<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>From Mistress Arianna of Wynthrope, Youth Combat Marshall in Charge at War Practice. Greetings!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much to all those who made Youth Combat at this year's War Practice a joy:</div><div><br></div><div>- Their Majesties, Andreas and Kallista, for giving the youth fighters Their undivided attention during a very long Champion's Tourney. Your presence and encouragement were an inspiration.</div><div>- THLady Zoe Akropolitina, Regional Youth Combat Marshal, who ran the Champion's Tourney, provided loaner gear, and procured a table and chairs for our MOLs.</div><div>- Lady Asta and Baroness Rynea, MOLs, who cheerfully adapted to our ever-changing list strategies and handled paperwork for the many authorizations we did.</div><div>- Sir Sextus Plinius Callidus, Society Youth Combat Marshall, for jumping in to
marshal when I was short-handed, and for his gift of experimental list-legal throwing javelins, which the kids loved.</div><div>- Mistress Jenna MacPherson, AEthelmearc Kingdom Youth Combat Marshal, for assisting with youth authorizations and marshaling even though she wasn't originally even planning to attend the event.</div><div>- Lord Robert Pour Maintenant, for assistance in working with new youth fighters and wrangling gear.</div><div>- Lord Bovi Farmadr, who took time out from his duties as WP Autocrat to provide us with a canopy for shade.</div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Eiiden Abdul Salam, outgoing Kingdom Champion, for designing a fun and interesting Champion's Tourney format</span><br></div><div>- My sons, Lord Robert MacEwin of Thornhill and Kenneth of the Debatable Lands, for their assistance in hauling gear.</div><div>- All of the youth fighters and their parents, who handled the hot weather and long bouts of fighting with
patience, good humor, and enthusiasm. </div><div><br></div><div>We had 14 youth fighters entered in the Champion's Tourney, and 3 new youth fighters who put on armor and did some sparring for the first time.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations to the three new Kingdom Youth Champions, Lord Aaron the Swift, <span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Lord Robert MacEwin of Thornhill, and El Tigre! Additional congratulations go to Lord Aaron, whose team won the Warlord Tournament!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">In service to AEthelmearc, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Arianna</span></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>