[Archers] Queen's Request

Tue Jun 28 11:05:46 PDT 2011

Thank you very much for the post, Karl.  In addition to making recommendations for worthy archers, I encourage you all to post on the Mary Rose the archery happenings in your area.  If there is a great shoot, brag about it, play it up and make sure the rest of the world know we are out there.  Somewhere just under 1000 people call Atlantia home (paid members), out of that number at least 250 - 300 participate in archery on a regular basis.  That's a big number of the Kingdom populace.  Make some noise.

During the last Reign and this one, we've done much better at being recognized than previously, for what ever reason.  Keep up the great work folks.  If you are having an event with archery and you are MiC, go out of your way to invite the Royalty to the range.  A little prep work will go a long way toward this.  A simple, "We would love to see you on the range Your Highness/Majesty/Excellency."  Or, thanking them for taking the time to visit the range.  Or saying, "Atlantia's archery community appreciate you stopping by the range...."  

Also, if you are MiC for archery at an event, make sure the autocrat and event MiC get a copy of your report.  Make sure you get with the autocrat ahead of time to ask for time in court to award prizes or at least acknowledge that "we had 19 archers visit the range.....", or 11 youth shot today, or 4 newcomers tried their hand at archery."  I don't care if you only say, "Great day, we had fun", make sure you are a part of court.

I am of the opinion that if we go unnoticed, it is our own fault.  Let's not let that happen.

Awards that might be appropriate for an archery are Baronial archery or service awards.  A&S awards for arrows making, archery equipment, etc. Kingdom level awards such as Opal, Golden Dolphin, Kings Missileers, Order of the Yewbow or Sea Stag, Coral Branch.  Some of these are polling orders but it doesn't mean you can't make a recommendation or suggestion.  If the Order doesn't know about a person, they can't watch them.

Now get busy.

Karl, again, thank you for that post.

Lorelei

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Sprouse <sprousecp at yahoo.com>
To: archers <archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 9:13 am
Subject: [Archers] Queen's Request

Hello fellow archers,

     Forgive me, I have been remiss in sending this much earlier as I have had many things going on in my mundane life as well as gearing up for the AMAZING royal archer shoot we just had.  At any rate, at Sapphire Joust the queen called me aside after court as her Archery Champion and talked to me for a few minutes, and asked me to forward a comment and a request to the archery community as a whole.
     She said she realizes that Atlantian Royalty as a whole, not just the current ones but pretty much across the board, do not do alot of recognizing members of the archery community, especially for specifically archery-related things.  She said, and I quote: "there are far too many Atlantian archers doing amazing things and winning too many out of region and out of kingdom events and impressing too many people for there not to be archers in need of recognition that they are not getting."  She apologized for that, and then went on to explain that the primary reason for this is that they [the royals] rarely know anything about us.  What I mean by this is that, as we all know, we spend most of our time at events somewhere in the back forty, often far away from most of the rest of the event.  And as the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind.
     Regardless of what everyone's feelings are regarding any royals, past or present, or towards why this problem has been a problem for so long, I think it would serve all of our best interest to take this proffered olive branch for what it is.  What she is requesting to make it simple is to start hearing a LOT more from the archery community in terms of recommendations of people who need and deserve to be recongized, whether it be for a major award or even for just a royal shout-out in court.  If it needs to be done, they will not know unless we tell them.
     Sorry this rambled, but I wanted all to hear all that I heard from her.  :)

In service,
Karl von Konigsberg
Atlantian Kingdom Archery Champion
Dun Carraig Baronial Archery Champion

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