ARCH - Archery tourney ideas.

[baron at elfsea.ansteorra.org]

Quoting Bob Dewart <gilli at seacove.net>:
> To which Gilli says:
> 
> Please bear with some of us old -arts.  We get a 
little testy at times.  It
> comes from being on the range too much.  :)

Yes we know.  But it's so reassuring to know that you 
recognize it, too.  Makes it much easier to bear with.
 
> Yes, I am interested or I would have pulled the plug 
on this list
> yesterday.
> And, as I said in an earlier post, some good ideas 
came out of yesterdays
> stuff.
> 
> Lately, when I do a non scoring shoot, it's been 
mostly archer duels.
> Folks seem to like them.  They also lend themselves 
well to a bit more
> pagentry.

Ever see the pilot episode of the old Showtime Robin 
Hood series, starring Michael Praed?  The episode was 
called "Robin Hood & the Sorcerer", and it featured a 
sequence of the classic archery tournament story.  It's 
available on video (I have a copy).  That format looks 
very like a royal round to me.
 
> As for what makes an archer, there are many things 
involed in archery.  You
> have to at least shoot to be an archer.  I guess 
those that help but don't
> shoot could be called friends of archery.  We 
probably could come up with a
> better title, Friends of the Bow, perhaps.

I'm going for "Patron of Archery", myself.  Y'all let 
me know when I get there.
 
> Now heres a question:  How do we better educate the 
populace on archery
> ediquecut?

Start with me.  What's archery etiquette?
 
> Gilli

Now, Plachoya may not like this, but I am paying 
attention here largely to get ideas for the archery 
tourney at Elfsea Defender in Sept.  At that event 
(which will be very like a full-employment act for 
heralds), each archer will be heralded, hopefully by 
the herald he has himself hired for the purpose (think 
of it; you won't have to do your own bragging, someone 
will do it for you) (I know Fearghus has already hired 
a herald for this).  There will be additional prizes 
for pageantry, appearance, showmanship on the range.  
I'm hoping to get children to help glean arrows, to 
speed up the least entertaining part of the activity.  
Her Excellency and I will have our thrones set up 
behind the firing line to watch the entire shoot.  I'm 
hoping to have as marshals, scorekeepers, timers, etc., 
people who are not also shooting (the way fighters 
don't usually marshal or listmistress their own 
tournies).  I'm hoping the range will be decorated with 
banners and pennants.  For archers, flowing sleeves are 
not a requirement, but you might want to think about 
heraldic surcoats, or particularly authentic-looking 
tunics, at least.  Not court garb, but nice-looking 
field garb, like I wear when I fight.  We hope to have 
nice prizes, too.  The Bard of Elfsea this year is 
being flown to Trimaris to visit the Coronation of 
their next war-king (if we can get the details worked 
out).  We'll have more airline tickets for use in 2001, 
and it's possible that those will go to our archery 
Defender of Elfsea (I don't get to make that decision 
alone).  It will be scheduled first thing Saturday 
morning, and shot as a Royal Round, and the chivalric 
and rapier lists won't begin until it's done.  I am 
hoping that this will generate excitement and interest 
in archery among people who haven't done much shooting 
before, and that it will be a refreshing change for 
folks who've been working the ranges in the heat off on 
the fringes of the events for years.

(And afterwards, if there's interest, why not leave the 
range open for an IKAC shoot?)

That's my vision.  The people who've always run the 
shoots can't do this.  My barony can.  Does it sound 
worth trying?

- Galen Elfsea

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