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othelianna and I day tripped down to Rhuddglyn to take in Avacal's June Coronet tournament. For you non-SCAdians, this is one of the two bi-yearly martial arts tournaments that decides who gets to be Prince and Princess of Avacal for six months. I'll cut right to the chase: HE Steinn Vikingsson (bork107) and HE Gemma Delaroche (justgemma17) won. They are the current heirs to the Principality Throne and will get to reign from August to February (which means they get to wear their pointy hats at Estrella!).
The event itself was on a very nice campground north of Brooks which I can't help but fell like I've been to before, but honestly can't remember when. They've had events there before, but I'm not sure that I was traveling to camping events back then. We got there in time for a delicious lunch made by Tosh (chili and sour dough bread), then we wandered over to the eriks joinedminyata and cat_cetera on the ground and watched the fighting.
These were the cleanest fights I've ever seen in the SCA. I'm not sure what happened at May Crown to change everyone's attitudes, but the difference between June Coronet and November Coronet was like day and night. And this wasn't just my perception - I overheard a lot of people saying the same thing.
Hell, the closest thing I saw to a sketchy fight was a knight holding back with a squire to give him more then a ten second fight. The squire still lost though.
On the other hand, I saw a lot of verbal exchanges between the competitors that amounted to "was that good, I'll take that if you think it was a solid shot". They were bending over backwards to make sure everything was fair and honorable.
I hope this sticks.
After the fighting, Fáelán ran an archery tournament that I quasi-supervised. As I was hoping, he had all the work done and I basically just had to show up and help with inspections. He's not ready to be a marshal yet, but with a little practice I'm sure he will be.
I was prepared to run a tournament without any help whatsoever, but I'm glad that my contingency plans were not needed. It gives me a plan in place for the next time we have last-minute archery.
Court was fairly short. There were awards for people I recognize but don't really know that well. Notably,sadbwawho was elevated to the Order of the Pelican and Fáelán got his Gilded Griffin (Principality service award).
I got to chat with a few folks while I was there and it was nice. Sadly, I only got to talk to about half the people that I wanted to while I was there. They were generally busy when I walked by, or I simply couldn't find them.
Maybe they're all avoiding me. :p
The sun was setting, soothelianna and I climbed back into the car and headed back to Cowtown.
About the weather: We left Calgary and it was snowing and miserable. Pretty much as soon as we passed the city limits the weather cleared up. All the way to the event and back (and while we were there) it was sunny about 1/3 of the time, rainy about 1/3 of the time and cloudy 1/3 of the time. Basically, keep-your-cloak-nearby weather, but nothing particularly onerous. We came back to Calgary and as soon as we hit the city limits, hit a wall of torrential rain. Seriously, WTF? There were numerous puddles sufficiently large that I was worried about hydroplaning.
manyra: Good event. I had fun.
othelianna and I day tripped down to Rhuddglyn to take in Avacal's June Coronet tournament. For you non-SCAdians, this is one of the two bi-yearly martial arts tournaments that decides who gets to be Prince and Princess of Avacal for six months. I'll cut right to the chase: HE Steinn Vikingsson (bork107) and HE Gemma Delaroche (justgemma17) won. They are the current heirs to the Principality Throne and will get to reign from August to February (which means they get to wear their pointy hats at Estrella!).The event itself was on a very nice campground north of Brooks which I can't help but fell like I've been to before, but honestly can't remember when. They've had events there before, but I'm not sure that I was traveling to camping events back then. We got there in time for a delicious lunch made by Tosh (chili and sour dough bread), then we wandered over to the eriks joined
minyata and cat_cetera on the ground and watched the fighting.These were the cleanest fights I've ever seen in the SCA. I'm not sure what happened at May Crown to change everyone's attitudes, but the difference between June Coronet and November Coronet was like day and night. And this wasn't just my perception - I overheard a lot of people saying the same thing.
Hell, the closest thing I saw to a sketchy fight was a knight holding back with a squire to give him more then a ten second fight. The squire still lost though.
On the other hand, I saw a lot of verbal exchanges between the competitors that amounted to "was that good, I'll take that if you think it was a solid shot". They were bending over backwards to make sure everything was fair and honorable.
I hope this sticks.
After the fighting, Fáelán ran an archery tournament that I quasi-supervised. As I was hoping, he had all the work done and I basically just had to show up and help with inspections. He's not ready to be a marshal yet, but with a little practice I'm sure he will be.
I was prepared to run a tournament without any help whatsoever, but I'm glad that my contingency plans were not needed. It gives me a plan in place for the next time we have last-minute archery.
Court was fairly short. There were awards for people I recognize but don't really know that well. Notably,
sadbwawho was elevated to the Order of the Pelican and Fáelán got his Gilded Griffin (Principality service award).I got to chat with a few folks while I was there and it was nice. Sadly, I only got to talk to about half the people that I wanted to while I was there. They were generally busy when I walked by, or I simply couldn't find them.
Maybe they're all avoiding me. :p
The sun was setting, so
othelianna and I climbed back into the car and headed back to Cowtown.About the weather: We left Calgary and it was snowing and miserable. Pretty much as soon as we passed the city limits the weather cleared up. All the way to the event and back (and while we were there) it was sunny about 1/3 of the time, rainy about 1/3 of the time and cloudy 1/3 of the time. Basically, keep-your-cloak-nearby weather, but nothing particularly onerous. We came back to Calgary and as soon as we hit the city limits, hit a wall of torrential rain. Seriously, WTF? There were numerous puddles sufficiently large that I was worried about hydroplaning.
manyra: Good event. I had fun.
