[Ansteorra-archery] How to increase TA, TW, and CA

[Doug Copley]

I am sure some of you have already thought about some of these things 
but I am sure that others have not thought about them so for those of 
you who have already thought of some of these things perhaps you will be 
able to provide some great insight on things that can be done. I have a 
marketing background and tend to watch and observe things and try to 
figure out why some things work better than others.

What I have seen is that one of the hold-backs for CA, TW, and TA is 
that honestly they are very un-spectator friendly at the events that I 
have been to. I have seen the Chivalric fighters and they draw a good 
crowd but why do they? Partially it is fun to watch people beat on each 
other:-) But there are some other things. They have areas set up for 
spectators, they have heralds announcing who is fighting, who is 
winning, what is happening, and who won, so it is to follow, they even 
have some refreshments. Is it really that they have a better event or 
have they just been out-thinking us or just been doing it longer? I 
would really hate to think that someone that gets beat over the head all 
the time has been out thinking me:-)

In Namron we have already started working with some of these ideas and 
we are going to be doing even more of them and seeing how they work for 
us too. Does anyone have any ideas of specific things that they have 
done or tried that worked really well (or really bad) that they could 
share with the rest of the group?

Here in Namron we have already started working at having refreshments 
for people at the archery area, we are talking about trying some 
heralding and making sure that we have an area setup for spectators so 
that they can see what is happening. For the shooters we are discussing 
having some site tokens that they receive when they have their equipment 
inspected.

For TW what about having more than one target and more than one thrower 
at a time? It seems that every event I have been at there is always only 
one at a time.

The more we help each other and the more that we build these events the 
bigger and better they can be!

YIS,

Vincenti da Murano