[Archers] Pennsic

[Peter G]

Here is another option that is non-political as to the people who actually 
shoot.  


A shoot among the current Baronial champians for one or more Kingdoms.

Upside is that the number is self-limiting, both by the total number of baronies 
and not all baronial champians will be at Pennsic.

Downside is that not all baronial champians are all that good. And I suspect 
that a number of baronies have a couple of really good archers, so at least some 
good archers would be excluded. 


And it could encourage only folks who are going to Pennsic to attempt shoot for 
their baronial champianship. 


Another option, or rather one that can be added to some of the other ideas. 
Those who get into the East / Mid & Allies Championship team that year don't get 
to do this Atlantian shoot. 


Yitzchak

 

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From: Holly Gibbons holly0920 at yahoo.com

 
 
(2) The need to restrict the sheer number of archers is not just an issue of 
target-life. I am sorry if I left that impression. A novelty populace shoot open 
to every archer at Pennsic is WAY beyond the scope of what any of us can handle 
in terms of time and effort. There is already a populace shoot: in place at 
Pennsic -- it is the war points targets. I am interested in seeing a 
challenging, difficult shoot for a kingdom/individual championship separate from 
that.

This may well be the point at which all our discussions fall apart, as Dealla 
says they have in the past - - we all have a different vision of what this shoot 
should look like and we all apparently have a different vision of what the very 
purpose of this shoot is. 


To reiterate: I am interested in working for those Atlantian Archers who are 
shut out of the championship shoot because the East only takes 7 of us - - when 
we all know Atlantia has enough fine archers to field a team of 30 ourselves 
(and win it all.) I want to see an expert-level individual and kingdom 
championship shoot that is completely outside the realm of the war, of the war 
points, of the East/Mid monopoly of archery at Pennsic. 


Somehow the numbers have to be imited - - I just threw out royal rounds as a 
non-political, non-subjective measure. You could say bowmen and above, you could 
say top 20 who are at Pennsic....whatever. Just make it objective.

When I was an Archer or a Marksman, it was enough to shoot the populace points 
at Pennsic and a couple of novelty shoots. I had no expectation or need of being 
on a champions team. But now I see what is really happening: our very, very top 
archers in Atlantia are not "chosen" for the East's team. It is degrading and 
demoralizing and leads many fine archers to avoid Pennsic altogether. This is 
not right!

So I am driven to correct this wrong. I'm really not looking for a way to add to 
my work load before OR at Pennsic, believe me. 


Nuala of Needwood Forest



      
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