<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Greetings Ansteorra!</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Queens Champion is just around the corner! Come back to the last years of the reign of Henry the VIII and his wife Catherine Parr. Come fight in exciting tournaments or watch the best rapier fighting in the Kingdom as they compete for the chance to be Her Majesty's Champion.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Queen's Champion Schedule:</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9">8am</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Site and Gate opens</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://10" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10">8:30-9am</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Inspections</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11">9am</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Morning Court</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">9:30am</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Queen's Champion Tournament Begins</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">10am</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Queen's Favor Tournament Begins</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">12-1pm</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lunch Sideboard</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15">4pm</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">White Scarf Circle</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16">6pm</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Afternoon Court</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17">8pm</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Site Closes</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Queen's Champion Tournament:</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Double elimination single fight until the final 16. The final 16 will be a continuation of the double elimination but shall be fought best 2 out of 3. The combatants may use any legal rapier weapon style they choose. Cut and Thrust will not be allowed as the Queen shall hold a separate tournament for that style at a later date. Her majesty may choose to select combatants to add back into the final 16 should there be less than 16 combatants in the final rounds. Double kills will be re-fought once and after which will be considered a loss for both combatants (This rule will not be enforced in the final bought).</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Queen's Favor Tournament:</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Challenge round robin that includes all fighters who are no longer fighting in the Queen's Champion tournament. After being eliminated from the main tournament any combatant may choose to participate in this tournament by retrieving a fight card from the list mistress with their name upon it. Each combatant may only fight another combatant once best 2 out of 3 and the winner of those fights will write their name on the winner's card. At the conclusion of the tournament the card with the most names wins. This tournament will begin after the second round of Queen's Champion and conclude after the lunch sideboard ends</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://18" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="18">at 1pm</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Queen's Grand Costumer:</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A costume contest will be held throughout the day with the winner being announced during afternoon court. Any individual in attendance may win. Three winners shall be selected: Popular choice, Queen's choice and King's choice. Attendees are encouraged to focus their costumes on the Tudor and Elizabethan period.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please check your fighter cards to make sure everything is ready to go!</span></div><div><br></div><div>If you have questions please email the autocrats at: <a href="mailto:queenschamp2014@gmail.com">queenschamp2014@gmail.com</a> or visit our website at <a href="http://www.steppes.org/Queens/">www.steppes.org/Queens/</a></div><div>Also find us on Facebook: Ansteorra Queen's Champion 2014</div><div><br></div><div>In Humble Service,</div><div>Lady Susanna Nightegale, co-autocrat Queen's Champion</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>