[Ansteorra] Event Limits?

[Michael Tucker]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:59  PM, PKieferjr at aol.com wrote:
>> I think the answer isn't to complain about the limits, but to do
>> something to address the problem that motivated the Crown and 
>> Seneschal
>> to impose those limits in the first place.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Michael Silverhands
>>
>
> So, let's see if I get this straight:  As an analogy, we're like a 
> business
> in Chapter 11 that has to reorganize itself into a leaner, meaner 
> business in
> order to survive, which means that we have to sacrifice something 
> along the
> way.  Would this be correct?
>
> Lord Johann Kiefer Hayden (Paul E. Kiefer, Jr.)  (Seriously considering
> reviving the "principality" dead horse.)
>

I disagree with your analogy of a business in Chapter 11. We aren't 
"going down the tubes" financially, as your analogy implies. On the 
contrary, as Mistress Gunnvor and others have posted, we are blessed 
with good fortune (perhaps too much). We have more groups than ever 
before in our history; most groups have more money in their bank 
accounts than ever before. I think that you're missing the point.

I think that I could restate what's been said (by me and others) as: 
"We have a run-away condition of too many low-margin, low-attendance, 
cookie-cutter tiny-tourneys on the calendar; yet high-profile kingdom 
events go begging for bids. Therefore we need to limit the number of 
on-calendar events, to encourage groups to hold better, fewer events."

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