[MR] Crwon Tourney, the SCA , and such.

[CLINTDARBY at aol.com]

Dear Gentles:
                          I usually prefer the guise of lurker and rarely 
decide that these posts are worth responding to. Before anyone raises and 
eyebrow or holds their breath, let me say I do not mean that this board is 
worthless. (it is amazing to see how easily people can take things out of 
context). Rather, I wish to say that I rarely have anything new to add to 
what has already been stated.

This ongoing conversation about the BOD's effort to regulate
(more so, to specifically define) the format of each Kingdom's Crown list has 
snagged my goat so to speak.

First: for the past 30 plus years we and our brother Kingdom's have always 
fought a double elimination Crown Tourney. It's tradition.
The bottom line is this - If you don't like it.......find another game. There 
are numerous medieval groups; Markland, MTA, Acre, etc.
You could even start your own group. People in Atlantia have done just that. 
Shoot, they were able to do so with less effort than some have put into their 
opinions on this very subject. I'm not telling you to bugger off, merely take 
the SCA for what it is........a game.

Second: We, the SCA are not a period society. We strive, of course , to 
portray what each of us romanticize as period. I myself enjoy stretching the 
most out of the SCA to emulate what I'd prefer -- late 14thC. But I will be 
the first to say I do not wish to recreate the politics of that time. There 
is enough back stabbing in our Kingdom as it is :O)

Last: think of it this way. What if you were well known for your awesome 
pound cake. You have been generous in giving away your recipe, allowing 
everyone to make the same pound cake. Call it Mr./Mrs (whoever's) precious 
pound cake, and for thirty years people have flocked to those who love your 
pound cake. Now some cook with a new idea, even a very talented one, decides 
to make a chocolate pound cake. It might taste better. It may gather a new 
and even greater following. But, I guarantee, it will not be the same pound 
cake that all the others have enjoyed for the last thirty years. 

I am not saying that change is bad. I just want my plain old awesome pound 
cake. If the crowd has lost its taste for it, then so be it. The new cooks 
can make there own recipe, or ask ACRE for their recipe.


HRH Logan .
 Thanks for trying to put forth the concept that if we did use a War scenario 
to decide the final round of Crown Tourney nothing would change for the 
better.

Lady Drew.
Thank you for watching the Atlantian Lists, you opinion does matter. Without 
spectators we could not bring Honor or Glory to our King, his Queen, and the 
Ladies we fight for.

Atlantia.
I truly hope that no one is terrible disappointed in the way we run things. I 
have been absent for almost 8 years and revel in the notion that Tradition 
does not die.

Yours in Service,
Syr Christian Darmody
 
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