[Artemisia] What is a Reverse Laurel's Prize Tourney?

[morgan wolf]

Okay, You asked for it-
if it's a Reverse Laurel's Prize Tourney, doesn't that make it a Lerual's Prize Tourney?

Subedar Bubba Singh 


On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 5:38 PM, Nikky Scofield <claredelacy29 at gmail.com> wrote:
  

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>I have had quite a few comments and questions concerning what a Reverse
>Laurel's Prize Tourney is. On the upcoming eve of my own Laurel Ceremony,
>I'd like to ask you, dear populace member, what you think of Laurels and
>Prizes and Tourneys (oh my), reverse or otherwise. Here is the best
>explanation I could come up with of what a reverse laurels prize tourney
>is, without rambling on forever :D. Feel free to correct me or interject as
>you wish (ala 'a chic pea is neither a chic nor a pea. Discuss!')
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>I can't admit to knowing the complete history of it, but here is the idea:
>A Prize Tourney is a Tourney with a prize (easy, right?). a Laurels Prize
>Tourney, like the one at Uprising every year, is where the Laurels get to
>hold their own form of "Tourney", but of course, since there is no
>fighting, its done as a display of a non-Laurels art for the Laurels to
>"judge". Judging in this case is taken very loosely, much more of a looking
>and asking questions and chatting about your art type of thing. Its meant
>to be a celebration of arts done over the last year. So, a Laurels Prize
>Tourney invites non-Laurels to display their arts for Laurels, and often
>Laurels bring a small trinket of their own to give the artisan(s) of their
>choice, hence the Prize. That is what the Tourney at Uprising was called
>for many many years. I believe a few years ago folks at Uprising didn't
>like the competition-suggestion the name "Prize Tourney" gave, so they
>changed it to "Laurel's Display". No worries, its still the same concept. A
>REVERSE Laurel's Prize Tourney is where the tables are turned and the
>Laurels display their art for the non-Laurels to check out. Its a fun way
>of taking the Order of the Laurels to task to see what they have been up to
>for the last year or so, since a lot of times Laurels don't get to display
>their latest art. Being a Peer has a lot of responsibilities and takes time
>away from simply doing art, so I hope our Reverse Laurels Prize Tourney
>will give plenty of them the chance to show off their stuff and get some
>attention to their own art. I know I will have plenty of small trinkets of
>my own to bestow on them, as they have for me for many years.
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>HE Clare
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