RULES OF THROWN WEAPONS FOR ROYAL ROUNDS IN AETHELMEARC

I.    ALLOWED WEAPONS:  AEthelmearc Royal Round will consist of knives and axes only.

II.   WEAPONS:

    A.  Axes must be designed to be thrown with one hand and have a single   scoring blade. Double bladed axes, hurl bats and any other axe that has extra weight will   not be allowed.

    B.  Knives should be designed to be thrown with one hand and will consist of one blade (i.e. blade consisting of one point and one or two edges) and one handle.

    C.  Swords or any other type of weapon will not be thrown.

III.  EQUIPMENT:

    A.  WOOD BUTTS:  Due to availability, hardwood or softwood wood butts can be used for Royal Rounds. The diameter of the wood butts should be greater than 16 inches (the wood butt should be at least one inch larger than the outer 15 inch ring
circumference) and at least 12 inches thick.

    B.  STANDS:  The wood butt stand should hold the wood butt  so that the center of the   butt will be 40 to 50 inches from the ground. Multiple targets should be uniform in height.

    C.  TARGETS: The royal round target will consist of three circles with the following values:
        3 inch circle of yellow equal to 10 points.
        9 inch circle of blue equal to 7 points
        15 inch circle of white equal to 4 points
        Outside the 15 inch circle equal to 1 point

NOTE:  The circle lines around each scoring area will be black.

IV:   RANGE: The Royal Round Range will have clearly marked 10 foot and 20 foot   throwing lines.

V:    RULES:

    A.  No person's foot may be touching or across the throwing line during the   throw.

    B.  If a throw is made and the Marshal in Charge has determined that a   person's foot has touched or passed over the line, then a "FOUL" may be declared and the Marshal in Charge may give a friendly advisory warning if the foul was, in the opinion of the Marshal, only slightly over the line and completely unintentional. If  the offense is more obvious, the marshal may count the score for the particular throw as null and void. All subsequent offenses after one warning will be non-scoring and judged as fouls.

    C.  If a "FOUL" has been determined and the Marshal in Charge does not know which foul/throw has scored, then he may eliminate the higher of the two scores.

    D.  Any "FOUL" determined by the Marshal in Charge will not be re-thrown.

    E.  Any part of the cutting edge of the ax or tip of a knife that cuts the line separating the scoring zone will count as the higher score. (e.g. if the knife /axe cuts two zones only the higher of the two is counted).

    F.  All weapons must be sticking in the scoring zone long enough to be scored.  This is at the discretion of the MIC.

    G.  Any weapon knocking a scoring weapon out of the target will not be counted . ( let it be noted that the marshal's first duty is safety. His attention will not be on scoring until after the thrown weapons flight)

VI.   SCORING

The Royal Round will consist of :
    4 axe throws from behind the 10 ft. line ( 2 flights of 2)
    2 axe throws from behind the 20 ft. line. ( 1 flight of 2)
    4 knife throws from behind the 10 ft. line. ( 2 flights of 2)
    2 knife throws from behind the 20 ft. line. (1 flight of 2)

VII.  MISCELLANEOUS

    A.  Thrower can reserve the right to throw only one weapon at a time. (because they only possess one weapon, or, if previous weapon is blocking center)

    B.  Once a Royal Round has been started it must be completed or all scores discarded before starting another round.

    C.  Marshal in charge can conduct Royal Rounds by flights, (ie. rotate throwers through each flight before continuing to the next scoring flight).

    D.  Only one Royal Round Score may be submitted per thrower , per day from an announced offical practice or event, by the Marshal in charge.

    E.  Ranking of the Royal Rounds is determined by averaging the three highest Royal Round scores thrown and submitted to the Thrown Weapons Scorekeeper within the last 12 months.

        1. Scores that are older than 12 months will be dropped from records and will not be used for averaging Royal Rounds.
        2.  Throwers who have submitted less than three scores to the Scorekeeper will not appear on the list of published Royal  Round averages.

    F.  REPORTING Royal Rounds will be reported to the Kingdom Thrown Weapons Scorekeeper, within one week of the activity , by the Marshal in charge.