Fall Crown Tournament is fast approaching.
Here are the details:
This is a bring-your-best tournament. All Northshield-legal weapons and weapon forms for armored rattan combat are allowed, under the SCA, Inc. Rules of the Lists. We strongly suggest reviewing The Kingdom of Northshield Armored Combatants Handbook, all published revisions, as well as the SCA Rules of the Lists.
For the entrants:
Either the fighter or the consort must have held, or be holding, a group office. This includes deputy and ‘at-large’ positions. Any level of group, any kingdom, at any time. This will need to be stated in the letters of intent.
Either the fighter or consort must have a current rapier or C&T authorization.
Per SCA rules, this tournament will be double elimination. Each fight will consist of a best 2 out of 3 set of exchanges. Double kills during the exchanges will be refought. All fighters will be in a single pool, regardless of number of wins or losses. Each round of the tournament, a random pairing will be drawn to determine fight pairings. If there is an odd number of fighters in the round, there will be a nondestructive by-fight with a fighter designated by the Crown. The Lists table will record all pairings by round. After the first round, if the random draw produces a repairing of fighters from the immediately previous round, all pairings will be redrawn randomly. If a repairing occurs on the second draw, all pairings will be redrawn randomly a third and final time for the round. The round will then be fought.
Fighters losing their best 2 of 3 fight will be recorded as having a loss. On their second loss, they are removed from the pool. Rounds continue until only one fighter remains. It is entirely possible that the finals may consist of a fighter with no losses fighting one with one loss. The fighter with one loss will need to win twice.
Per Northshield tradition, all fighters are expected to communicate with each other during their exchanges. All issues shall be resolved before leaving the field. Once a fighter leaves the field after a fight, they are signaling upon their honor that they accept the results of the fight. We expect all fighters and consorts to place honor before victory before, during, and after their fights. Due to the nature of the single pool, and how fight wins and losses may result, this tournament format can run several more rounds than the normal winner’s bracket of a standard double elimination ladder. We encourage everyone to train accordingly.