SCA Scores Site

Greetings my fellow Archers,

Over a decade ago, when I was barely some upstart Marksmen new to the Kingdom, I built a little website to speed up the process of getting a Royal Round score from the range into each archer's Official Average, which originally typically took nearly 3 months and lots of paper. Once that site was in full use, the same process dropped to typically taking less then a week, and when all the marshals align it can be done in a single evening. Over the years many new features were added to that site, to include; tools to help the Deputy Earl Marshal better manage the Badges which needed to be given out, a new type of standardized shoot which could easily be changed, then Atlatl was added as a new "class" of archery shoot which doubled all the tools needed, and using all the recorded data many other fun tools and statistics.

After a while a neighboring kingdom took notice of the Atlantian site and asked if it would be possible to setup a similar site for them as well. So the Aethelmearc site was born with all of the features from the Atlantian site at the time, but customized to Aethelmearc's version of the Royal Round. As time went on and new features were added to the Atlantian site, some of those were also added to the Aethelmearc site, some were not due to the differences in the sites. Over time the two sites became more and more different, so became more and more difficult to maintain and add new features to. When three other groups requested sites of there own at nearly the same time, the Kingdom of Trimaris, the Principality of The Summits and the Atlantian Thrown Weapons it became obvious that a new completely rebuilt version of the site was overdue. A version which could handle all the scores from practically any marshalled activity in various Kingdoms and Communities, yet was flexible enough to handle the differences in the way each calculated their averages and displayed their rankings. This version would re-use as many of the forms and display pages as possible, yet allow for completely custom pages where needed. And finally would allow the many scorekeepers out there to easily get their Kingdom/Community's scores published online. Nearly a year of development and testing later, the new version of the scores site went live with the Kingdoms of Atlantia and Aethelmearc and the Principality of The Summits, followed by Trimaris a few weeks later. Since then, several other Kingdoms have chosen to use the scores site to host their archery scores.

That was the summer of 2008, since then several other Kingdoms have chosen to use the scores site to host their archery scores and a few have branched out and use it for Thrown Weapons as well. With the sites versatility, and a good bit of customization, the IKAC began using the site with the 2009 season.

Changes are continue as many make great suggestions to add to the site for the benifit of everyone. So please be patient while I work to help support not only the Atlantian archery community, but the archery community Society wide, as well as any other marshalled communities who wishes to join. Recently the IKAC has joined the site, which has required a number of changes due to it's unique cross kingdom nature and specific submittion requirements.

If you have any suggestions or would like more information about this site, my mailbox is always open. If you have questions about a specific shoot or are a marshal who can not logon please contact the Scorekeeper or Deputy Earl Marshal for the Kingdom you are in. If you are from a Kingdom or Community who would possibly like to use this site to maintain your scores, I'd be happy to give you a behind the scenes tour, get you up and running, control of the shoots and scores will always remain in each kingdom's hands. The goal of this site since day one, and it remains the same today, is to get scores from the target to the scorekeeper to the official average as quickly and accurately as possible.

1. In Service to the Dream,
2. Baron Jonathas
3. Kingdom of Atlantia