ANST - Running lists

[Chris and Elisabeth Zakes]

At 07:12 PM 6/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Sir Timo wrote:
>> Huh? How is it an advantage? The "tradition" is to line everyone up by
Order
>> of Precedence and fold the list for the first round. So the highest ranking
>> member fights the lowest, the second highest fights the second lowest, ect.
>> Usually a Duke or two are at the top, and they fight the lowest ranking
>> persons there, a person sometimes without an AOA. Now, IMHO, this is a
>> mismatch, but if a person with little SCA experience wishes to enter Crown,
>> then they need to prove themselves.
>
>Thank you for clarifying this. This was not what I had understood it to be.
>I guess this does give the Dukes an advantage since they will expend less
>energy defeating their first opponent than more evenly matched opponents
>are likely to but it may not be a big differance. 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.

However, this isn't how *every* crown list is run. I have run several, some
totally random, some "don't pair the knights." It all depends--usually on
the person(s) sitting the thrones at the time.

Aethelyan Moondragon
Bryn Gwlad


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