Tournaments in Amtgard Live Action RPG

Video Transcript

"Hi my names Austin Harmon but out here I'm known as Forest Evergreen. And I'm here on ExpertVillage.com to teach you about the game of Amtgard. At least once every month, month and a half we host a major tournament and a tournament is done much like a normal Bracketed tournament would be, it's one on one combat. And the fighting styles are chosen ahead of time so we may say the first fighting combat style will be sword and shield. They'll put you in brackets and then whoever wins the bracket will advance onto the next round. And it'll advance it down just like a normal tournament you have in basketball or anything else. The winner will get points for taking first place, second place, third place each get points and then they switch weapon style so you may fight sword and shield next round single sword, sword and dagger, Florentine, which we consider two a normal size swords. Pole arm, sword and Maude there's a lot of different fighting styles and then at the end of the tournament they'll take all these categories, add up the numbers of points people won for placement and they'll have an overall war master. We'll also have a dragon master which is the person that competed overall in cultural tournament. It's not a bracketed system it's more of a free for all system but you enter separate categories so you can enter main dish cooking, side dish cooking, appetizer and desert, four different categories. A court garb, fighting garb, monster garb which is used for when somebody plays a monster class, you've got a armor making, sword making, shield making, oratory presentation which is any sort of speech or any sort of monologue. You've got singing, dancing, instrumental performance lots of other categories, a lot of writing categories, those are done as their own category and the judges base your score on a zero to five criteria. We usually have five judges, they average your score and then whoever gets the highest score wins the given category. And so again, they'll go through and take your score on a zero to five scale, anything you score over a 35 adds to your total score and at the end whoever scored the most points across categories becomes the overall dragon master for that competition."