Lochac alternative Crown selection discussion

Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this board.

In this approach, the Crown would be chosen as the leader of a group or team who won some collective contest.  Assuming the contest is a war, that might be between armies of just one sort of combatant or mixed, armies recruited from within a specific group or across groups.  Fighters might be selected by each Crown aspirant, or randomly assigned to armies... there are a lot of options.

Use this board to discuss the different ways that we might rotate between selection processes, if we have more than one way of choosing Crown.

Use this board to discuss criteria that could be applied to candidates for Crown and Consort, regardless of the method used to select the Crown

Use this board to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having periods where the Crown was deliberately kept empty for what would otherwise be a reign.

Use this board to discuss the benefits and disadvantages of selecting Crown and Consort through some sort of random process.

Use this board to discuss the benefits and disadvantages of selecting Crown through some form of election.  Consider who might be eligible to vote, and what sort of voting system could be used.

Use this board to discuss the benefits and disadvantages of Crown tournaments where the combatants acted as champions for people not on the field.  Consider the different ways that fighters and candidates could be paired up.

Use this board to discuss the benefits and disadvantages of  a Crown tournament based on prowess in something other than heavy combat.  Consider non-martial competitions, prowess in arts and sciences, and how such tournaments would be judged.

In this approach, the selection of Crown is not based on winning a single Crown tournament, but through a series of events over a period of time.  The heir to the Crown might be the person who wins the most bouts during the current Crown's reign, or the person who participates in the most events in some way.  The selection criteria would still be prowess in one or more fields, but the way of measuring prowess could be very different from a single tournament.