[Namron] Reasoning behind short fighting times for Med Faire

[Jerry Barnes]

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Milady, having been to 19 MedFaires, I can honestly say that the small
segments of time allotted for the fighters is going to cause a lot of adverse
reactions from the fighters. Not to mention the audience. The sounds of  the
battles draw more people to the SCA compound than anything else that we do.
Granted we want to show the diversity of activities available to folks that
are interested in joining the SCA. But to schedule so little fighting on
Saturday is not going to sit well with the audience or the fighters, myself
included! As to there not being enough fighters, I have never in 19 years seen
this to be a problem! You may want to poll the local fighters, just to see how
many are likely to be at MedFaire as opposed to Elfsea. I'm sure you will find
that most will be at MedFaire. I know that I have passed on a number of
reasonably close events in favor of MedFaire over the years. Just my tuppence,
milady.


>From: CLASS016 at aol.com
>Reply-To: namron at ansteorra.org
>To: , ,
>Subject: [Namron] Reasoning behind short fighting times for Med Faire
>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:11:09 EST
>
>There has been some concern expressed about the short fighting times. We
>made this time frame adjustment for several reasons:
>
>1) Elfsea is having Spring Fair with a Baronial Investiture on the same
>weekend as Med Faire and we are going to be losing many of the people we
>would normally have fought/participated ... so to keep our fighters fit for
>all three days we are running shorter rounds. (Most of the guys aren't just
>fighting, they are my set-up and tear-down crew everyday, security at night
>and beasts-of-burden at my beck-and-call during the day!) =0)
>
>2) With the shorter rounds we hope you guys aren't pooped because the
>expectation is you will then work the crowd while still in armor -- like when
>we stand around before and after fighter practice and gab while still armored
>up.
>
>3) If the female fighting doesn't "make" then I am flip-flopping that time
>back into the heavy and light fighting so you will be fighting for 1.5 hours
>intervals.
>
>If the fighting is going incrediably well, we will not call "time" at exactly
>45 minutes ... we will look for the natural break -- but won't let it run
>over too much, don't want to short change anyone else!
>
>The schedule was hopefully to get the women fighters to come up and the
>dancers to sign-up. I know the fighters will show up!!
>
>Please send me anymore suggestions and understand that the schedule is
>flexible -- but I will need something going on at the field and on the side
>lines all the time!
>
>Bianca
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