[SCA-AE] Crown Tourney Question/personal banner display?

[KaziBrionSCA]

<<That requirement was in Principality Law from the beginning until it was
removed by TRM Yngvar & Caryl.  The recent Crowns have seen fit to reinstate
it as their requirement, but not as law.  Seems to me that it is quite
Aethelmearcian, indeed!

:FRIDRIKR
grasgarðr dvergr
siginn ok glotti landvarnarmodr
non verba, acta
Don't sweat the small stuff, Gnomes for example. - DorkTowers>>

Perhaps in letter, but not in spirit.  Æthelmearc, to me, has always been a
place culturally derived from the "People's Republic of the East".  I was
always so glad that we don't have much of the cultural heritage of the
Middle or of Atlantia.  In those two kingdoms, society is a lot more
stratified, and I can't say that I care for the concept.  

As to Eirik's comment about "playing the whole game", not everyone is
interested in everything.  I have no particular flaming passion for heraldry
- in fact my early persona would not display arms.  Does this mean that to
play the whole game, a Candidate must try every little bit of everything
within the SCA?  Must every contestant do a scroll, cook a feast, be
authorized in the Art of Defence as well as rattan combat, be an adequate
archer, et cetera?  Sure, it would be *nice* if this were true, and I think
for many people, it is true to a greater extent than we realize.  Most
Candidates and their Consorts do a lot more than just enter tournaments.
However, to quote a head wiser than I, "any law is by definition a bad law".
Legislating an involvement in the "the whole game" (whether by kingdom law
or by royal decree) will be a lot less effective than peer "enouragement" to
take interest in multiple SCA activities.  Did the current rules encourage
the usual entrants to comply and enter?  I think not - last I heard this
will be a very small list.  I am not interested in playing in a game where I
am told what to do. I have enough of that in real life.  Many people
probably feel the same.

The fewer rules, the better.  

Kazi