Prize Tournament

Prize Tournament
An SCA tournament where the winner is chosen by a tally of points or from the outcome of a successive round elimination tournament, known sometimes as ‘single-’ or ‘double-elimination tournaments. The most prestigious prize tournaments are the Crown tournaments, where combatants meet, generally in double-elimination lists, to determine who will reign over the kingdom as king for the next period of time. There is some dispute as to whether this style of tournament is the best mechanism for selection of a monarch, primarily owing to the temptation of combatants to ‘cheat’ the gray area of blow calibration and thus advance towards the throne or prize at the expense of the other combatants.

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