[Northkeep] FW: event report

[Niewoehner, Hugh]

I seem to remember someone saying that if Calontir took home the
Guardianship 3 times in a row they'd have a good claim to Moonschadowe
being Calon lands... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nazir
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:31 PM
> Subject: event report
> 
> hello all,
> 
> I won't be able to do this as well as Jenna does it, but here 
> is the event report from this weekend in Ansteorra at the 
> Mooneschadowe guardian event in oklahoma.
> 
> First of all the event was great and the people of Ansteorra 
> were wonderful.  There was a swiss five tourney with 72 
> fighters, 23 of which were from Calontir.  This was largely 
> due to Siridean stirring the pot for the last two years.  For 
> anyone that doesn't know the background of the event...it is 
> a small shire on the northern edge of Ansteorra with a shire 
> champions tourney.  The list of the first 21 champions is 
> sort of a who's who of Ansteorra (quote from Valens).  
> However, the last two champions were Siridean and myself 
> (Nazir).  So this year the Ansteorrans came out of the 
> woodwork to win it back.  After you win the tournament you 
> can't fight in it again, but the following year you get to 
> dictate the format for the tourney.  So when it came down to 
> it this year by the end of round three there were 12 
> undefeated fighters in the tourney, 6 from Ansteorra and 6 
> from Calontir, by the end of round four there were 9 
> undefeated fighters, 4 calontiri and 5 ansteorrans, pairing
> them creatively to reduce the tie at the end of the tourney 
> (a common practice in ansteorra) left the semi finals between 
> His grace Joeangus and HE Alceonyus (sp?) in one half of the 
> tree and a three way round robin of HE Dafydd, Sir "Bunny", 
> and Justinian of Ansteorra.  When reduction was finished the 
> finals were HG Joeangus and HE Dafydd.  Joeangus won best 2 
> of 3 in the finals and won the mooneschadowe guardian 
> tournament...Yay Calontir wins again.  BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE....
> 
> There were eight competitions this weekend.
> Guardian (heavy weapons)
> A&S
> Archery
> Thrown weapons
> Chess
> Bardic
> Insignata (light weapons)
> Guardian Defender (past guardians heavy weapons)
> 
> Calontir won...
> Guardian, Thrown weapons, A&S, Bardic, Chess, Guardian 
> defender....AND...
> 
> Only lost archery by one point taking second and third place 
> both....AND...
> 
> When we left site on Sunday afternoon there were three 
> calontiri from Vatavia who were taking part in the light 
> weapons tourney...two of them had no losses after four rounds 
> and one of them only had one loss...So we are waiting to find 
> out how that went.
> 
> All in all, the members of the tribe that didn't make 
> Armageddon, but went instead to Ansteorra...Did calontir proud.
> 
> His Majesty Drake toasted Calontirs' victories at both feast 
> and court, and thanked us for being wonderful allies and neighbors.
> 
> Nazir
>