<div>I can at least speak on Huntsman... </div> <div> </div> <div>That baby belongs to our Kingdom Archery Marshall who works with the Crown and the Royal huntsman to pull it off. </div> <div> </div> <div>They archery community is still very small but growing rapidly and they are very good at making certain Royal huntsman is a well attended competition that is challenging and encouraging.</div> <div> </div> <div>~Mea</div> <div>Who would really like to not see two competitions like Huntsman and Eisteddfod against each other again.</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Michael Silverhands <silverhands@sbcglobal.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On Oct 31, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Esther wrote:<BR><BR>> Okay. My turn to be blunt.<BR>><BR>> I think the Eistefodd needs to be somebody's Baby. On a regular, <BR>> regulated basis -- more than just
the Kingdom Bard. I would suggest <BR>> the MoAS Deputy for Bardic be responsbile for the nuts and bolts of <BR>> the even that is Eistefodd, working with the current champion for <BR>> that years format.<BR>><BR>> The Event needs to be the responsibility of an office. The FORMAT <BR>> of the COMPETITION would be the responsibilty of the Kingdom Bard, <BR>> as it is now.<BR>><BR>> What say y'all?<BR>><BR><BR>Today, whose "baby" is Crown? Queen's? Kingdom A&S? Royal Huntsman?<BR><BR>The first two events *will* occur. The Kingdom Seneschal beats the <BR>bushes for bids for these events. Either they or the Crown chooses <BR>from among the bids to decide the hosting group. The Crown decides <BR>the format of the lists. Clearly, those events are the Crown's <BR>"baby", with logistical help from the Kingdom Seneschal.<BR><BR>Maybe there are useful parallels that could be drawn with Kingdom <BR>Bard, but I don't see any. So...<BR><BR>What about
Kingdom A&S? Royal Huntsman? Whose "baby" are they? (I <BR>bring them up because I hope there will be aspects of them that will <BR>inform our discussion regarding Kingdom Bard.)<BR><BR>Michael<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Bards mailing list<BR>Bards@lists.ansteorra.org<BR>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/bards-ansteorra.org<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>