Meridian Grand Tournament this weekend.

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:09 am

Anyone going?

Steve

Greenshield · Post by **Greenshield** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:37 am

Wish I could be mundanity raises it's ugly head

G

GvR · Post by **GvR** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:46 am

Our own Gryffinclaw will be there. Alas, like His Grace, I too have to slave for mundanity.

Amalric von Regensburg · Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:54 am

I'll be there unless the Mississippi rises or the car dies.
[knocking on wood as I type]

Amalric

Ulrich · Post by **Ulrich** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:50 am

I'll be there....but you knew that.

http://www.meridiangrandtournament.org/

Amalric von Regensburg · Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:52 am

Amalric von Regensburg wrote:I'll be there unless the Mississippi rises or the car dies.
[knocking on wood as I type]

Amalric

DOH
I got confused with another event and will not be there.
Sorry.

Amalric

Malcolm MacLachlan · Post by **Malcolm MacLachlan** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:31 am

Ulrich wrote:I'll be there....but you knew that.

http://www.meridiangrandtournament.org/

Well nevermind, I'm not going then...... :wink:

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:56 am

I'm going to fight in the Armatura, the Sabre Tourney, and the Bear Pit Tourney.

Steve

Adriano · Post by **Adriano** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:10 am

My thumb is recovering; I'll be there.

Hey, Steve, sorry I didn't get to say hi at Red Tower. Your kit looked awesome, as usual.

Edward MacTavish · Post by **Edward MacTavish** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:33 pm

I should be there. Depending on the Army this might be my last event in Meridies,

Edward

Adric13 · Post by **Adric13** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:13 pm

was planning to go but the kid goes under the knife on friday. this is a new thing and plans have changed

Eirik · Post by **Eirik** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:50 pm

I'll be there. It'll be my first MGT....

Hope to cross swords with all y'all!

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:06 pm

This will be my first MGT also.

Steve

Malcolm MacLachlan · Post by **Malcolm MacLachlan** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:04 pm

Adric - Sorry to hear that, I was looking forward to meeting you. Hope all goes well with your child.

Finnvarthr Finnbogason · Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:36 pm

Adric, I hope all goes well with your child. Please, don't hesitate to call me if you need anything.
Finnvarthr

Murdock · Post by **Murdock** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:22 pm

get pics

Adric13 · Post by **Adric13** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:25 pm

It shouldn't be that big a deal but one of us failed to give him enough teeth to be an adult. He was born missing 3 adult teeth. The baby teeth have to removed and they are hoping to be able to get them out with out cracking his lower jaw. The baby teeth have to go though as they are bein grown around and shifting his perm teeth. We were not planning this at this time but his body says otherwise. Any way he's being put under Friday so they can go in and dig them out. If it goes well no broken jaw no wiring no long recovery time. If everything goes the hard way.... :shock:

At any rate prayers and well wishes are always welcome!

Britehelm · Post by **Britehelm** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:30 pm

I will be at Phase II SRP this weekend. We are deploying in January and this is our state records and inventory evaluation for all our soldiers. I will miss all you guys. You should all come to Gatalop. Shameless plug!
Lex

asbrand · Post by **asbrand** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:02 pm

Unfortunately working this weekend.

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:19 pm

Hope all goes well with your child, Adric.

Steve

Adriano · Post by **Adriano** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:20 am

Thinking a good thought, Adric.

Malcolm MacLachlan · Post by **Malcolm MacLachlan** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:25 am

Britehelm wrote:I will be at Phase II SRP this weekend. We are deploying in January and this is our state records and inventory evaluation for all our soldiers. I will miss all you guys. You should all come to Gatalop. Shameless plug!
Lex

See you there Lex!

Adric13 · Post by **Adric13** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:32 pm

Kid update - all went great. I have 3 baby teeth in a jar and he has 3 newholes in his head. No broken jaw needed! And the sinus cavity that might have been breached was not. We go back in a week to make sure it's all still good. He still has a bunch of risidual stuff that keeps him from feelig bad right now. They say tomorrow he will feel like he was hit in the face with a ball bat. Oh yea! Something to look forward to.... Thanks for the support! Y'all rock. Kick some butt post some results when its over.

Malcolm MacLachlan · Post by **Malcolm MacLachlan** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:09 am

Glad to hear it. Hope the mean man with the bat goes away soon.

Also on the kid front, we pulled into our condo about 40 minutes offsite when my 3 year old wakes up from the car seat, announces she has to go to the bathroom and then bazooka barfs all over her and the van. It's 12:30am and I just got her in bed after sanitizing everything including her. I wonder if no sleep will affect my fighting. Let's find out!

Malcolm MacLachlan · Post by **Malcolm MacLachlan** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:17 am

And again and again, guess it wasn't car sickness. Everyone enjoy the event. I have to get my little girl home as soon as she can travel. Hopefully the rest of us don't get it.

Adric13 · Post by **Adric13** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:17 pm

Youwza! Not fun. Hope she's better!

Adriano · Post by **Adriano** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:13 pm

Yikes, sorry about that, Malcolm.

I just got home. Had a great time at the event -- Steve, good talking with you.

My only disappointment was my own performance. Flat-out sucked today, maybe just from being so out of practice. But we're getting into the Fall weather, and I'll be fighting a lot more.

And I wore the hockey gloves for the last time, because the new gauntlets are here! Oooh, they're beautiful ....

Adric13 · Post by **Adric13** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:25 pm

So who won?

Caspar · Post by **Caspar** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:35 am

Earl Thomas defeated Duke Aleaghnan in the finals of MGT.

Eirik · Post by **Eirik** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:18 pm

It was AWESOME.... certainly a "never miss another one" event. My gratitude to those who envisioned a grand tournament and made it so!

It was great to meet those I had a chance to, and great fun to cross swords with those I did. (Hope you're ok Cisco... cramping sucketh mightily)

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:51 pm

Eirik wrote:It was AWESOME.... certainly a "never miss another one" event. My gratitude to those who envisioned a grand tournament and made it so!

It was great to meet those I had a chance to, and great fun to cross swords with those I did. (Hope you're ok Cisco... cramping sucketh mightily)

rofl

I was thinking the same thing when I remembered about this thread.

And no, one last time, you didn't actually kill me. Promise.

But if you take someone out of the tournament you should at least have the decency to win the thing...

Eirik · Post by **Eirik** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:02 pm

My apologies. :oops:

My opponents were skilled and honorable, and I hold no regrets, but will bear what you say in mind and shall strive, in earnest, to improve my performance next time, that I may better honor you.

dukedrake · Post by **dukedrake** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:41 pm

Congrats to Earl Thomas

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:39 pm

This was a fantastic event. It was my first-ever MGT. The Fall Creek Falls site was fantastic. The weather was perfect. Temperature was in the 80's and mostly overcast.

My friend Michael won the tourney for the Women's Shelter and raised something like $1200 for a shelter in his area to be donated in his name. Man that is serious word fame.

I fought in the Armatura, the Sabre Tourney, and the Bear Pit.

I got a kill in the Armatura when I was lucky enough to team up with my Knight and King, Maximillian, and Lady Laylie. Of course they carried me. I got one kill when just when I thought I was about to die Laylie appeared by my side and while the other guys were trying to kill her I got a shot in. Then we went and saved His Majesty who I believe had been legged when I died. Our team carried the round though.

The Sabre Tourney was fun - single-handed sword only, no shield. It was the first time I got to wear my rattan sword and scabbard made by Templar Bob. The sword has a nice aluminum pommel and cross guard. I died in that single-elim tourney on my first round.

I also won a fight in the Bear Pit tournament.

It is so great to be fighting again. I've been at it for about 3 months now I guess since I quit several years ago. It feels fantastic. It feels great to be able to talk about fighting again while being a doer instead of just a talker. I am not yet of any real account but it feels great to be able to read The Anvil of Virtue and not read in shame the passage that says that speaking of the art of arms is the purview of men who spend time in harness and not clerks or priests. This weekend I felt like a man at arms. My harness begins to sit on me with a comfortable familiarity now. I like the pain that I feel days after the event as each twinge recalls the pride of standing against stout blows.

MGT was a fantastic event. They had hordes of staff running the lists. The food at the party Saturday night was awesome. They had these deviled eggs with salmon in them that were AWESOME. And these sausages! And these bacon-wrapped chicken nugget things. And the Knights of Meridies had an open bar that night. This is two weekends in a row where events had open bars and I must say I mightily approve of the free anesthetics!

There were at least 78 fighters in attendance, as I was #78 in the first list.

I saw some absolutely fantastic 14th century kits. Harness in general was at a very high level.

Man I'm stoked for SCA combat!

Steve

Caspar · Post by **Caspar** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:28 am

Complete list of winners for those interested:

Legion of the Bear : Armatura(random 3 man melee team bearpit)
Winner: Count Caspar
Second: Earl Richard of Rae Fen

Sable Sword: (Open weapon bearpit)
Winner: Jarl Aeilgheanon
Second: Earl Thomas Blackmoore

Chalice: (Open Weapon style, single elim)
Winner: Lord Michael Phocus
Second: Khalil ibn Abd al-Rahman

Bough: (sabre, single elim)
Winner: THL Faelan Haraldsson
Second: Baron Killian the Black

Rose: (Great Weapons, single elim)
Winner: Lord Iastreb Desislavich
Second: Sir Mordan Peresenchenev

Winners and second place finishers, along with chosen champions (below) advanced to the Grand Tourney

Their Majestys' Choice: Sir Mandin Leon
Pelicans' Choice: Lady Leyli Shirazi
Laurels' Choice: Lord Troy Griffinclaw
Knights' Choice: THL Wolfgang von Wuestenberg
Royal Peers' Choice: Lord Cynred of Gwent
Populace Choice: Lord Marcus Lepidus

Winner of the Tournament: Earl Thomas Blackmoore