Tourney - order of events

[Marie]

The events will be ordered as followed:

Horse race
Joust
Archery
Sword
Melee

There will be a grand feast the night of the joust.. The victory of the joust will receive the greatest of the former Cultist keeps and have the right to crown the queen of love and beauty. The victor and his queen will dine at the high table alongside the queen and her kin.

[Marie]

Forgot to say that the coronation comes first!

[Sam]

Shouldn't the Joust be last, since it is the main event?

[The Flint]

The Melee came after the Joust in the books.

[Marie]

Yeah, the joust was first in the books and the melee and archery came after. I couldn't remember which was which without AGOT to hand (having been at work when I wrote that list) but figured the melee had more opportunity to cause injury than the archery so I placed it last. I've had a character miss out on a tourney because she got almost killed in a training fight and was extremely gutted about it. I thought putting the melee last would minimise the risk of something like that happening to someone else.

Horse race was requested by Rowan as I hadn't RPed in a tourney that featured it before. I put it first as it seemed like a nice intro. The sword is my idea so I fitted it in where I thought it would best go i.e. before the more dangerous melee.