[Ansteorra-archery] Question About Sherwood Target Archery Competitions

[Eadric Anstapa]

Thats right, One year we said that the Shire Champion would be the best 
finishing Crossbow would be our champion.  All archers were allowed to 
shoot (longbow/recurve/crossbow) and even win prizes but only the 
highest finishing Crossbow would be declared the Shire Champion, get the 
Scroll, get to carry the banner for a year, etc.  there were prizes 
awarded for each round and then a prize for the Champion.  Since there 
were prizes for each round, the Champions prize was slightly smaller.  
So it was theoretically possible that a longbowman could win every round 
and take home all the prizes except for the Champions prize which would 
go to the highest placing Crossbowman.

Another year we did just the opposite saying that the highest finishing 
longbow/recurve was the winner.  We have been considering doing one 
where the highest finishing period longbow/recurve shooting period 
division equipment would be declared the winner.

This allows everyone to shoot and win prizes but still allows the 
Champion to fit better within the theme of the event.

If you choose to do anything like this is should be announced well in 
advance so that there is no chance that an archer will may a long trek 
to your event and then discover that they are not eligible to win your 
tournament

Regards,

-EA

Mike Wyvill wrote:
> I believe that in Gates Edge a few years ago it was stated that due to 
> the theme only crossbows could be used to be named champion.
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> EdV
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> From: kentheriot at ravenboymusic.com
> To: ansteorra-archery at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:50:49 -0600
> Subject: [Ansteorra-archery] Question About Sherwood Target Archery 
> Competitions
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> Hey Everyone,
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> I was at our event planning meeting last night and talking about the 
> archery competitions.  There will be several “novelty-shoots” for 
> target archery, but I got to thinking afterward that I wanted to ask 
> the experts about something.  I’m relatively new to target (though 
> I’ve been doing CA regularly for a few years). 
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> This is a Robin Hood themed event, and as such, I was hoping to limit 
> the target competitions (we’ll be doing target stuff with both the 
> regular TA stuff AND the CA stuff in the morning) to long bow.  I know 
> cross-bows existed in this period, but it just isn’t in the “idiom” 
> (zeitgeist?) of Robin Hood.  Also, there is currently a set number of 
> archery prizes…one for overall target archery, 1 for CA target 
> archery, and 1 for “in-armor-actually-fighting” CA. If we have to ALSO 
> split the TA prize into two (one for cross-bow, and one for long-bow), 
> it will make things a lot harder to do.  However, I know there are 
> folks who prefer the cross-bow, or even shoot it exclusively for 
> target.  How is this handled in “regular” target competitions?    
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> Cross-bows would have a huge advantage over long bows for the same 
> target and distance wouldn’t they?  It would make sense to me that the 
> two types of weapons would have to either have their own competitions, 
> or have different distances for the same target.  Regardless of either 
> situation, it seems like it would be exponentially difficult, given 
> our full schedule, to have both weapons in the target archery 
> competition.  Am I off-base here?  Honestly, though I have 
> participated in several “fun” shoots at SCA events, have set up a 
> range, and am an authorized TA marshal, I don’t have the competition 
> experience to know for sure what to do here.
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> Any input appreciated.
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> Thanks!
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> Kenneth
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