<div class="gmail_quote">His Excellency Avery, Baron of Bryn Gwlad has arranged for a bit of fun of the Cutting and Thrusting variety during the day at Candlemas. This is no grand spectacle, just a chance to knock off the rust, cut through the winter blahs and carve out a little fun. In addition to the tournament we will have fields open for pickup bouts. Participants are encouraged to bring tokens or other largess and to offer praise and rewards to those who impress you in the tournament or in pickup bouts.<br>
<br>Since there are a limited number of C&T fighters in Ansteorra, we expect to use an extended format such as the recently popular triple elimination. When we see how many sign up to fight we will pick a format that gives us all plenty of fights. Come prepared to fight single sword, sword & defensive secondary and sword & offensive secondary.<br>
<br>Armor inspection will begin at 10:00am, list signup will close at 11:00am and the tournament will end by 3:00pm.<br><br>
We will not delay the start of the tournament for authorizations so if
you plan to get authorized before the tournament contact the kingdom
C&T marshal, Don Corvin Fenarro, to make arrangements.<br><br>If you plan to eat during the tournament bring your lunch with you. We do not plan to take a lunch break but we may have a longish pause between two of the rounds to allow those who brought lunch to eat.<br>
<br>Since there are few marshals for C&T we are asking those fighters who are C&T marshals to assist by marshaling some of the bouts.<br><br>I will be running this tournament under the Reduced Armor rules which you will find here: <a href="http://rapier.ansteorra.org/images/rules/experiment-reducedrapierarmor.pdf" target="_blank">http://rapier.ansteorra.org/images/rules/experiment-reducedrapierarmor.pdf</a> Remember, C&T fighters must still have required protection for knee, elbow, back of the hand and wrist.<br>
<br>If you have any questions about the tournament, please send them to me, Don Christian Doré. at <a href="mailto:james@crouchet.com">james@crouchet.com</a> .<br><br>
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