Travel fo RR Ranks was Re: [Ansteorra-archery] (no subject)

[Wilim Penbras]

Personally I would like to see a side award for each division for the most traveled in that division.  I like the idea of away shoots being required.  You have know idea how much of shock it was for me to find archers I din't know until I made it to thier local event to shoot.

Wilim

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Eadric Anstapa" <eadric at scabrewer.com>
Reply-To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:09:05 -0600

>I strongly believe that they requirement for and away shoot to earn an
>official rank needs to stand for many reasons most of which Pug has already
>stated (thank you Pug).  These include reasons like keeping us honest,
>increasing the challenge (when you look at the data it is very clear that
>most people shoot MUCH better at home), increasing the visibility of our
>community to the populace at large, and within the archer community we get
>to share with and to know one another better.
>
>Is traveling really that big of a burden?  I think are plenty of
>opportunities.  The vast majority of the branches in the kingdom select an
>archer champion each year and a fair number hold regular or semi-regular
>practices.  Within an hours drive of me there are 3 branches holding regular
>practices and double that number have archery most of their events.  If I
>extend the radius to within a 2 hours drive I pick up about 5 more branches
>who regular have archery at their events and at least one more that has a
>regular practice.  This is all without getting out of the Coastal and
>Southern Regions.
>
>Iaen and I have given this a lot of thought and we have discussed it with
>many archers and marshals.  And there have been some suggested changes to
>the travel policy.
>
>It has been suggested that for the lowest rank of Archer in the ranking
>system no travel be required.  For the middle two (or three) ranks the
>requirement that you submit at least one score a year from outside you local
>shire or barony would stand as-is.  For the highest two (or one) ranks it
>has been suggested that travel outside of the REGION be required.
>
>I really kinda like this because it  allows everyone who has submitted three
>scores to earn a rank and wear a tassel and because I think that it is
>doubly important for our best archers to travel.  Less accomplished archers
>need to have the opportunity to shoot with and to be instructed and
>encouraged by the better archers.  I believe that part of the responsibility
>of being a Huntsman or Forester should be to travel, help out, and represent
>our community.  For what it is worth, of all the people who currently have a
>rank of Forester or Huntsman there is only one who has not traveled outside
>of his/her region.  Whaddaya think?
>
>If you have strong opinions or great ideas please submit them to your
>Marshals who should include them in their reports to their Regional Uplines
>who should then follow through by forwarding this on to the KAM and
>discussing it with the KAM and his other deputies.
>
>We have come a long way with the scores database and automating and
>improving the system this past calendar year and we hope to do even more
>next year.  Sometime soon we hope to start listing the averages for all
>archers regardless of how many scores they have submitted or if they have
>traveled or not.  A couple of months ago we started listing the averages for
>everyone who had submitted at least three scores in a division but listing
>the rank as "No Rank" if they had not traveled.
>
>Always in Service,
>
>Lord Eadric Anstapa
>Coastal Regional Archery Marshal, Ansteorra
>eadric at scabrewer.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dewart, Charles R. --G3 Contractor (Anteon Corp)"
>
>> Greetings and Hi There,
>>
>> Now I know the reason for requiring an away score for your average for the
>> RR  was to get folks to travel.  But what's the incintive to get folks to
>do
>> the shoots at their events?  Granted, I don't get around as much as I
>would
>> like.  However, I don't recall that many places that did.
>>
>> Do we really still need that as a requirement?
>>
>> What do you all think?
>>
>> Gilli
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