ARN - Heavy Rapier Only?

[Walter Robin]

The primary problem with the standard epee vs. Rapier argument is that epee
is the default...Everyone has that epee authorization...
So we continually go to tournaments and get one, maybe two fights with our
schlagers, but have to fight the rest with epee.
What is wrong with a tournament where likeminded individuals can all use the
weapon they prefer? It's OK! because it's about FUN. This is not an issue
for epee fighters who can always refuse to face a schlager. ( I know the
rules say I can be a putz and refuse to agree so that we both lose the
fight )

It's about community....that's why a woman-only tournament is OK, or a White
Scarf only tourney is OK, or even a newcomers tournament is OK!  [ my own
expansion on Don Dore's comments on different list ] Heavy Rapier is another
community....really, it's not blanket snobbery!

It's OK, if as Chandra says, it is clearly announced. It's a game, and we
don't HAVE to accomodate all the people all the time. Considering that HR is
a separate authorization, maybe having a separate HR tournament makes MORE
sense...not LESS!

Ld Walter Robin,
cdt Don Navarre

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Smith" <superboy at lsh.org>
To: <ansteorra-rapier at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: ARN - Heavy Rapier Only?


> > Epee only tourneys? Other than melees I really can't remember going to
an
> epee
> > only tourney in the last year in Ansteorra. Queens, Stepps Artisans
> (Warlords),
> > Ravenfort's last event, Brornsborgs fall event, Candlemass, Seawind's
last
> non
> > melee event, Past summers Queens, Squires and Cadets, Elfsea Spring
fair.
> All
> > of these events let the fighters fight HR if they wanted to. There were
> more
> > events that I can't recall but I don't think any of them were epee/foil
> only.
> >
> > Do you remember an event in the last year that was epee/foil only? Other
> than
> > melees.
>
> No, but I don't see why that invalidates the point.  Are melees ever the
> only sort of competition at an event?  Yes.  Would the rule exclude
non-epee
> fighters (yeah, yeah, for the purpose of the illustration) from fighting?
> Yes.
>
> I find this no big deal if it's made clear before the event.  Going to an
> event ready to fight and being told "sorry, schlagers only, bub" only then
> would be a bummer, I agree.
>
> Chandra
> Student of Walter Robin
>
>
>
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