Avacal June Coronation 2015 GBU
Jun. 29th, 2015 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesq2015, or as I could put it, Avacal's first Coronation.
Good
Hey, we're a Kingdom now. Cool.
Lots of deserving folks got recognized for stuff. Of note, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snooness is on vigil to become a member of the Order of the Laurel.
First camping event in a long time where I wasn't freezing my nuts off at night.
Good camping neighbours.
Really good archery tournament - and I'd have said that even if I wasn't the...
Kingdom's first Champion of Arrows! That would be me. More on that below.
Bad
It was stinking hot. This wasn't so bad on Saturday, where most of my exertion was retrieving arrows. Friday when I was setting up camp, and Sunday when I was taking down camp, OTOH, left me soaked in sweat.
the spectre of anxiety and depression where ever present. I honestly don't know where I found the spoons to keep them away, but I did. That would normally warrant a "good", but it pisses me off that I keep having to exert mental resources.
Plenty of people I would have loved to sit and chat with. Largely didn't happen unless they were on the range.
Ugly
Umm. Nothing? That's good, right?
Meh
Court was really long. It needed to be, but knowing that doesn't stop your butt from getting sore from sitting for four hours.
Archery
Oh my god, I won the archery tournament. I didn't think I would, because of the tendency for people good at something to focus on their faults. Which is to say, I know enough about archery to recognize the huge amount of stuff I don't know about archery. And I paid attention to all the shots I missed, instead of to all the shots I made. I'm sure I'm not alone in that regard. I sometimes wonder if the SCA is just a large meeting of people with Impostor Syndrome.
Evidence suggests I'm a good shot. I need to remember that, because saying "No, I'm really shit" isn't good for me, and is also insulting to the people who competed against me. Besides, they're pretty good.
After the competition, my friend MJ convinced HRH and the previous champion to let us know who won, using the rational that the competitors in the heavy tournament know who won. This is probably a good thing, because I don't think I'd have stuck around in court otherwise.
Other than that, court was pretty anxiety-provoking, because I hate being called up in court. Thankfully future courts will be OK, because no one pays attention to the people behind the thrones. Right?
So what do I have to do? At a minimum, show up at the principle Kingdom-level events and any wars, attend any royal court for an event I'm at, and run a tournament to find my successor next year. In general? Promote archery and serve the Crown. Still not sure what that entails, but I'm sure I can figure it out. I'll be going to three times the number of events this year though, starting with A/T War, which I had no intention of attending, but there's allegedly an archery war point, and it would be kind of groovy if Avacal got it.
I really hope I don't burn out.
In the mean time, I'll be doing a lot of archery, but not competing in any of it. It's a good thing I like archery for its own sake.
And for the record, it's been two days, and I'm still freaking out. I think this feeling will pass sometime in June of 2016.
Good
snooness is on vigil to become a member of the Order of the Laurel.Bad
Ugly
Meh
Archery
Oh my god, I won the archery tournament. I didn't think I would, because of the tendency for people good at something to focus on their faults. Which is to say, I know enough about archery to recognize the huge amount of stuff I don't know about archery. And I paid attention to all the shots I missed, instead of to all the shots I made. I'm sure I'm not alone in that regard. I sometimes wonder if the SCA is just a large meeting of people with Impostor Syndrome.
Evidence suggests I'm a good shot. I need to remember that, because saying "No, I'm really shit" isn't good for me, and is also insulting to the people who competed against me. Besides, they're pretty good.
After the competition, my friend MJ convinced HRH and the previous champion to let us know who won, using the rational that the competitors in the heavy tournament know who won. This is probably a good thing, because I don't think I'd have stuck around in court otherwise.
Other than that, court was pretty anxiety-provoking, because I hate being called up in court. Thankfully future courts will be OK, because no one pays attention to the people behind the thrones. Right?
So what do I have to do? At a minimum, show up at the principle Kingdom-level events and any wars, attend any royal court for an event I'm at, and run a tournament to find my successor next year. In general? Promote archery and serve the Crown. Still not sure what that entails, but I'm sure I can figure it out. I'll be going to three times the number of events this year though, starting with A/T War, which I had no intention of attending, but there's allegedly an archery war point, and it would be kind of groovy if Avacal got it.
I really hope I don't burn out.
In the mean time, I'll be doing a lot of archery, but not competing in any of it. It's a good thing I like archery for its own sake.
And for the record, it's been two days, and I'm still freaking out. I think this feeling will pass sometime in June of 2016.
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Lol and congrats.
Date: 2015-06-30 03:13 am (UTC)But your win on Saturday says you are NOT an Archery poseur.
You were - for that moment there - the best there was, and in a stiff field. Beating Morrigan is no mean feat.
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Date: 2015-06-30 06:48 am (UTC)no subject
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