A/T War Reboot GBU
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jamesqI went to the reboot of A/T War this weekend. Overall, it was good.
Good
Got lots of shooting in, most of it acceptable.
Avacal won all of the archery war points. Also, the war overall (It's true - together, we conquer). I'm happy to have had a small hand in that.
Site is nice, but could be more compact, to reduce the huge amount of hiking.
Site is close to Nakusp, which makes hoteling wonderfully viable. My hotel was decent, albeit nothing special.
The nights were a wonderfully comfortable temperature, not requiring clocks or heavy underwear. Also, the site was well-lit, due to a beautiful full (blue) moon and cloudless nights.
My first court ever from the other side of the thrones. Interesting perspective. I kind of like it back there, even if it does mean I'll be messing up countless photographs for the time being. Sorry folks.
On that subject, Their Majesties, Albrecht and Nasheeta, do good court.
Bad
SCA Exclusivity again. I think if I didn't bake cookies, or be a prominent archery, no one would have anything to do with me. Still, I'm getting used to it, so it's not really triggery anymore - more sort of a sign or acceptance for something I can't change.
The flip side to it being so warm at night, it was stinking hot all day, every day. I think if I were stuck on site, I'd have died of heat exhaustion (I caught the edge of it on Sunday afternoon and went and slept it off in my hotel room before court).
I was supposed to get this event comped (as do all the Avacal champions), but no one told Gate. Rather than be a dick to the people at gate, I just gave them my $20.
Ugly
The potential for ugly was high, but I managed to avoid it - mostly due to knowing where ugly scenarios lay and stepping around them whenever I could.
Some random highlights and musings
An old timer mentioned that 12 years made one an old timer. Apparently, I'm an old timer in the SCA. I call bullshit. If I was an old timer, wouldn't I finally feel like I belonged?
The Champion's shoot was really good. It was ten on ten, single elimination, with the loser being knocked out and the winner (or tied pair) going back into their side's line up - First team to lose all ten of their archers loses. The Tir Righ team was really really good, and gave us a run for our money. I myself was knocked out by a 12-year old girl. A 12-year old girl practicing for the junior Olympics! Happy to have gone head to head with her, and if I had to be beat, I'm happy it was her.
The populous shoot was fantastic - Avacal beat Tir Righ in absolute numbers. I'm not sure we'll be able to pull that off again next year. Still, I found it rather easy to convince my fellow Avacalians to march up the hill to the range. Given the heat and distance, that's amazing.
I had originally wanted to avoid this event owing to shitty A/T Wars in the past (buffalo poop - you're soaking in it), and the six hour drive, and I'm really getting tired of camping. However, I had to go to this event (it's in Kingdom Law that I attend), and so I was grousing about it. Thinking on it, the thing I was really avoiding was the camping, not the event itself. And refining that further, I think what I hate about camping is the setting up/tearing down aspect of camping. If I could be one of the rich assholes who goes to Burning Man and just pays ten grand to have a ready made glamp set up, I'd do it. I'm neither rich, nor that flavour of asshole though.
Still, it was nice having an option to hotel, and I think I got the second last hotel room in Nakusp (In addition to us, there were three weddings and a baseball tournament going on - and of course, it was the August long weekend). If I go back next year (and I'm considering it), I'll probably hotel again, but get a nicer/closer room.
That just leaves the drive. It would be so nice to not be lonely on a trip that long.
On Sunday night, I sat and watched the full moon go from a sliver to fully clearing a mountain, in about five minutes. You could actually see it moving! It's a wonder I didn't get dizzy, from the Earth spinning so fast.
Good
Bad
Ugly
Some random highlights and musings
An old timer mentioned that 12 years made one an old timer. Apparently, I'm an old timer in the SCA. I call bullshit. If I was an old timer, wouldn't I finally feel like I belonged?
The Champion's shoot was really good. It was ten on ten, single elimination, with the loser being knocked out and the winner (or tied pair) going back into their side's line up - First team to lose all ten of their archers loses. The Tir Righ team was really really good, and gave us a run for our money. I myself was knocked out by a 12-year old girl. A 12-year old girl practicing for the junior Olympics! Happy to have gone head to head with her, and if I had to be beat, I'm happy it was her.
The populous shoot was fantastic - Avacal beat Tir Righ in absolute numbers. I'm not sure we'll be able to pull that off again next year. Still, I found it rather easy to convince my fellow Avacalians to march up the hill to the range. Given the heat and distance, that's amazing.
I had originally wanted to avoid this event owing to shitty A/T Wars in the past (buffalo poop - you're soaking in it), and the six hour drive, and I'm really getting tired of camping. However, I had to go to this event (it's in Kingdom Law that I attend), and so I was grousing about it. Thinking on it, the thing I was really avoiding was the camping, not the event itself. And refining that further, I think what I hate about camping is the setting up/tearing down aspect of camping. If I could be one of the rich assholes who goes to Burning Man and just pays ten grand to have a ready made glamp set up, I'd do it. I'm neither rich, nor that flavour of asshole though.
Still, it was nice having an option to hotel, and I think I got the second last hotel room in Nakusp (In addition to us, there were three weddings and a baseball tournament going on - and of course, it was the August long weekend). If I go back next year (and I'm considering it), I'll probably hotel again, but get a nicer/closer room.
That just leaves the drive. It would be so nice to not be lonely on a trip that long.
On Sunday night, I sat and watched the full moon go from a sliver to fully clearing a mountain, in about five minutes. You could actually see it moving! It's a wonder I didn't get dizzy, from the Earth spinning so fast.
