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MARTIAL MATTERS

CONTENTS: Heavy Armoured Fighting - Tourney Styles - Archery - Rapier - Fighters of the Crossing - Championship Scores - page not complete... more information to be added

HEAVY FIGHTING

Heavy Fighting is one of the most visible of the SCAs crafts.

Fighters can either make their own armour (after researching styles and methods of armoury) or if they can afford it, armour can be purchased on line or at Markets held at events around the Kingdom. (see the wiki, Articles - Links, for on-line articles about making armour)

The new would-be fighter, needs to train in SCA style fighting and be authorised by an official Marshal prior to entering the Lists in a Tourney.

No SCA style fighting may be carried out unless a Marshal is present. The marshal is equivalent to a referee or umpire.

In some states, you must carry an authorisation card and/or a membership card if you carry an SCA weapon in any public place. They may only be rattan and not edged, but they are still a proscribed weapon.

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TOURNEYS

TOURNEY STYLES:
Round Robin - where every fighter faces every other fighter at least once
Single Kill - Double Elimination - what it says (like having 2 lives for the whole tourney)
Best of Three - this is per bout usually (like having 3 lives per bout)
King of the Hill - one person stays "in" and fights all comers until defeated
Body Parts Tourney - in this tourney normal kills don't count, but if you lose the body part specified for that round, then you are out
Melee - Chivalric Melee: when all fighters are on the field at once, but fight one-on-one
Unchivalric Melee: all fighters are on the field at once, and may team up to defeat an opponent
Pas d'Armes - a tourney in which a different weapon is used each round, to test the fighters' ability with different weapons classes
Ransom Tourney - a challenge tourney where the winners take a piece of gold prize from the losers. The more highly ranked the fighter the more gold they must pay on being defeated. The winner is the fighter with the most gold at the end of the tourney.
Field Tourney - where teams go to a rallying point which signifies a particular challenge, and await a competitor team to accept the challenge
Fighter Auction Tourney - where the populace bid for a fighter, who then fights for the honour of their purchaser (fought in one of the above styles)

KINGDOM HEAVY FIGHTER'S LIST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lochacfighters/

KINGDOM TOURNAMENTS LIST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lochac_tournaments/

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ARCHERY

AT THE BUTTS:
Inter Kingdom Archery Competition - IKAC
Distance Shoot - Standard and Period
Speed Shoot - Standard and Period

COMBAT ARCHERY:
* During War Scenarios, and events such as The Agincourt Run
* Combat Archery Tournament - which can be Round Robin/ Single Kill-Dbl Elim etc

KINGDOM ARCHERY WEBSITE: http://www.sca.org.au/archer

KINGDOM ARCHER'S LIST: http://www.sca.org.au/mailman/listinfo/archers

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RAPIER

Fighting with non-rattan weapons... sabre, epee, rapier...

Unlike Olympic style fencing, SCA style rapier is not fought in a single line, fighters can move throughout the whole of the Lists field.

[At the moment the Crossing only has 1 lonely rapieriste... more needed so tourneys can be held!!!]

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Fighters of the Crossing

Current (adult) Roll of Honour AS44

Shire Champion:          (and in alphabetical order)
Arturios - BC Central;
Aylen de Hammildone - BC Central;
Boean Freeborn - BC Central;
Crimthann mach Fiachach - Loch Alba;                                                                                       Einarr Death Bringer - BC Central        William Fits symons- BC Central;
James Douglas - Loch Alba;
Septimus - Loch Alba;
Spurling Eustacias - Loch Alba                                                                                                          Archers                                             Boean FreeBorn                                                                                  Thomasina Freeborn - BC Central (Light)                                                                                Arnora BloodAxe ZSuzanne of the Crossing                                                                                                                         Lowry Verch Gwyn Gwyn

BOFFER (junior) Roll of Honour

Bruce Douglasson (LA) Ingrid Einarrsdottir (BCC) Robert Douglasson (LA)
Sam Einarrsson (BCC) Thomas Douglasson (LA)

TRAINEES:

Andrzej Zajac Oxx the Minotaur Asmund of Mordenvale Thorstein the Boar Ulf Yngvar

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