What was the purpose of medieval tournaments?
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I agree with 'Pro'... It was a way that knights could practice fighting, in an honourable and controlled environment. Note the ommision of SAFE... yes, people did die in tournaments. But Ladies and Lords did often choose their champions based on who they thought fought the best in these 'games'.
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you could argue about the social as well as military value of the swoard in medieval times. they were a judge of one's character... see the link below
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A bit o' cut and paste:\n\nn the early days of professional fist fighting, groups of fighters would travel from town to town challenging the local men. The fighters would arrange a few of the spectators in a circle and have them hold a ring of rope. Any man wishing to challenge one of the boxers would "toss his hat into the ring." The bout would then take place in this early boxing "ring."\n\nAs the number of spectators increased, the hand-held ring no longer sufficed, and it became necessary to fashion an enclosure by attaching ropes to stakes driven into the ground. Four stakes were normally used, which produced a square enclosure, but it continued to be called a boxing ring.
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Use Google to search "Medieval Time Period"\n\nI'm willing to help get you started... I'm not willing to do your research for you.\n\nGood Luck.
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Medieval Period\n500 - 1450 AD
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I assume you mean a tournament pool, try to be specific with your questions. There are two ways, you can score one point for each correct game, so the bracket is out of 63 games. Or you can give on point for first round, two points for second round, 4 points for third round etc. That is how yahoo does it. ESPN does basically the same thing only with larger numbers.
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Good question. I am sure there is something the guys who picked the tournament saw something in them, but i dont. they are overrated
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Who came up with that canard?\nTennis is a great sport, a great activity, and can be extremely athletic and competitive.  Don't shy away from it because of other people's ignorance.
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The first Tournament of Roses was staged in 1890\nby members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club,\nformer residents of the East and Midwest eager to\nshowcase their new home's mild winter weather.\n"In New York, people are buried in snow,"\nannounced Professor Charles F. Holder at a Club\nmeeting. "Here our flowers are blooming and our\noranges are about to bear. Let's hold a festival to\ntell the world about our paradise." \n\nDuring the next few years, the festival expanded to include marching bands and motorized floats. The games on the town lot (which was re-named Tournament Park in 1900) included ostrich races, bronco busting demonstrations and a race between a camel and an elephant (the elephant won). Reviewing stands were built along the Parade route, and Eastern newspapers began to take notice of the event. In 1895, the Tournament of Roses Association was formed to take charge of the festival, which had grown too large for the Valley Hunt Club to handle.\n\nIn 1902, the Tournament of Roses decided to enhance the day’s festivities by adding a football game – the first post season college football game ever held. Stanford University accepted the invitation to take on the powerhouse University of Michigan, but the West Coast team was flattened 49-0 and gave up in the third quarter. The lopsided score prompted the Tournament to give up football in favor of Roman-style chariot races. In 1916, football returned to stay and the crowds soon outgrew the stands in Tournament Park. William L. Leishman, the Tournament’s 1920 President, envisioned a stadium similar to the Yale Bowl, the first great modern football stadium, to be built in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco area. The new stadium hosted its first New Year’s football game in 1923 and soon earned the nickname “The Rose Bowl.”\n\nThe Tournament of Roses has come a long way since its early days. The Rose Parade’s elaborate floats now feature high-tech computerized animation and exotic natural materials from around the world. Although a few floats are still built exclusively by volunteers from their sponsoring communities, most are built by professional float building companies and take nearly a year to construct. The year-long effort pays off on New Year’s morning, when millions of viewers around the world enjoy the Rose Parade.\n\n  \n  \nNicknamed “The Granddaddy of Them All” the Rose Bowl Game has been a sellout attraction every year since 1947. That year’s contest was the first game played under the Tournament’s exclusive agreement with the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences. The 1998 Rose Bowl Game was the 52nd anniversary of that agreement, the longest standing tradition of any collegiate conference and a bowl association. Now, as part of the Bowl Championship Series, the Rose Bowl has hosted the National Championship Game between the top two teams in the nation in 2002 and 2006, and will host the National Championship again in 2010.
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Medieval is the word you are looking for.\n\nEnjoy
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There is an option before the tournament, you can by the "Follow My Team" option. That gives you tickets for every game your team will play.
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Medieval Guilds were centered on trades mostly. So you could try the merchants guild. They were very strong in advocating their rights as to the privileges of the middle class. Especially when it came to not only ownership of land but also the ability to determine their own destiny.
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This is a tradition that dates back to the medieval ages where often times a jewel laden chalice was part of the bounty that a contestant would win. The Stanley Cup is no different. As is typical in most other sports, a champagne, beer or some other beverage was shared by the winning team. Therefore a cup is placed on top of the trophy, and the victors partake of The spoils.
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No special reason... only for the obvious, if it were held every years it would have no meaning or expectation after a while.... but there are other importatnt cups to keep us entertained, eouro cup (e 4 yrs), copa america (e 3yrs), african, u20 world cup, and more.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia article:\n\nThe Crusades were a series of several military campaigns—usually sanctioned by the Papacy—that took place during the 11th through 13th centuries. Originally, they were Roman Catholic Holy Wars to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, but some were directed against other Europeans, such as the Fourth Crusade against Constantinople, the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of southern France and the Northern Crusades.
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Because it is fun!\n\nFor the athletes and the volunteers!\n\nAnd it draws attention and donations to a worthy cause.
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There was an strategy to find the best world wide players in the world and put them together. Most of expert commentators relates the problem with the lack of group strategy behind the game and the lack of focus and discipline of some of the players due to the extra activities they need to preserve (advertising campaigns, events and so on)