[Sca-cooks] Midrealm News regarding royalty OT OP

[aldyth at aol.com]

It happened in the Outlands years ago.? One of the combatants mailed in his renewal.? Crown was on a Saturday.? The renewal was processed/received on the following Monday.? He won.? He called on Monday to make sure it had been received.? His phone call, and the reason why (cause he won) resulted in the tourney being invalidated, and another done at our Coronation.? What our kingdom does now to make sure that doesn't ever happen again is just a change in procedure.? The Kingdom Seneschal checks the membership of each combatant and consort thru Milpitas the Thursday before our Crown Tourney.? Not current and in good standing, cannot fight/be fought for?in the tourney.? No exceptions. I don't know the timetable of Crown to Coronation in the MIddle.? It seems to me it could have been identified as a problem before Coronation though.

I think the BoD paints with a pretty broad brush.? But sometimes they have to?to avoid litigation. It is one of the necessary evils of those who blend modern and "medieval" society.

Aldyth

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Sasso <grizly at mindspring.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Mon, 19 May 2008 2:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Midrealm News regarding royalty OT OP





-----Original Message-----
> In defense of the BoD, what happens the next time someone has almost the
> same situation----perhaps not quite as severe a medical emergency?  Will
> the BoD have to review every combat to make sure all is as it should be?
> And, most importantly, was it so critical for this couple to be King and
> Queen that they were willing to circumvent this simple and basic SCA
> requirement, that of membership?
>