Peregrine DAMTPs came to Ani just before sunset, but because of the approaching storm it was almost dark already. Through the Lion Gate peregrines got into a triangular location of the city which some ages ago used to be the largest in the world. Now – fully devastated but with still tangible mighty of the past – well suited to serve to Armenian nationalists and now already starting to move towards consumerist charm of the tourist object, but the restoration of the medieval city walls rather resemble soviet submarines fuel containers. The Lion Gate and a large section of the adjoining towers and walls were badly damaged in an appalling and amateurish reconstruction organised by the Turkish Ministry of Culture during 1996/1997
So far location of Ani is triangular – shaped and protected by rivers, valleys and above mentioned interconnected towers’ wall – the 3SF World Cup started immediately as the peregrines stepped into it. Peregrines dissolved into a numerous factions hardly discernible to each other. There were so many churches, cathedrals, mosques and citadels in the area that every player could become equally creative and equally a God (just as much as Isidore Isou was a God) and to find his/her own cathedral as it links strongly to the Lettrist idea from the Formulary. It was the mostly lettrist game ever played. SOF and SOF did a game with a yard-long black snake (in the area of Armenian plateau there are found about 52 different kinds of snakes and only 10 of them are poisonous). 3 teams got to do a game on a tripartite cross path in the very middle of the territory. The multiple lightings from time to time were showing-up and became goalposts themselves, when it got too dark to see goalposts marking stones. Two other teams were wandering in the darkness to see as more churches as possible facing some dangers to fall down the scarp which shaped the pitch of the Ani game. Eventually nobody died. To paraphrase the famous poem, it happens that no one from peregrines got seen Ani in a whole set, so they stayed alive.
