ARCH - What If

[baron at elfsea.ansteorra.org]

Quoting Pug Bainter <pug at pug.net>:
> Why does Archery deserve a GoA level award? Why 
> doesn't Equestrian? Why do we feel like we are being 
> shunned when there are plenty of other areas that are 
> fringe like us as well? Until we are more visible, we
> can't expect to be more visible even with a GoA level 
> award. It is us that makes the difference not a piece 
> of regelia or a title.

I don't agree that Archery is a fringe activity.  I 
presided over a 30-entrant archery tourney last fall, 
and I look forward to a larger one this fall.  I have 
been to events for years at which the number of archers 
exceeded the number of fighters.

The question to be answered is not, "do we NEED a grant-
level archery award?"  I don't think we do.  I think 
archery is thriving in Ansteorra without it.  But the 
real question is, "does Ansteorra want to reward and 
encourage excellence in archery-related activity 
through the mechanism of a grant-level award?"  That's 
a question on which reasonable people may differ, but 
I'd like to see it.  I designed regalia for such an 
award years ago.

- Galen of Bristol


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