[Archers] Ludicrous Rank, was: Re: Royal Round web site

[Siegfried]

Greetings unto the archery marshals of Atlantia, please allow me to set 
a few facts straight in regards to the Ludicrous Rank, and Gregge's 
query ...

1) First of all, there was no conspiracy behind/between Jonathas and I, 
to make that extra rank in the system, and to make it show up special, 
because I happened to be the one who achieved it.

Instead, Baron Jonathas who made this excellent system for us, was 
approached a while back by the Kingdom of AEthlemearc, to retool the 
same system for them to use, since they saw how wonderful it was.

When doing that, they asked if it could show the Ludicrous unofficial 
rank separately on the pages, as they felt that would be desired.

Baron Jonathas made those changes for their version, and went ahead and 
included them into our version of the software as well, as he saw no 
harm in doing so.  And I most certainly do not fault him for that 
assumption.  There was a mention in passing once from him, a year or 
more ago, that there was something 'special' in place for folks who hit 
Ludicrous.  I did not know exactly what it was, nor did I bother to 
inquire further.

All of the input I have gotten on the matter since, will be taken into 
account.  Thank you all for your comments.

However:

2) There will not (at least as long as I am Kingdom Marshal) ever be an 
'official rank' of Ludicrous.  I do not wish that to happen.  In the SCA 
the rank of Ludicrous has a long tradition of being an unofficial rank, 
that archers across the SCA support and understand.  There is strong 
opposition in the SCA archery community against any Kingdom making an 
official rank of Ludicrous.  One kingdom did it once, and received so 
many complaints from the rest of the SCA, that it was made back into an 
unofficial rank.

I firmly support the fact that this is a community-based unofficial 
rank, and the tradition that goes with it.  I would not want to see 
Atlantia make it official.

So that bit, will not be changing.

Siegfried