Here's the League thread back again.
After having worked through a tournament I have some rule suggestions, and a suggestion to revisit die rolls - scoring.
Specific problem issues with knights - two things came up repeatedly
1. Clip on Arm Armor - it limits the hand movement and when adjusting the lance often causes the armor to pop off. I recommend it be outlawed for future tournaments.
2. Lance disparity - the old style and new style lances are different lengths and can make for problems in the photography.
Example old style lance
30 04 8080 - LanceExample new style lance
30 07 6380 - LanceAs the new style is longer and is easier for the klicky to hold in a range of adjusted lengths I recommend that future tournaments require all knights to use the new style lance during the actual jousting. What is used during parades would be up to the host.
Die rolls - I think the current system is cumbersome and could be streamlined.
My proposal for the die rolls is to roll a single 6 sided die and score as:
1 - miss - scored as zero
2 - glancing shield hit
3 - solid shield hit
4 - glancing body hit
5 - solid body hit
6 - unhorsing
A win would be declared at 7 points if there is no unhorsing.
If there is a tie of wins to determine who moves on to a final, then the knight with highest total points moves forward (with die rolls of 1 being zeroed out and not counted). If both wins and points are tied then a special jousting round between the two knights is run with the winner moving on.
Currently we have to convert from die roll totals to scored points. We also have to track honors in the event of ties. Both of these aspects would be eliminated and scoring streamlined.
Everyone's thoughts on these ideas?