Tournament Medieval Rules

For this assignment, we are to find 3 sets of rules for jousting, dueling, and melee. 

Jousting: 

Jousting is when two mounted knights wearing armor and using lances. There are 3 sets of rules for jousting. It is kind of like martial arts.

Joust a plaisance:
 The first rule is when people gather and fight for several days. Once the contest is over, a winner will be picked. To pick the winner, the judge decides who hits the ground or the enemy fist. That is how they determine the winner.


Pas d' armes:
The second rule is that a knight that is participating in the jousting tournament will make an announcement that the knight would take on all the challengers and set a day, time, and place to fight. They join this tournament to test each other skills by fighting against each other. Again to win, they determine who hits the ground or the enemy first.

Modern Jousting:
Modern jousting is the same as joust a plaisance and pas d' armes. The only difference is that modern jousting has an advantage. If someone was hurt during a joust tournament, they were most likely to be taken care of and survive.


Dueling:
Dueling is when knights come together to fight at a tournament, combat, or contest.


Judicial Duel:
The first set of rule for judicial rule is that they only decide by success with the people's guilt and innocence. The combat would not start until noon and if the person fighting in the tournament were still alive till the stars are out, that person automatically win. Although, weapons such as staves and etc were restricted.


Private Duel:
The rule for private duel is that the tournament took place in hidden locations and the scary part is that there were no rules for this combat and no judges either. Some knights would carry sand in their pockets and later when the tournament starts, they would throw it at the opponent's face.


Tournament Single Combat:
The rule for this is that armor, shields, and battlefield weapons were used in this tournament. They had to fight on foot and the knights could use weapons such as axes and way many more. This dueling rule was really different compared to other dueling rules such as the private duel.



Melee:
Melee was a type of tournament back then people would play. People would fight as a team or group. The goal to win this game was to fight hand to hand.


Melee A Pied:
Melee a pied was the first rule of melee. The rule for this is that the teams were suppose to fight on foot. The only weapon they could use was their hand. The goal to win a melee tournament was to get the first person on the ground.


Melee A Cheval:
The next rule is called melee a cheval. It is really similar to melee a pied. The only difference was that you would ride a horse while you try to push the opposing team and the opposing team try to push you and your teammates off of the horse.


Modern Melee:
Modern melee is how we play melee today. The rule for modern melee is that weapons were must to be put away meaning that you can't use them during melee and armor must be worn at all time. We have an advantage to be playing melee today because deaths are uncommon when playing unlike medieval melee back then.

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