2nd Weekend of Ren Fest
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blueeowynStill behind but I'm working on it.
For the tournament, I had offered to do Joust Info for all 4 jousts if![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
faireraven could handle the crowd control for the first half of pub sing. The set up this year was a 3 day tournament with the 12:00 slot being the joust games division with some squires and some knights competing and the 2,4, and 6 slots being the lance pass division with knights and/or yoemen competing. This is the first year they have tried that set-up at our festival.
In the games division, each competitor did each game each day with the scores tallied up over the 3 shows to determine the overall winner. The games were: sword at quintain, heart of the tarter, javelin at hay, lance at rings and lance at the quintain. Each game had one or more targets that could yield 3 points maximum. Quintain had one target, javelin and heart had 2 and rings had 3. Thus, the maximum score was 27 points. Ritter Robert got 22 points one show but he is REALLY good and did win the competition. He was very gallant and gave his prize to the youngest competitor because he felt that they could not compete on the same level (she is 12).
In the lance-pass division, they did French style on Saturday (aiming at the shield), Northern Italian on Sunday (aiming at the bare armor) and the 3 more common -geschtech styles on Monday (Welschgestech, Plakengestech, and Realgestech) where extra armor is bolted onto the main armor and you aim for that. Some of the armor is designed to catch the lance a bit which results in some really hard hits.
Due to people dropping out of the tournament, there were 8 knights competing so the young horse with issues opening weekend was a back-up horse, along with the young grey Percheron. As it turned out, this was a good thing because the grey Shire (who is still my favorite horse in the group) developed a severe case of the stops on Sunday and they swapped him out for the grey Perchie on Monday).
Barchan did fairly well (4th overall) and managed to tie Earl William in their head-to-head match (14 to 14 in four passes which means 2 lances shattered, a tip and a touch each for the announced scores). I heard later that this was the highest scoring tournament they have had and that is in spite of NO unhorsings. I was at the end of the arena watching head-on trying to stay out of the way of the camera and still keep kids OFF the railings (which I do at every joust that I am at) and out of the way of the end of the list; so I had an excellent vantage point. I got to explain some of it to the newer stage manager who hadn't seen jousting before.
After the 6:00 joust, I bolted for the White Hart and checked in with the SM there to let her know that the court was on its way and to tag Faireraven so she could go back to her normal Pub Sing stuff while I took my usual place. As usual, I ended up being a bit of a puddle on some of the songs that they sang. It seems that all of us have one or more songs that are especially poignant for us. Auld Lang Syne is one of them for me and they do it beautifully. Loch Lomand (esp. with the explanation) is another and they did both the same sing. The 8 bells still moves me and I think of friends who are gone and not forgotten; be they gone from this life or merely gone from mine; I still grieve for their loss and hope for their peace.
PWNL is going fairly well and I am getting more solid on what I am doing every day and becoming MUCH more familiar with the show (which is both good and bad in some ways but I think the net is good). I am enjoying it both as a new job to do and as a fun show to see again and again and see how the audience reacts.
I was a fill-in squire for the 4:00 for all 3 days (setting the list, 32 lances, 8 helmets, etc. in 4 minutes while getting 8 horses and knights ready is a challenge). I was glad to help but I can see how it can be really tiring to work in that field all day long. Fortunately, I was wearing my ankle braces and could do it for the one show (even if I did get minor bandage bows).
Tired and sore but happy at the end of the weekend ... not looking forward to getting up on Tuesday morning! Mom and Pete saw the jousts and had a good day at the festival and got to meet some of the people I work with. I don't know if they will be back this season but getting in free for seniors day is good (and using my comps opening weekend).
After dropping off my squire friend at the metro Saturday, I headed to Six Flags on the way home. 4 rides in a row on Wild One. *ahhh* Java and I had gone on Friday night and done some on Wild One and 1 on Superman (I wish that they would have the SAME usable length of seatbelt on each seat on that ride ... side to side, car to car they are not equal. Grrrr to that yahoo who cost us all some comfort in riding).
For the tournament, I had offered to do Joust Info for all 4 jousts if
faireraven could handle the crowd control for the first half of pub sing. The set up this year was a 3 day tournament with the 12:00 slot being the joust games division with some squires and some knights competing and the 2,4, and 6 slots being the lance pass division with knights and/or yoemen competing. This is the first year they have tried that set-up at our festival.In the games division, each competitor did each game each day with the scores tallied up over the 3 shows to determine the overall winner. The games were: sword at quintain, heart of the tarter, javelin at hay, lance at rings and lance at the quintain. Each game had one or more targets that could yield 3 points maximum. Quintain had one target, javelin and heart had 2 and rings had 3. Thus, the maximum score was 27 points. Ritter Robert got 22 points one show but he is REALLY good and did win the competition. He was very gallant and gave his prize to the youngest competitor because he felt that they could not compete on the same level (she is 12).
In the lance-pass division, they did French style on Saturday (aiming at the shield), Northern Italian on Sunday (aiming at the bare armor) and the 3 more common -geschtech styles on Monday (Welschgestech, Plakengestech, and Realgestech) where extra armor is bolted onto the main armor and you aim for that. Some of the armor is designed to catch the lance a bit which results in some really hard hits.
Due to people dropping out of the tournament, there were 8 knights competing so the young horse with issues opening weekend was a back-up horse, along with the young grey Percheron. As it turned out, this was a good thing because the grey Shire (who is still my favorite horse in the group) developed a severe case of the stops on Sunday and they swapped him out for the grey Perchie on Monday).
Barchan did fairly well (4th overall) and managed to tie Earl William in their head-to-head match (14 to 14 in four passes which means 2 lances shattered, a tip and a touch each for the announced scores). I heard later that this was the highest scoring tournament they have had and that is in spite of NO unhorsings. I was at the end of the arena watching head-on trying to stay out of the way of the camera and still keep kids OFF the railings (which I do at every joust that I am at) and out of the way of the end of the list; so I had an excellent vantage point. I got to explain some of it to the newer stage manager who hadn't seen jousting before.
After the 6:00 joust, I bolted for the White Hart and checked in with the SM there to let her know that the court was on its way and to tag Faireraven so she could go back to her normal Pub Sing stuff while I took my usual place. As usual, I ended up being a bit of a puddle on some of the songs that they sang. It seems that all of us have one or more songs that are especially poignant for us. Auld Lang Syne is one of them for me and they do it beautifully. Loch Lomand (esp. with the explanation) is another and they did both the same sing. The 8 bells still moves me and I think of friends who are gone and not forgotten; be they gone from this life or merely gone from mine; I still grieve for their loss and hope for their peace.
PWNL is going fairly well and I am getting more solid on what I am doing every day and becoming MUCH more familiar with the show (which is both good and bad in some ways but I think the net is good). I am enjoying it both as a new job to do and as a fun show to see again and again and see how the audience reacts.
I was a fill-in squire for the 4:00 for all 3 days (setting the list, 32 lances, 8 helmets, etc. in 4 minutes while getting 8 horses and knights ready is a challenge). I was glad to help but I can see how it can be really tiring to work in that field all day long. Fortunately, I was wearing my ankle braces and could do it for the one show (even if I did get minor bandage bows).
Tired and sore but happy at the end of the weekend ... not looking forward to getting up on Tuesday morning! Mom and Pete saw the jousts and had a good day at the festival and got to meet some of the people I work with. I don't know if they will be back this season but getting in free for seniors day is good (and using my comps opening weekend).
After dropping off my squire friend at the metro Saturday, I headed to Six Flags on the way home. 4 rides in a row on Wild One. *ahhh* Java and I had gone on Friday night and done some on Wild One and 1 on Superman (I wish that they would have the SAME usable length of seatbelt on each seat on that ride ... side to side, car to car they are not equal. Grrrr to that yahoo who cost us all some comfort in riding).