[MR] Comments on Proposed revision of Corpora IV.A.1.

[Velsthe1 at aol.com]

>i have never personally heard anyone mention paying 
>off people for crown.
>
>logan

To that I answer with:

>to show that you can form, train, inspire, pay, 
>whatever a group of fighters to somehow prove you are 
>a better leader is also asinine. 
>
>logan

In short, Your Grace, you did. 

The question then is, what is the difference between paying others to fight for you in this melee scenario, or if you pay someone not to fight or to take a fall in a double-elim tourney? What has stopped someone from doing this to date? 

This in mind, why is this buy-off/favored friend arguement being used? It is just as plausible in either case. What; we are being asked to believe is that if the change to Corpora is *not* made, then all sorts of unsavory things will happen. 

Your Grace, you say this is only a clarification of existing rules. You'll excuse me if I don't buy the bridge, so to speak. If it was a rule, but simply unclear, why then has it been understood throughout the Society that the Crowns chose what tourney format will be used to determine their successoors. That has been the case Society wide, with the only sanction being the tourney must be "heavy weapons." 

No A&S Competition, no fencing tourney, no archery shoot-off...just heavy weapons. Oddly, while reviewing Corpora, I was unable to find that censure this time. I had been oft-quoted previously, but is mysteriously missing at this time. 

Regardless, it was also purported that it was up to the reigning crowns to choose the format of heavy weapons tourney that was used. Whether it be double-elim, warlords, le mans, spears only, saints...didn't matter so long as it was a heavy weapons list.

With particular regard to Aveloc's idea, it is neither entirely a melee or a double-elim, but a concoction of the two. And it only allows for *maybe* twelve hours to collect an army.  Disregarding the source of the idea, it doesn't sound like a bad thing to try, so long as we have the ability to try it, and see how it works.


Vels
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