Results:
King’s Champion: Laird Coinneach Mac an Leigh for a Mary Rose Purser’s Chest
Queen’s Champion: Lady Ilaria Rosati for A French Hood, circa 1525
Honorable Mention: Dominicus Varangopoulos for a Newbie’s First Candles and Tapers
Honorable Mention: THL Renata Rouge for 11th Century Naalbind Accessories
View all entries and comments to see the range of arts and sciences entered.
Many thanks to all the judges for their time evaluating projects!
Vivant!
Their Sylvan Majesties King Maynard von dem Steine and Queen Liadain ni Dheirdre Chaohamnaigh are pleased to let it be known to all that they are looking forward to choose their Arts & Sciences Champions at the Virtual Kingdom Arts & Sciences Championship to be held on Saturday December 5th.
Come and meet the entrants via Zoom and ask question about their projects from from 4-6pm EDT; court will follow at 7pm when Their Majesties will announce their champions.
The event will be entirely virtual and organized much along the lines of the Virtual Queen’s Prize Tourney that we ran in the spring. Entrants can sign up via our web form. You will be asked to provide some basic information and upload your documentation and a few photographs. This being t
he Kingdom Championship, we require written documentation, however don’t let that deter you from entering. The judging itself will be face to face over Zoom during private sessions between each entrant and their judges. Judging will be as close as possible to the normal judging at the traditional A&S Championships: two sessions with two judges of about 30-45 minutes for each entrant.
Judging will be performed with the help of a rubric that will be shared with entrants and judges ahead of time. Judges can sign up via our form here. Please provide us with the area(s) you’re comfortable with judging so that we can match entrants and judges ahead of time. The scores will be tallied once all judging is completed and relayed to Their Majesties who will choose their champions. Right now, we are planning to spread out the judging during the week prior to December 5th so that we can coordinate suitable time slots for the entrants and judges with a limited number of Zoom rooms. With that in mind, the deadline for entries is midnight, Saturday, November 28th.
We plan to have part of the presentations public, so that the populace can also chat with the entrants and admire their entries over Zoom. All entries are being publicly shared on this site and a public forum is available to leave comments, just as we did for the Virtual Queen’s Prize Tourney. Unfortunately, at this point, again due to the nature of virtual judging, and the practicality and legality of shipping foodstuffs and alcohol, anything that needs to be sniffed, tasted, or quaffed for proper judging is unfortunately not eligible. Don’t get us wrong – we really would not mind having consumables shipped to us in this time of need! But we don’t want you to break the law either. That being said, we totally encourage and accept research-paper entries in these areas.
We want to emphasize that we totally love to see partial projects! It doesn’t have to be a completely finished entry to be eligible. As usual, you may also enter up to three related objects as a single entry. Prior entry in another competition or display does not disqualify you from entering, we love to see continued progress on existin
g projects. Furthermore, given the virtual nature of the competition, we encourage everyone to go overboard with progress and final pictures or get creative with a short video. Show us your project from every angle as if we have it in our hands!
Finally, please consider submitting your entry form early. You can always send us updated documentation or photographs at a later stage up until the official entry deadline. Sending your intention to enter with a brief description early will allow us to start finding suitable judges. The virtual nature allows us to go the extra length to find knowledgeable judges and we like to utilize this as best we can!
Their Sylvan Majesties and the Kingdom Office of Arts & Sciences are very much looking forward to seeing what our Kingdom has to offer!
Yours in service,
Hrólfr and Elska á Fjárfelli (KMoAS)
Robert of Ferness (A&S Webminister)