It has become quite popular in the last five years. O ur other official combat sport is archery. We offer both target shooting, and in some places we allow light weight bows and very special arrows to be used in simulations of combat archery. Again, we are extremely concerned with safety. E very person in the SCA picks a name to use in the Society choosing a name appropriate to some time and place within the historical scope of the Society.
E ven our towns have medieval names.
Toronto is Eofowic, Boston is Carolingia, the San Francisco bay area is the Principality of the Mists, etc. T he SCA has its own College of Arms, which assists members in choosing their SCA names and heraldic devices. The College of Arms assists members in their research to ensure that their names and devices are appropriate to the medieval world we try to create. T he SCA has an elaborate system of rank, awards, and honors, which are granted to individual members by the royalty in return for various kinds of service to the Society. Like many of the SCA's institutions, our system of rank wasn't so much planned as growed.