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- From: SAUNDRSG@qucdn.queensu.ca (Graydon)
- Subject: T. Archer on archery, Midrealm Crown, and recognition
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- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:28:00 GMT
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- Firstly, Mr. Archer, as the stuffy purist (hey, when the local stuffy
- purist Laurel thinks you're a stuffy purist, the denials get implausible)
- who pointed out that a line of archers with modern recurves doesn't
- look period, may I inquire as to whether or not you read anything I
- wrote with any attention to detail?
-
- I posted a detailed list of reasons *why* modern recurves don't look
- period; I also at least twice included the assertion that I'd rather
- people shot with fiberglass sticks than not. There may be people in
- the SCA so completely foolish as to regard 'period' as a large, inclusive
- boolean variable, but I am not one of them.
-
-
- Unto Bagshi Kakhan, may your flocks increase!
- Most noble lord, I did not say I regarded the Midrealm Crown tourney
- as being as it would be if I had the ordering of all things connected
- to it; I did but wish to point out a virtue that I think it to have
- that others before me had not remarked upon.
-
-
- Gwenllian Cwmystwyth remarks that she doubts that mid level fighting
- awards are neccessary; Lady, permit me to assert that *all* the kingdom
- awards tend to be unhelpful.
-
- If you get given an arts award, it tells you that you impressed some
- people. Maybe enough to write a letter, or maybe enough to have a
- positive vote go through in an Eastrealm style polling order.
- What it doesn't tell you is toad squat about how you are doing as
- an artisan. (If you haven't noticed that people are impressed,
- you need to look up more often.)
-
- The two solutions to this are to come up with criteria with teeth
- (and argue till the world ends about how to write them) or come
- up with something other than an award that puts the people doing
- the activity in contact with each other.
-
- Being invited to Crown by all the gods gives you a chance to meet
- the other people in your fighting style specialty; it also
- avoids much in the way of formality, but leaves the invitees feeling
- duly honoured. In that much I like it.
-
- The fighters in general seem better at keeping in contact with each
- other, and keeping track of who does what specialty how, than the
- arts types. Maybe we need more arts free-for-alls? :]
-
- Graydon
-