[Archers] St. Sebastians III?????

[John Atkins]

If the other kingdoms are not champing at the bit to do the St.
Sebastian I think Atlantia should continue.  Now, having said that a few
things.
 
First I think your mention of a marshal at each shooting station is not
neccessary.  At SAAD only those stations requring some form of
non-shooter involvement, i.e. causing motion, timed, are staffed by a
marshal.  If we are an honorable society and we all know archers are THE
most honorable among us, then I don't think a marshal is required for
every station.
 
In my local area we have discussed the need for understudies, i.e.
instigating a mentor system.  As we know, running a shoot of this size
successfully takes a high degree of organization and planning.  Few are
able to simply jump in and "make it happen" without prior experience.
There are many who would like to jump right in but often their results
are less than satifactory.  As such I think it a good idea to appoint a
"deputy" to the main lead for this shoot.
 
To elicite more assistance with set up, tear down and marshalling we
might consider offering "bonus points" to those who assist with these
activities.  These points could either be added to their shooting score
to better increase their chance of winning or have a "helper's" category
with it's own "prize".  OK, it is flagrant buying of help but it often
works.
 
We missed last year's Pennsic as we had, just had to spend my two weeks
in Italy touring some really old buildings followed by one week in
Ireland trying to wash away my sorrows of missing Pennsic with pints of
Guiness.  :-)  However, we are planning on being at Pennsic again next
year and am willing to assist however needed.
 
cog

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[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Jay
Nardone
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 11:35 PM
To: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [Archers] St. Sebastians III?????



Good evening everyone, as we now enter into November (wow where the heck
did this year go?), I wanted to get the pulse of how you the Atlantian
Archery community is feeling about the St. Sebastian's shoot going
forward. Before I contact Lord Godric to find out if the East or Mid are
even thinking about running it, I wanted to find out how you all are
feeling about possibly running it again next year. Now before we go down
the path of "absolutely yes or what are you thinking?" I want to make a
few points very clear. I have already talked with a lot of you and heard
comments like "it is one of the only reasons I want to go to Pennsic,"
or "it is really the only real fun I have in martial activities at
Pennsic," etc.. That is all fine and well but I also understand and have
talked with quite a few of the regulars that have given up a good part
of their vacations to put this shoot on the last 2 years. So before I
even offer for Atlantia to think about hosting the shoot again ,I would
like to hear your thoughts. I will be very blunt and open and state that
I think it is time for some of our marshal's and archers who have not
helped over the last 2 years to contribute targets and marshal the
event. I perfectly understand if some of our contributors from the last
2 years want to take a year off, they have well deserved that! But, at
the same time we cannot pull off this shoot if we don't have enough
target stations and marshals to run it.

 

We have tried 2 approaches so far with scheduling for the shoot and I
think I have come up with a 3rd that would ease the numbers we would
need. If we are thinking about 12-14 stations again, I was thinking that
if we had a marshal per station for a 4 hour morning shift, and then
they switch with relief to take the afternoon 4 shift, this would cut
the number of needed marshals down to 28 or so which is about the number
of volunteers we get each year. BUT! This would need to be a majority of
folks that have not stepped up to help over the last 2 years. I'm sure
some of you will offer again such as I, but I would like to see some new
faces contributing to what has become a real staple of Pennsic now! I
would offer to organize it again this year but would also like to see a
volunteer to be MIC for the event next year.

 

So again, before I contact Godric, what are your thoughts about next
year? Please remember just saying "yes" won't be enough, we will need to
backup your offers with help!

 

In Service,

 

Janyn

 

 

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