[Northkeep] Dionadair Tourney

[HNiewoehner at netscape.net]

Angus laid it out quite well.   He & I launched this thing as a practice tourney held at a fighters practice so even those who are not authorized can enter.  

The tourney is open to any and all unbelted Northkeep fighters (that includes canton members).     

As to the format, it required entrants to demonstrate skill with multiple weapons.  Basically a swiss five much like Guardian this past weekend.  Since then it's had a few changes and it's up to the current holder to decide the ultimate format.  

One year the twist was that the field was a 10'x10' square 'tower top'.  If you stepped out of the square you fell to your death.  

Last year, since the winner is our war leader, there were multiple melee scenarios instead of multiple weapons skills. I recruited former winners and non-NK fighters to show up and fill out the ranks of the "armies" with each person fighting for the title acting as team captain at least once each scenario.  This also meant everyone got a lot of fighting in.  We were not allowed to win the title, just to fight.  

There's a lot more history and background if you really want to know but catch me off list or in person so I don't bore everyone on the list with it.  

Herr-Domr Damon 
   Dionadair X


John Glenn <glnn_jhn at yahoo.com> wrote:

>As a Co-Founder and past winner of this tournement let me be the first to answer you.
> All past winners are, BY TRADITION ONLY,  not competing for the title, several may compete just to add flavor to the event. The Format for the event is set by the current winner.
>Qualifications to compete for the title are simple:
>you must currently be a non belted fighter 
>who lives in 
>and regularly attends 
>Northkeeps Fighters Practice
> 
>That is all
>Some past winners have put further clarification on these , I.E  minimum number of practices attended in the past year.
> 
>Ld Damon may remember more of the begining than I and he is welcome to shed further light on the subject...
> 
> 
>Angus
>Dionader #8, I checked
>
>Will Phillips <wp at willphillips.org> wrote:
>Ok, just to make sure I (and hopefully others) understand, can someone 
>explain the format of the Dionadair Tourney coming up? I would most 
>certainly appreciate it. Are past Dionadair winners able to compete (or win 
>the title, which may be a seperate matter)? What is the format of said 
>tournament?
>
>Thanks and see most of you tomorrow evening.
>
>In humble service,
>
>Hugo von Ortenburg
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