St Sebastians 2021

Another year and another St Sebastians event. This year about 90 people attended the event. It was truly lovely to see so many people enjoying themselves

While St Sebastians is traditionally an archery focused event, we also had both heavy and rapier tournaments happening.

The heavy tournament had a random weapon wheel. Each fighter was weapons were determined by 2 spins of the wheel, one for each hand. There were also some special weapons, such as a haddock, a broken bottle, rolling pin and troll club, that added to the mix.

The rapier event was more of a tavern brawl, with overturned tables and spilt beer to negotiate around.

Both provided a fun spectacle for the audience as well as enjoyment for the fighters.

The archery was also well attended with 21 people shooting in the main competition and 23 in the archery games. The games were won by the ‘Welsh’ team while the archery was yet again won by Trudy.

As always there was also the St Sebastians game. Master Edward had devised another fun game for the event, drawing on some of the more interesting themes from previous years. The prize this year was a hand made oak Canterbury chair.

The game was well played and highly entertaining.

We were also able to hand out a number of awards.

Normally we only present baronial level awards but with eh Crown not being able to travel due to COVID we are also awarding Kingdom level awards. It was our great please to add 5 people to the ranks of our Alderman, 2 to our Militia, 1 to our Lodeman and to grant a Freedom of the City. On top of that we were able to present a number of AoA’s, a Golden Nock, 2 Rowan’s, 2 Silver Pegasus and 3 Star and Lily’s.

It is always a pleasure to see people be recognised for the work they do in the SCA.