Come join in a wide range of combat and crafts, pomp and pageantry, feasting and frivolity at Politarchopolis’s premier event.
When: Friday 29th of November to Sunday 1st of December – 2024
Location: Bungendore Showgrounds, 71 Matthews Lane Bungendore, NSW.
Steward: Crispin Sexi (crispin.sexi@protonmail.com)
Bookings: Now available here.
| Prices: | ||
| Early Bird – Before 24th of November | After 24th of November | Camping |
| Full Event = $100.00 All Saturday = $85.00 Saturday Night = $60.00 Saturday Daytime = $60.00 Sunday Daytime = $45.00 Child = $0 Adult Non-member + $10.00 per adult Child Non-member + $5.00 per child | Full Event = $110.00 All Saturday = $95.00 Saturday Night = $70.00 Saturday Daytime = $70.00 Sunday Daytime = $55.00 Child = $0 Adult Non-member + $10.00 per adult Child Non-member + $5.00 per child | Powered camping = $30 per van or tent Unpowered camping = $20 per van or tent |
Friday the 29th day of November
- 12:00pm Site Opens, Cars allowed for setup
- 3:00pm Equestrian Practice
- 6:30pm Soup Kitchen
- 7:00pm Games / Twi-KAC
- 9:00pm Glowstick Archery
Saturday the 30th of November
- 7:00am Breakfast
- 10:00am Opening Court
- 10:30am Archery / Rapier / Heavy / Equestrian / Kids
- 12:30pm Lunch / Market
- 1:30pm A&S Competitions/ Archery / Rapier / Heavy / Equestrian / Kids
- 3:30pm Archery / Rapier / Heavy / Equestrian / Kids
- 4:30pm Royal Court
- 6:00pm Feast
- 8:00pm Royal Court
- 9:00pm Tavern Bransles & Luting / Traditional Bird Impression Comp
Sunday the 1st of December
- 7:30am Breakfast
- 9:00am Voice Herald Contest
- 10:00am A&S / Archery / Rapier / Heavy / Equestrian / Kids Boffer
- 1:00pm Lunch
- 2:00pm Closing Court
- 3:00pm Event close
About Fields of Gold
At Fields of Gold there will be many enjoyable activities – armoured combat, rapier combat, target archery, equestrian skill at arms, classes on period arts and sciences, the Crown and the Baronage holding court, good food, and frivolity.
This is a garbed event. If you are new to the society please contact our Hospitaler (hospitaller@politarchopolis.lochac.sca.org) to arrange for loan of clothing and utensils.
Contact the bookings officer if you have any questions before the event.
Volunteering
Our events run on the labour of volunteers. Please ask at the sign-in desk if you would like to help out. There are many easy and enjoyable tasks, such as making announcements, helping serve meals, helping run activities, washing dishes, and packing up the site at the end of the event.
Accommodation
There are not any dorm rooms or bunk houses at this site, but camping on site is available. Or stay in nearby Bungendore. Or Canberra is only half an hour away. If you have travelled far and would like to stay with a local SCA member and you do not know anyone local, please mention this when booking.
The site has toilets and showers.
Food
Event is fully catered with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meals provided from Friday night to Sunday lunch. If you have a special dietary requirement please advise when booking.
Off-board tickets are also available. There is a small outdoors kitchen available at the campsite for use by campers. If you are planning to provide your own cooking set-up please check whether there are any fire restrictions in place that may impact you.
Amenities
The closest shops are in Bungendore, a short drive from the site.
The closest hospital is in Queanbeyan.
Disabled facilities
The site is Bungendore Showgrounds. This site is remarkably flat but mostly unpaved ground. A standard wheelchair may struggle, but scooters will be fine. Indoor areas are concreted or have floorboards. There are ramps and hardly any stairs.
There is a permanent disabled toilet.
Merchants
Permanent merchants will be set up throughout Fields of Gold. Plus there will be limited-time Markets on the Saturday during lunch. If you wish to be a merchant, please advise when booking or contact the steward.
Activity Timetables
| Heavy Armoured Combat Activities | Rapier Combat Activities | Target Archery Activities |
| Fri 8:00pm: Concussion Discussion (Tavern). Sat 10:30am: Champs d’Or Tournament. Sat 1:30pm: Newcomers tourney (< 3 yrs fighting). Sat 3:30pm: Polearm Tourney. Sun 10am: Roses Tourney (challenge style). | Sat 10:30am: Rotating Weapons Tourney. Sat 1:30pm: Q&A Round Table Sat 3:30pm: Coaching Sessions Sun 10am: Roses Tourney (challenge style). | Fri 7pm: Twilight IKAC (Twi-KAC??) Fri 9pm: Glowstick Shoot. Sat 10:30am: Seasonal Shoot and Novelty Shoot Sat 1:30pm: Entries in the Baronial Tourney Sat 3:30pm: Novelty Shoots Sun 10am: Regular IKAC |
| Children’s Activities | Equestrian Activities | Class Schedule |
| Sat 10:30am: Games Sat 1:30pm: Illumination Sat 3:30pm: Lucet Sun: 10am Boffer Toruney | Fri 3pm: Equestrian Practice Sat 10:30am: Skill at Arms/Games. Sat 1:30pm: Mounted Combat. Sat 3:30pm: Mounted Archery Sun 10am: Sunday Riding for War talk Sun 1pm: Joust for the Royal Court. Sun arvo: Pleasure Ride. | Class Schedule: Now available here in google docs or downloadable/viewable here in PDF form. |
Click the Headings below to see more about the Baronial A&S Competition being held at FOG this year.
>Politarchopolis Baronial Archery Tournament, AS LVIII (59) – A&S Competition
Greetings, archers!
This year’s Baronial Archery Tournament will take the form of an A&S competition, and the theme is… ‘An archery tournament’!
Entrants are encouraged to craft an archery tournament. It can be based on a period archery event, or be something completely new. Because this is an A&S competition, you will need to provide some documentation for your challenge (more info below).
Key dates
Competition opens: 14 September 2024
Judging by the populace: 30 November 2024 (the Saturday of FoG XII)
Winner announced: Before FoG XII closes
Baronial champion announced: Before FoG XII closes
Conditions of Entry
By entering this challenge, you are agreeing to participate in the Politarchopolis Baronial Archery Championship and accept the risk that you may be selected as the next Baronial Archery Champion.
You also acknowledge that the Baron and Baroness have the final choice in who will be the next Baronial Archery Champion, based on who they feel best represents the ideals of courtesy, chivalry, entertainment and skill in archery. This person may not necessarily be the winner of the tournament.
Finally, you are granting permission for your archery challenge to be run at least once in Politarchopolis in the coming year.
Documentation
The documentation (including any images) will be displayed at Fields of Gold XII, to be judged by the Baron and Baroness, the archers in attendance and the general populace. Physical targets or models may also be displayed alongside the documentation, though each entrant is responsible for getting their target to the site and taking it home after the competition.
If you do not have access to a printer, I can print your documentation and transport it to FoG. However, you must e-mail it to me BEFORE midnight on Wednesday 27 November 2024 (alotdelabro@gmail.com).
The documentation should include the following:
The name of your challenge.
Your SCA name, and the name of your local group.
Some background information for your tournament. Is it testing archers in a certain way? Is there anything fun or silly about it? If it is based on a period challenge, when and where was it originally shot? What resources did you use to research the original challenge, and have you made any changes to it?
Instructions for running the challenge. For example, the target(s) used and target size, distance(s) shot, number of arrows each round, and how the challenge is scored.
If your challenge uses a non-standard target (e.g., not a five colour FITA/WA face or an IKAC period division face), include a drawing, photograph or diagram of the target, and instructions for how to make it.
If the competition uses a 3D target, include a brief summary of preferred materials for making the target, the dimensions of the target, and how it is to be set on the field.
If the competition uses a target face, include enough information for someone to be able to recreate it. You may want to provide a diagram with measurements for the target elements, or draw your target face on graph paper so it can be scaled up.
For examples of instructions and target descriptions, see the following scores-sca.org sites:
Proposed Society Seasonal Archery Competition shoots (https://scores-sca.org/public/page.php?R=25&PID=198),
The Gwyntarian Winter Challenge (https://scores-sca.org/public/scores_rules.php?R=19&Shoot=235).
>Arts and Sciences Competitions and Politachopolis Baronial Championship at Fields of Gold.
Good greetings to the Great and Noble people of Politarchopolis, Oakwaite, Torlyon and wider Lochac form Visconte Muirghein Politachopolois A&S Champion.
Further to Countess Beatrice’ post regarding the competitions at FoG
As Noted there will be two (2) Competitions
Something Gold: have/are you creating something that shines and glitters with the most precious of metals, or defines with glorious golden tones
Heraldic: show us your use and display of that which defines Individuals, Households, Allegiances and Groups
Display of Joy: Additionally I Invite all and everyone to show us your Art, your Craft, your skill and display that thing you are working on, are proud of, have tried as a new skill, and place these items on display for all to marvel at.
From these three categories one who is local to Politachopolis and Her Cantons shall Be Our New Champion chosen .
Each attendee will be given Three Beads , 1 gold, 1 White, and 1 Blue.
Gold for , something gold: White, for Heraldic, these to place on the item in each of these categories that you find marvelous.
The Blue is for the item that inspires you most and can be from either of the two competitions or those items displayed. Note from this Our champion shall be named by their Excellencies.
Timing details will be provided closer to the Event.
Please note: Participants are reminded that if they are unwell or showing cold or flu-like symptoms, they must not attend.