Clinton SCA EMP Tourney1

The start of the SCA/EMP tournament with each round alternating rules. Designed to let SCA fighter's taste EMP fighting while also letting the EMP fighters who have never done SCA get some practice in with the rules before the main Clinton War fighting begins. The tournament was a huge success with no one having difficulty following the rules either way, though in the later rounds when fights were anounced "Next, ____ will fight ____ in the style of the EMP" the crowd would cheer and when they heard "_____ will fight _____ in the style of the SCA" the crowd said "awww" with one or two "Boo"s thrown in. I think this was in part because EMP rules tends to be more fun to watch, but also because the crowd was really enjoying the novelty of it. You rarely see a crowd cheering for fighters at war like when one is sitting on the other's chest punching him in the face.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• SCA
• EMP
• Clinton War
• sword
• fighting
• armour
• Duke Gaston
• Aveloc
• Al Madeena
• EX-F1

[DkGaston]

Full weight weapons???? Nothing light about these weapons. They are rattan, not boffer and generally weigh the same as or often more than steel weapons.

[beccabutterfly21]

i know some of these guys 

[demomanchaos]

The scale armored guy is a beast, though I wonder how he'd handle full weight weapons.

I've noticed SCA fights are generally the same. Hit for head, then hit for leg. Just a back and forth.

[nachtjager77]

Thanks Michael, didn't know much about EMP rules. I'm SCA and really don't care for "our" rules either. Regardless, the counting system still seems a bit odd to me - a hit should be a hit, regardless. For example, in this vid, the blow landed at the :21 mark by the skinnier knight should have been "fatal" IMO because his sword strikes the thigh and travels up under the breast armor of the other fellow. Real life, that would have been the end of this fight.

[MichaelCAshe]

@malave31 The guy at 1:03 is Aveloc Twiceborn (mundane name Harvey Palmer), First Sword of Al Madeena and one of the key founders of EMP. You can google him or read a little at EMP's main website. Google up "Empire of Medieval Pursuits"

A lot of the Empires rules are from his ideas on making fights more realistic.

[MichaelCAshe]

@nachtjager77 Actually, they are "taking", or counting... Under EMP fight rules, you fight until you have three (3) telling blows, or one (1) substantial (read killing) blow. So if you get hit on an arm or leg, you don't drop to your knees or hold the arm behind you, rather you count out loud so your opponent can hear you, same for a lighter body shot. It is still on your honor to decide if it was an injury or killing blow. The action tends to be more continuous than under SCA rules.

[nachtjager77]

By anybody's rules, there are a lot of blows being landed and the fighters are not taking their hits. Perhaps some of these fellows have on too much padding or they just don't want to acknowledge they've been struck?

Great quality video - thanks for posting.

[sonnetxi]

the guy in scale armour and the big guy with stripe pants seem like the only decent fighters

[irchewbacca]

The second man is a GOD...

[Kelvarra]

@malave31 i live in minnesota