[A-H] The Argent Tournament

24th March 33 - Lord Aramal Blackstone has proposed the project to the Ironforge Senate, and there was an agreement reached. Currently Lord Blackstone is working to evaluate the precise costs of the venture.

4th April 33 - Lord Blackstone, due to his "visage" problems, is postponing the organisation of the construction works until further notice.

8th June 33 - Due to the death of Lord Blackstone any plans for organising the tournament in Dun Morogh have been cancelled.

20th July 33 - the Argent Crusade has decided to host another tournament on Icecrown in a wake of impending threat coming to Azeroth.

5th of August - the Grand Tournament opens with the first contest: the Expedition Race.

6th of August - the second contest: the Joust Event.

7th of August - finals for the Joust Event and the final Combat Contest.




Update, 21st of July 2016.
- date set;
- events set;
- abandoned the idea to make it in Dun Morogh;
- added the Horde participation possible.

Update, 5th of August 2016.
- [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.];
- added a poll in the original post.

Update, 9th of August 2016.
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Contestants were tasked to follow the riddles given to find some secret location across Northrend. Upon reaching one, they were given another riddle to solve, which would point them towards the second goal, etc. Such lasted for five locations out of eight. It took about ((OOC: one and half an hour)) to finish the race.


First place and the Gold Trophy of the 2nd Edition of the Argent Tournament went to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. They reached the end line as first, even though for the most of the race stayed in the tail.

Second place and the Silver Trophy of the 2nd Edition of the Argent Tournament went to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. Due to translation issues they started as the last pair, and yet, as the only Horde representatives were able to finish as second.

Third place and the Bronze Trophy of the 2nd Edition of the Argent Tournament went to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. They were in the lead for the most of the race.





Contestants were confronting each other on the Ring of Champions, each mounted and carrying a lance and a shield. The task was simple: to knock down the opponent from his horse with the use of the blunted lance. The winning contestant was the one who scored more points out of three. It took about ((OOC: one and half an hour)).


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No prize was given, due to the contestants not showing up the next day.

Each contestant received a Commendation for taking part in this event (link to GHI soon).





In between two longest flanks of the Coliseum building, contestants were trying their skills in the art of ground combat. The winning contestant was the one who scored more points out of three. It took about ((OOC: one and half an hour)) to finish the event.


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The Gold Trophy of the 2nd Edition of the Argent Tournament went to Paingriever of Undercity.

Each contestant received a Commendation for taking part in this event (link to GHI soon).

.. I'm so joining this, even though Eve ain't a knight and risks breaking every bone in her body, this seems like a fun thing to partake in already. (Even though its heavy construction. ^^) Always wanted to do something like this! .. Sadly my original knight character was left behind on a server-switch, so Eve will have to do!

Fenodyree has this on his radar. Seems the perfct opportunity to show off his Blacksmith skills to the Knights of Azeroth!

Update, 21st of July 2016.

- date set;
- events set;
- abandoned the idea to make it in Dun Morogh;
- added the Horde participation possible;

I've made a calendar invite on this for the Horde using the copied invite list of The Horde Gathering.

It should bring it to general awareness. Also going to prod to someone bring it up during The Horde Gathering, that is a few days before the Tournament.

At what time do the events begin? Or are they meant to be done throughout the day?

20.00, Fri, Sat, Sun is the calendar invites at least.

Will try and be around if possible...

Due to the fact, that it's Friday and there will be the Traders Branch in Stormwind, events on this day may be more casual than planned. We will see how many get there and decide.

I'll be on hand to organise Horde side for any wishing to take part from that end

Do you have to sign up somewhere to participate in events or what? If you could explain a bit.

On the Horde side we have used the in game calendar and Discord to inform GM's of it and they in turn are informing their own guild members, then closer to the time a reminder is posted in LFRP, and eventually, an invites announcement followed by directions from the organiser in raid chat.

I assume a similar system will take place on the Alliance

Well i'm don't have any calendar invite at least ally wise. Not too sure how well informed other people have been either.

i think ill have to make a new TRP just so i can come to this, i think i have already done the quests as i intended to get the tabard at one point but ill check just in case before i come along

Updated: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
Added a poll.

Also, I'm very sorry for any disinformation or chaos that may have aroused during the event. I tried to do my best, but now I know that such must be supported, especially in terms of cross faction communication. I will be therefore using RP Connect for that purpose and check, how much can be achieved this way. It may have taken longer than expected, especially all the explanations (I know that something might have gone lost/confused).

I also apologise those who did not take part in the race for the lack of care. The Argent Crusade is yet a small guild, and we were unable to distribute tasks to different people. I hope that this will change and in the future each event and each RP space can be managed well.

To reply on Siegmund's comment: I'm sorry, I assumed that people are checking Events section of these forums, and that those who were invited to calendar event and were given the moderator status might spread it to others. I will make myself a list of all guilds and their active officers so this does not happen again.

If you have any feedback I'd gladly take it.

I personally enjoyed the race around Northrend. Things were off to a slow start but that's to be expected with all the cross faction things and planing since I do remember the Argent Tournament that happened a few years back.

As for feedback I don't really have any complaints thowards the race itself at least was a hard thing to do, even i once had plans to do such a event but never got around to making riddles and all the preperations.

Few notes on some possibl improvements though. First one is very nitpicky but the name writing down could have joined the questions of name + who they represent/where they are from. Yes i know it's a small complaint, but sometimes every second to speed things up can help things run smoother.

Takes a great effort to make events like this happen so perhaps if you can find another guild or certain people who can actively help a bit. Kind of like you mentioned already least to keep people who aren't part of the event company. With a little planing maybe the person who hosted the trade event in Stormwind could relocate to the tournament grounds for that one day so that events and people are close, but no need to be in exactly the same spot, well it's just an idea whenever or not people would be up for it is another question.

And lastly the advertising of the event, now I can't really complain too much since I don't know how much work you put into it. But least personally I have learned of it only on this site, but not that great enough of a chunk of RPers visit defias.rp also I don't really know how many people were on the invite list, but it's sometimes a bit unreliable for people to spread the message further then their own guild or even that. Try and perhaps least find some people who can at least mention it in LFRP once in a while before, even before the event today. Every bit helps in spreading the word. One can also spread it ICly maybe on days or places a lot of people happen to gather. Now I didn't really pay attention to the SW council, so i'm not too sure if it was mentioned there or not.

That's about it though from my side. Don't let this wall of text let you down, since i'm sure most enjoyed what we've seen so far.

I got out from the jousting undefeated!

Spoiler:

That looks so good. Such a shame to miss it.