[Archers] royal rounds

[Jonathas]

I agree that Royal Rounds are important.  At least once a month when we are
outdoors I dedicate our Archery Practice to Royal Rounds and we shoot
several.  I would encourage the same at as Royal Rounds are a great
benchmark for how your archers are currently shooting and show their
improvement over time.

Jonathas

On Dec 7, 2017 8:27 AM, "JAY NARDONE" <jaynardone at comcast.net> wrote:

> Baroness, I completely agree with you and when I was DEM I encouraged
> those MIC's who ran events to try to also hold a few rounds of Royal
> Rounds. It is not always possible with the room given to archery at events
> but I think it is a great place to offer them because of the amount of new
> comers we get at events vise practices. The problem I have seen in the past
> it takes that many more marshals to run in addition to the event, not
> saying it cant be done it just requires some additional planning.
>
> While it is true that many of us who have reached GBE are not interested
> in RR any longer, there are many who still are and we should do our part to
> support them.
>
> In Service,
>
> Janyn
>
> On December 7, 2017 at 1:21 AM Stephen Kiefert <lanhamlaw at att.net> wrote:
>
> Royal Rounds Rant from Evelynne
>
>     I know I have been a nudge about getting Royal Rounds to happen in the
> kingdom and every time I make a plea for Royal Rounds I see confusion on
> the faces around me.  So I want to explain why that is a priority for me.
>
>     As Baroness of course I am all about making the barony look good, and
> more archers on the kingdom list makes us look good, but it is more than
> that.  I want our archers to have fun and be challenged to improve.  We
> have a fair number of archers in Black Diamond and only two archers on the
> list.  Than in itself is reason to get the Royal Rounds going and show our
> numbers even if we are all novice or archer level.  It is more than that
> however, it is a tool for self improvement.
>
>     Once you are on the list you can clearly see your ranking in the whole
> Kingdom and you can see how much you need to get just one number higher on
> that list.   Getting from Novice to Archer may be hard and from Archer to
> Marksman even harder and lord knows I spent three years getting from
> Marksman to Bowman.  Now my challenge is to get back to Bowman having
> fallen back to Marksman with lack of practice.  The numbers on the kingdom
> list make it possible to have smaller goals that are reachable in shorter
> periods of time.  That works two ways.  If I have an average of say 43 from
> my current three listed best rounds this year I only need one good round
> scored by a marshal to get a 44.  Victory is sweet even in small amounts
> and having made that goal gives me the encouragement to try for 45.  If I
> am number 89 on the kingdom list with an average of 35 say, I can see on
> the list that the next person above me is at 35.6.  I only need to get to
> 36 to rise in the ranks to number 88.  If I wait too long however I may
> find someone below me has taken my place as 89 and I have to practice to
> hold my standing.  Either way I have small goals and large goals and I can
> track my improvement against a large field of archers.  Other folks at my
> practice is nice but my focus can be on my own development even if no one
> else shows up.  Just shooting at a hay bale doesn’t let you know if you are
> getting better.
>
>     The kingdom archery community has made it as easy as possible by
> allowing any marshal to score and report even without an official
> practice.  I am pestering the kingdom archers to at least make Royal Rounds
> available at events, that has not gone well, but I keep asking and
> eventually you will hear me.
>
>     I brought it up again at Unevent target archery and got the same blank
> looks than mean no Royal Rounds at events will be coming soon.  The top
> ranked archers are so bored with that.  They just want novelty to shoot at
> because it is more fun at that level.  I agree novelty shoots are fun.
> Maybe they can do royal rounds locally but that is not true for many
> archers.  Something is not working well.  There are only 61 current royal
> round scores in a kingdom of over 2000.  They did however hear me out and
> the group suggested we try to get gun clubs to let us shoot at their
> ranges.  They often have over a hundred yards to work with, I am told, and
> sometimes that will be indoors for winter practice.  I have asked my
> populace to scout that out so I thank you all for that suggestion.  Would
> it be so hard to run a Royal Round off to the side once or twice in a full
> day of archery at events?  It doesn’t have to occupy anyone all day.  I’ll
> keep working at it on the home front.
>
>     The Kingdom list really worked for me and I want to spread the love of
> archery.  Thanks for listening.
>
> Evelynne Merrymet
> Baroness of Black Diamond
>
>
>
>
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