[Elfsea] 1. Re: Bear pit vs. melee vs. regular tourney

[Dale, Jennifer]

Wow...you all are giving me great information. I will have to get to a
few fighter practices to get some more "visual" examples. I would go to
tomorrow's but I am getting some garb made (long overdue)
 
So here is the reason for my questions...
I want to do something grand and somewhat different. While my husband
has his opinions on what fighters like, I wanted to get it from the
horses mouth, so to speak.
 
I am looking to do a multi-group event that would pit Barony/group
against barony/group. That is why I needed to know how the different
tourney/melee/bear pits worked.
 
So if you were to have an event where every barony/group sent, lets say
3 experienced and 2 novice (fighting for less than a year) to compete
against the other baronies for "bragging" rights and an awesome
prize...what would lend itself the best?
 
Or would fighters feel left out if they weren't selected to compete? I
don't mean to be exclusive or count anyone out. I was just thinking of
ways to make it somewhat even "teams" so to speak.
 
Or maybe a mini-war of sorts. I have never been to war, but hubby
mentioned maybe doing melee's that included combat archery, etc. 
 
How could you do that and still have one barony take the prize for the
year? 
 
So if you have any ideas on how to make this work, I would greatly
appreciate it.
 
Thanks
Giliana

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Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:35 PM
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Subject: [Elfsea] 1. Re: Bear pit vs. melee vs. regular tourney


In that tournament format... what arms are you passing?  Just curious.
 
Ulf Nach dem Tor,
Whose French is terrible.
 

> Methinks Lord Cathal has it spot on!
> 
> As a spectator and former fighter (what? I've fought...once....), I
like the
> one-on-one traditional tourneys. Why? Because of the opportunities for

> heraldry, pomp and circumstance. My favorite types of tourneys are pas
de
> arms. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE pas de arms because it's the type of
tournaments
> that would have happened during my time period.
> 
> We don't have to do melees and snowballs all the time...let's have a
pas
> once in a while! I remember a long time ago (at least seven or eight
years
> ago) when we would have a pas de arms to choose the Baronial Guard.
Why
> don't we do this anymore? Why don't have pas de arms period anymore?
> 
> That might be something to try...
> 
> Just my two pence...whatever they're worth today,
> Lady Eleanor Cleavely
> lover of loudmouth heralds, pomp & circumstance...



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