[MR] Kingdom Archery Championship - the next Royal Archer

[Jonathas]

You are correct, I didn't update my notes as I went, and here is why we
leave the heralding to the professionals!

Many thanks for the corrections,
Jonathas


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Katherine Hawkins <k_hawk_us at yahoo.com>wrote:

> My lord, one small correction for you to post.  Lord Janyn did not win the
> marksman because he is a Bowman.  The award went to Fearghus mac Domhaill,
> who tied with Janyn in the scoring but is a "Marksman."  The day was hot and
> I know I was confused but I rode home with Fearghus and he had the winning
> arrow for Marksman.
>
> Katarzyna
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Jonathas <Jonathas at RedFoxDen.org>
> *To:* Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, June 22, 2009 11:17:25 AM
> *Subject:* [MR] Kingdom Archery Championship - the next Royal Archer
>
> 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
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