[MR] Official Announcement: Laurel Harsuit Tourney at Pennsic

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This is the official announcement of the Fourth Annual (Fighting) Laurels'  
Prize Tourney at Pennsic, this year held under the gracious sponsorship of Her  
Majesty Denise of Atlantia.  While there is in our Society an event that  has 
been called a "Laurels' Prize Tourney" but
which is basically an  "Artisans' Display" -- Laurels may not enter; there 
are no prizes (other than  word-fame); there is no fighting or other 
competition, this is not it!.   The new and improved Laurels' Prize Tourney features 
actual Laurels, real  prizes, and lots of fighting...

The event is open to any member of the Order of the Laurel authorized  in 
heavy weapons combat.  Each Laurel will provide a prize of their own  making.  
Apprentices of Laurels are also allowed to enter.  The  apprentice must provide 
a prize of their own making.  New this year,  persons who are not formally 
apprenticed to a Laurel will be allowed to enter if  they are sponsored by a 
Laurel; these persons must provide a prize of their own  making and must have a 
letter of sponsorship if the Laurel is not present.   (Laurels whose apprentices 
are entering the tourney or who are sponsoring  entrants are expected to 
provide an additional prize if they are not entering  the tourney themselves.) 

A tourney will be fought (format to be determined depending on the  number of 
entrants).  The prizes provided by the participants in the  fighting will be 
arrayed on tables, and the  participants each have an  opportunity to select a 
prize from those provided by the other  fighters,  based on their rank in the 
tournament (with the winner selecting first and so  on...).

The prizes provided by the Laurels who are sponsoring apprentices  or other 
entrants are given for reasons of the Laurel's choice -- best death,  cutest 
armour, best fight with an axe, etc. 

Combatants, if you would like to add to the pomp and ceremony of the  list by 
bringing your own Herald and/or Banner Bearer please do so. We also  invite 
any and all other Brother and Sister Laurels that don't fight to attend.  If 
you wish to bring a prize of your own making to present to the Combatant of  
your choice for whatever reason, please do so. Whether it is
for a chivalrous  act on the field a spectacular death or anything else that 
pleases you. It can  be presented at the end of the fight that did so impress 
you. 

This tournament will take place on Sunday, 14 August on the Battlefield  
(Blue Tourney Field)
at 1pm.  

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to address them  to 
me: Eilis O'Boirne (Lee Forgue), 510-486-0633, _baroness_eilis at juno.com_ 
(mailto:baroness_eilis at juno.com) .   

Please feel free to share this message with any Laurel list you have  access 
to.  Thank you.