[Artemisia] Gaelic Games Tourney

[Jason Mohler]

Someone posed the question to me: what happens if someone tries to win the
tourney by repeatedly committing suicide (my rules do say if you kill your
opponent before you're supposed to, you lose).  My answer is thus:

My dear friend,
 
If someone were base enough to try to win this tournament by the repeated
sin of suicide, they just might win the tourney.  And, in doing so,
demonstrate themselves as someone without honor or care for whoever might be
unfortunate enough to have offered them favor.
 
As I know of no fencers who put their desire to win above that of their, or
their patron's honor, I don't see it as a problem.
 
Matheus
 

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> Jason Mohler
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Gaelic Games Tourney
> 
> Since Arwen brought it up...
> 
> The Rapier tourney Gaelic Games will be what I'm calling a 
> Progressive Sniping 
> Tourney.  In the first round, whatever takes out you opponent 
> (kill or double 
> arm) works, after that, each round gets progressively more 
> exact.  The second 
> round requires fencers to take a limb before they kill their 
> opponent, after 
> that a leg and a kill, and so on and so forth until the final 
> round, where the 
> fencers will be required to take both their opponent's arms 
> to win.  If a 
> fencer happens to kill their opponent before they were 
> supposed to, they lose.
> 
> This will be a double-elimination tourney, with each round's 
> pairings chosen 
> by lot, and as she said, it will be open to all authorized 
> fencers with 
> current memberships.
> 
> Matheus dePetyn
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