Competitions (New Hedeby Vol 2 No 4, November 1984)
Competitions (New Hedeby Vol 3 No 1, March 1985)
Archery Tournament
The archery contest will be conducted along the lines of a field competition, which means you'll be shooting at life sized cut outs of warriors. These will be lying prone, standing behind trees, hiding in rocks etc. You will be shooting at various distances, also uphill, down hill, along the sides of hills. Three arrows each per target - greatest number of points wins. There will be ten targets - three arrows each = a minimum number of 30 arrows needed and expect to lose or break half of them! The prize if you do, will be worth it.
Greasy Pole
No rules published, the competition was to see who could climb the highest up a greasy pole during the market.
Games
Obstacle course in full armour, Arrow throwing, Tug-o-war, Banner battle, Mellee on piggyback with sacks, Grail war, Treasure hunt, Tiers.
No rules published.
Gunners vs Archers
A five minute firepower demo to see who can score the greatest number of hits in the time available.
The competition was at a fixed target near the dam.
Most of the archers ran out of arrows before the muskets had got off their third shot. I bought 72 arrows to Maldon in 1989 for the rematch (and still ran out).
Bardic competition
- Traditional styled saga.
- Original piece of music.
- A song of your own composing.
- A medieval styled story, poem or other form of writing.
Most Virulent Curse
Competition is open to everyone to compete in. Maximum length 30 words. Swearing is allowed, but deemed to be inferior.
Other
Prizes are being offered for all the competitions such as a Recurve Hunting Bow for the Archery contest.
Prepared by Wayne Robinson,
Gasmules Society (Formerly The Australasian Mediaeval Conference Association
Incorporated)
Last Updated 25 April 2007
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