Lochac alternative Crown selection polling
This poll was open from May 24th until June 23rd, 2024. All adult members of Lochac were emailed invitations to respond,
with reminders being sent after one and three weeks. A total of 585 people responded.
Prior to this poll, a number of broad classes of competition were identified, and published at https://lochac.sca.org/possible-ways-of-choosing-crown/.
Members were invited to discuss the arguments for an against the various approaches through a forum at https://altcrown.lochac.sca.org.
The overarching goal of this poll was to determine which of the broad approaches were of enough interest to be worth developing
into detailed descriptions of alternative Crown selection processes, and which were not worth pursuing.
Respondents were asked to rate their interest in each broad category on a scale:
- I'm certain this idea isn’t worth exploring
- Doubt this would work
- Undecided
- There’s probably a way this could work
- I'm definitely interested in seeing a detailed proposal in this category
Respondents were asked their level of interest in tournaments testing other skills than heavy combat
Lottery
Total negative | Total positive |
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385 (65.5%) | 150 (25.5%) |
Election
Total negative | Total positive |
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344 (58.5%) | 179 (30.4%) |
Rapier tournament
Total negative | Total positive |
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73 (12.4%) | 448 (76.2%) |
Archery tournament
Total negative | Total positive |
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103 (17.5%) | 399 (67.9%) |
Arts and Sciences
Total negative | Total positive |
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196 (33.3%) | 291 (49.5%) |
War
Total negative | Total positive |
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308 (52.4%) | 178 (30.3%) |
Prowess over a number of events
Total negative | Total positive |
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136 (23.1%) | 371 (63.1%) |
For tournaments of champions, respondents were first asked whether they favoured a model where the contestants and the Crown candidates could choose each other, or were randomly paired up. Then they were asked their interest in four different types of tournament contested by champions.
Champions and Candidates choose each other
Total negative | Total positive |
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132 (22.4%) | 354 (60.2%) |
Champions and Candidates randomly matched
Total negative | Total positive |
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297 (50.5%) | 179 (30.4%) |
Tournament of champions - Heavy format
Total negative | Total positive |
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72 (12.2%) | 411 (69.9%) |
Tournament of champions -Rapier format
Total negative | Total positive |
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96 (16.3%) | 389 (66.2%) |
Tournament of champions - Archery format
Total negative | Total positive |
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120 (20.4%) | 355 (60.4%) |
Tournament of champions - Arts & sciences
Total negative | Total positive |
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224 (38.1%) | 241 (41%) |
Finally, respondents were asked their level of interest in seeing the eligibility criteria for Crown candidates be reviewed, regardless of whether an alternative means of competing for Crown was adopted.
Review eligibility criteria for Crown
Total negative | Total positive |
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78 (13.3%) | 342 (58.2%) |