NR - NR- Warlord

[Staci L. Myers]

Suggestions for NRW:

1. Get it on a specific date on the calendar & keep it there. All the
calendar hopping confuses people. One of the reasons for NRT's success is
that people know when it is going to be & can plan their schedules
accordingly.

2. Have it in the Spring or Fall when the weather is cooler!

3. Don't lay responsibility for organizing next event on the shoulders of
the winner. If that's been the case in the past, it's a wonder that you've
had any competitors at all! It's a regional event; if we can't find enough
people in the region to help it run smoothly, then it doesn't need to
happen. The Warlord should be in charge of the competition for the next
Warlord, period. No site finding/date-setting, etc. That's what autocrats &
regional seneschals are for.

4. Hype, hype, hype! I'm old enough (barely!) to remember Brother Ricardo's
Traveling War Show. For those of you who don't, find someone even more
decrepit than myself & ask them to fill you in.

5. Make it fun, not only for the fighters, but for the noncombatants, as
well. Creative scenarios, alternate activities (maybe a competition for the
group that produces the most/best war banners &/or tabards?), & maybe a Fun
With Siege Engines segment. (If any of this has already been done, ignore
me; I haven't been able to make the last couple)

Aelfwyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fitzmorgan at cs.com [mailto:Fitzmorgan at cs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 10:31 PM
> To: northern at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: NR - NR- Warlord
> 
> 
> In a message dated 8/29/00 5:10:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> herring at rectec.net writes:
> 
> > From what I have seen there are enough of us in the region 
> who are willing
> >  to work together to make these events what an event should 
> be, fun and
> >  profitable.
> >  
> >  Forgive my opinion but since we are sharing...my opinion 
> says, if it isn't
> >  broke don't fix it.
> >  
> >  In Service,
> >  Ian
> 
>     I'm not sure that NRW is broken, but it's certainly not 
> running well.  I 
> am in favor of keeping both events but I believe that we do 
> need to look at 
> NR Warlord and see what we can do to make it interesting to 
> more of the 
> region.  It's not a well attended or well supported event.  We have 
> difficulty getting branches to host the event.  I favor 
> fixing it over 
> scrapping it, but I think it does need fixing.  Getting it 
> out of the summer 
> will probably help attendance some.  I'm not sure what else 
> needs to be done. 
>  
>     I'd like to ask the people here a different question.  
> What changes in NR 
> Warlord would make you enthusiastic about the event?
> 
> Robert Fitzmorgan
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