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<DIV>A shoot among the current Baronial champians for one or more Kingdoms.</DIV>
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<DIV>Upside is that the number is self-limiting, both by the total number of baronies and not all baronial champians will be at Pennsic.</DIV>
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<DIV>Downside is that not all baronial champians are all that good. And I suspect that a number of baronies have a couple of really good archers, so at least some good archers would be excluded. </DIV>
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<DIV>And it could encourage only folks who are going to Pennsic to attempt shoot for their baronial champianship. </DIV>
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<DIV>Another option, or rather one that can be added to some of the other ideas. Those who get into the East / Mid & Allies Championship team that year don't get to do this Atlantian shoot. </DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Holly Gibbons <A href="mailto:holly0920@yahoo.com">holly0920@yahoo.com</A><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></B></FONT>
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<DIV>(2) The need to restrict the sheer number of archers is not just an issue of target-life. I am sorry if I left that impression. A novelty populace shoot open to every archer at Pennsic is WAY beyond the scope of what any of us can handle in terms of time and effort. There is already a populace shoot: in place at Pennsic -- it is the war points targets. I am interested in seeing a challenging, difficult shoot for a kingdom/individual championship separate from that.</DIV>
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<DIV>This may well be the point at which all our discussions fall apart, as Dealla says they have in the past - - we all have a different vision of what this shoot should look like and we all apparently have a different vision of what the very purpose of this shoot is. </DIV>
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<DIV>To reiterate: I am interested in working for those Atlantian Archers who are shut out of the championship shoot because the East only takes 7 of us - - when we all know Atlantia has enough fine archers to field a team of 30 ourselves (and win it all.) I want to see an expert-level individual and kingdom championship shoot that is completely outside the realm of the war, of the war points, of the East/Mid monopoly of archery at Pennsic. </DIV>
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<DIV>Somehow the numbers have to be imited - - I just threw out royal rounds as a non-political, non-subjective measure. You could say bowmen and above, you could say top 20 who are at Pennsic....whatever. Just make it objective.</DIV>
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<DIV>When I was an Archer or a Marksman, it was enough to shoot the populace points at Pennsic and a couple of novelty shoots. I had no expectation or need of being on a champions team. But now I see what is really happening: our very, very top archers in Atlantia are not "chosen" for the East's team. It is degrading and demoralizing and leads many fine archers to avoid Pennsic altogether. This is not right!</DIV>
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<DIV>So I am driven to correct this wrong. I'm really not looking for a way to add to my work load before OR at Pennsic, believe me. </DIV>
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<DIV>Nuala of Needwood Forest</DIV>
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