[Bryn-gwlad] championships

[Chris Zakes]

At 09:21 PM 8/2/2007, you wrote:
>Hmmm

>
>I seem to remember a period of time where 
>challenge tournaments were common and I kind of 
>enjoyed watching them. Basically, the fighters 
>put their shields out if they wanted to fight 
>and someone would come and “pick a fight” with 
>them. It was always interesting to hear the 
>challenge and made the fight more interesting. 
>It was based on a weighted point system and the 
>fighter at the end of the day with the most 
>points won (I think). The fighters were on the 
>honor system to exchange tokens so there wasn’t 
>a list mistress per se, just someone that 
>tallied the points/counted the tokens at the end 
>of the day. There were fields with marshals set 
>up and waiting. Sometimes the fighters had to 
>wait for a field but I don’t think it was a big 
>deal. If we did something similar to that, then 
>the chivalric and rapier combat could go on 
>simultaneously. If someone wanted to fight on 
>both fields, they could put out two shields. 
>I’ll confess to ignorance on how much of a 
>change in armor would be required to go from one 
>field to the other but maybe something could be 
>worked out? I guess the drawback could be that 
>someone who isn’t the best skilled fighter could 
>win by working the system somehow!


That *is* a drawback. Typically a higher-ranked 
fighter is worth more points than a lower-ranked 
fighter: a duke would be a higher point value 
than a count, a count would be higher than a 
knight, a knight would be higher than a 
centurion, a centurion would be higher than a 
squire and a squire would be higher than an 
unbelted fighter. A moderately-skilled unbelted 
fighter could, by picking his opponents 
carefully, get a lot of points fairly easily. If 
Duke Shinyplate beats Joe Unbelted, he might get 
one point, but if Joe Unbelted beats Duke Shinyplate, he gets ten points.

         -Tivar Moondragon
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