ANST - Royal Huntsman

[Bob Dewart]

Pug wrote:
I do feel that the work you are doing with the competitions and the
medalions for different things are a good step forward. If things continue
to grow well, it may be something in the not too distant future. I do not
see it being something in the present though.

To which Gilli says:

Thank you for your kind words.  It's one step in a long road.  First we gave
quivers for a few years as prizes. Then we gave out combat ranges as prizes,
a total of six.  And the numbers kept getting smaller and smaller.

I haven't been seeing growth but the opposite of it.  Now let me qualify
that.  I've seen a decline to almost nothing for those folks who shoot the
Society wide competitions.  Why?  Don't know for sure, probably as many
reasons as there are lack of archers shooting it.  These competitions aren't
hard and someone's bad score dosen't hurt a thing.  But the fun stuff seems
to bring them out.

Unfortunately the "fun stuff" doesn't improve the Kingdom's standing.  Then
at the end of the year when the Kingdom is sucking sand in the standings,
folks say "well maybe if they did better we could see them getting an
award".  So what happened to the year we won the IKCAC?  Same as years we
didn't, nothing.  I guess they thought, they won so they don't need support.
A catch 22 perhaps?

Gilli





-----Original Message-----
From: Pug Bainter <pug at pug.net>
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: ANST - Royal Huntsman


>Bob Dewart (gilli at seacove.net) said something that sounded like:
>> Are you an archer?  If not, why are you worried about what they may or
may
>> not get?
>
>I am an archer, I may not be as good as many, but I do participate
>whenever I can. The activity I did the most this last weekend was several
>hours of shooting. (To the point that many people commented that they
>hadn't seen me all weekend.)
>
>I personally do not feel that archery is anywhere near the level
>necessary for an Armegious, let alone a Grant, level award at this time.
>This last weekend is the most archers I've seen in proportion to the
>event size. The fact is that despite there is a small group of people,
>they do not have the numbers that I feel should be there at this time to
>have a need for the cookies.
>
>Ciao,
>
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