[Moo] FW: Kingdom Archery Championship Results

[Janie Darby]

>From the Merry Rose, Siegfried wrote:

It appears that I am still suffering a bit from the heat.

I listed Aeddan Ivor twice, and FORGOT someone.

My apologies to Sean Mckelly who was also a finalist.

Siegfried


Siegfried wrote:
>Earl Mika beat me to it ... but I also wish to congradulate Seamus McCrae 
>for becoming the 10th Kingdom Archery Champion of Atlantia...
>
>Also, to let people know of the other finalists (in no order):
>Gregge the Archer
>Aeddan Ivor
>Mika Longbow
>Jonathas Reinisch
>Aeddan Ivor
>Timothy of Shaftesbury
>Vaclav Matyj
>Gregor Von Leipzig
>Nikolai Dmitri Zhdanov Dolgorukova
>
>The shooting was excellent, the weather was not.
>
>For those that don't know, the heat index hit 106 degrees, and while we 
>started with around 75 archers out there, I think perhaps only 30-40 
>actually finished the course for the day.  Many were dropping themselves 
>from the competition because of the heat, and some other had to be treated 
>by the Chirurgeons due to the heat.
>
>It was definately a gruelling day, and in the end, we had to cancel almost 
>HALF of the shooting due to the heat.
>
>I also wish to apologize to all archers that were there, that hindsight 
>being 20/20, I should have cut back on all the distance shooting earlier in 
>the day to allow us to get through the 'fun rounds' before the heat dropped 
>us all.  However, at the time, I had no idea that the heat was going to 
>continue to get worse as it did (in fact, my stronger worries then were 
>about the timescale - as we were still expecting a thunderstorm to appear 
>and to slow down the shooting that way).
>
>In Service, and hoping for a more pleasant tourney next year:
>Siegfried
>