ANST - Running lists

[Michael F. Gunter]

> I'd think it would be
> better to put the bottom of the upper half against the bottom of the lower
> half etc, but this is better than what I thought was being done.

Lists have been split and chosen in a variety of ways. There have been
totally random draws, one of which involved two dukes fighting in the
second round. Some have been decided by the Crown on who fights who.
What we did at the last Crown was basically what you described here.
We split the list in the middle and moved the lower list up instead of
simply folding the list.

> Wouldn't Baron Drake still be near the top, even after being knighted? Again
> this was something I wasn't aware of and it does add some randomness.

Drake moved from being above the simple Peers as landed nobility to the
last of the Peers as a newly made knight and Court Baron. Pretty much around
the middle.

> > After the first round, (well, actually, the whole time) it's up to the Crown
> > how to pair. HRM Gunthar actually randomly drew the *entire* list at this
> > last crown.
>
> Then the later rounds are more open to manipulation than I thought. You are
> saying the crown actually picks who will fight who in the later rounds?

What actually happend was that we had the List Mistress randomly draw the
pairings. We did seperate the Chivalry from non-belts in the first as is
traditional
but the pairings were random. After the pairs were matched the List Mistress
brought them to us for approval. We did make one change if I recall correctly but

that was because a knight fought his squire in the second or something similar,
it was not done to give any favorite any advantage. In fact by the third round I
instructed the List Mistress to just let the pairings happen where they fell.

My master, Duke Lloyd, once gave me a piece of advice about making the pairings.
"If the pairs are randomly drawn and you wind up against a Duke in the second
round.
You can curse the heavens, the alignment of the planets, God or dumb luck. But if
the
King has selected the pairings, then the King is to blame."

> Thank you for this mention of how HRM Gunthar handled it. I think this is
> excellant and along the lines of what I've come to expect from him.

Thank you.

> Lord Stefan li Rous

Yours,

Gunthar

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