[Archers] Fun vs Winning. Was: Known World Archery Championship - was: Re: E.Gads and Pennsic

[James Kriebel]

Yep it would be some real fun if some King threw a big old monkey wrench in
the Pennsic works just to spice it up some.... say Atlantia and Aethelmearc
team up as a third army????  It was looking like something like that was
going to happen several years ago, all of the deep southern kingdoms kept
declaring allegiance to "The South", unfortunately the last one finally
declared the South to one of the sides and it became another normal Pennsic.

Jonathas
On Oct 26, 2010 2:27 PM, "Bill Tait" <arwemakere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am not a Pennsic participant, nor do I play one on TV, so my experiences
> are not directly related to _that_ event.
>
> Gulf Wars last year was a tie. It was a tie the year before, and the 5
years
> previous that I attended. I rather expect that it has always been a tie.
> Does that stop people from going out, shooting their best, and still
having
> fun? No. The Calontiri archers make a grand appearance at the range with
all
> who can draw a bow to shoot the war points. Does it make a difference in
the
> outcome of the war? Nope! We all go to war, do our best, and have a blast.
>
> Regarding the GW War point shoots; they're always the same. I'm kinda
bored
> with them, but I still shoot them anyway. The daily prize shoots and the
> Grand Exhibition Tourney are what hold the highest draw for me. (I see you
> Seamus!)
>
>
> HL William Arwemakere
> An Tir
>
> "Yup, I'm Sigrid's minion"
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Siegfried <siegfried at crossbows.biz>
wrote:
>
>> Mungo, but is the point not to have fun? Did you not enjoy shooting the
>> castle window? Would you have not enjoyed shooting the other targets?
>> If not, then why did you do it in the first place? If you did, then
>> why did you stop shooting just because it wasn't a counted War Point
>> anymore?
>>
>> Siegfried
>>
>>
>> On 10/26/10 12:56 PM, Garth G. Groff wrote:
>> > Lord Siegfried,
>> >
>> > It was Pennsic XXXVII (IIRC), the only one I've attended so far. I only
>> > shot the castle window (5 of 6 clean). The marshals running the shoot
>> > said it was a shame the arrows didn't count for anything, and then told
>> > me about the concession. I felt a bit betrayed. never shot the rest of
>> > the war points.
>> >
>> > We will be going to Pennsic this summer, and hope to to some meaningful
>> > shooting of some kind this time.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> >
>> >
>> > Lord Mungo
>> >
>>
>> --
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