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

[David W. James]

[	The following are my comments to the Board concerning a 
proposed change to
	Corpora.  Commentary by the members and interested parties is 
requested and
	may be sent until July 1, 2002.  The proposal (at
	http://www.sca.org/BOD/announcements/royal-lists.html) is:

	Proposed revision of Corpora IV.A.1.

	The Board requests commentary from the membership regarding 
the following
	proposed revision of Corpora IV.A.1.:

	Change from: "Royal Lists must be conducted at a tournament 
announced in the
	kingdom newsletter as being for that purpose."

	Change to: "Royal Lists must be conducted at a tournament 
announced in the
	kingdom newsletter as being for that purpose. All Combat in 
Royal Lists must
	be single combat."

	Please send your comments no later than July 1, 2002, to 
Corpora Revision,
	SCA Inc., Box 360789, Milpitas, CA 95036, or email comments at sca.org.
]

I would like to register my strong disapproval of this proposed
change to Corpora.

The format of Crown Tourney is disgustingly mundane as it is usually
held, and this does nothing to address that.  It removes an avenue
for expression of Kingdom policy, individuality and possibly even
growth and improvement.

I would be surprised if allowing tournament forms other than single
combat, if they were used, did not result in an increase in
participants in Crown Tourney, with a resulting feeling of greater
participation and satisfaction with the process used to select our
rulers.  Tournaments where the actual entrant for the Crown was
leader of a team of 2-5 fighters, for example, is one possible avenue
that this would eliminate that I believe would be entirely fair and
as equitable as single combat.  Doubtless there are other alternative
methods that would be equally fair and reasonable.

I just as strongly support selection of the Crown's successors by
chivalric combat alone.  This is one of the defining characteristics
of the SCA, and is strongly tied to our unique charm.  But lets try
not to start down the road that has us restricted to yet another
boring, ahistorical double-elim tourney.

David W. James
Lord Kwellend-Njal Kollskeggsson
Atlantia

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