Letters of Intent for Spring Crown
Greetings unto Our beloved Eastern Kingdom,
Winter is ending and as the spring and summer of war is soon to come. We need to assure the succession of the Kingdom, once Our Coronation is concluded We invite all those worthy gentles of the East, who wish to take up arms and compete at Our Crown Tournament, to make themselves known to Us. We look forward to seeing the field of competitors for Our Crown Tournament.
TRH Culann and Honig
Unto the Tyger Populace of the East Kingdom does Estgar, Kingdom Seneschal send Greetings.
The Crown Tournament of Culann mac Cianain and Ro Honig von Sommerfeldt will be held in the Barony of An Dubhaigeainn on May 2, 2026. Those wishing to fight in this tournament must submit their Letters of Intent no later than 11:59pm Eastern, April 2nd, 2026. For more information on the event please see the link below.
The Event listing can be found here: Crown Tournament of Culann mac Cianain and Ro Honig von Sommerfeldt | East Kingdom, Society for Creative Anachronism
Crown Format
Bringing heraldic displays and having a herald to herald the couple in during the procession is encouraged.
Combatants will be prepared to give a short declaration of how their consort inspires them.
This is the most important tournament in the East Kingdom, it is important to fall down when you die.
No Spears, Madus or thrown weapons will be allowed in the tournament in any round. In this case, a Madu is defined as a weapon combining any type of shield/buckler with at least a thrusting tip. Sword and other off hand weapon ie. axe is fine, other exceptions may apply.
The format shall be pools until the 16. The pools will be fought with great weapons.
Once we have the top 16 it will be double elimination bring your best until the semi-finals.
Semi-finals will be best of 3 rotating weapons forms. A combatant from the winner’s list will be paired with a combatant from the loser’s list. The combatant from the loser’s list must win twice. The combatant coming out of the winner’s list must win once. The combatant from the winner’s list will pick the first form.
Finals will be best of 7.
Finalists shall be heralded into the list.
First round will be the Queen’s choice.
Rounds 2 and 3 will be chosen by the combatants’ consorts, with the consort of the combatant losing the first bout picking the form for the 2nd bout. The other consort will pick the form for the 3rd bout.
The loser of the 3rd and subsequent bouts will pick the weapons form for the next bout, rotating weapons with no form repeating. Combatants may choose to repeat weapons from the Queens and Consorts choices though. If the fights go to 7, the 7th bout will be fought with Dane axes.
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For eligibility requirements, please review East Kingdom Law Section II.C. (https://www.eastkingdom.org/offices/law-policy/)
Note: Pairs intending to fight for each other must each fill out the form as a combatant.
Thank you,
Estgar, OL, OP, KSCA
Kingdom Seneschal