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Welcome one and all to
Bordermarch's 30th year celebration
with Autumn Melees &
Special Fall Crown Tourney on Sunday!
UPDATES: Site closing time extended through Sunday day to accommodate Crown Tourney.
Bordermarch has not contracted for site use for over night on Sunday, the site owner agreed to allow us extended use on Sunday.
The Barony is not preparing feast for Sunday PM. There will be a sideboard lunch on Sunday. Court Sunday on the field at the conclusion of the Tourney.
We will need to take down, clean-up and clear site well before dark.
Anyone needing to camp Sunday night may work out over night camping with the site owner- but this is not included in the event site fee.
Autumn Melees Gate closes at noon Saturday and re-opens for Crown Tourney at $12. Melees Site fee includes the Special Fall Crown Tourney.
Site open at Noon on Thursday!
-Roping off camping areas is not allowed
camp sites are on a first come basis. You may still set-up camps for friends and family coming later.
We got a fire truck for site. Fire will be allowed in containers or fire rings. Please be careful and keep an eye on spares and ambers.
remember: The Site Owner does not want "Fire Pits" dug in the campgrounds.
Greeting good folks of Ansteorra,
At Bordermarch Autumn Melees on Saturday morning before the melees, I with a trusty assistant for crowd management, will be available to issue authorization cards. If you need a replacement card and are currently in the database you can get it replaced here with no mailing involved. If you are a newly authorized fighter with a signed authorization form get a card issued at the event on the spot! If you are adding new authorizations and have a signed authorization form get it issued here on site while you wait! Don't miss this opportunity to join me for November Marshallate Madness, this crazy frenzy of card issuing might not come again!
Hope to see everyone at Bordermarch on Saturday!
In Service,
HL Bianca della Vittoria
Marshallate Secretary
Treasurer's Class - Sunday 9-11am at the Amphitheater
Bring your banners to add to the ambiance and pageantry.
We have many poles made for a 30" wide banner.
Add your personal or groups banner to our collection of Ansteorra and Bordermarch banners!
Fighters & Archers - contribute an
8x8x16 cinderblock
to earn extra resurrections during
resurrection battles.
Bricks may be purchased at gate through Dream
Keepers
Non-fighters - Buy some bricks and donate your
resurrections to your favorite fighter.
Dream Keepers, inc. is a non profit corporation dedicated to
building and maintaining Border Keep's castle.
Receipts for tax purposes will be available for any donations.
Donations to Dream Keepers goes directly towards
the continual growth of Border Keep.
A history museum will be set-up in the BFT- Big Fellowship Tent
on Saturday from 1pm-4pm!
Toys for Tots drive -Bring your toys to the BFT on Saturday
Reminder:
SCA standard is for everyone to leave an event site cleaner
than we found it.
“butte
cans” and "wooden butte boxes" will be around site – smokers please use them- Thanks.
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Event Stewards: Lord Aaron Whitewolf and Lord Adolf the Bear.
Merchant Steward: Lord
Phocas of Bordermarch
Group email to steward@Bordermarch.org
ONE Email sent to Steward goes to (is forwarded): both Events Stewards, Merchant Steward, Baronet & Seneschal
Event Stewards will be on site Wednesday Evening,
Should you need one of them call Lord Phocas –at:
(409) 658-3800 (
his Verison cell phone works on site)
Notes about “reserving space” and Electricity:
Bordermarch has held land allocation at site
as a first come, first grab basis.
We have plenty of land for camping with water
available through-out the site.
Electricity is only active/available along the first row.
UPDATE!!!! Additional Electrical plugs now active! All of the first row has power, PLUS NOW: the north end (towards the castle) of the other two rows!
Camping is restricted to Merchants and Taverns
in the area of the BFT and Merchants Row.
All the electricity on site is through 30amp RV plugs- so you will need an RV adaptor.
Bordermarch pays the site owner for electricity used-
Meter is read before and after an event.
Please pay at gate if you plan to use electricity and attach your electrical tag to the extension cord where it plugs into power access.
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Melees will be held for Rapier and Chivalric
Bring your siege
weapons!
Friday and Saturday! …including Combat Archery!
New Fighters who get their first battle field kill, please give your
name to
the person at Scribe’s Point (next
to the BFT)
So that we may get your “Shaky Knees”
award done.
Bordermarch
will be determining our Champions for:
Equestrian, Bardic & Youth Bardic
Class coordinator: Lady Kasinda of www.BriarPatchGarb.com
Want to teach Ansteorra a lesson?
Contact
Kasinda
briarpatchgarb@gmail.com!
Border
Keep’s Site lost a lot of picnic
tables over the last 2 years
–
please bring tables and chairs if you can.
Trash will
be picked-up on Sunday morning between 10 and
Please put
Trash in plastic bags along side the street by
Currently two
Taverns listed- Taverns Needed!
Food. BRING
YOUR FEAST GEAR to eat at the Taverns.
Parking
tag identifiers will be given out at Gate.
Please fill
these out and leave on your rearview mirror or
on your dashboard such that they can be seen
and read
from the outside- incase you need to be
contacted.
Please
move cars & trucks out to the parking area
within 3 hours of arriving at site, thank
you.
Site
Fees:
$14 for Adults (16 yrs and up/over)
(Autumn Melees $14 fee will include staying for Crown Tourney)
Adults
add $3 if not showing proof of SCA membership at Gate.
$7 Ages 6-15
age 5 & under
FREE
Family Max $42 (not including Non-Member
surcharge)
Family
includes two Adults and their children/wards.
Electricity:
$10 for tents
$10 per day for RV’s or other high usage applications.
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ACCEPS
Autumn Melees registration at gate.
1.
All domestic pets welcome. Horses must
have proofs of negative Coggins.
Pets must be leashed at all times &
proof of current vaccinations.
2.
Site is wet, period containers only please.
3. NO open fires
4. Minors
under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian;
they may also attend with BOTH a Signed & Notarized - Minors Event Waiver Form
AND Medical
Authorization for Minors Form - from the parent or legal guardian.
5. Children under 18 yrs. allowed on the
Castle, only with a parent or legal guardian present.
6.
Make checks payable to: SCA, Inc., Barony Bordermarch
7. Campsite trash should be bagged and placed
along side the road by 11am Sunday & Monday
8. No Camping in Feast or Merchant Area that is
being known as The Village.
( except for Merchants who may camp with
their vendor booth – see Map of Site)
merchant/tavern coordinator
Lord Phocas of Bordermarch
(409)658-3800
Bordermarch Equestrian
Championship
will
be held at BORDERMARCH AUTUMN MELEES!!!!!
The format to be
determined
Bordermarch Bardic Championship
Adult Championship:
Saturday 4:30pm at the Amphitheater
The format
for the adult competition will be:
First round will be Bard's choice,
Second round a theme of "hearth and home",
2 semi-finalists will be chosen for the last round which
the Nobles will judge and decide if there is a theme.
Saturday 12:30 at the Amphitheater
16 yrs. old and under. Open format.
A call out to
all Middle Eastern Dancers and Musicians!
Hafla under the BFT after Court
Musicians: Ansteorra needs you!!! If you are musician (whether it be
string,
wind or percussion) and are familiar with Middle Eastern melodies
and rhythms, please
consider providing your talents to this year's Melees.
Only live
music will be allowed and we need you!!
It is not a publication of the Society for Creative
Anachronism, Incorporated, and does not delineate SCA policies.