[Ansteorra] Why Crown Tourney has been moved to the heat.

[Chris Zakes]

At 09:12 PM 7/17/2010, you wrote:

>I think this has been suggested at least once before, but it seems it was
>lost in that huge tangle of emails earlier - why can't it still be fought
>outside, and still in the middle of summer (if necessary), but kept to the
>cooler morning and evening hours, and in the shade?  I don't think anyone
>objects to fighting under trees, do they?
>
>Hrethric/Rick

Fighting in the shade is certainly better than fighting in the 
blazing Ansteorran summer sun. The problem can be finding sites that 
have that much shade and can still accomodate a large SCA event. As 
we saw at the most recent Queen's Champion, sometimes you have to 
take what's available.

As for fighting in the morning, that might be feasible, presuming the 
fighters, Crown, heralds, marshals, list minister, water bearers, 
etc. are willing to get up and be organized that early--basically 
start armor inspection at sunrise and start fighting as soon after 
that as possible.

I'm less sure about fighting in the evening. By the time it cools 
down, it's getting pretty close to sunset. It's been a *long* time 
since we had to postpone the end of an Ansteorran list to Sunday 
morning because it was too dark for the fighters to see their 
opponents clearly; I'm not sure we still know how to do that. <G>

         -Tivar Moondragon