Kingdom Warlord was a Blast

[Burke McCrory]

At 11:27 AM 5/5/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Sir Burke wrote:
>> This type of tourney works ok when you have a King or Prince to
>> choose the victor from the combatants.  However if there is no royal
>> figure to choose the winner the roling snowball tourney is best as
>> there is a winner.
>
>In period, didn't the ladies judge the tourney and choose men (one or
>more) to honor?
>
>Is it off-topic for the Ansteorran list to ask why *in general* there
>has to be one (1) winner in a tourney?  I suspect it's often an axiom:
>you may choose to believe it or not, and see what results you get.
>(One of *my* axioms is that *other things being equal* period is
>better, so which would argue against having one winner.)
>
>Of course, I exclude cases such as this where the object of a tourney
>*is* specifically to choose one person: Crown tourney and warlord
>tourneys, as examples.
>
>Daniel de Lincoln
>-- 
>Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com
>
>
I was referencing the Kingdom Warlord list.  There have been many cases
over the years where tourneys were decided by something other that who was
the last one standing.  Loin's being the best example that I can think of.  

 
Sir Burke Kyriell MacDonald


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