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May 17th, 2008 |
Location: Deadline for Onboard Reservations: Deadline for Cancellation: |
What is mancala you ask? Here is a link to an educational article about one of the games in the mancala family: http://www.modaruniversity.org/Game2.htm Here is an online version you can play: |
Staff:
Autocrats:
Lady Isobel "Libby" Bickerstaff
Mistress Bess Darnley (Sarah Paterson)
Potluck Feast:
Lady Libby
Dayboard:
Brown Bag / NSRTF Box Lunch Auction
Mancala Tournament Coordinator:
Lord Guthfrith Yrlingson
Fencing Marshall in Charge:
Baron Lachlan Mac an Toisich
Gate keeper:
Matilda
Dancing:
Lady Brianna
Fees:
All participants $5.00
Under 5 years old: Free
Family Cap: $18.00
NMS will apply
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Details:
Events that day will include:
Mancala Board A&S "Competition": Entrants in this activity are asked to make a mancala board. "Winners" will be recognized in the following categories: 1) Most Artistic 2) Most Edible 3) Most Humourous, and 4) Most Innovative.
Northern Shores Royal Travel Fund - Boxed Lunch Auction: As the feast for this event is Potluck, and the Dayboard is a bring-your-own-brown-bag, we are asking the talented people of the many cantons to donate a lunch for two to be auctioned off during the lunch hour. All proceeds will go to the NSRTF.
Mancala War Tourney: We ask the brave entrants of this tourney to come in teams to enter this tourney - to battle out in the lists to see who has the greatest skill at Mancala. Entrants will be required to have a voice herald to announce their group and there will be prizes for: "Best Death", "Best Heraldic Display", "Most Chivalric Fighter", and "Overall Mancala Champions". So get your game face on, find your team and get ready for WAR!
Riddle-me-this Scavenger Hunt: After the tourney there will be a Team Scavenger Hunt. Teams will be given a packet containing five riddles which they must solve. They then must find the items that are described by those riddles. The teams will be asked to defend their choices at feast and a People's Choice and Judge's Choice will be awarded.
Dancing: Need we say more?
Update on May 6th:
Greetings All,
With Mancala Wars but scant days away it is with a glad heart that I announce that there will be FENCING as part of the wars. Yes, teams can start recruiting fencers now, don't find yourself without one.
Remember they slice, they dice, and they ham it up with the best of them. Yes these gentles have been known to wield such things as fish, rubber chickens and park benches as parry objects. Come and see what objects get used in new and inventive ways.
For the fencers remember this is your last opportunity to fight before Baronial Rapier Championships is held. Come and find out what new tricks your opponents have learned over the winter. Perhaps another fencer has had a spring steel spine installed so they can be just like Guthfrith. Perhaps other's wrists have turned to putty over the past months. The only way to find out is to come and fight.
The tournament will follow the format originally conceived by Viscount Mordain of Ealdormere and named Mordain's Rings. Further details to be provided on the day.
Sincerely
Lachlan
Baron of Ruantallan
Schedule:
Site Opens 9:00am
Mancala Board Entry Deadline : 11:00 am
NSRTF-Box Lunch Auction & Luncheon: Noon
Mancala War Tourney: 1:30-3:30 pm
Riddle-me-this-Scavenger Hunt: 4:00-5:00pm
Potluck Feast: 5:00pm
Dancing 7:00pm until close
Site Closes: 10:00pm
Directions:
From Halifax: Take the 102 Highway North to Truro. Take Exit 13 and merge to the right at the end of the ramp. You are now on the "Connector Road" as locals call it. Follow this road into a T-junction (Tim Hortons on your right).
From all other points: Make your best was to exit 13 Truro on the 102 Highway. Follow the Connector Road INTO Truro, until you arrive at the T-junction (Tim Hortons on your right).
Once you are at the T-junction (with Tim Hortons on your right): Turn LEFT onto Willow Street at this intersection. Travel on Willow about 1km; Victoria Street is on your RIGHT, just beyond the intersection located at the Glenngarry Hotel. The Fire Hall is located on your LEFT .7 km down Victoria Street and if you drive past the Bay doors you will see a driveway that will lead you to the parking behind the building. Please use back "Promenade" entrance. There is plenty of parking in back.
Send registrations to:
Lesley Brann (Lady Isobel Bickerstaff)
114 Bonaventure Place
Debert, Nova Scotia
B0M 1G0
For more information, please contact mancala@ruantallan.org
Please make cheques payable to "SCA Inc-Canton of Distant Shore"
OR
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