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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6760312" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Typical medieval tournament forms include:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Single Combat - with rebated weapons - Usually Single or Double elimination. Sometimes round robin format. Sometimes to X blows, sometimes to yield, sometimes to first to fall.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Melee - with rebates or not - essentially a 2 or more sided battle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bear Pit - someone goes in, takes each comer at a time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Joust - as with single combat, but using lances from horse. Each bout often to 3 falls (total) or to 3rd fall by one.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ring joust (also called a ring tilt) - Riding an unopposed course, collecting hanging rings (from hooks or hung by yarn)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Quitain joust/Quintain tilt - riding a mechanically opposed course - you hit the target, and it swings a bar or bag at you in return.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Helm Show - fanciest helm decoration, judged by the ladies of the court.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Helm Tourney - you're out if your crest is knocked off your helm.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pas d'Armes - an array of weapons is provided - each contestant faces an opponent while wielding the provided weapon. Usually smaller, round robin. Not to be confused with ... </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pas d'armes - "Passage by Arms" - an impromptu tournament form at a crossroads - fight to go past, or admit defeat and pay ransom.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pas d'Armes - SCA style (which is taken from a 14th century document) - The senior fighter holds the field, and accepts a challenge from the lesser fighters - who pick the weapon to be used.</li> </ul>Non martial tourneys often accompanied the martial - judging of armor, of horses, of cattle, of food. If it would fit in in a county or state fair, and someone could do it with the tech, it was likely to happen.Common enough Tournament stakes<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Love - for love of battle. Essentially, nothing but bragging rights.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Prize - someone offers the winner a prize</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Ransom - losers pay winners</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Right - a tournament to decide who gets some right or title. A squires tourney might be For Right of Knighthood - the winner, or even several finalists, get knighted. Champion Tourneys are a form of this - winner is so and so's champion. Often restricted entry.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Show -  to establish that one Can, in fact, amass so many troops. Usually a melee amongst the vassals bringing the vauvassars before their lord. Sometimes, the neighbors show up, too, just to prevent any "squirrely ideas"...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Justice or Honor - not generally an open list - to establish some point of honor or some point of legal fact. Also called trial by combat.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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