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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">*Warning Personal Opinion Incoming*</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is a myth, and a really bad one in my feeling.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mixing Rapier and Heavy lists at the same time takes away from both and makes it 'just another tournament'.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Making the first several rounds run on 8 list fields will bring up the speed somewhat, but people want fewer list fields as the rounds go on so the can watch each fight, this slows things down.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The fact of the matter is that once the first two rounds of a tournament are over (double elim) you've taken out half the combatants, and each fight begins to become interesting for a growing number of people. While there is nothing about a list that stops the quarter finals (four fights) from being fought on four list fields, it's bad showmanship because everyone wants to see all the fights.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When you have three big tournaments (Rapier, Armored, Archery) at one event, then there /will/ be overlap in the schedule. In general you have the hours of 10-5 to complete all the competitions for the day. 2 hours (and change) each, divided evenly. Otherwise you overlap competitions, and that means someone isn't in the lime light.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On the other hand, with two competitions each you have 3.5 hours for each, divided evenly. That is somewhat more workable.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Now, if one of the lists was moved to Sunday, than that would also accomplish this, but Rapier and Archery have been relegated to this in times past and it always hurts the competition.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Timothy of Glastonbury</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Opinionated Archer, Rapier Fighter, Herald, Spectator, etc.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">SiobhanON@AOL.com [SMTP:SiobhanON@AOL.com]</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Wednesday, June 14, 2000 4:09 PM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">elfsea@ansteorra.org</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Re: ES - Elfsea Defender Chivalric Tourney</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In a message dated 6/14/00 1:48:24 PM Central Daylight Time, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dmmerlick@earthlink.net writes:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><< Moving the Rapier Defender</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> might not be such a bad idea. It would allow most of the daytime</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> attention to be focused on two championships at Defender, Chivalric and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Archery. At the same time more focus could also be given to the rapier</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> tourney without competing with the Chivalric Defender. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> >></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I disagree. There is as much civalric fighting at Springfaire and moving </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Rapier Defender to Springfaire will take away some of the prestige of it </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">being a "Defender" tournament. If we have a big enough list field, that many </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">things are going on at once, we should be able to it all and everyone get </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">enough focus. </FONT>
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