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Brochure - East Coast Champions
East Coast Champions,
a Jousting and WMA Extravaganza and Brouhaha
12PM-7PM, March 8, 2008
Prince George's Equestrian Center
Upper Marlboro, MD
http://www.showplacearena.com/
This not-for-profit tournament will feature authentic, mounted and unmounted Western Martial Arts, performed in a competitive atmosphere of martial brotherhood and sisterhood and done simply for the pure joy of the doing. Like many throughout history, we seek to purify ourselves through a regimen of martial travail.
ECC represents the first-ever event of it's kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. In addition to jousting, there will be armored combat with real steel weapons. Full-contact Western Martial Sports is one of the fastest growing segments of the sporting world, and we are pleased to be be able to bring it to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. We at KTP sincerely intend that this be the first of many such events in years to come.
Participants please aim for late15thC thru late16C interpretation. We are aiming for a 'periodesque' look and feel from in between King Rene's Book to The Field of the Cloth of Gold. (1450s to 1520s) Elizabethan armor/garb is expressly welcome. (cutoff date: 1600AD) All available on-site combatants are invited to join in the SCA-style Grand Melee. This represents 30 minutes of continuous martial madness and melee mayhem!
Spectators need not wear costumes.
Attendees with period garb and encampments may set up around the list field.
Spectator tickets will be $10 with children under 12 free,
tickets to be available at the event gate.
Crew: Free, of course
Itinerary:
800am - site opens, morning coffee clutch
900am - crew muster, arena setup
1100am - Meeting for all the day's combatants (mandatory)
1200pm - Promenade (all combatants and retinue march formally and are acknowledged (soft kit))
1230pm - Grand Melee (SCA-style)
130pm - Mounted Tournament (1"x40" rattan canes vs crested helms (paper mache crests))
200pm - Cane Ground Combat (one minute rounds ala Sir Brand of the West, judged like a boxing match, SCA armour/weapons)
245pm - Jousting round 1 (scored 3' balsas at wooden targes or smooth grande-garde augment (buffe optional))
315pm - Ultra Heavy Steel Sword submission combat (3-7 counted blows, no holds barred, cap-a-pie harness -w- matched steel bastard swords)
430pm - Jousting round 2 (solid 3' balsas, no targes (bare-chested) unhorsings +10pts)
500pm - Jousting laissez-faire (championship tie-breakers come first, after that anything goes,
aka 'free style', i.e. WCJA lances, personal challenges, reverse or right-shoulder passes, etc.)
600pm - Promenade (winners acknowledged, 'spectator meet & greet')
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