[Sca-cooks] FW: [SCA-Herbalist] Cooking contest
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun Jul 23 14:37:28 PDT 2006
Maire replied to me with:
<<< I thought it just said no Cooking Laurels? Big "C," as in people
laureled
for cooking, rather than small "c" ones like me, who happen to be
laurels
that cook, but who were recognized for other arts (late-period
needlework
and costuming, in my case. I think. <g>) >>>
I don't remember what the rules said exactly, now.
However, I think even if the rule says no "cooking Laurels", I think
it still eliminates a number of the good cooks from this list, and
from an SCA-Cooks team.
I can understand some reasons behind such rules, however it does
bring up questions on such exclusions. I suspect we have folks on
this list, and elsewhere, who would have gotten a Laurel for their
cooking, except they were already Laurels for something else. Is it
fair to the other teams that these folks are allowed to participate
as team contestants while those that got their Laurel in cooking can
not? Is it fair to the Laurels who got their award for cooking to be
excluded?
As a comparison, past Crowns are not excluded from fighting in
additional Crown Tournies. In fact, they are encouraged by allowing
them to withdraw in the middle of the tournament for no reason, other
than having eliminated an opponent they dislike.
They are a few tournaments in which Knights and Men-at-Arms are not
allowed, such as the unbelted Champions Battle(s) at Pennsic. But in
general Knights can enter any tournament regardless of their rank,
against supposedly lessor skilled opponents.
Stefan
Troublemaker
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