Question: Does NERO International provide to the NERO Knights the required materials and Foam Swords needed to host a SFG Tournament?
Answer: YES. The NERO Office provides everything that a NERO Knight will need to help educate people to learn about NERO Adventure Games.
Question: How Do Members Get The Prizes they win?
Answer: Prizes are distributed by the Guild Office, which shares an
office with the NERO Office. NERO Knights report Dragon Points earned and Guild Members
can then go and spend their Dragon Points either through the NERO Knight or via
the web site. In many instances, to decrease shipping costs, the Guild will
distribute the prizes at a tournament location whenever possible.
Question: How Much Does a Tournament Cost for SFG Members?
Answer: $3.00 per tournament
Question: How Much Does a tournament Cost for Non-Members?
Answer: $3.00
Question: How Much Does a Yearly Membership Cost for the SFG?
Answer: The Cost to join the Sword Fighters Guild is $36.00 per year.
Question: What does my membership get me?
Answer: Paying for a Guild Membership enters you into any and all monthly
drawings, gets your sword fights tracked online, and gives you the opportunity
to become a NERO Knight.
Question: What exactly is a NERO Knight?
Answer: NERO Knights are NERO Members who want to help others learn how to play any or all of the different NERO Adventure Games. The NERO Knight program is meant to help NERO Members everywhere to find other like-minded individuals, and to give them empowerment to educate others. NERO Knights are given either Goblin Points or Dragon Points for their efforts, but not both.
Question: How Do I become a
NERO Knight?
Answer: Read This!
What exactly is a Boffer Sword Tournament? The Tournament is a series of duels that occur between two opponents. The opponents are using latex foam swords as sanctioned and for sale at the Sword Fighters Guild Store. Occasionally, foam boffer sword made with a .505” graphite kite spar covered by minimum 5/8” thick pipe foam. Covered by cloth or Rip Stop Tape (used to make Kites), and sometimes with a 2” soft foam tip on the end.
Is It the Same Old Duel over and over again? Not at all. Few Duels are the same. It is dependent upon the combat style of the opponents – aggressive, defensive, neutral-ish, sneaky, etc. Most often the duels do not involve a flurry of attacks. Many duels will be a series of movements between the duelists. Typically, one would step forward, strike, block, step back, block, step or lean forward, strike, strike, block, step back, and block. Of course, there is a second or two to rest between some of the actions.
Can anyone win a Boffer Sword Tournament? Yes, absolutely. We are NERO®, the largest company in the world that that specializes in Live Action Role Playing games - where players interact among each other at a campground throughout the weekend and ‘fight’ each other using boffer swords and magical spells, defeating mythological creatures like Goblins, Trolls, and Orcs. We have run Boffer Tournaments around the country and in Canada for more than 15 years and it doesn’t matter what level of boffer use you have had, if you can block and thrust, you have a chance to win. At the Connecti-con convention in 2003 we ran a boffer tournament where a fencer, a person who never played a LARP before but knew how to fight with a karate stick, and an SCA Member defeated multiple experienced LARP staff members and won 1st , second, and third place.
Are These In-Game Tournaments and In-Game Tests? They are totally Out Of Game in regard to combat among participants but we do plan on writing an in-game article about each tournament and test, if we get permission from the contestants. These will be kept in-game as much as possible to allow for as much recognition as possible for the participants.
What are the Tournament Sashes? The Sash’s are our way to recognize participants for their achievements. As Staff, we are very proud of our achievements, our fellow members achievements, and we want everyone to be proud of them so we decided that giving Sash’s would be a good way to display them.
Will you be having Regional Tournaments among the States? Yes, defiantly. With many other LARP Games in the surrounding states, and the Worcester Entertainment Complex opening in Massachusetts, we are anticipating and welcoming duelists and champions from the surrounding states.
Are you having LARP vs. LARP Boffer Tournaments? We hope that other LARPS in CT that are friendly with us will also do something like this and that we can have LARP vs. LARP Boffer Sword Tournaments as well.
What is an Approved Boffer Sword? We utilize specific Boffer Sword materials to create a safe foam weapon for use in our games. Every Weapon must have an Event Weapon Safety Tag upon it, prior to its being used in any tournaments.
What If I Do Not Have My Own Boffer Sword or my sword is not passed through safety tests its first try? We will help you repair your existing foam sword that will pass our stringent tests, or if you have no weapon of your own we will help you create a safe foam weapon when you come to one of our Tournament Days, Sunday Evening Boy Scout Meeting, or Event. Remember, these foam weapons are for use at NERO® sponsored games and tournaments only, create your made to Spec
Can I punch my opponent? NO. Not ever. The only contact between opponents is with approved foam boffer sword, or the case of spell casting tournaments, with foam spell orb.
