Winter Court 2026: Krampus is Koming!
Saturday, January 10, 2026
9 am – 8 pm or until the end of Feast
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Registration
Adult – $25
Adult, Member Discount – $15
Youth 17 and Under – free
Feast – $15
Make checks payable to:
SCA, Inc: Barony of Three Rivers
Event Stewards
Chandra Mosahary
Schedule
Gate will open at 9 am
The Winter Court Auction Schedule:
8am: Set up
9AM: Item donations accepted all day.
9AM to 3PM: Silent Auction See rules below
4PM or as Soon as Possible: Announcement of Silent Auction winners will be announced by Herald’s call.
Live Auction: Starts with FEAST
Martial Activities
Inspections and Authorizations at 9 am
Rattan Armored Combat
This year’s Winter Court tournament will once more be the traditional multi-field bear-pit as organized in past years.
Entry Requirement
In order to participate, you’ll need to provide a prize. And at the end of the tournament, everyone will leave with a prize!
Your prize must be gift-wrapped – ideally in such a way as to conceal or disguise it’s contents.
Your prize must be something a significant number of other folks involved in the tournament would want (whether for themselves or as a gift for a significant other). We’ve seen things such as a nice piece of fabric, pieces of armor, an armor repair kit, rattan, a custom tunic, tasty beverages, and much more.
Some people have been surprisingly creative and/or generous with their prizes, but please don’t feel this should ever keep you from participating. If what is reasonable for you is a 6 pack of beer or cider, that’s just fine. If that’s currently beyond your means, just let me know. We’ll do what it takes to make sure every one of our friends who wishes to participate can do so!
The Fighting
The field will be divided into various shifting challenges: a barrier, a bridge, an oxhide, a gate, an open field, and more. All fields will share the same line, and when an opening is available at one of the challenge fields, the next challenger can fill it. You’ll earn points for fighting, more for winning, and even more for beating someone above your fighting rank! The more you fight – the more points you can earn!
Fighting will run from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The sooner you’re there and ready to fight, the sooner you can begin to rack up points! But you can join in at any point. Even if you arrive late, you’ll still take home a prize
The Game/Fighter gift exchange
At the conclusion of the fighting, we’ll play a game. Some folks call it the Rob-Your-Neighbor game. Essentially, everyone will have a turn (in an order determined by the number of points earned in the tourney) to open a prize, or steal an already opened prize, until everyone ends up with a prize.
Bonus
Returning this year: Two bonus prizes!
I will be offering a reward for the person who brings the best prize. This will be based on a vote of the participants, so it will not necessarily be the prize that gets stolen the most often.
I will also be offering a prize for the most clever and/or most misleading and/or most creative wrapping job. Have fun!
Have questions? Let me know!
Conde Fernando
Steele Combat
Please also bring a gift to participate in the game/fighters gift exchange.
There will be a round robin style tourney based on the amount of participants. For each win you will gain a point to go toward the game (read above for details).
A &S Competition
Will run until about 3 pm, votes will then be counted.
Theme: is “Solstice Spirit”. Description: Entries should be related to the winter solstice. This can be the solstice itself, a holiday close to it, or whatever else you can rationalize. Documentation should fill a note card but additional is welcome. Judging is populace choice.
Heraldic Consultation Table will be available around 11 am.
Classes
1pm: Anglo-Saxon Alliterative Tradition Poetry Workshop by Shoshanah bas Nachman. Class will make a poem together.
2 pm: Bardic Hour– Long form Bardic Presentations(5-15 min), open mic. Led by Shoshanah Bas Nachman
Youth Activities
There will be a room set up for the youth from 10am- 12pm.
10 am: story in the Round by Shoshanah Bas Nachman. Shoshanah will moderate a story created by the kids, by asking leading questions of each one in turn.
Japanese Folk Tale by Shoshanah Bas Nachman
11 am: Fiondel Songspinner will have a “make and take” game activity
Court to be held at 4 pm or at Their Excellencies’ pleasure.
Feast and Live auction to follow Court.
Auction Information
How to Donate items to the Auction:
1. Bring your items to the Auction Display Tables on the morning of the auction or find someone who can bring them for you, by 10 am ideally but later entries will still be accepted.
2. Fill out a SILENT AUCTION Form for each item. (The form requires: Name of item, Your name, A brief description regarding use, history, or background, etc., that will help “sell” your item, and the ITEM NUMBER.) Item names should be brief and unique.
3. Go to the AUCTION COUNTING TABLE to be assigned an ITEM NUMBER for each item.
4. Place items on auction tables for display WITH the Entry Form, as it is also the Silent Auction Bidding Sheet. (Leave Documentation too if you have it.)
Note: If you wish to have your item returned to you if the bids don’t reach a certain amount please tell Bero so this can be noted with your item number.
What is appropriate to donate? Any item of use, or of interest to medieval reenactors. We all adore quality handcrafted items of course, but new items or items useful in camp, home, or crafting that you no longer need can find a new home here. Find you have a duplicate? Donate one. Some ideas are starter or travel kits for period crafts, feast gear, books, artwork, camp lighting, or camp furniture. Services can also be sold as promissory notes, such as making a dinner for 4, packing or setting up camp, etc.
Advertising works! Please share pictures or descriptions of your donation items in the weeks before the auction.
Bidding Rules:
1. Payment is due by the close of the Live Auction. Cash and Check only.
2. The Silent Auction bidding can start as soon as items are on display. Just place a bid and your LEGIBLE name on the entry’s form. (Please use the same name on all items.)
3. SILENT AUCTION ENDS at 3PM. A last call will be announced.
4. PLEASE NOTE, ANY ITEM MAY BE PULLED FROM THE SILENT AUCTION TO BE ENTERED INTO THE LIVE AUCTION THIS EVENING, at the Auctioneers discretion. The highest Silent Bid is the starting bid in the Live Auction for these items.
5. Silent Auction winners will be announced “en masse” as near 4pm as possible. Collect your items and the items white bidding card at that time. Bring all your white cards to the Counting Table to make your payment, or you hold onto your cards and pay when you are done bidding in the Live Auction in the evening.
6. Any items not bid upon during the silent auction must be taken home by their donor. These items, if any, will be set aside near the silent auction items.
7. The Live Auction will be held during Feast. Enjoy the show!
8. Again. All payments due by the close of the auction. Cash and Check only.
Please reach out to HL Bero von Wüstenbrunner if you have questions.
Site
Feast – $15
1st remove:
Pasties: meat (beef and chicken), & vegetable. Served with sauces.
Cheese: varieties of smoked and other cheeses
Olives, tomatoes, carrots, celery, etc.
Bread with flavored butters
2nd remove
Bread with flavored butters
Leek and turnip soup
Barley and oats vegetable soup
Spring salad
Pear salad
Main course
Beef and chicken sausages (no pork products)
Armored turnips
Pottage of rice
Sauerkraut
Glazed carrots
Bread with flavored butters
Dessert
Yule log
Fig & date cookies
Ginger bread
Short bread
Plus a variety of other cookies and treats as donated.