[Northkeep] Margrave and Location

[Fitzmorgan at cs.com]

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       It is getting more and more difficult to find a good weekend that
doesn't confilct with something.  November isn't very good, September and
October are even worse.  There are open weekends in August but no one wants
to camp in August.
       I'd like to encourage anyone who is not going to Three Kings to make
the effort to attend Margrave.   I've always had a good time there.

robert

In a message dated 7/29/01 3:44:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
rundel_seneschal at yahoo.com writes:

> After Chass posted this, we received a few responses
> privately, I won't go into details or state who sent
> them, but I will address the suggestions that were
> given.  One suggestion was for us to have Margrave as
> a One day, no camping event at one of our local parks,
> in which case, we could have the event whenever we
> wished, more or less.  One of the goals of having an
> event is to hopefully make a little money, or at least
> not lose money.  Having Margrave at one of hte local
> parks would keep us from charging admission, not to
> mention allowing anyone who happened to drive by and
> see us in garb attend.  There would be no merchants,
> virtually no way to hold any competitions, and having
> a one day event would highly limit attendance, as the
> "average" person would not drive more than 50 miles to
> attend a one day event.  The nearest group to us is
> Tulsa.... which is further than a 50 mile drive.  I
> suspect that we would have a very limited attendance,
> even from Northkeep, because not many people would
> want to drive that far to come to an event where there
> aren't any competitions, no food, just basically
> walking around in garb gossiping...
>
> Another suggestion was for a demo instead of
> Margrave... well, that has been in the works for a
> while, but there again, it is limited by time, space
> and interest.  It would cost us to be put on, and we
> would gain nothing from it, unless it might be a few
> more members.
>
> One other issue is that we have a very small fighter
> contingent.... This is true, but we are having
> difficulty getting our fighters authorized and we have
> a certain percentage of our group who do not attend
> meetings or practices here.  Part of the problem is a
> lack of loaner armor, some of us are unable to afford
> to buy or make our armor except a little at a time.
> But part of the problem is that there has been a
> difficulty with people refusing to certify some of our
> people.  Also, our Knight Marshall
> is out of town more often than not.  This is not a
> slam against him, he has to do what is nessecary to
> feed his family, but it does affect our ability to
> have practices.  Besides, the SCA is not only about
> fighting, as our Margrave is showing... we have A&S
> competitions, Bardic, and other things as well.
>
> We do understand that a lot of people will not be able
> to attend this year since we are opposite 3 Kings, but
> that was the only date we could get at a place we
> could afford.  Believe me, if there were any other
> time we could have the event, we would.
>
> Elizabeta
> Seneschal of Rundel
>