Where: Lower Alexander Dining Hall/ Miami University's Western Campus
440 Western College Drive
Oxford, OH 45056
When: Saturday, March 31, 2012
9am-10pm
(site is very dry!)
site fees schedule staff and volunteer schedule directions
Site Fees
Adults: $5 plus a $5 non-member surcharge
Children 6-12: $3
Children under 6: free!
Feast: There will be no feast this year due to site limitations.
There will be a Lunch Tavern sponsored by the Marche of Norborough. The menu is as Follows:
Soup: chili or vegetarian vegetable soup
Peanut butter sandwich with jelly or honey
Chips
Roll
Cookies or fruit
Pop or juice
Adult meal deal: $5.00 - includes soup, roll, chips, fruit or cookies, pop
Kids meal deal: $3.00 - includes p.b. sandwich w/jelly or honey, chips, fruit or cookies, pop or juice
All items will also be available ala carte.
Activities Schedule
Come join us for a day of :
The Grand Tournament of the Unicorn
Flaming Gryphon Baronial Rapier Championship
The Best of the Best East Fencing Championship
Melee
Archery
A&S Classes and Displays
| Time | Classes at Boyd Hall Room 107 | Boyd Hall Room 40 | Rapier Field | Archery Field | Heavy Weapons Field | Youth Combat Field |
| 8:00 am | Site Opens | |||||
| 9:00 am | Winter Shoot Challenge (9am - Noon) | |||||
| 10:00 am | Pelican Meeting | Open Round Robin (Flaming Gryphon Baronial Rapier Champ part 1) | Authorizations and Inspections | Inspections, Authorizations, and Practice (10am-Noon) | ||
| 11:00 am | Taking the Mystery out of your Baronial Newsletter | Laurel Meeting | Contenders Challenging the Outgoing and Past Champions (Flaming Gryphon Baronial Rapier Champ part 2) | Novice Tournament and Highlander Tournament. See descriptions below. | ||
| 12:00 pm Noon | Bidding the Bedes: An Intro to the Paternosters | The Zen of Kumihimo | Lunch/Rapier Melee Awareness Discussion | Lunch | Grand Tourney. See description below. | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch | Lunch | Best of the Best East Rapier Championship (1pm-4pm) | Various Shoots (1pm-4pm) | Lunch | Tournament |
| 2:00 pm | Introduction to Brocaded Tablet Weaving | Soap 101 | 1:15pm second section of Grand Tourney | |||
| 3:00 pm | Bardic Circle | Grand Tourney Finals | ||||
| 4:00 pm | List Open for Pick-Ups. Closes at 4:30 | |||||
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Court | Takes | Place | In | Kumler | Chapel |
| 7:30 pm - 10:00pm | Dessert | Revel | In | Lower | Alexander | Hall |
| 10:00 pm | Site Closes |
A Novice Tournament: (parameters TBD day of event based on number of participants.
A Highlander Tournament: Great weapon only. A bear pit style tournamet where the only way
to be eliminated is through a cut or thrust to the head. Any other blow, the losing fighter is able to return
to the pool of fighters.
The Grand Tournament: The Grand Tournament will consist of a number of lists,
determined day of again based on numbers. Two fighters enter the list. One wins and gets a point and may fight the next
person in line. The winner can win 5 straight and then must retire and go to the end of a line to fight again.
The loser must find go to the end of a line and wait again to fight. At the end of the alotted time the top 8 points
winners will go on to a single elimination tournament.
Please contact the Heavy Weapons Marshall In Charge Captain Alrekr Eriksson for additional information.
Arts and Science classes
please contact the Class coordinator Bardas mka Michael Dennis
if you are interested in teaching!
510 North Campus Ave. B Oxford, Ohio 45056
216-533-1305 No calls after 10 pm
Web Minister: Lady Kateline Crowe mka Kathleen A. Anlage
Class Coordinator: Bardas mka Michael Dennis
Grand Tournament Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet
Please contact the Event Steward if you are intersted in Volunteering
Take I-75 south to the SR73 (Franklin) exit. Turn right (west).
Watch the signs carefully and stay on SR73 West all the way into Oxford.
Once you reach Oxford, SR73 will come to a T-intersection. Turn left onto Patterson Ave. (SR27)
Go through one stop light and turn left at the next street (Western Dr.)
Follow Western Dr around the curve and turn right between Havighurst and Clawson Halls
(it'll be the first right you can take after Havighurst)
Alexander Dining Hall is on the back side of Clawson.
From the
South (Cincinnati area):
Take your best route to SR27 North
Watch the signs carefully and stay on SR27 all the way into Oxford.
Once you get to the Oxford campus, you will go through one stop light
as you come up the hill.
Then you will turn right onto Western Dr.
Follow Western Dr. around the curve and turn right between Havighurst
and Clawson Halls
(it'll be the first right you can take after Havighurst)
Alexander Dining Hall is on the back side of Clawson.
Holiday Inn: 513-524-2002, 75 S. Main St. Oxford, OH 45056
Miami Inn: 513-529-2104, 100 S. Patterson Ave. Oxford, OH 45056
Best Western: 513-523-0000, 6 E. Sycamore St. Oxford, OH 45056
Baymont Inn and Suites: 513-523-2722, 5190 College Corner Pike. Oxford, OH 45056
Comfort Inn: 513-524-0114, 5056 College Corner Pike. Oxford, OH 45056