October

The October Beau Geste was contested at the Acre practice in Wantagh on Haloween een (Oct. 30). The victor was Brad. That's right, Brad. Vive le Beau Geste. 

Beau Geste, June, 2014

Yesterday, before a crowd of curious onlookers at Riverfest, we held our Beau Geste tournament. It was Gui's variation on the Round Robin, which is a real excellent meat grinder. Every body holds the field once, and you count only the wins and losses when you are holding the field--so, with five fighters, you fought everybody four times. (16 fights). Myself, Gui, Tycho, Auzur, and Samale (sp) contested. Gui was fighting so there would be more fighters but, as he was the current Beau Geste, he was not competing for the prize. The finals were best two out of three, with various matched weapons. Tycho won the sword and shield fight, Auzur won the long sword fight and then the two weapon fight, winning the day. Vive la Beau Geste! 

October 20, 2013

Five fighters showed up on a warm sunny day at Grants' Tomb: Valgard Samale, Ansel, Tycho, and Azier. They fought a bear pit round robin, wherein each held the field against the others and  wins only counted for the fighter holding the field. Valgard beat Azier in three fights in the finals. 

Riverfest June 2013

This month's Beau Geste was held at the Riverfest demo. There were firefighters competed all of them unbelted: Avran, Agrippa, Ervald, Tycho, and Samale. We fought a round robin. Tycho and Agrippa advanced to the finals. In a two out of three bout, Agrippa won with Great Ax and with dagger to claim his second Beau Geste. Tycho once again won the banner. The next Beau Geste will be middle Saturday at Pennsic. Vive le Beau Geste! 

April 2013

Today was April's Beau Geste tournament, which also served as a warm-up for crown. Unfortunately, there were only three of us in armor, myself, Anton, and Tyco. We fought it as a round robin. We each have to fight each of the others three fights each with sword and shield, to weapons, and poleax. That's 18 fights altogether. At the end of the round Robin Anton adds 10 victories, I had nine, and Tycho had eight. In the final round, Anton beat me in a dagger fight to win the day.

Vive le Beau Geste!

March 2013

Oddly enough, it was the first real nice day, weather wise, that we have had at Grant's Tomb, yet only five people showed up in armor. Nonetheless, we had a tournament and it rocked. 

Gui was annoyed that his man at arms Anton had not shown up by 1:00 when the tournament was supposed to start, so he made a rule that only people who were on tim e could advance to finals. This meant me, Landon, and Alexander. Tycho and Anton fought, however. 

With five fighters we ran an elimination bear pit. We ran a round robin, starting with Alexander holding the field against everybody, then Anton against the three people he had not fought, etc., till everybody had fought once. The person with the most losses was dropped for the next round and we continued like that till finals. In case of a tie the fighters who were tied fought for the right to advance. I fought with a great sword and got my butt kicked! (and was happy I wore my body armor). I ended up tied with Tycho for most losses at three, then he beat me in the play-in fight. This continued till the end. Landon and Anton won, but because Anton could not advance Alexander advanced into finals. Landon won in two quick fights. Vive le Beau Geste! 

February 2013

Today we held the second of our revived Beau Geste tournaments. It was bright and sunny but COLD. 29 degrees with a wind chill of 15! I ran the tournament as the current Beau Geste. There were four fighters: Dougal, Gui, Tycho, and Garret (Zach). We fought three rounds in which each fought each of the others, then the fighters with the fewest losses advanced to the finals, which would be three out of five with mixed weapons: great sword, then two weapon, then sword and shield, then great ax, then choice. The finalists were Gui and Garett. Garrett won the first two fights and then Gui won the final three for the victory. Dougal was granted the banner for his chivalry. Vive le Beau Geste!