Lions Gate Baroness' Winter Tourney XL/2005

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Baroness' Tourney

December 3, 2005 Barony of Lions Gate (Vancouver, BC) Cloverdale Rodeo & Exhibition 6050A 176 Street, Cloverdale, BC

Site opens 9:30am and closes at midnight

Come join the Barony of Lions Gate as we celebrate Baroness Aurora Argentius with a winter tourney in her honour.

Heavy fighting will be in Mackey Hall. Rapier fighting in Shannon Hall. There will be dancing and games. Perhaps, if we're fortunate a few bards will be there to entertaining us. Take time to shop and choose the perfect gift from our merchants. There will be a tavern in the evening with dancing,games and socializing. There will be contests for Best Picnic Supper and for Best Dressed Newbie.

Their Majesties of An Tir and Their Highnesses of Tir Righ will grace us with Their presence. Kingdom and Principality Court will begin at 4pm in Shannon Hall.

The Cloverdale Rodeo hosts the evening tavern, and the Cloverdale Rodeo's concession will be open from 11am to 3pm selling day food. The Barony is hosting a kitchen, selling buns and stew (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) to start the evening - please bring your feast gear. There will be seating available for those who wish to bring their own evening meal - so as not to miss any of the activities.

Site Fees:

Adults - SCA Member $10, Adult Non-Members $14 Minors 13 to 18 - $5 Minors 12 and under - free Family Cap: $30 plus applicable NMS

Make cheques payable to 'Barony of Lions Gate'

Schedule:

8am - Site opens for setup crew

9:30am - Event opens

10am - 10:30am - Opening Court including 'Defender of Rapier' Tourney Invocation

9:30 - 10:45am - Lists for both Heavy and Rapier

11am - Heavy Tourney Begins Promptly as we only have Mackey Hall until 3:00 pm

11am - Defender of Rapier Tourney Begins

Gerhard's Riposte immediately after Rapier Tourney

White Scarf meeting will follow the Rapier Tournament

Their Highness' have advised The Crown that there is no need for a Chivalry meeting at this time

11am - 3pm - Cloverdale food concession open

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Laurel meeting (The Crown has requested that the Sunday Peerage meeting be rescheduled to Saturday so that the Crown may be in attendance)

3:00pm - 4:00pm Pelican meeting (The Crown has requested that the Sunday Peerage meeting be rescheduled to Saturday so that the Crown may be in attendance)

4pm - Kingdom Court followed by Principality Court

6pm - Baronial Court during dinner

6pm - Tavern and Baronial Kitchen Open

Dancing and Games after Baronial Court

10:30 - Tavern Closes

Midnight - Site Closes

A&S Display:

Please bring out that special A&S project you've been working on. There will be a display area setup, so we can show the breadth of talent and knowledge within our Barony - and maybe inspire some good gentles to projects of their own.

Contests:

There will be two onsite contests: Best Picnic Supper for the best picnic dinner brought to the site. Presentation counts! There is also a contest for the Best Dressed Newbie.

Merchants:

Merchants are very welcome - no merchanting fee, but pre-registration is required. Merchants who have not pre-registered may not be given space to sell their wares, and space is limited. Merchanting will be in Shannon Hall on the upper deck. Merchants Row will open after Opening Court and, to prepare for the evening activities, will close down at 5:00pm. Please contact the Merchant Organizer, Lady Genevieve Barbota.

Lists:

Lists will begin at 9:30 at will close no later than 10:45. Heavy and Rapier fighting is scheduled to begin at 11:00 promptly as we only have the Mackey Hall until 3:00pm. Please pass the word to all fighters.

Tournaments:

Heavy:

The heavy tourney will follow some of the Lions Gate traditions: To enter the lists, you must do two things: - bring an item for the prize table - challenge a Knight to a bout (this does not count as a death for the tourney). Belted fighters will be included in the tourney fighting till the quarterfinals. If there are enough Knights participating (and if eric space allows), we will branch off into two separate tourneys, so that when the day is through we will have both an unbelted and a belted winner for the day.

There will be a prize for the winners of these tourneys, and everyone will be able to participate in the prize table. Please note that the Sergeant who excels for the day in fighting will be awarded the Boar Spear for the next year; a tribute from Gerhard Kendal.

Lions Gate Defender of Rapier:

The Rapier Defender's tourney details will be confirmed at Court. You must be present at the Rapier Invocation at Opening Court (10am start) in order to compete for Lions Gate Defender of Rapier.

The Baron and Baroness would like all competitors in the defenders tourneys to know that as a part of this rank, the two victors this day will be expected over the next year to: - When present, to join us at our courts - Represent the Barony when travelling to other branches - Attend the three major local events, being Banquet, Baronesses and May Bardic - Compete in the name of Lions Gate over the next year - Swear fealty or an oath of service to the Barony

Those competitors holding champion/defender titles from other branches or planning on competing in any for the next year should speak with the Baron or Baroness.

Gerhard's Riposte:

We will be celebrating in tournament the second anniversary of "Gerhard's Riposte" (formerly known as Fiberglass Champion). This is a tournament for ALL Fighters authorized and non-authorized. The ONLY requirement is that you must not yet own steel weapons. Full amour inspection is also a requisite. This is an accolade style tourney. Once again this is open to non-authorized combatants, though not exclusively so

Directions: From the south: use the Pacific Truck Border Crossing. Continue north on 176th Street through Surrey to 64th Avenue. Turn right, and follow the SCA signs into the Cloverdale Rodeo parking lot.

From the east and west: take Hwy 1 to 176th Street, travel south until you reach 64th Avenue, turn east and then north into Cloverdale Rodeo parking lot. Alternatively, it might be easier to take Hwy 10 to 176th Street, travel north on 176 to 64th Avenue.

Autocrat: Lady Arianna Freemont of the Clan MacBeighn (Dawn Malin). (604)576-4351

Merchants please contact Genevieve Barbota of Gryphonshold.

For answers to any fighting related questions contact Cyneric Bearson. (604)576-4351

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Greetings to all,

Just a quick message of thanks to all who attended and to thank all those who worked so hard to make Baroness' Tourney such a success !!

Thank you to our MIC's, Cyneric and Lasairiona, to our Merchantocrat Genevieve, to Algea, Christine and Genevieve for lists, Rowyn, William, Aibinn, Natasha, Klaus and others for gate. Missy, Danica, Jacqueline, Kia, Miranda, Nicholas and others for waterbearing. Otto for this, that and the other thing and Adam for everything.

......So much for a quick message of thanks.......

I would also like to thank Mikhail and Edward Little for handling our blue helm tourney, it was great fun. I would like to thank Madylyne for slaving over the two wonderful stews we had for dinner, and a special thanks to Collegium for providing such wonderful music for all to enjoy.

We ran two contest at the event, one was for best picnic supper, this was judged by Lady Madylyne Sparkes and was won by HL Rose McAllistair. Our second contest was for best dressed newbie, which we split into two catagories, best dressed by themselves and best dress by someone else. This contest was judged by HL Isabelle de la Roche and Lady Mariko, our winners were Sandy and Eleanor. I would also like to give a big thanks to Cara and Donatello for arranging and running our dancing, my gosh, they never stop !!! and to the lovely gentleman James Wolfden who brought his crossbow and apples, what a brilliant demonstration and what a hit it was with the children, thank you so much.

Again my thanks to all,

Lady Arianna Freemont of the Clan MacBeighn Autocrat Baroness' Tourney

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It pleases me to annouce that the winner of this years' Gerhard's Rispote is Alejandro Montoya of Lionsdale His passion for the game and skills showed him to be a worthy recipient and henceforth we shall be expecting great things from him. How can you miss using Gerhard's gear?  ;)

and... The new Rapier defender of Lions Gate is Estaban de Ferreiro. He and Diarmuid de Rosa fought and had most wins in each for their erics, They then lead their respective teams through a series of regimental duels, with Eseban's team winning 3 wins over 2.

My thanks to all who participated, marshals, lists waterbearer's, and Autocrat Also thanks to Don Prospere, who ran Defenders in order that I might compete.

HL Lasairiona

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Congratulations to Sigurd Kerr de Roxburgh for winning the Baroness’ Heavy Tourney. We had 37 unbelted fighters and 10 knights (including Duke Erik.) The final two fighters were Sigurd and Lord Petro of the Troubadours. A good time was had by all.

Also at Baroness’, we had a new Sergeant earn the right to carry Gerhard’s Boar Spear for the year. Lord Sergeant Tirian the Blue progressed further than all other Sergeants in the tourney. Well Done!

A heartfelt thanks to all the water bearers, list people (especially Algea), marshals, fighters, knights and of course, the Autocrat. :-)

Sergeant Cyneric Bearson of the Clan McBean Squire to Sir Griffin Ap Bedwyr Master of Stables, Lions Gate Chamberlain, Tir Righ Heavy Champion of Lionsdale

Personal Memories

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Yusuf ban Joseph was knighted. Yolande Chastellain was offered a Pelican. There were two Laurels recognized -- the fellow who used to be Richard of Broadmeadow and (agh! I'm having a really bad name day! my apologies) Master Guido's lady who does fabbo weaving and dying AND who was also recognized as a White Scarf earlier in court. He who used to be known as Duke Eric (and Yusuf's knight) just happened to be visiting from Lochac. His Majesty enthusiastically reminded the gentlemen present that this is "The Most Romantic Winter Ever". --Elizabeth Braidwood 19:25, 5 Dec 2005 (EST)

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