[MR] Kingdom Archery Championship - the next Royal Archer

[Jonathas]

Greetings from the outgoing Royal Archer,

I must give a great and huge thanks to the Barony of Sacred Stone, Lady
Gisela, and all of the event staff, I could not have hoped for a better
event to put forth the shoot as the next Kingdom Archery Championship.  The
day board was huge, the feast scrumptious, the water endless, and the
setup/teardown help plentiful.  And many of these gentles who put in hard
work and sweat I did not get to properly meet and chat with until Saturday
at the Feast!  Thank you for all your hard work.

To my Lady, Baroness Amalia, thank you for your endless work on not
painting, but illuminating, target faces only to watch all that work get
shoot at, and documenting every last one to boot!  They were without a doubt
the prettiest targets ever to grace an archery range.  And to m'lord Andreas
as teenage slave labor before, during and (you don't know it yet but) after,
shleaping targets, fetching whatever, testing targets (yeah as if you minded
THAT part), and generally being helpful.

I hope that everyone who made the trip had a fun day of shooting was our
next Royal Archer was chosen.  From the endless string of smiles and
compliments *all* followed by "you're evil" I gather that the level of fun,
yet challenging, shoots was perfect.

Now for what everyone else wants to know, the winner is....




Well lets see, besides the championship shoot itself, there was a scavenger
hunt.  Hidden on all the targets were tools of the hunting trade.  For which
there was a three way tie, each having found 14 of the 17 tools, Lord
Geoffrey, Lady Nuala, Lord Theodore.

The absolutely gorgeous prize arrows which Lady Esperanza made, each with
King Logan's arms (King and personal), Queen Esa's arms (Queen and
personal), Sacred Stone's arms as host, my own arms as outgoing Royal
Archer, the Royal Round Badge emblem, Spike (cause this is Atlantia), and as
if all that wasn't enough, a good bit of celtic knot work too.  These went
to the days highest scoring archer with a current Royal Round average of
each rank:
Archer - Lord Adreas
Marksman - Lord Janyn
Bowmen - Lady Treya
Bowmen Elite - Lady Loreli
Grand Bowmen Elite - Lord Seamus

The Barony of Sacred Stone provided prizes for the seven runners up in the
finals who were:
8 - Lady Nuala
7 - Lord Fergus Fletcher
6 - Lord Janyn Fletcher
5 - Lord Geoffrey
4 - Lord Miles de Locwode
3 - Lady Lorelei Greenleaf
2 - Lord Valgard av Mors

Now I must say that of all the finals I've seen and been in, this was the
most evenly matched I have ever seen.  Every one of these gentles shot
exceptionally well, and in every one of the matches except one, both gentles
were shooting at the final target at the same time , and had put at least
one arrow at it before someone got the winning shot.

So with out any more delay, the new Atlantian Royal Archer, announced in the
court of Baron Axle and Baroness Jeanmaire, with the grace of their
Majesties King Logan and Queen Esa, is Lord Samuel Calvert of Gidiehall from
the Canton of Sudentorre in the Barony of Stierbach.

In Service,
Baron Jonathas
outgoing Royal Archer