[Sca-cooks] RE: East's Burdened Tyger award

[Robert Newmyer]

As a recipient, I'll try to field your questions. The award is, as far as I
know and I could be way off on this, for direct service to the Crown at a
kingdom level event. There is often an element of 'disaster overcome'
involved. In my case, the loss of kitchen and hall the day before cooking
Crown Tourney feast. Never lived in any other kingdom, so this was just
always there for me. It seems to be unigue to the East Kingdom and has been
described as an award no one would freely, or is that sanely, choose to
earn. In my case, the earning part included watching all of us pull off a
miracle, nothing less.

God keep you, Octa Bluetooth!

Griffith
Bob Newmyer

> Message: 16
> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 23:37:45 -0500
> From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] East's Burdened Tyger award
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>
>  Brighid ni Chiarain commented:
> > "Order of the Burdened Tyger (OBT): presented to those gentles
> associated with
> > running an event or an aspect of an event which the Crown
> attended, and which
> > They feel was well above the normal standard of excellence in
> the Kingdom.
> > However, it cannot be awarded at that same event. An individual
> can receive
> > this award more than once."
>
> Is there a similar but different award for doing the same thing when
> the Crown is not present at an event?
>
> Why the requirement that the Crown be present? Is performing
>
> exceptional service of less importance when the Crown is not
> present?
>
> Or is having the Crown present such an onerous addition that the
>
> same service is much more difficult when the Crown is present?
> This just seems so strange to someone outside of the East Kingdom. I
> do however applaud the requirement that the award not be given at
> the same event as the occurrence since that allows time for reflection
> and avoids precipitous decisions.
>
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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