[Ansteorra] Coronation Cancelled

[James Crouchet]

More to the point, Queen's may draw more than 75 fighters and has run over
100. Figure that into a double elimination tournament and the result is
more than 150 bouts in 9 rounds. That takes a while. Add in a youth
tournament (Queen's Hope) and the various bits we and the Queen do for one
another to create the atmosphere of the day and, well, that takes the
whole day.

Of course, we will adjust to a compressed schedule to make it work with
Coronation, as we would not do less for our Queen ... and King. :-)

Don Doré

> At 11:46 AM 1/13/2007, you wrote:
>
>>King's Champion Tourney has been at Coronation for several years now
>>and that hasn't caused a problem.  I don't see it as much different.
>>   But then, I'm not a fighter<G>
>>   gwyneth
>
> Umm... yes, there's a bit of difference between Queen's Champion and
> King's Champion. Queen's is one of the longest-running tournaments in
> Ansteorra. It was started in AS 15 by Ansteorra's second Queen, HRM
> Joycelyn (I *think* only Steppes Warlord and Namron Protectorate have
> been around longer.) No offense to the folks on the  armored side of
> the field, but King's Champion is a comparative latecomer, having
> only been around for the last ten years or so.
>
> Queen's is the preeminent rapier tournament in the Known World, and a
> marvellous expression of the love Ansteorran rapier fighters have for
> Her Majesty. The entire focus of the event is on the Queen; even His
> Majesty takes a back seat on that day.
>
>
> All that being said, will having Coronation at Queen's cause a
> problem? *I* don't think so. We've done it before (TRM Kein &
> Alisha's second coronation, IIRC) when the schedules just wouldn't
> work any other way. It'll be a bit of a challenge to squeeze two
> major kingdom events into a single day with only two weeks of
> prep-time, but we're Ansteorrans, challenges don't frighten us.
>
>          -Tivar Moondragon
>
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