[Ansteorra] Event Limits?

[PKieferjr at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/19/2003 5:33:15 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mtucker at airmail.net writes:
How did you get from that, to "seriously considering reviving the 
"principality" dead horse"? True, each piece of a divided kingdom would 
have fewer events on its calendar; we have somewhat that situation 
already, with the kingdom calendar deputy charged to prevent 
conflicting events within each region. But will that solve the 
over-riding problem (as restated above)? I don't think so. Limiting 
events by region hasn't helped to unclutter the calendar or improve the 
quality of our events, so how would dividing the kingdom help?

Yours,
Michael Silverhands
I'm basically looking at this as "we've become overwhelmed that we can't do 
things efficiently or effectively within the current structure without coming 
up short somewhere", so we add another layer of sorts.  One would have to 
acknowledge that someone can't be everywhere they'd like to be (i.e., Crown, et. 
al.), so another layer, in the form of a coronet principality, delegated certain 
duties when the monarchy cannot be there in person.  Sort of like a 
"stand-in" (although a noble is supposed to do this as well).

Take a look at the number of groups overall. Unless I'm in error, that's 41 
total.  Is this an unusually high number for any kingdom?  Did other kingdoms 
run into this "overpopulation" problem?  It reminds me a lot of the fact that 
our planet is home to 6 billion people, and that affects practically 
everything.  This appears to be one of those effects:  A metric buttload of SCA'ers (a 
Good Thing (TM), but a logistical nightmare).  How many kingdoms are there now? 
 I think I've lost track, but you get the idea.  The Kingdom itself may have 
grown too big to be handled in a official monarchial capacity as one undivided 
unit.

41 groups, 39 available weekends.  Still sounds like we've grown rather big.  
May be time to beat that dead horse again.

Lord Johann Kiefer Hayden (Paul E. Kiefer, Jr.)