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Once upon a time, in the dawn time of the SCA, there was Fighting.
Beating everybody at Fighting earned you an award. For Fighting.

Then they wanted to give awards for Fighting to people who hadn't beaten everybody else. So they back-dated an award for those who had beaten everyone else, and gave it precedence. Uber-Fighting.
There were also people doing other things besides Fighting. So they also created an award for Everything Else. So there was Uber-Fighting, and Fighting and Everything Else.

That was too much, so Everything Else was split. So there was Uber-Fighting, and the next tier down was Fighting, Arts, and Service. All theoretically equal, except of course that you had to participate in Fighting to get the Uber-Fighting award that outranked the others. Those were the rules of the game.

This worked reasonably well for many years. Until many people were doing different Fighting and wanted the same recognition. But the Fighting award* said no, these Fighters cannot get the Uber-Fighting award and they are not our Fighters. We do not want them.

So now there is a new award. So there is Uber-Fighting, and the next tier down is Fighting, Arts, Service... and Fighting.

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* Some members of Fighting are exceptions, but it seems clear that the Fighting award as a whole was hard against it.

Take two (they're small)

This week's Resolution Recipe: Clay Cooker Pork.
( I made this once before and didn't post, partly because I had plenty of recipes, partly it was disappointingly blah. )