Pennsic 52 Archery – Champions Results
This Pennsic, the East and Midrealm are working together against the Known World “Green Alliance”. For archery, this meant fewer champions from the East. There have also been changes in the archery war point shooting. For the first time ever, part of the championship competition was a head-to-head shoot by 10 hand-picked archers from each side. Here is an account:
Sunday morning, as the first war point of Pennsic 52, the first ever Heroic Archery Champions war point occurred on the archery range at 9 AM on Sunday Aug. 3, 2025.
Five members of the East and five members of the Midrealm joined forces to take on the best archers of the known world.
The field consisted of four targets on each side of a central target. The shooters had to hit the four targets on their side and then hit the central target in under 60 seconds with only eight shots in their quiver. Whomever hit the central target first or whomever had hit more targets on their side at the end of 60 seconds would win their round. If neither archer had hit the central target and both archers had hit the same number of targets, 10 seconds were added to the clock and two shots added to their quiver as a tiebreaker.
Eastern Heroic Archers were: Team Captain Godric of Hamtun, Queens Champion Jozef Ludwiczak, Li Kung Lo, Magnus Surtsson, and Kusonoshi Yoshimoto.
Even though every competition was tight, including several rounds where multiple tie breakers had to be held, only Yoshi was able to take a point for the Purple alliance. Thus the Green alliance prevailed, taking nine of the head to head matches. They took home two well earned war points.
Ryan Mac Whyte, Captain General, Marshal in Charge of the Heroic Championship Shoot
The Archery Champions Team competition took place this morning, Tuesday Aug. 5, 2025. It consisted of a Roving Range plus a timed Friend/Foe shoot and was contested by teams of 30 archers for each side, with 10 alternates available to step-in if needed. Before the competition began, Jozef and Lada, the EK Royal Archery Champions, each received the Order of Apollo’s Arrow. The team competition results are now in, and the Green alliance won, earning another two war points. Final scores were: Friend/Foe 29 to 16, Roving Range 971 to 883.
Eastern archers on the champions team this year were:
- Jozef Ludwieczak, Queen’s Champion
- Lada Monguligan, King’s Champion
- Godric of Hamtun
- Peter the Red
- Kusonoshi Yoshimoto
- Magnus Surtsson
- Li Kung Lo
- Ryan Mac Whyte, Captain General of Archers of the East
- Cathain Reiter
- Dorian of Lewes
- Douglas Douglas
- Aloysius Sartore
- Leoric of House MacWard
- Julian Ridley
- Mikjall Bogmadr
And serving as alternates:
- Ragnall Cennetig
- Sojourner van Haarlem
- Kira of Carolingia
- Maria of Windmasters Hill
- Casmir Sarkastyczny
There are 4 Populace Archery Shoots this year — the usual Clout, Castle Window and Advancing Soldier, plus an untimed Friend/Foe shoot. Altogether, these will be worth 2 war points. There are shooting times for the populace war points every day through Friday. Archers can shoot each up to 5 times. Here are the results from the first three days of shooting:
Tuesday - Aug.5 Total to-date
East/Mid Alliance East/Mid Alliance
Clout 39 174 796 823
Soldier 80 279 1766 1219
Window 20 87 831 632
Friend/Foe 82 215 1786 1301
Total Points 221 755 5179 3975
Archer Rounds 40 131 769 713
Photos graciously provided by Mistress Kay Leigh Mac Whyte and Master Ryan Mac Whyte.
Any errors are the fault of this humble reporter, compiling them at home. Mistress Ygraine of Kellswood.