For me the main event in the Re-enactment world here in NZ is the Great Lakes Tourney. Hosted by The Company of the Lance, to which I belong, the event takes place at the end of January.
This year we are working hard to make this an extra special event. In previous years the main event has been an individual horseman's competition. To make things more interesting this year we are running the main event as a Teams Tourney. This means that individual Orders, made up of 3 riders, enter as a team. Each rider will compete in each of the 3 mounted disciplines, Melee, Skills at Arms and Tilt. The combined total of the team will be used to determine the overall winners.
Coupled to this we are running a number of other competitions, including, foot combat, archery and living history. We are also trying to organize battle style displays of massed combat.
While the overall scale of the event is small compared to the UK events such as Teweksbury and Berkeley, we are aiming to make it one of the premier events for New Zealand.
This means there's a lot of work to do but at the end of the day a good event makes it all worth while.
For information on the event take a look at http://www.taupojoust.com/default.aspx
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