Interesting tourney idea
Interesting tourney idea
I found this while surfing. Seems like it would be kind of fun to try out:
[img]http://www.brotherguido.com/bwoods/taverns/1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.brotherguido.com/bwoods/taverns/1.jpg[/img]
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The good ol "wheel of doom" or "Wheel od misfortune" style tourney. They can be fun and can also be very aggravating if the weapon styles you get against an opponent with a much better one than yours. I did one this spring at Maye Tourney at the Barony of Thor's Mtn and ended up with pole against sword and shield twice and dagger and buckler vs great sword once. I like those lists because I like odd weapons.... most folks don't.
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It's funny that you mention this. I found a cool adaptation on this a few years ago at the competition for prince and princess of Northshield. You had to fight at least three styles of your choice at the tourney. It made for some fun stuff I thought, but it isn't like what you'd see at a big baronial competition like Cleveland, Detroit, or Columbus. They have a little more diversified moves in their given styles I thought. Just an observation though. Lubeck
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In the West, in the Palentine Barony of Allyshia, there is a tourney every Feburary to determine the next Baron. It is a three part tourney, 1) Map of the west or the known world 2) Chronicle of the last barons rule 3) And finally a drawn weapons tourney. We have alot of drawn weapon practices, and I love shasta melees!
All weapons are in the middle of the field, no one is armed, lay on is called.....
then everyone runs into the center of the field, grabs a weapon fast, then fights for their life...
That is alot of fun, need good hand protection though.
Morgan.
All weapons are in the middle of the field, no one is armed, lay on is called.....
then everyone runs into the center of the field, grabs a weapon fast, then fights for their life...
That is alot of fun, need good hand protection though.
Morgan.
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I ran a tourney that had three lists.
Each list was a specific weapons style
#1 was weapon and shield
#2 was two weapon
#3 was great weapon
we ran a bearpit list for one and a half hours, keeping score of one point for simply fighting and one point for a win. At the end of the hour you take the top 4 from each weapons form list and then the next top 4 overall and then run a sweet 16 single elim.
The only catch is that you can only fight the weapons style of the list you came from.
real neat tourney, great combonations.
Each list was a specific weapons style
#1 was weapon and shield
#2 was two weapon
#3 was great weapon
we ran a bearpit list for one and a half hours, keeping score of one point for simply fighting and one point for a win. At the end of the hour you take the top 4 from each weapons form list and then the next top 4 overall and then run a sweet 16 single elim.
The only catch is that you can only fight the weapons style of the list you came from.
real neat tourney, great combonations.
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Servus!
I'm sorry, but I have to simply scream. Here in D'wald, I cannot remember the last double-elim tourney that didn't have some sort of office attached to it. Most of our tourneys are the like where the winner is not the person who demonstrated the greatest prowess or skill but are chosen by the ladies, children, Baron, wandering dog, cast lots, coin toss, spin the bottle, etc. It may be a period way to choose a winner, but fighting in tournament has been reduced to a popularity contest. You don't need to swing particularly well but be able to simper and play the crowd so they remember who you were hours later when the "winner" is chosen.
We are chock-full of "themed" tournaments and people are actually complaining that tournaments need some "pep"!!!
Themes like the "wheel of doom" and "Swiss Five" are cool once in awhile, but don't forget about the "old traditions".
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. I'll go back to my corner now...
Pax Vobiscum
Alexander
[This message has been edited by Alexander (edited 09-09-2001).]
I'm sorry, but I have to simply scream. Here in D'wald, I cannot remember the last double-elim tourney that didn't have some sort of office attached to it. Most of our tourneys are the like where the winner is not the person who demonstrated the greatest prowess or skill but are chosen by the ladies, children, Baron, wandering dog, cast lots, coin toss, spin the bottle, etc. It may be a period way to choose a winner, but fighting in tournament has been reduced to a popularity contest. You don't need to swing particularly well but be able to simper and play the crowd so they remember who you were hours later when the "winner" is chosen.
We are chock-full of "themed" tournaments and people are actually complaining that tournaments need some "pep"!!!
Themes like the "wheel of doom" and "Swiss Five" are cool once in awhile, but don't forget about the "old traditions".
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. I'll go back to my corner now...
Pax Vobiscum
Alexander
[This message has been edited by Alexander (edited 09-09-2001).]
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