
| 2876
| [[Drake Morder]]
|
|-
| 2877
| [[Clinton Finn]]
|
|-
| 2878
| [[Steven Mak]]
|
|-
| 2879-80
| [[Shanda Rambeaux]]
|
|-
| 2881-84
| [[Harrison Kent]]
|
|-
| 2885
| [[Edmond Arens]]
|
|-
| 2886
| [[Sheila Marie Bellows]]
|
|-
| 2887-88
| [[Gunther Bellows]]
|
|-
| 2889
| [[Tag Burton]]
|
|-
| 2890
| [[Richard Napier]]
|
|-
| 2891-92
| [[Linda Schwartz]]
|
|-
| 2893
| [[Echigo Kama]]
|
|-
| 2894
| [[Shelley Hine]]
|
|-
| 2895-98
| [[Paul Reese]]
|
|-
| 2899
| [[David Sells]]
|
|-
| 2900
| [[Charles Tabey]]
|
|-
| 2901-03
| [[Erica Smale]]
|
|-
| 2904-05
| [[Kwan Tong Ngo]]
|
|-
| 2906
| [[Susan Geitz]]
|
|-
| 2907-09
| [[Michael Ross]]
|
|-
| 2910
| [[Joseph Miracle]]
|
|-
| 2911-15
| [[Kan Sho]]
| ''[[BattleMaster]]''
|-
| 2916
| [[Nance Hogan]]
|
|-
| 2917
| [[Brent East]]
|
|-
| 2918-21
| [[Meyer Bellagiorre]]
|
|-
| 2922-23
| [[Fritz Schleiffer]]
|
|-
| 2924
| [[Thar Drickle]]
|
|-
| 2925
| [[Sandra Higgins]]
|
|-
| 2926
| [[Stephanie Van der Kellen]]
|
|-
| 2927
| [[Rico Totze]]
|
|-
| 2928-31
| [[Rhian Caselton]]
|
|-
| 2932-33
| [[Michael Plevant]]
|
|-
| 2934
| [[Lars Tebbit]]
|
|-
| 2935
| [[Cara Grafwallner]]
|
|-
| 2936
| [[Francis Rypczynski]]
|
|-
| 2937-38
| [[Daryoush Sabahi]]
|
|-
| 2939
| [[Arthur Hames]]
|
|-
| 2940
| [[Noburu Kuichi]]
|
|-
| 2941
| [[Margaret Portillo]]
|
|-
| 2942
| [[David Ewell]]
|
|-
| 2943-45
| [[Norman Bales]]
|
|-
| 2946-47
| [[Hideto Moriyasu]]
|
|-
| 2948
| [[Rex Falconburg]]
|
|-
| 2949
| [[Julie Baumgartner]]
|
|-
| 2950-51
| [[Bennet Hammond]]
|
|-
| 2952
| [[Alberto Diez]]
|
|-
| 2953
| [[Gary Markstaller]]
|
|-
| 2954-55
| [[Alan Stubbs]]
|
|-
| 2956-57
| [[Robert Cramer]]
|
|-
| 2958
| [[Henry Eurman]]
|
|-
| 2959
| [[Desiree Careaga]]
|
|-
| 2960
| [[Rajid Malool]]
|
|-
| 2961-63
| [[Corneliu Dlocea]]
|
|-
| 2964
| [[Faezeh Djeyfrouddi]]
|
|-
| 2965
| [[Duane McComas]]
|
|-
| 2966-68
| [[Rosemary Rubenstein]]
|
|-
| 2969
| [[Diane Byassee]]
|
|-
| 2970
| [[Jame Caggiano]]
|
|-
| 2971-73
| [[Kevin Langworthy]]
|
|-
| 2974
| [[Tomas Greissman]]
|
|-
| 2975-76
| [[Jas Czesla]]
|
|-
| 2977
| [[Masud Ahmaddi]]
|
|-
| 2978-79
| [[Rafael Marella]]
|
|-
| 2980
| [[Astrid Schlagler]]
|
|-
| 2981
| [[John Wahpehpah]]
|
|-
| 2982
| [[Sidney Lakey]]
|
|-
| 2983-84
| [[Thomas Moe]]
|
|-
| 2985
| [[Charles Fagen]]
|
|-
| 2986
| [[Ernest Burroughs]]
|
|-
| 2987
| [[Hector Garcia]]
|
|-
| 2988-89
| [[Gloria Lillehaugen]]
|
|-
| 2990
| [[Michael D. Martin]]
|
|-
| 2991-93
| [[Dale Kreuger]]
|
|-
| 2994-95
| [[Gordon Marquand]]
|
|-
| 2996
| [[Nita Krevando]]
|
|-
| 2997-99
| [[Akia Toyoshima]]
|
|-
| 3000
| [[Brett Hartenberger]]
|
|-
| 3001
| [[Hans Schleinning]]
|
|-
| 3002-05
| [[Terri Bates]]
| ''[[Atlas]]''
|-
| 3006
| [[Phyllis Barnes]]
|
|-
| 3007-08
| [[Vanh Daravivanh]]
|
|-
| 3009-12
| [[James O'Gordon]]
| ''[[BattleMaster]]''
|-
| 3013
| [[Orlando Perez]]
|
|-
| 3014
| [[Joel Groshong]]
|
|-
| 3015
| [[Maxwell Boddi]]
|
|-
| 3016-22 
| [[Gray Noton]]
| ''[[Rifleman]]'' - ''[[Legend-Killer]]''
|-
| 3023
| [[Manuel Delvalle]]
|
|-
| 3024-25
| [[Hans Moder]]
|
|-
| 3026-27
| [[Philip Capet]]
|
|-
|3027
| [[Justin Xiang]]
| ''[[Yen-Lo-Wang]]'', a modified ''[[Centurion (BattleMech)|Centurion]]''
|-
|3028
| [[Chaka Mobutu]]
|
|-
| 3029
| [[Anya Terrel]]
|
|-
| 3030
| [[Allen Fitz]]
|
|-
| 3031
| [[Maurice Potter]]
|
|-
| 3032
| [[Richard Townsend]]
|
|-
| 3033
| [[Taleb Hammadi]]
|
|-
| 3034-35
| [[Debra Fromherz]]
|
|-
| 3036
| [[Andrew McCafftey]]
|
|-
| 3037
| [[Bao Zhan Fu]]
|
|-
| 3038-39
| [[Matthew Balcomb]]
|
|-
| 3040-43
| [[Amanda Hamilton]]
|
|-
| 3044
| [[Niculcea Dumitrescu]]
|
|-
| 3045
| [[Kyle Isaacs]]
|
|-
| 3046-47
| [[Julia Marroquin]]
|
|-
| 3048
| [[Michael Romney]]
|
|-
| 3049
| [[Grady Kiefer]]
|
|-
| 3050
| [[Jason Bloch]]
| ''[[Atlas]]''
|-
| 3051-53 
| [[Elizabeth O'Bannon|Elizabeth]] and [[Tanya O'Bannon]] (co-champions)
| ''[[Marauder II]]''
|-
| 3054
| [[Jason Bloch]]
| ''[[Atlas]]''
|-
| 3055-56
| [[Kai Allard-Liao]]
| ''[[Yen-Lo-Wang]]'', a modified ''[[Centurion (BattleMech)|Centurion]]''
|-
| 3057-58
| [[Wynn Goddard]]
| ''[[Stalker]]''
|-
| 3059-62 
| [[Theodore Gross]]
| ''[[Katana]]''<br> [[Warhawk (Masakari)|''Masakari'']] though he piloted it sparingly
|-
| 3063 
| No Champion
|
|-
| 3064
| [[Evelyn Czerny]]
| ''ALB-3U [[Albatross]]''
|-
| 3065-66
| [[Ervin Rebelke]]
| ''Customized [[Atlas]]''
|-
| 3067
| [[Kelley Metz]]
| ''[[Ti Ts'ang]]''
|-
| 3068-3071
| No Championship fought during [[Word of Blake]] occupation
|
|-
| 3072-3129
| Unknown
|
|-
| 3030-31
| [[Ronald Ghost Bear]]
| ''[[Kodiak]]''
|-
| 3132
| [[Shayne Kirkpatrick|Shayne "Shockwave" Kirkpatrick]]
| ''Customized [[Zeus]]''
|-
| 3133
| Unknown
|
|-
| 3134
| [[Jacob Fryer]]
|
|-
| 3135
| [[Trisha Swanson]]
| ''[[Scourge]]''
|-
| 3136-42
| Unknown
|
|-
| 3143
| [[Joe Gaskill]]
| ''[[Exhumer]]''
|-
|}

==References==
<references/>

==Bibliography==
*''[[Solaris VII Box Set]]'' - Page 14
*''[[MechWarrior's Guide to Solaris VII]]''
*''[[Mappack: Solaris VII]] - Page 14 "The Game World Revisited - Welcome to Solaris! - Let the Games Begin! - Recent Standings"
*''[[Mappack: Solaris VII]] - Page 14,"The Game World Revisited / Kelley Metz - Kelley very-brief history update that led her to becomes 3067 Champion of Solaris"
*''[[Dark Age: 3132-3134 INN]]''
*''[[Dark Age: LinkNet Articles (3136)]]''

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