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Hey, everyone! Some quick OOC tournament/ball updates from the Lady Dufresne!
First of all, because it’s looking like we might have quite a large turnout, we’d like to search for a few more (minimum 4) provisional volunteers, two extras for each tournament on both days. More are super welcome, of course. In fact, more are encouraged! We might -not- need you if attendance remains cozy, but just in case, we’d like to have you on standby. Basically, we’re going to need assistants for the arbiters. It’s the same thing as with the Grindstone…there are assistant judges who split off to watch matches and tell the official judges about the outcome. While the Arbiters will be running each match respectively, having assistants will help them to keep up with potential chatscroll hell and will help prevent them from having to split their attention too many ways. Your character doesn’t need to ICly be well versed in whatever’s going on (magic, jousting, etc) – all you have to do is watch a few matches, wait for a winner to emerge, and /tell the arbiter about the winner. If it turns out we get a measly turnout, you can just chill on the sidelines and not have to worry about it instead.
Secondly, I’m pleased to announce we have some lovely prizes in the works for the champions, and possibly for the runners up as well! These are still in the planning/crafting stages so we don’t have a full list yet, but please stay tuned for details! And also, once again, a huge thank you to the absurdly generous people donating them (you know who you are).
Thirdly, we’re likely going to be pushing the ball back a week so that it doesn’t land on Canada Day/4th of July weekend. This will place it on Saturday, July 9th instead. Venue is still TBA. If anyone knows of any IC singers, bards, or conductors, please put them in contact – we’d love to have them for flavor! It would have to be a classy/classical act, though – we’re Ishgardian, after all.
Stay tuned for more, and thank you for everyone helping to pull all this together! We really hope to make it worthwhile.
Hey, everyone! Some quick OOC tournament/ball updates from the Lady Dufresne!
First of all, because it’s looking like we might have quite a large turnout, we’d like to search for a few more (minimum 4) provisional volunteers, two extras for each tournament on both days. More are super welcome, of course. In fact, more are encouraged! We might -not- need you if attendance remains cozy, but just in case, we’d like to have you on standby. Basically, we’re going to need assistants for the arbiters. It’s the same thing as with the Grindstone…there are assistant judges who split off to watch matches and tell the official judges about the outcome. While the Arbiters will be running each match respectively, having assistants will help them to keep up with potential chatscroll hell and will help prevent them from having to split their attention too many ways. Your character doesn’t need to ICly be well versed in whatever’s going on (magic, jousting, etc) – all you have to do is watch a few matches, wait for a winner to emerge, and /tell the arbiter about the winner. If it turns out we get a measly turnout, you can just chill on the sidelines and not have to worry about it instead.
Secondly, I’m pleased to announce we have some lovely prizes in the works for the champions, and possibly for the runners up as well! These are still in the planning/crafting stages so we don’t have a full list yet, but please stay tuned for details! And also, once again, a huge thank you to the absurdly generous people donating them (you know who you are).
Thirdly, we’re likely going to be pushing the ball back a week so that it doesn’t land on Canada Day/4th of July weekend. This will place it on Saturday, July 9th instead. Venue is still TBA. If anyone knows of any IC singers, bards, or conductors, please put them in contact – we’d love to have them for flavor! It would have to be a classy/classical act, though – we’re Ishgardian, after all.
Stay tuned for more, and thank you for everyone helping to pull all this together! We really hope to make it worthwhile.
"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
                                -George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
