[MR] Event Bids and Driving Distances

[Joshua Lindenger]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, logan <logan at ebonwoulfe.com> wrote:

> as one of the crowns during that time who was involved in the discussions
> there was a lot more than some simple dispute over zip codes and identity.
> it wasn't beneficial in many ways and those issues were hardly the meat of
> it.


Your Grace,

Would you be willing to elaborate as to what some of the other reasons
were?  As someone relatively new who was most definitely not around at the
time, I would be very curious to learn what they were, especially with
Siegfried implying that many in the general populace did not learn why at
the time.

>From my perspective as someone who wants to be able to play in the SCA with
a growing family living on one income in the high-expense D.C. metro area,
the principality idea makes complete sense. In addition to the fact that
Northerners and Southerners tend to have difficulty making it to events at
the other end of the Kingdom, it seems to me that in some senses we already
have to do this administratively in order to run the Kingdom. If you look at
nearly every Kingdom office, we already have Northern and Southern regional
deputies.  If you look at event attendance, we clearly have several regular,
local events in the North that can often rival Kingdom events in size such
as Storvik Novice Tourney and Highland River Melees (as I don't get to the
southern end much, I can't speak to that side of things).

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Stephanie Shelton <ldy_sydney at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I will not say that the idea of a Principality is a bad one. I will however
> say that I do see reasons that it could be a very long, drawn out and
> painful process.


As to Ms. Shelton's comment, the creation of a principality could definitely
be "a very long, drawn out and painful process," but that doesn't mean that
it is not the right thing to do or, at the very least, discuss.

Gaspar Marti