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! 

May

The May Beau Geste was a bit of a bust. There were two fighters: Gui and Tycho. But thye fought it out anyway and Gui won.

The next Beau Gest will be Sunday, June 30 at the RiverFest in Riverdale, the Bronx.

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!

January 2013

We finally rebooted the Beau Geste tournament this weekend. There were seven fighters in the list: myself (Valgard) Agrippa, Anton, Baron Alexander, Tormundr, and Zach and Tycho from An Dubaghine. We fought a round robin, two out of three for each round. Agrippa and I advanced to the finals where I was victorious in three fights plus one double kill. We now have a spiffy medallion for the Beau Geste.

April 2010 Beau Geste

This month's Beau Geste was contested today by five fighters: Hildemar, Zumi, Johnathan, Oscad, and Jabril. I ran it with three rounds of round robin. Everybody had to fight everybody else three times. In the first round, the person with the lowest precedence got to choose weapon forms (though they could choose fighter's choice). In the second round the fighters with the higher precedence chose weapons. It was mostly weapon and shield fights, but we did have some good pole arm fights in Zumi's rounds (I am very impressed with her. She fights like she has had a fair amount of Kendo training, because her style is true classical Japanese, not SCA Japanese). The third round was single sword at the barriers.

Jabril, because he arrived late, had to fight his first two rounds straight through, eight fights in a row. In the end, he won the tournament with nine total victories out of 12 fights--a truly impressive feat of prowess.

Vive le Beau Geste!