Aarquelle Defender 2025
A Beautiful Day of Pageantry in the Park
Saturday August 2, 2025
Mineral Palace Park Rose Garden
1600 N Santa Fe, Pueblo, CO, 81004— our usual Combat Practice location
Google Map Link to Site
SITE IS VERY DRY (this is a public park)
Site Opens: 9:00am, (Site Closes: 4:30pm)
SITE FEE: $10 for Adults 18 and up.
— The non-member surcharge applies to all non-members. Join the SCA
Event Steward:
Teigr, perrywrogers@mac.com
This site is a lovely shaded park, so bring a picnic lunch for yourselves and remember as a PUBLIC park it is VERY DRY. As the site is in the middle of the city, there are plenty of food choices nearby.
Event Description:
Join us for our annual martial champions event on Saturday, August 2, 2025. This event will be day of fun and pageantry held in Mineral Palace Park, on the same spot we have our weekly Combat Practice.
Bring your banners, shields, and any other heraldic items you have to display around the List Field, and the event.
There will be tournaments to determine who will be our First Spear (armored combat champion), and our Blade (rapier champion) for the coming year. Anyone may enter and win the prizes that will be up for grabs in these tournaments. Only members of the Barony of Aarquelle may claim the titles of “First Spear of Aarquelle,” or “Blade of Aarquelle.”
There will be additional prizes for:
— Best Death
— Best Walk-In (think WWE, or Chaucer’s intros in the movie Knight’s Tale)
— Best Visual Heraldic Display.
The tournaments for Aarquelle’s Warden (archery champion), and Sentinel of the Keep (crossbow champion) will be held on a separate date to be determined at the Bighorn Archery Range. More details will follow.
Aarquelle’s Chatelaine will be set up to assist anyone wanting to learn more about us. as well as, have Loaner Garb available.
Super Six Derby
All participants are asked to hand craft SEVEN of the same item. Six of the items will be gifted to the Coronets to be given as largesse as they travel. The remaining item will be placed in a pool for other participants to pick from as a prize. The order for choosing a prize will be based on a random drawing.
In addition to the random drawing, all who visit the Derby will be given an opportunity to vote for their favorite item. Votes will be tallied at the end of the event and a special prize will be given to participant with the most votes.
Aarquelle Defender Schedule of Activities (subject to change):
10:00 Site Opens
10:30 Opening Court
11:00 Blade Tournament (Aarquelle’s Rapier Champion)
1:00 First Spear Tournament (Aarquelle’s Armored Champion)
3:00 Largesse Derby Closes
3:30-ish Closing Court
Written Directions to Site:
Take I-25 to Pueblo, and use exit 99B– 13th Street Exit.
Head west on 13th Street, and turn right (north) at the first stoplight.
Mineral Palace Park will be right in front of you.
The event is in the western part of the park.