[Archers] Incident at Stierbach Baronial Birthday

[michael sheppard]

Brother's and Sister's,

I couldn't agree more.  We are better than that.

YIS,
Saphir

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, <jaynardone at comcast.net> wrote:

> Good afternoon my Esteemed Brothers and Sisters of the Bow. I write you
> today with a heavy heart and great sadness over an incident that occurred
> at the event last weekend on the Archery range. I had to take a step back
> myself for a few hours before I wrote this to assure that I am not
> conveying emotion but rather fact myself. Also when these things occur I
> like to approach them like the NTSB at an accident, (okay stop laughing at
> the geeky engineer :P ) Unfortunately this was no accident, accidents are
> something that occur out of our control and unfortunately in this case the
> "out of their control" was very much in their control but for whatever
> reasons, didnt work out the best way.
>
> There are a few areas I want to touch on in this note so I will take them
> one at a time to be as clear as I possibly can....
>
> 1. It seems an archer was upset with the design of the shoot and that
> their score was adversely effected because of the element of luck designed
> into the shoot. In giving them the benefit of the doubt that they were
> genuinely just very "passionate" about their position or just having a "bad
> day" they lost sense of reality and ended up berating the MIC and other
> MiT's and archers who were in range of the shouting on the range. This
> makes me think of two points here:
>
>   A.) If anyone (archers, marshals, etc...) has an issue with the shoot
> design you have two simple choices. Dont shoot, go do something else or
> deal with it and shoot. We are all out there (or should be) for one reason,
> FUN! Yes many of us are competitive, hey you wont find someone else more
> competitive than me, but I would never ruin someone's or a group's fun over
> something so silly as my score unless I found blatant cheating or cause
> that effected my score, which was not the case here.  I know some archers
> don't like the introduction of "chance" into a shoot design, but I know
> many of us welcome it and actually think it is a refreshing break to the
> outcome. It is the very reason I chose D&D for this year's SSB shoot, it
> allows archers to use their skills but their scores can change drastically
> simply based on a dice roll. I gave up 40 points on one target because I
> shot 4 different slots that were zero's, oh well that was my choice to
> shoot those spots not the shoot designer!
>
> B.) Okay point "B", if there is an incident like this on the range you as
> MIC, marshal, MiT, etc don't and shouldn't handle it alone. While these
> incidents are very very rare, this is only the 2nd I remember since I
> joined in 2007, and I thank you all for that; they do occur. Once again at
> this event like the other, the DEM, EDEM and 2 or 3 regional's were all
> there on the range. I applaud my marshals for being strong enough to handle
> the issues but I and my staff cant help you if we don't know about it! Like
> most of these issues, I didnt know about it until I got contacted by a
> Count or two who are my friends but also concerned about their people. We
> have very straightforward rules for people who become combative, unruly or
> just out of control. I have zero tolerance for those actions and they would
> have been removed from the range immediately! So please if this ever occurs
> again (lets hope not!), simply ask the person to "Wait a minute" and send
> someone to get someone from the Marshalette officer structure.
>
> Okay back to number one. This was uncalled for and had no business
> happening! Especially in public on the range in front of those who had to
> hear it's ugliness. In times when we are wondering why our numbers are
> dwindling, this is not the behavior to be conducting ourselves too
> accordingly. When I was welcomed into the Atlantia archery community years
> ago, it was a warm and friendly welcome. That is what Atlantia archery is!
> We are no drama, no whining and no haters, period!
>
> Okay enough of my soapbox, the SCA is a "Self policing" society and I know
> the Archery community has been very good at it in the past. I guess all I
> will say is something my Mother used to tell me, "that if you cant say
> anything nice, don't say anything at all!" Our shoot coordinators spend a
> great deal of time and money and effort to put these shoots on for us and I
> challenge you if you feel they are so wrong to put together a shoot the way
> you would like too and invite us all to participate in your shoot! I like
> the diversity of shoots we have in our Kingdom and the creativity of our
> archers and marshals and applaud them all.
>
> Now enough of the silliness, lets focus on positive energy and go have
> some fun!
>
> In Service,
>
> Janyn
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