[Archers] St. Sebastian's 6 Pennsic 2016

[Jay Nardone]

Good evening my Brothers and Sisters of the Bow. This is about the time of
year that I start my planning for next year's SSB shoot at Pennsic. But,
before I do this year, I wanted to have a discussion with everyone to gauge
the interest in the shoot and your willingness to still support the shoot. I
first just also want to say that I completely understand it is everyone's
vacation, to include my own and we all have tons of other commitments, I
understand that. 

 

We were asked once again by the East to conduct the shoot next year. My
concern is that usually during these discussion I get almost 100% resounding
"yes, let's do it, I want to help", but when it comes to the shoot I'm
seeing the participation decline. Even for the Friday night setup, there
were only 6 of us there. So I will ask again, what are your thoughts for
doing this again next year? Who is in, who is willing to make a station or
two and help? I was very clear to the East that if I don't get the numbers
we need, I will not conduct the shoot and burn out the few of us that are
there year after year, I just won't do that.

 

So if we are going to run the shoot again next year, this is what we will
need:

 

1.       Roughly 30 marshals, I need enough to run the 13 -14 stations for
one 3-4 hour shift and then switch so they can go shoot and the replacement
marshals take their place. Last year this was the plan and we had many
stations that were out the whole day long because their replacements either
never came back or simply left the range.

2.       I would like someone to lead the scheduling of our volunteer
marshals for time slots and assignments, I as MIC just have too much on my
plate during the day to manage it all..

3.       We will need 3-4 scorekeepers to assist Lady Aemilia at the
check-in table 

4.       We will need 13-14 target stations, a few of us last year made 3-4
and one volunteer actually made 5 stations themselves

 

 

The theme they asked us to work with is "medieval creatures / macabre" which
lends itself to many cool targets.

 

So please take some time and think about this. In mid-December if we choose
to move forward, I will start preparing the lists to coordinate the shoot,
or tell the East that we will not conduct the shoot. I can't think of not
doing it but won't run our faithful into the ground anylonger.

 

Of course, you are what makes this shoot what it has been and is! I could
never have pulled this off by myself.

 

So in service,

 

Janyn

 

 

 

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