Crown tourney requirements RE: [SCA-AE] Crown Tourney Question/personal banner display?

[KaziBrionSCA]

Alana Griffin wrote: 

<<If there were no requirements to enter crown, then yes, anyone with a hot
stick could win. But I believe that those who wish to rule, to be our public
face, to be the ideals of grace and chivalry, should at the very least have
passed some minor tests.>>

And such tests exists.  It is called "Letter of Intent".  Their Majesties
have the right to refuse anyone entry to the Crown for any or no reason
whatsoever (and hopefully do it with grace).  It's called "monarchy" for a
reason.  

I have seen untried lords and ladies be excellent kings and queens (Cygnus
and Dorinda, for example).  I have seen Peers be lousy monarchs.  Give the
plebeian hot stick a chance.  After all, fighters do more than just fight.
Virtually nobody is "just a hot stick" in the SCA.  

In a previous post, I called Lord Stephen's objection to having submitted
arms a way of hiding his real objections behind pseudolegalistic arguments.
OTOH, I must say that I have seen various Crowns hide behind equally inane
pseudo-legalistic arguments to somehow weed out unqualified entrants, and be
absolved of the unpleasant responsibility to weed them out by hand.

 <<And truthfully, the small amount of money it costs to add on a heraldic
submission is nothing compared to the money already spent on armor, weapons,
authorization and travel, event fees - and if that couple were to win, the
future costs of being royalty. Much as there is a travel fund, it is not
enough to cover everything, and much as clothes and items are donated, there
is always a needed outlay of money from those who win crown.>>

So what's next:  a requirement to submit a bank statement?  I wonder how
many couples would be willing to enter the Crown under the condition of such
utterly unacceptable violation of privacy.

Since sitting the thrones is personally and financially demanding, we need
new people to take their turn.  Not doing so would exhaust the personal and
financial reserves of several "usual suspects".  We don't want people to
burn out and disappear from the SCA, as they sometimes do after being King
and Queen.  Nobody will be the perfect ruler, but that's OK.  We are glad to
have them whether or not they are on a learning curve.

Kazi Doubravka Vltavska