[Archers] RE: Too many useless Royal Round Scores

[Siegfried Sebastian Faust]

By our current rules, implicit within how the scoring is handled, only the 
top three scores of any one day could ever, possibly, be considered in 
one's average.

So I would argue that it is 'no stretch' to put an 'official limit' of only 
turning in three scores a day per archer.  Any more is just purely more 
work for the scorekeeper, and without really any benifit (If a specific 
archer wants to know ALL his scores, he can keep them himself, the kingdom 
scorekeeper's job is to keep that scores that will possibly lead to a ranking.)

I do not like the idea of limiting it to one a day, because of the reason 
that Ignacio mentioned ... to someone that shoots them every week, it may 
not be a problem.  However, to the occasional shooter, or worse, the person 
who needs to travel far to reach some place with a Royal Round being shot 
... they may take a LONG hard time to get three scores in.

One of the 'draws' of the Royal Round that I have been able to use to get 
people to shoot it, and be scored (and my Baron has used as well) 
is:  "Come on, all it has to take is to show up one day and shoot the RR 
three times, then you are ranked."  That is usually then enough to get them 
'hooked', and wanting to see that average rise.  (Or not ... but sometimes)

Also, restricting it to only submitting one a day, might quite well 
discourage some people from practicing more, and getting better.  If they 
shoot a good round, they may feel encouraged to 'stop', because they would 
feel horrible/cheated if they then did another good round, and only got to 
count one of them.  So they get their 'good round', and leave for the day, 
instead of shooting more and more, trying to get better.

I would also say that it wouldn't "hurt" to have mentioned in the rules, 
that while at MAX 3 scores, per person, per weapons form, can be submitted 
... that they need not be, at the archer's discretion.

I know that in Highland Foorde we often don't submit scores that we know 
are because we had a bad day, or high wind, or equipment problems ... when 
we know that next weekend we are just going to do higher because we will be 
'back on track'.  So we don't bog the scorekeeper down with such scores.

Again, it needs to be a decision made by the ARCHER, not the marshal 
though.  And the marshal would need to ask the archer if s/he wants them 
submitted.

Siegfried


At 06:29 PM 6/4/2002 -0400, Ignacio wrote:
>Marshals all;
>
>What is your thoughts on this. If need be poll the archers in your area.
>
>I am one of the people that Gregge is talking about. At the baronial
>practice I attend I will shoot anywhere from five to eight royal rounds. I
>definitely do not need all of them listed.
>
>Because I shoot a lot of rounds, just the top round for the day is the only
>one that really counts. But if I had only shot just a few rounds this year
>then every one would be important. Part of this would be a scorekeepers
>(Gregge and, more important, the local scorekeeper) decision.
>
>Give your opinion before the decision is made.
>
>
>Ignacio
>
>Honor, Valor, Knowledge, and Service
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Greg Christensen [mailto:gcjckc at hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:13 PM
> >To: teatimemates at earthlink.net
> >Subject: Too many useless Royal Round Scores
> >
> >
> >Ignacio,
> >
> >It seems that I am approving too many useless royal round scores.
> >Maybe we
> >should limit the it to the three highest scores shot in one day.  Any more
> >than that does the archer no good anyway.  It will be less typing and will
> >be less space on the server.  Or we could be really bad like the East and
> >allow only one score per day to be posted.
> >
> >In Service to the DREAM (or until the server is full)
> >GREGGE the ARCHER
> >
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Lord Siegfried Sebastian Faust               Barony of Highland Foorde
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