ARN - Tournament Styles

[Theron Bretz]

>One of my very first events, many moons ago, was Five Star Tourney. There
>were four man melee teams with fun scenarios. In my early, bright-eyed days
>as a light fighter, it definately conveyed the spirit of rapier (to me).

What specifically about it worked for you?  I attended a later one that goes
down as the bar-none worst tournament I've ever attended.

>Also, the To Save a Queen event this year is based on Aubrey's original
>scenarios. While I have never been to a TSQ, I am led to understand that
>this event, especially in it's early days, did what you are asking for for
a
>lot of people.


Hmmm, I was there for that, as one of the Kingdom's bright shiny new Dons
and while I had a lot of fun, it really didn't work on several levels.  The
first day's activities consisted of a) the English (all the Dons and a few
other fencers) were put in charge of the Queen and sent off into the
wilderness.  Which we did with great abandon, finding a fantastic hiding
spot in a dry wash.  b) all of the other fighters, having been divided into
various national teams set out from the "town" and c) killed each other off
without getting within a quarter of a mile of our hiding place.  Eventually,
we got bored and went back to the "town", where the King (Sutan) broke the
peace of the town and assaulted the person he thought was the queen.  He had
the wrong lady.

Eventually, everyone got cranky because we'd basically won the scenario
without throwing a blow.  To keep the tantrums down, we offered to fight an
open field melee on the next morning, winner take all.  We got slaughtered
and someone else won.

Which is not to say that some aspects of the event didn't work.  We had far
too much real estate to work with and so many hotshots on the other teams
that they got concerned with taking each other out rather than achieving the
objective.  There was also an 'unfortunate incident' when Sutan shot a
crossbow at someone at five feet range, but most of that reign can be called
an 'unfortunate incident'.

Etienne

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