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jupiterorbit

Crown Crownity Crown

Sep 09, 2009 10:14

So Crown is over! Hurrah! It’s been quite a ride, almost all good. I felt a lot of responsibility for this one - yes, I had the volunteer coordination piece, but I pretty much convinced the barony to bid on September rather than May Crown (May floods at that site - we had some rain this weekend, but we never had giant mud slicks or any of the other ( Read more... )

volunteers, largesse, awards, gustav, crown, walkie-talkies, amy

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gargoyal3 September 9 2009, 18:31:23 UTC

Jarl Owain, inspired by Wrenn :)

jupiterorbit September 9 2009, 19:05:08 UTC

Yes. Sorry. I have been kinda wound up in the actual workings of the event, and figured those who cared knew.

What Gwen said.

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jupiterorbit September 10 2009, 04:36:06 UTC

We'd love it if you'd come up and visit. :-) Really. I was thinking about you today, in fact, wondering if you'd be able to come teach at the Culinary Symposium in November. *hopeful kitty eyes*

A lot of the peers kind of sneered at the ticket/raffle thing, but I suggested donating their hours to baronial largesse or a newcomer, so as not to make the people who did accept tickets feel self-conscious, and most of them got on board with that. It was very cool to see some of our newest, hardest-working volunteers win stuff like armentale plates and mugs - stuff they will be able to use this coming feast season. The chair winner was just over the moon - it was very gratifying, because alysaundre got to see her with her new chair.

And the baronial daughter, Cecelia, flipped over the knittens. Honestly, it was starting to resemble bridesmaids waiting for the bouquet toss over in that corner. Cecelia has a lot of promise adn stuff on the ball, does that one.

nusbacher September 10 2009, 05:34:42 UTC

What's amazing to me is the sheer scale that comes across in all this. It sounds huge!

jupiterorbit September 10 2009, 05:40:05 UTC

Not as huge as some - not *nearly* as huge as Estrella - but big enough. Crown events have been directed to "plan down" from the boom days of the decade previous to last year in terms of event attendance; we had pretty much break-even, best case and what we expected scenarios (although I believe Emma & Juliana put it slightly differently). We were a little above the middle, what we expected, with 932 attendees signed in at gate.

I didn't count my volunteers, and not all of them came through Volunteer point (some of the waterbearers, chirurgeons, lists and heralds went right there and never came near my table). It takes such a huge amount of effort to put on a Crown, though, and our team truly came through. It was so worth it.