Summer ’26 Crown Tournament: Register by Friday, June 5th!

Greetings Ansteorra,

The format for the Summer Crown Tournament, hosted by the Shire of Adlersruhe on June 13th will be:

Want to enter the tournament?

In order to enter the tournament, you and your Consort will need to do the following no later than June 5th, 2026:

  1. Submit a letter of Intent by email to trm@crown.ansteorra.org no later than June 5th, 2026.
  2. Completion of the Registration form by both entrant and Consort. Please use the link below to complete the registration form.

https://forms.gle/3v8jUw7KK7F6VdzZ7

All fighters and consorts will have until June 5th, 2026 to complete registration.

Notice of acceptability to the Crown of Ansteorra will be made to all entrants by June 6th, 2026

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Contact Kingdom Seneschal via email at kingdom@seneschal.ansteorra.org with any questions.

Read a Welcome and Reminders from your Kingdom Webminister

  1. Greetings from the new Kingdom Webminister
  2. AMP by the Numbers
  3. AMP features you should know about
  4. Round Table Reminders

1) Greetings from the new Kingdom Webminister

Hi!  I am Hersirkona kolfinna inn kyrra Otarsdottir, and as of April 30th this year I am now the Kingdom Webminister of Ansteorra.  I have been in communication and collab with my predecessor Honorable Asa, who cared for our Webministry Department with good hands during their tenure — Thank you, Asa!! I am very excited to step into this role and do what I can to support our Crown, Principality, Officers, and Populace of Ansteorra. 

For folks who don’t know me, my Ansteorra wiki page is up-to-date, and I’m very open to receiving questions, having a chat, and otherwise making myself available in this role. 

2) AMP by the Numbers

AMP has been live for three full reigns now, and the AMP team wanted to highlight exciting data from that time period. Check out this slideshow below or view it as a PDF here to see how AMP has grown over time!

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3) AMP features you should know about

There are some important AMP features that everyone in the Kingdom should know about that I want to highlight

  1. Gatherings and waivers in AMP
    • Local Seneschals should be using AMP to create Gatherings for any activity that might require waivers.
    • Local Officers can and should use AMP to upload waivers in AMP for gatherings — from Marshals to Exchequers, every Warranted Local Officer can upload waivers from your activities.
    • After the July Round Table this will become the mandatory process for uploading waivers.
  2. Automatic officer tables on your local websites
    • Your Local Group Website has been updated!!  Every local group website now has access to a table called “AMP – Group Name”.
    • This table is identical to the officers table you’ll find if you visit https://ansteorra.org/officers, and sources automatically from AMP.
    • If your local officers page doesn’t yet show this Table, contact me and your Local Webminister or Seneschal and I’ll help you get that added.

4) Round Table Reminders

We are a month and a half away from Round Table, and I will be coordinating the tech behind the scenes. However, I’m always looking for folks who want to try out the job of Tech Lead!  Being Tech Lead for Round Table is a time-boxed job and means doing the up-front config for the conference, being available and in touch w/ the class coordinator, and coordinating volunteers before and during the event.  I can help with all of that and would happily mentor anyone who is interested. 

Ever in service, and always open to questions and DMs,

Hersirkona kolfinna inn kyrra (Southfinna)
Ansteorra Kingdom Webminister
kingdom@webminister.ansteorra.org

Kingdom Officer Page will Now Automatically Update from AMP!

You’ve heard of great things from AMP — authorization management, award recommendations, and warrant management.

But did you know the great things don’t stop there??

Starting the evening of September 26, 2025, the Ansteorra Officers Page will be updated to display up-to-date officer information from AMP. You’ll be able to view the latest appointments in the Kingdom, individual Departments, Regions, and Local Groups!

What does this mean?

As a follow on to this change, the Webministers responsible for Local Groups, Department Pages, and the Principality page will get information on how to also display up-to-date information on AMP on their sites.

For questions, concerns, or new ideas, please reach out to amp-secretary@webminister.ansteorra.org and kingdom@webminister.ansteorra.org.

Kingdom A&S: Entries Due Sept 10th!

Kingdom A&S Static and Performance entries are due at No Later Than the Wednesday before the event –

– September 10th by midnight (or before Magistra Bia wakes up on the 11th) –

Sign up via the links on the Kingdom Arts & Sciences Webpage, and please email your documentation to kingdom@moas.ansteorra.org or let them know if you need assistance or need an exception to the dates.

You can still sign up for the display, competition, or move an entry to the display up until the Wednesday the 10th of September.

See the event details on the Eldern Hills Website: https://ansteorra.org/brad-leah/events/


See you there!
M Bia
Kingdom MOAS

Announcing Kingdom A&S Changes…

Greetings Ansteorra, The new judging sheets still need additional changes and approvals to be rolled out to the four kingdoms. We do not feel confident about testing them at this time. We will be continuing with the standard Ansteorra judging sheets that are posted at Kingdom or Interkingdom Arts & Sciences – Ansteorra Arts and Sciences. We will be using the 50 point scale not the 30 point scale.

Due to this change, we will be extending the submission deadline for Static and Performance to Midnight September 9th, the Tuesday before the competition. We will just need a short writeup on the entry and a copy of your works cited. We do still need signup by the 31st of August, 2025 to ensure table arrangements. The link is https://forms.gle/ChdzVoA78pkMvbou9 . Research Papers and Experimental Archaeology papers will still be due the 31st of August, the usual two weeks before the competition. All forms, rules and guides can be accessed through https://ansteorra.org/artsandsciences/kingdom-arts-and-sciences-2025/

If you don’t want to be scored, but still want to be a part of the day, please sign up for the artist display at https://forms.gle/wT9TCGMR4ucYgG4Z9. Thank you all for being the best part of Ansteorra, our artists.

— Thanks!

M Bia Magnifica Biatrichi Malatesta Canzionari di Palermo, OL, KMOAS

Are You AMPed?

As of the July 2025 Round Table Event, Ansteorra’s Management Portal has gotten another glow up!

AMP is now the central place for Ansteorrans to manage

What this means for you!

  1. If you are an Officer or Deputy at any level in Ansteorra, you need to create and/or update your AMP account so that you can be properly warranted and we can get our Kingdom Roster up-to-date
  2. If you are Seated Nobility at any level in Ansteorra, you need to create and/or update your AMP account so that you can start viewing and processing award recommendations

How do you learn more?

With this new release we have added two additional training resources to the “What is AMP?” page

Visit the “What is AMP?” page to find training resources and then go to https://amp.ansteorra.org to start you AMP journey!

2025 Summer Crown List Entrants

Greetings Ansteorra, 

Here is the list of the entrants for the Ansteorra Summer Crown Tournament.

We look forward to seeing everyone at Crown Tournament to welcome our new Heirs.

In service to the Dream

Jason and Margherita

King and Queen Ansteorra

Help with Kingdom Trailer Wrap

Ansteorra! Your kingdom needs your help! The new trailer needs to be as bright, helpful, and efficient on the outside just like it is on the inside! We need a design, or at least pictures, to get wrapped on the outside of the trailer. While the company that installs the wrap can do the final design to match the size of the trailer, we need to have a Good Idea for them to work from and the photos and graphics to choose. This means everyone can help with this project, not just graphic designers!

Some design parameters are (but not limited to):

There are two parts to this request:

1. If you have an idea of what you want the outside of the kingdom trailer to look like, please draw it up and send it via email to gilyanclonmacnoise@gmail.com. This doesn’t have to be a final version, ready for the company to install, but it should be a good representation from which a professional graphic designer can build the final version. It also doesn’t need to be a design for all four sides of the trailer. If you have a brilliant idea for the front or back, send in just that idea. 

2. If you have photos you think should be included on the outside of the trailer as an advertisement of the SCA and specifically the Kingdom of Ansteorra, post them here. If you would prefer to send links to specific photos, you can send them to gilyanclonmacnoise@gmail.com. This is the part that *everyone* can help with! There are way too many amazing photographers who take way too many thousands of photos for one or twenty people to comb through and find the perfect ones. We need the entire populace of Ansteorra to help us find those brilliant photos! Please make sure to include the photographer’s name for each photo as we will need to contact them for a photo release (and to also be thoughtful and credit other people’s work!). 

Lastly – the bribes! Anyone who submits a design idea that gets used in the final design will receive, by the end of the year, two dozen cookies made by me.

Ideas and photos will be due Friday, June 6 at 10pm so we can get the trailer wrapped and looking dramatically beautiful for its trip across several states to Pennsic War!

Summer Crown List Registration 2025

We would like to invite everyone to our summer crown tournament to be held June 7th, 2025. All entrances must send a letter of intent to TRM@crown.ansteorra.org and fill out the registration form

Crown format: The initial fights will be round robin format with 4 pools of fighters. All pools will be chosen at random by the fighters during the procession. These fights will be a single point, bring your best. The top 2 of each pool will advance to the next round.

The Round of 8 fighters will be random pairings, best 2 of 3 with the weapon style being a bastard sword between 4 and 5 feet in length. Butt spikes and thrusting tips are allowed.

The Round of 4 fighters will be random pairings, best 2 of 3 with the weapon style being a glaive between 6 and 7.5 feet in length. Butt spikes and thrusting tips are allowed.

For these rounds side arms will be prohibited.

The finals will be best 3 of 5 and fighters choice.

Here is the link to sign up for the Ansteorra Crown tournament. If you wish to compete for the Crown you must complete this form no later than May 23rd at 11pm CDT.

Do not forget to send your Letters of Intent to their Majesties.

AMP Integration with Gulf War Check in App

Ansteorra Management Portal is going to make Marshals Point even easier to get through with an integration that will allow Gulf Wars tablet app to look up member authorizations.

As privacy is a constant concern the feature is extremely limited to only allowing the Gulf War app to lookup a list of current authorizations based on a members AMP email address from now till 1 week after Gulf War (at which point the integration will be disabled).

We also want you to have the choice to share or not to share. So if you do not want Gulf War to be able to find your authorizations (which will mean you will need to take your authorization card to Marshals Point) then you can Opt out by turning off the integration for your account using the switch added to the Authorizations Tab on your AMP profile.

FAQ about this integration:

What is Shared:

How is it shared:

How do I Opt Out:

Is anything else shared with Gulf Wars Staff from AMP:

How long will this feature be available:

Have feedback for the Kingdom Webminister? Email them at kingdom@webminister.ansteorra.org.
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