Atlantia Fall Crown Tournament 2025 Announcement:
To ensure the care and prosperity of our great Kingdom, a King and Queen must always look to the future and find worthy successors. With this in mind, we invite all armored combatants, along with their chosen consorts, who would vie for the throne to enter and test their metal in a Grand Tournament to be held on the 8th of November in the Barony of Marinus. A letter of intent will need to be submitted by Monday, October 27th.
These letters should be sent via email to the Crown (TRM@atlantia.sca.org), the Royal Highnesses (TRH@atlantia.sca.org) and to the Kingdom Seneschal (seneschal@officer.atlantia.sca.org) and must include: the full, modern and SCA names of both fighter and consort, SCA membership numbers and expiration for both, physical mailing addresses, email addresses and phone numbers for both. If letters are received early, we will respond quickly; all responses to letters of intent will be sent by Thursday, October 30th.
The Fall Crown Tournament will consist of four (4) preliminary lists followed by a double elimination tournament limited to sixteen (16) combatants.
After signing in with the Minister of the List, all fighters and their Consorts will then present themselves to the Crown in a Grand Procession. Fighters should prepare a short statement in praise of their consort.
The four preliminary lists will be balanced to be an equal number of fighters and fought in a round robin format (each fighter in the list will fight every other fighter in the list).
The list for this round will be seeded by Armored Martial Precedence by their own hand (Martial Precedence is as follows: Duke/Duchess by their own hand, Count/Countess by their own hand, Chivalry, Kraken, Silver Osprey.) to spread fighters of all experience around each list (no list should be overly weighted with members of the Chivalry or Royal Peers). Double kills will be refought.
At the conclusion of each preliminary round list, the total number of wins for each fighter will be tallied and the top four (4) finishers from each list will advance to the Tournament of 16. Ties will only be broken if necessary to determine the four best records.
NOTE: The preliminary round should be fought quickly, and combatants should be armored and prepared to fight. Fighters will be called to the list only twice before a forfeit is declared in the preliminary lists.
Once each of the four (4) preliminary lists has concluded, the top four (4) scorers from each list will be placed into a “Sweet 16” Double Elimination tournament. The Minister of the Lists will place the fighters in a tree seeded from 1 to 16 according to their win/loss record from the preliminary pools on the day. Any tying win/loss records will be seeded in Order of Precedence through armored martial prowess by their own hand. (Armored MARTIAL award as follows in this order: Duke/Duchess by their own hand, Count/Countess by their own hand, Chivalry, Kraken, Silver Osprey)
In the semifinals, the fighter carrying a loss, must defeat the undefeated fighter twice to advance to the finals.
The finals will be fought best three of five fights. Open weapons format where each combatant is encouraged to bring their best style to win the day and become Heir to the Thrones of Atlantia.