A new SCA Crown Tourrney format might be familiar to the Order.

[Thorsteinn]

Duke Marc de Arundel KSCA is being awesome. Just wanted to share that.

"....The big difference will be that fights shall be to counted blows, no acted out wounds. What this means;
All fights are to 3 good blows struck
Fighters still call their own blows
ALL TARGETS COUNT THE SAME, a hit to an arm, leg, head or body counts as one good blow.
There will be a pause when a good blow is struck, to allow fighters to reset. This way, people who drop an arm/leg out of reflex are not penalized....."

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=180586&p=2748607#p2748607

[Thorsteinn]

An example.

[Lord Dane]

Very nice!!!

[Sir Edward]

Excellent. Counted blows will make for a great format.

At WMAW this year, we experimented with doing counted blows without a reset. Man, that makes for a tough fight. If someone has planted the weapon in your arm, you need to get free of it before you can counter-attack as effectively, of course, so it added the possible strategy of using the weapon to push the other guy around and keep him off balance.