[Bryn-gwlad] August Greetings!

[Thomas]

Greetings Master Tivar & All, 

This is a worthy discussion.  When we talked about spreading out 
our championship events, I originally envisioned alternating years.  
This year we've included all of our championship events:  
A&S, Bardic, and Rapier at Candlemas, with Chivalric and 
Equestrian to be this fall.   

The Lysts at Castleton have shifted the focus of competitions
to Equestrian & Chivalric (although we also hosted Queen's 
Champion this year - soemthing to consider again next year). 
What I'm actually suggesting for next year is that autumn 
event focus on Rapier & Archery so that we can celebrate
these activities with as much pageantry as the Lysts. 

The last few years our barony has experimented with 
alternating championship (and non-championship) 
competitions.  While we've continued to enjoy 
our traditional gatherings at Candlemas and our 
baronial event in the fall - we've changed things
around each time (though the Lysts is becoming 
its own regular tradition).  It is my hope 
that we'll continue to try to new things.  

Thank you for starting this dialogue.  I hope 
others will share their thoughts as well.  

        Thomas     



>Master Tivar wrote (in part):
>
>When the discussion of spreading our championships first came up a 
>couple of years ago, the plan was that we'd alternate the armored and 
>rapier tournaments between the Fall Event and Candlemas. That's why 
>last year the armored championship was held at the fall event and the 
>rapier championship was held at Candlemas. By that schedule, the 
>rapier championship *should* be happening next month, and the armored 
>championship should be at Candlemas.
>
>But according to the announcement posted a couple of days ago, there 
>won't be *any* sort of championship tournament at our fall event (the 
>one that used to be called "Baronial Champions") and now you're 
>saying that there won't be another Bryn Gwlad Rapier Championship 
>until next year??
>
>         -Tivar Moondragon
>