East Kingdom, Crown List is out!

[liamstliam]

It's here and has consorts

This is not in specific Order of Precedence yet.

The dukes, counts, etc., are all group together, but they are not ordered.

I will undoebtedly have some thoughts later.

 

Comments

[alethea-eastrid.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is cause or effect, but it's ahellalot easier on the Heralds wrangling the procession (and one suspects on the MoLs as well) to have names (and thus precedence, or at least a solid start) in advance. That damned thing takes enough time as it is to set up; if we were doing it cold it would be after noon before there was a chance of fighting. With a sixty-odd person list, in October...finals in the dark are one thing, but we'd be looking at quarter-finals in the dark, and some very crabby cooks.

[baronessv.livejournal.com]

There were 80 entrants in the An Tirian Crown I went to. No clue how late they were fighting, but I recall similar lists in Crowns when I actually lived there and they were always done fighting by dark.

I am relatively certain An Tirian Heralds do not have magical super powers, so they must have some system whereby they can make it work.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, I heralded an entire tournament in Trimaris, of 93 fighters. They fought the byes as well, and it was double elimination. (It was not Crown.) If you do the math, that's a LOT of fights.

That list had a lot of organization behind it - and we started early. Each "round" was set up so that all fighters in it were expected to be armed and ready, and between rounds there was a defined break period. If you weren't ready the second time you were called for a bout, you lost.

The "1 loss" list was separate from the main list, so there were two lists running after the first round. We were done before dinner.

Eastern Lists have a tendency to start late, show a lot of patience for late fighters, and even though we set up 4 and sometimes 6 lists, by moving people around between them we tend to have a lot of waiting time and slack. Also, people do pay attention to the fights, so often there will be just one at a time. Fights can go long (I remember, years ago, one bout that lasted half an hour or more: legendary) and we don't continue to the next round until the current one is concluded.

We could make this more efficient, but it would be a lot less fun to watch.