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

[Gretchen Beck]

All that said, I think the requirement that crown participants bear their 
own arms on the field is simply an attempt to make the most important 
tourney of the reign have a more medieval look and feel. The display before 
the tourney and bearing of arms on the field is one of the key points of a 
medieval tourney -- and in this context it says "This is me. I am proud to 
be here. Everyone know who I am, I who, fates willing, will be your king."

toodles, margaret

--On Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:23 PM -0400 KaziBrionSCA 
<KaziBrionSCA at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> 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
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