Name: Fighter Practice and Social
Start: 2025-05-07T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-07T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Woodruff Park

March 2025

Medieval artwork showing various people gathered around a musician playing a stringed instrument with a bow.

March 29 @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm PDT

Lyceum

Oakville Grange 405 S. Temple St, Oakville, WA, United States

Bring a picnic lunch to the rustic Oakville Grange and join Glymm Mere for an eventful day featuring the A&S and Bardic Championships; A&S classes; and a craft supply swap/barter/sell swap meet-style area.

Pre Reg Link

Lyceum will include a craft swap meet style area. If you are interested in offering craft supplies stash items for barter/sell/trade at the event, please sign up using the linked form. This will allow me to properly setup space at the event for anyone wishing to participate in this part of the event.

Swap Meet Area Sign Up Link

Tournaments for A&S and Bardic Championships:

Soon the time will be upon us to choose new Glymm Mere Champions in arts and sciences and the bardic disciplines. Their Excellencies are now accepting letters of intent to compete. Said letters should be emailed to GlymmMere.Baroness@antir.org and GlymmMere.Baron@antir.org

Letters of intent are due by March 22, 2025. They are not required but are greatly appreciated as it allows us to better schedule enough time to give all of our competitors the attention they deserve.

The formats will be as follows:

Arts and Sciences - We will again be using an Atheneum-style format. You will have an area to set up your display and over the course of the competition, Their Excellencies and a team of selected advisors will come around to learn about and discuss your project. It does not need to be a historical recreation; it may be an original work in a historical style. Be prepared to tell us about the style, you are the expert here teaching us. Even if it is a historical recreation, you are still the expert teaching us. It does not need to be perfectly period materials or methods. Sometimes those materials no longer exist or are cost prohibitive. Be able to tell us what would have been used in the period the entry would have come from and why you opted for a different material or method.

Bardic - Each competitor will be expected to perform two pieces for Their Excellencies and their panel of advisors. The pieces performed may be period, historically inspired, or inspired by the SCA. Entries must be family-friendly - bawdy is period and we're down for it, but let's save it for an evening bardic. The stipulation of these two performances is that they must evoke two different emotions. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us fall in love, send us off to war, the choice is yours but they must be different from each other. The winner will also be asked to perform one or both during evening court. The type of performance is also up to the performer; recite poetry, sing, play music, tell a story, or act a scene from a play, we love live performances and are open to exploring formats.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact Their Excellencies at the above email addresses.

Thank you. We look forward to seeing the amazing talent of our populace on display.

April 2025

April 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

Fire Mountain Keep Business Meeting

Crows Gate Business Meeting 1185 Old Hwy 603, Chehalis, WA, United States

April 21 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

Caladphort Business Meeting

Hoquiam Timberland Library 420 7th St, Hoquiam, WA, United States

May 2025

May 3 @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm PDT

MayFaire

Oakville Grange 405 S. Temple St, Oakville, WA, United States

Greetings and salutations!!! The Barony of Glymm Mere is seeking those who wish to compete for the Heavy and Rapier Champion for the Barony as well as those who wish to come hang out.

The site opens at 9am and closes at 7pm

Bring some victuals that would go with soup, for soup will be supplied by the Barony. There will be meat type soup and a non-meat soup.

Let us not forget Games. As usual she who is exceeding knowledgeable about Games, Isabella de Wallingford will be bringing a plethora and I am sure she will have her game face on, for all who wish to play.

So come join Their most Excellent Excellencies Tamsyn L’argent and Valentine L’argent, my partner in Stewarding Sigmund Faust, Our Gate Steward Melissa of Dalmatia, our Soup-turion Paullus Quinctilius Barbatus Romanus and myself Steward Volk the Grey/Vettor de Carduci for an eventful day of comradery, friendship as well as Heavy(rattan) and Rapier tournaments for Baronial Championships.

Yours in Service to the Dream

Magister Volk the Grey, OP / Nome d’arte Vettor de Carduci

Event Fees:

Adult Non Member $20.00
Adult Member $10.00
Youth Free

Tournament Information
As to the Tournament.

The format for the heavy championship

Tournament Rules For Shield of the Barony Championship

Round Robin to start. Fighters have to change fighting styles between matches. Meaning that if they fight sword and shield, they can’t fight sword and shield in their second fight, but can fight sword and shield in their third etc.

Depending on numbers of fighters there will be a top four fighters. These fighters will face each other in another round robin of the four. They will use the battle dice. Meaning they will need Sword and Shield, Dual Weapons, and a Great weapon. For each fight, each fighter will roll a die and will have to enter the fight with those weapons.

The final fight will be the two who end up as the winners of the second round robin of four. This will be a best three out of five with bucklers.

If we do not have enough fighters for the fatal four, we will go directly to the best of five. This will still be fought with weapon and buckler.

The format for the rapier championship:

Get ready for a night on the town!

The first round will be a tavern brawl. Single sword only. All fighters will gather in the center of the eric (around a table if space allows). Playing cards will be drawn one-by-one until a joker is drawn – we’ve got a cheater! When the cheater is revealed all bets are off. Do your best to be the last person standing in the ensuing melee. Points will be awarded for the last three standing (3, 2, or 1).

After the tavern brawl you’ll make your way home, only to be accosted by two muggers! Each fighter will face off against two others and be awarded points on how well they perform (A point for no wounds received, and a point for each mugger defeated).

Finally, you make it home from the tavern, only to find that word of your deeds has gotten around and now everyone wants to fight you. This will be a round-robin or Swiss-system depending on time and number of entrants. Bring your best, best of three, double kills will not be refought (It’s the art of defense, not the art of da-fencing!). Points will be awarded for the top three (3, 2, or 1). A tie here will be settled by another fight with the same rules.

The victor will be the person with the most points after all three rounds. In the event of a tie for first, the fighters will fight a best of five bring your best.