The purpose of a Baronial Champion is to represent and encourage the
practice of a competitive activity. Insofar as TW needs encouragement,
there is certainly a need: even though that need is being largely
filled by the current enthusiastic practitioners, we believe they
could use more publicity and support.  TW has come a long way in the
Barony, but it hasn't yet reached the position it deserves to have as
a strongly supported and commonly seen aspect of the Barony.
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Insofar as TW needs representation, we personally do not know whether
there is a sufficiently large base of practitioners to justify a
Champion yet - you need to have sufficient competitors to keep from
rotating through the same few people each time.
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We support having Baronial Champions because we believe that a large
and thriving barony like ours deserves to have this source of pride.
We think that a Baronial Thrown Weapons Championship Tourney would,
overall, be a good thing.  Judging *when* is harder.  However, when
the time comes, we suggest it should be scheduled about a year in
advance, so that there is ample time for new people to become
interested and skilled in the art with that goal in mind.  Then the
Champion, with the Baron/ess, would need to maintain and even expand
the level of interest to ensure an interesting tourney the next year.
