Crown Qualifications

[Faye]

Greetings and salutations; this is your long-errant regent speaking, and I'm here to tell you about Crown Qualifications, affectionately called "crown quals".

Crown Quals will be held on November 7th at the usual park, usual time. Quals consist of both a fighting tournament and an arts and sciences competition. For those bold individuals who are running for a local office, crown quals are required to, well, qualify. However, if you are not running for office, I would still encourage you to submit any garb, crafts, or artwork relating to amtgard - it's fun to bring out your work, and it gives your future officers some competition. The tournament will also be open to all interested parties.

There are several categories in an arts and sciences competition; see below:
Garbing
Fighting Garb - Made for wear on the battlefield
Court Garb - Made for wear during Court or formal functions
Monster Garb - Made for portrayal of a monster class.
Garb Accessory - Belts, pouches, favors, but not jewelry.

Art
Flat Art - 2-D artistic medium
3-D Art - Any three dimensional artistic medium
Needlework - Embroidery, latch hook, cross stitch, knitting, beadwork, etc.
Jewelry - Items made to be worn as jewelry
Digital Media - Photography, movies, webpages or digital enhanced art.

Literature
Fiction - Any fictional work
Non-Fiction - Work based on factual events
Battlegame - Description of a new game to play with Amtgard rules
Poetry - Any type of Poetry

Cooking
Main Dish - Food served as a main course
Side dish - Food or condiment served to accompany a meal
Beverage - Any beverage and may be alcoholic
Dessert - Food served primarily as a dessert

Construction
Weapon - Weapons legal for Amtgard use.
Shield - Shields legal for Amtgard use.
Armor - Any form of armor
Banner - Any banner construction
Active Construction - Items made for battlefield use not covered by other events
Passive Construction - Items not for battlefield use and not already covered by other events

Bardic
Singing - Singing with or without accompaniment
Instrumental Music - Any musical performance with an instrument
Dance - Any form of dancing or choreographed movement
Recitation - Story, poetry, comedy, drama, etc.

Rose
Rose - Items donated to Amtgard.

If you have any questions about these categories, please feel free to e-mail myself, or ask one of the other officers at the field.

If you intend to submit a written entry, please note that I will require any written entry more than one page long by October 31st. Said written entries should be e-mailed to me by that date.

I am also looking for a few additional judges for the arts and sciences competition. Don't worry about lack of experience; I will be happy to point you towards helpful websites about the philosophy and rules of judging. Again, if you are interested, please e-mail me back.

The relevant parts of the Westmarch corpora are shown here: http://www.caamtgard.com/docs/docs/wm_c ... -11-09.pdf

Thank you,
-Regent Lady Faye

[Faye]

I still need two more judges - please pm me if you are able and interested.

[deimos]

And now we go over to the Amt-Sports desk with Dirk McBeefy, Sports Anchor.

Warmaster tournament was held as per the corpora. Categories were single short sword, short sword and shield, double short swords, Great/Polearm, and Open Category.

Tournament was a bracketed, single elimination tournament. There were 16 participants, 2 Reeves, numerous bystanders. It was 68 degrees and falling, scattered clouds, with a NWN wind at 10mph. I was not hungry, having had a tri-tip sandwich hours before Amtgard. I was, however, slightly thirsty, due to the fact that liquid had not touched my lips for quite some time. I think my left cleat has a hole in it. I can ride my bike with no handlebars. Am I wearing my underwear? K-mart sucks.

Results of the SSD Warmaster:

1st Place: Squire Laoric, 8 pts
2nd Place: Vael, 7 pts
3rd Place: MaA Griffin, 6 pts

Individual brackets:
Single Short
1st Place [3 pts]: Laoric
2nd Place [2 pts]: Vael
3rd Place [1 pt]: Tycus

Short Sword and Shield
1st Place [3 pts]: Griffin
2nd Place [2 pts]: Predator
3rd Place [1 pt]: Nick

Double Short Swords
1st Place [3 pts]: Vael
2nd Place [2 pts]: Predator
3rd Place [1 pt]: Nick

Great Weapon/Polearm
1st Place [3 pts]: Griffin
2nd Place [2 pts]: Laoric
3rd Place [1 pt]: Leah

Open Weapon
1st Place [3 pts]: Laoric
2nd Place [2 pts]: Vael
3rd Place [1 pt]: Cronin

Cronin, Wardevil, and Predator all passed the Warmaster portion of the Crown Quals.

Congratulations all around for a good day of fighting.

[Faye]

Results from the Arts and Sciences Competition

These results are a brief summary; a full list of each item, score, and judges comments will be made available to the entrants. Scores are averaged.

We had three entrants; Cronin, Predator, and Wardevil.

The highest score was Wardevil, with an average of 3.33 and six passing entries.
Second was Predator, with an average of 3.2 and three passing entries.
Third was Cronin, with an average of 3.19 and seven passing entries.

As per this, all three are qualified to hold office in the next reign.

Also, all three have passed reeves tests. Corpora tests will be completed next week.