ANST - OK what is a Roman Melee?

[Mark.S Harris]

I just recieved this. Since different tournament styles was a recent
discussion here on the Ansteorra list, I thought some of you might
be interested in this.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net

> Subject: OK what is a Roman Melee? (Womans Tourney at Pennsic)
> Date:  Mon, 24 May 1999 10:40:08 EDT
> From: Svanhildr at aol.com
> To: ironrose at webmaster.com, sca-east at indra.com, atlantia at atlantia.sca.org, sca-aethelmearc at andrew.cmu.edu 
> 
> Poster: Svanhildr at aol.com
> 
> OK a Roman Melee starts out with all fighters in a Circle...
> layon is called...
> And it is basically every person for them selves. You can team up 
> (temporarily) to beet the tougher Fighters.. But in the end only one person 
> can win.
> After fighting a few rounds of this style Melee you can then run a finals 
> such as is done in Double elim to determine the winner of the over all 
> tourney.
> Winners of each Melee and the overall Victor will receive a prize. ( The 
> prizes will be on display at the beginning of the tourney.
> 
> Basically it is different then what has been done. Roman Melee's are not 
> frequently done in the SCA (at least in this region) Thought it would be good 
> to take away some of the Tourney Anxiety that some feel in Double elims etc., 
> in hopes to draw more people out to fight. Also cuts down on choosing your 
> own bouts as happens in the William marshal style tourney's 
> 
> Hope this helps
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