Contest

Objective

• Each entrant will be provided with (2) 4" x 3" pieces of parchment or vellum made by our sponsor Medieval Goods Parchment. 

• On one, they will produce an outline format of a single illuminated capital (letter) of the size 3" x 2".

• The second piece will have the same illuminated capital letter, same 3" x 2" size, fully illuminated to completion 

To Enter

• Send an email (dbbianco@frontiernet.net) or a messenger message to me with the following information: I'd like to submit my name to enter the battle: 

• 1. Your mundane name, your SCA name, US postal address. 

• 2. Some form of proof that you have contributed something towards helping fight the real world battle against CoronaVirus. This can be anything that is cogent for your locality from donating blood to the American Red Cross, to donating home-made protective masks to hospitals, to monetary donations to charities such as the CDC Foundation. 

• From there, you will receive a confirmation reply letting you know that your "donation" was approved and your entry packet being sent out via US Mail to the address you provided above. 

• Currently, there is no charge for USA and Canada domestic entries, If you are in other more foreign places and you wish to enter, arrangements can be made to subsidize the cost of mailing the package to you. 

Your Entry Packet

• Will contain a "Entry submission Form"

• (2) 4" x 3" pieces of parchment

• 2 pieces of wax paper to submit the entries in (to keep them from potential of smudging in transit back)

• a Stamped Addressed Return envelope. 

Prize and "Battle point" categories for entries

Individual Entries

I1. Best of each specific letter... "A", "B", "C"... etc. categories.Best Illuminated capital (Overall battle winner) 

I2. Best Outline format letter for others to illuminate 

I3. Best historiated Illuminated capital. 

I4. Best Do-over (must include picture of extant Letter that you are recreating, or one you've did before that you are "upgrading" your implementation. 

I5. Best Illuminated capital (Overall battle winner, run off between the "Best specific letter" winners) - Worth 48" worth of battle points 

Kingdom Entries

As with every good war, there must be groups of combatants striving together towards the victory of their group. This battle will be using SCA kingdoms as focal groups for which scribes will be grouped together to win bigger prizes and collaborate to achieve military objectives: 

K1. Best Illuminated Alphabet 

K2. Best Alphabet Theme 

K3. Largest scribal army (Since each scribe will be limited to one letter entry, kingdoms can win this by having more scribes produce all of one alphabet, or if enough scribes from each kingdom are involved, multiple full alphabets) 

K4. Most Letters captured: This objective will be awarded based on the results of the I1 category judging. The kingdom which wins the most letters by their scribes. 

K5 Best historiated Alphabet (there may be "extra credit" opportunities here... If you're considering this category, please let me know... 

Using Battle points

One will note that the battle points are in the form of inches. This is because they are worth square inches of parchment from Medieval Goods Parchment. 

Individuals can choose to redeem their prizes as a piece of parchment for their own use, in whatever rectangle form factor they choose. 

Kingdom prizes are awarded to the SCA kingdom, at the discretion of that kingdom's Kingdom Scribe to be used in whatever rectangular shape(s) are wanted. 

Individual battle points can be given to the scribe's kingdom. Yes, Scribes can be mercenaries, but they will declare their kingdom on entry submission form. The kingdom with the most battle points (including any points ceded by individuals to greater good of their kingdom) will be considered the victor of this battle. Deadline for Entries: Entries must be postmarked by (originally April 28th, 2020) NOW May 5, 2020. This means that Judging will begin in early May.

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