Mad Dog Tourney Style?!?

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue May 17, 2005 1:39 pm

What is it?

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » Tue May 17, 2005 1:59 pm

We have an old, established tourney here called "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". Perhaps this is what you're talking about:

In it, Men at arms and AOA level fighting award recipients have a warlord-style tournament, while the GOA and Peerage level fighting award recipients have a simultaneous warlord-style tournament.

After both tournaments are over, the two sides fight each other in a big melee, with the winners of each tournament as the commanders. The idea is to have a large number of inexperienced folks fight against a small number of experienced folks.

Usually, experience wins the day over numbers. Unless of course, there is an experienced AoA level guy who can get the rest of the folks to swarm all the GoA and Peerage level guys... :twisted:

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:23 pm

Thanks, I saw the name referred on the West Kingdom site and wondered...

Agentofselection · Post by **Agentofselection** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:27 pm

Actually, the recent mad-dog tourney here in the West was a different style.
It consisted simply of a list field, and a bunch of fighters wandering around. You challenge whomever you like, fight them best of three bouts, and then the loser reports the fight, contestants and results, to the list mistresses. The scoring was one point to the loser, two points to the winner. No elimination, fight as many as you like in the time allotted.

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:14 pm

Cool, where did the name come from?

Sir Godfried of Frisia · Wed May 18, 2005 5:09 am

Bryce,

Not sure where the name comes from. It was in use as far back as 1983 when I fought in my first Mad Dog Tourney/Bear pit style tournament in Caid.

Godfried

Parlan · Post by **Parlan** » Fri May 20, 2005 1:24 pm

Some Mad Dog tourneys add extra points for defeating knights and/or royal peers and/or seated royalty. Cumulative.

cblackthorne · Post by **cblackthorne** » Fri May 20, 2005 1:44 pm

One of the nearby groups did a similiar style tournament a few years ago.

You started with 8 stones. You challenged anyone you wanted to fight and could fight as often as you liked. If you lost a fight you lost stones. If you won a fight, you received a number of stones from the loser depending on their rank.

Men-at-arms - won/lost 1 stone.
AoA level fighting award (Fyrdman) - won/lost 2 stones.
GoA level fighting award (Huscarl) - won/lost 3 stones.
Peers (Knights) - won/lost 4 stones.

When you were out of stones you were out of the tournament.

Winner was the fighter with the most stones at the end of the day.

It was a very fun tournament, one of the most memorable I ever fought in.