First Bardic War: Original Poetry
Jun. 24th, 2021 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaOne of the challenges I participated in during the First SCA Bardic War was the Original Poetry category. This was a live-performance challenge, with competitors meeting in zoom, and then being live-streamed to youtube. Since it was live the people running the event choose to do some editing to the recording before releasing it for general consumption, and it has now been released. So if you want to see my entry, and those of people scattered across the known world, you can find it here. From there you can click through to the event's youtube channel and see recordings for other event war point categories if you like.
The First Bardic War event was fun to participate in. They did a great job of mixing things up so that there were things happening live, and things that were pre-recorded. Things happened at a variety of different times, so that no matter what time zone you might be living in, or what sleep schedule you are on this week, it would be possible to participate in something.
Our alliance, the Great Western Alliance, was comprised of nine different Kingdoms (five of which I have lived in). I don't know how the other alliances decided who would do what, but for ours we did a pre-registration survey of everyone who wanted to participate, wherein we each specified which two categories we most would like to enter, and also listing all of the other categories in which we felt qualified to enter. Then the various generals of the alliance sat down with a spreadsheet and divided us up among all of the various categories, taking care that we all wound up somewhere we were qualified to enter, and, if possible, one of our first two choices, yet we had a good mix of people from different Kingdoms in every category. I don't recall what I put down for my first two choices, but I had fun with the two categories I was assigned.
The First Bardic War event was fun to participate in. They did a great job of mixing things up so that there were things happening live, and things that were pre-recorded. Things happened at a variety of different times, so that no matter what time zone you might be living in, or what sleep schedule you are on this week, it would be possible to participate in something.
Our alliance, the Great Western Alliance, was comprised of nine different Kingdoms (five of which I have lived in). I don't know how the other alliances decided who would do what, but for ours we did a pre-registration survey of everyone who wanted to participate, wherein we each specified which two categories we most would like to enter, and also listing all of the other categories in which we felt qualified to enter. Then the various generals of the alliance sat down with a spreadsheet and divided us up among all of the various categories, taking care that we all wound up somewhere we were qualified to enter, and, if possible, one of our first two choices, yet we had a good mix of people from different Kingdoms in every category. I don't recall what I put down for my first two choices, but I had fun with the two categories I was assigned.