What an interesting day! The weather was biblical in it's proportions.
SO what did we do? We fought of course!
The Armour Archive banner was flown proudly from the main dias. 
It is soaked but undaunted.
This first East Coast Champion is:
Barchan of Dingulbury
While everyone else struggled with adversity, he ran a perfect round, breaking all 4 of his tips in a row to go on to win the tourney by a substantial points margin. For his travail he recieved a Golden Lance, which he mast pass to next year's Champion...or to take it back home with him yet again.
2nd place goes to
Jeremy Oneaill, who overcame multiple adverse conditions to deliver a dynamic and puissant performance in the lists and upon the ground.
The winner of the mounted melee was:
Paul Schneider, on a mare partly-owned by our very own AA's
Kaliban. Once the field was down to just two competitors, Paul undertook a series of very dramatic
open field passes against the 2nd place finisher,
James Acuff. Everyone was flabbergasted.
They were spontaneous and unrehearsed, yet looked better than a lot of movies or live shows I have seen.
Steel swords and heavy rattan canes were fought with upon the ground, but all but the most intrepid fighters were severely daunted by the weather.
I wish to sincerely and deeply thank everyone who came out or helped us in any way. Logistically, it was a raging success, with nary a single rivet or forelock out of place.
I wish to sincerely thank the AA's Mr. chef de chambre for browbeating me into doing a researched mounted melee. You have unleashed a marvelous monster, Sirrah! For this I wish to offer my humblest gratitude. Also to the Hedgecocks for ruthlessly slapping some of the major modern anachronisms out of my head (but not the stainless). I also wish to thank that multi-talented wordsmith, Mr. Sean Garrison for giving me the words to describe what we are doing ("...to purify ourselves through martial travail."). I wish to thank Roy & Kate Cox and Ripper Moore for training all of us so carefully and meticulously.
Take a bow, people.
Next stop?.....COMBAT JOUSTING AND MOUNTED MELEE AND UNMOUNTED WMA IN THE OLYMPICS. Yes that's right, someone finally said that in public.
Why, you ask?
- It's about our HERITAGE as Euro-Americans.
- There's a plethora of far goofier events than this in the Olympics already, so why
not this?
If they can lane fence with their cute little wires and sensors, then why not some kickass WMA longsword fechtenbuchen combat in a round ring? How about some delicious Unarmoured Longsword to submission?
(talk about some extreme sports...)
I wish to announce that planning is already underway for ECC2, with a tenative date set for March 21-22, 2009 in the big INDOOR arena at PGEC. It was obvious that I was not the only one looking longingly at its beautiful and graceful architecture and fantasizing about its spotlessly dry and clean interior while the storm gods lashed and lashed us...and threw tidal waves of greezy arena mud-sand upon us in our finery. ::shakes fist and growls at the sky::
At ECC2:
- a 2-3 day INDOOR event (capacity 2500 people)
- Rebated Steel Mounted and Unmounted Melee! Martial spectacles not seen together under one roof in North America since Queen Victoria's day! ALL STEEL ALL DAY.
- another Crested Helm Behourd with the 1"x48" rattan cannes vs 1/4"x18" wooden dowel crests in light armour. (indescribably fun)
- Mounted Skil-At-Arms Competitions (multiple different weapons vs stationary targets both in the lists and open field)
- ECC *Grand Champion* will have competed in 4 different Mounted and Unmounted WMA Combat Travails!
- Cash Purses!
- convenient online Ticketmaster ticket pre-sales!
- A real TV show!
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