Summer Twilight Tourney Series IV

Being, as it is, a gathering for Noble Combat, Pleasant Arts & Sciences, and Frivolity of Divers Natures upon the sward, 'neath the shady oak trees in the hallowed grounds of the halls of learning. Prithee, polish your armor, pretty up your amour, don that fabulous new clothing creation, and be prepared to entertain and be entertained, to battle and to be fought for, to dance, sing and play, and while away those sultry summer evenings in fyne companie.

If you thought the last 3 summers were fun ... think again !

in the Oak Grove, Monash University, Clayton

To reach the Oak Grove (situated opposite education), Enter from the main entrance off Wellington Rd, turn left at the first round-about, you will see us on the left, amongst the trees.

Summer Twilight Tourney Series IV

• November 21st - Into the Woods
  Bear Pit Tourney Each combatant takes turns in the middle, facing all the other combatants in a random order. Combatants must use a different weapon style when they are the bear to that they use when facing the bear.
• December 19th - A Little Bit of Christmas
  All proceeds from this evening event to go to the Children's Ward of Monash Medical Centre. Fighter Auction Patrons must be under 15. Combatants cannot use the same weapon combination two rounds in a row. Prizes will be a choice of toys from the “Everyday objects” competition which is themed as Children's Toys for this month only. Mathom Auction Bring along surplus or no longer required medieval gear and items to auction to raise money for charity.
  Children's Medieval Toy Competition - details to follow.
• January 16th - Turn off the Heater
  Sword and Buckler (bucklers supplied if needed) Bucklers may be no more than 15” (38cm) diameter (square or round)
• February 20th - Head or Heart Crest Tourney
  (must have a helmet crest over head at least 5cm wide x 10cm high x 5cm deep) Fought as Melees; 2 Teams, Pairs and Grand Melees. Winning team members get a point each, plus bonus points for the best crest and most spectacular decresting. The winner of tourney is combatant with most points at the end.
• March 20th - Shire Champion holding the field with team mate(s) for a Pas de Arms

Time table

• 6:00 Potluck
• 7:00 Armour Inspection
• 7:30 Tourney Starts
• ending with the Activities til 9:30, just after dusk.

Pricing: $8 for members or $9 for non-members, children 16 and under free.
Discounts! To Admission Fee

• Bring a food for the potluck gets $5 off entry fee
• Enter one or more of the competition gets a further $1 off

Competitions: (Results)

We have 4 streams of competitions, Cooking, Fighting, Everyday Objects and Entertainment. There will also be a bonus points just to make things interesting. There will be a sign in sheet, that each attendee will be asked to fill out and will be added to at each event. As in the past, each months results will be posted here for easy access. We will be using the standard A&S judging criteria on all judged comps.

Cord on Blue Champion (Cooking) - There will be five categories that you will need to enter, if you wish to win the championship, Mains, Finger Foods, Desert, Beverage, Food for Traveling. You may enter each one as many times as you wish, your average in each category will be used to decide the champion. You may enter them as one every month, or all in the same month. Monthly the categories are not used to determine the winner, just the totals for that month in any category.

Shire of Krae Glas Champion (Heavy Fighting) - to become the Second Shire Champion, your placement in the heavy tourney will give you points (if your first you get the number of fighters in the list + 1, rest get number of fighters + 1 - your placing) and over the course of the series you must produce 3 new items of pageantry. These can be for yourself, your consort, the shire, the college or the Kingdom. They will be judged, and the average points earned will be added to your series total for this competition.

Grand Artisan of Krae Glas (Everyday Objects) - This competition will include anything and everything that was used by the people of the middle ages, not included in the other categories. So brng your new garments or accessories, your stone carving, wooden boxes or clubs, etc and vie to be the Grand Artisan of Krae Glas.

Muse of Krae Glas (Entertainment) - Provide us with some form of entertainment, song, dance, play. Each month a best of the evening award will be given. This will be judged as per standard A&S judging criteria, with the presentation being audiance choice.

STTS Bonuses - These are points that will be added to your grand series total, which the prize is a years sustaining membership. The points are as follows:

• You will be given five points for being a member (if you are one during the series).
• Each month you will be awarded a point for attendance.
• You will get a point for providing food
• The Peers in attendance will be polled on the night and will also award points to those who show chivalric behavior, attempting something not tried before, teaching or helping, or other otherwise impress them.
• you will recieve points for every competition you enter. If you win, you will recieve 5 points, a second place will get you 3 points and third 2 points, all other entries will recieve one point.

The Summer Twilight Series is a proud production of the WPA (Woodrose Pelicans Association), a division of the KGB (Krae Glas Baronials).