Ursalmas!

I just returned from An Tir's big seasonal kickoff for the outdoor tournament season Ursalmas, It was hosted as always by the Barony ofAquaterra, and what a great event! It was a non-stop fighting buffet of every style popular in the SCA, heavy, light, archery and pillows! If you can fight with it in the SCA we were using it and had a tournament for it. 
I fought 12 fights on the checky eric in the heavy tournament with a dismal 3-9 wins, and another dozen or so practice fights with whoever would cross swords with me. The checky eric had some great knights and fighters on it, Sir Octamasades and Sir Rustam being two great fights and Sir Alexi (sp) being a rarer (for me) fight all of which were great fun and then I went on to do another dozen or so pick-up fights between the tournament and semi-finals. In these I went a few more rounds with Squire Tristan who was also on the checky eric we double killed in the tournament and we seemed to have a few more double kills before the semifinals managed to get their pairings together and take over the erics. In the end it was a our own Duke Sven Gunnarson vs. Duke Gaston of Trimaris with Sven taking victory. 
That win for Sven came only after several epic battles most notably a two sword vs. two sword battle between Sven and Octamasades that I can only call a dance of blades I will never forget. Even seeing it on tape afterwards it still thwarts a good description other than "wonderful swordsmanship".
I had a great time and look forward to the next one, I will not go onabout how sore I am other than to say that bruises can turn from purpleto greenish overnight and falling down in death can be the hardest blowyou mayever get! 
All this said I have to end on some constructive critique. The pairings and organizational heirarchy that were used forthe semis, and finals should be burned... at the stake! Good greif thewait between actual results in the semifinals and the setup washeinous. Aquaterrans, AnTirians please for the love of your own awesome event fix this!!!