It looks like one contestant has a couple typos on his next-of-kin information, but we can go ahead and get started while that's worked out!
On the West half, we have...
Mr. Smith! Already forgotten what he looks like!
Enki! Nice hair, man!
Larry Laffer! Haven't seen a leisure suit like that in years!
Johnny! He's sure dressed for the occasion!
Jefro! Rounds out the team in averageness!
Let's hear it for these future victims! Now facing them on the East half, we have...
Good Guy Greg! Smoke em if you got em!
Sir Lootington! Pip pip cheerio, good man! Too bad you can't keep that cane in here!
Derm! We've heard nasty stories about this guy.
Bastien! Looks like he has something to hide.
Poe Pello! A young man, with so much life no longer ahead of him!
Looks like two interesting teams, here! We'll all get great pleasure from watching them die!
Remember folks; they get five rounds to prepare, and then it's on to the murder?
Five.. Four.. Three.. Two.. One..... GO!
West team is:
FallacyofUrist
Ao
Dolosus
Whisperling
Coolrune
East team is:
ATHATH
TankKit
Derm
Shadowclaw
OceanSoul
Game on! You're offscreen in your respective safe areas until the end of five turns, in which you'll all be unceremoniously dumped out to the clouded area on your side of the map. Team damage is off for now, but it is on once the game starts for real. Feel free to use spoilers, though please make it obvious to me which spoiler your actual actions are in.
ATHATH, you can only have up to --- +++++ total across all your stats. Need to fix that by the time the turn starts.
Also, a reminder: Your pool is equal to three plus any plusses you have, so if you have Channeling +, that means you have four pool. That's up to four words you can use at once. If you're out of combat, you get fully refilled every turn, but in combat you regain one point per turn.