This is an interesting one. Turnstone's never actually seen one of those old motors running before today, despite occasionally running across half-rusted remnants of them. She's going to have to get a feel for how her opponent moves if she wants to win this bout. Lower to the ground than the cavalryman was, too. The first round, both of them are going to be feeling this out.

Got to give the civil- the Lieutenant credit, though. Man fills out that Hunter gear pretty nicely. Turnstone salutes him in passing before they split up, heading to each side of the field. She's noticed the two grooms cheering his name as they head to the starting lines too, which is... not exactly a damper on her morale, she doesn't know any of them. But she'll try not to knock the guy off too hard, out of courtesy.

Once the flag drops, she might not be accelerating as hard as she should. It gives the Hunter slightly more time to line up her lance tip- but so too does Sulu have an extra second to angle at his target. Which one learns the hard lesson might come down to luck...