[Bryn-gwlad] championships

[robert segrest]

I would like to clarify my comment concerning the
prestige of baronial championships.  As I stated, I
certainly meant no slight to the honor of being chosen
for one of these championships.  My point was that in
any competition, the value of winning is determined
largely by the quality of the opposition.  This is why
we render honor to our opponents.  In the last
baronial chivalric championship, there were, to the
best of my recollection, 12 entrants.  Two dukes, two
knights, three centurions, and 5 other fighters. 
Stiff competition but by comparison, Steppes Warlord
usually fields upwards of 50 fighters and I would
conjecture, since I wasn't there this year, had more
than 12 chiv in the list.  I wouldn't be shocked to
find that they had 12 counts or dukes in the list.  By
any reasonable measure, Steppes Warlord will outrank
Bryn Gwlad Baronial champion as a mark of fighting
prestige.  To put it simply, people are going to look
at the Steppes Warlord and wonder when he will become
Crown, they will look at Bryn Gwlad's champion, and
wonder when he will become a knight (if he isn't one
already).

I am not advocating that we become the Steppes.  I am
hoping that we work to ensure the integrity of our
events, including the quality of the competitors we
attract.  I hope one day to be Bryn Gwlad's baronial
chivalric champion.  If I achieve that honor, I want
to be able to say that I did it by besting the finest
fighters in the Kingdom.  If a few hot sticks from
other kingdoms deem our championship worthy of
travelling here to obtain, so much the better.  I
think that most competitors in other championships
will agree.  To be the best, one must defeat the best.

Fatthiopap Laszlo


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