Creating award certificates need better words.

[HoneyBadgerDC]

@Grestarian

Everything in Blue, below, should be centered horizonally…

Certificate of Achievement

Witnesseth Hereto
that

NAME

hath demonstrated a

---

level of bowyer’s skills
by crafting a bow which
was entered in the
**Broadhead Challenge **
and launched a
broadhead-tipped arrow
at least
_____ yards (____ meters)

on this
____ Day of _____ in the year ______

at the

EVENT NAME

---

HoneybadgerDC - Event Official

–G!
[Note, it’s not an award - given at the whim of a celebrity or authority. It’s a certificate - it commemorates an earned achievement, a publicized/standardized goal that has been met by certain individuals.]

I like this,

[PoppaSan]

Is this a first time accomplishment or has it been done before? And if so, what was the previous accolade?

[HoneyBadgerDC]

@PoppaSan

Is this a first time accomplishment or has it been done before? And if so, what was the previous accolade?

The contest is a new contest. Instead of making it a winner takes all type contest I would prefer to make it a proof of competency type contest. We only have one official venue for world records presently in this particular class. They only hold one meet a year. I am trying to get this event included into most of the annual primitive bow jamborees held around the country by different groups. It would greatly enhance the amount of competitors competing and most likely raise the level of competition.

I expect that the top performers will be pretty close and would like to award high achieving bowyers recognition of the skill level they have attained.

[Grestarian]

@HoneyBadgerDC

The contest is a new contest. Instead of making it a winner takes all type contest I would prefer to make it a proof of competency type contest. We only have one official venue for world records presently in this particular class. They only hold one meet a year. I am trying to get this event included into most of the annual primitive bow jamborees held around the country by different groups. It would greatly enhance the amount of competitors competing and most likely raise the level of competition.

I expect that the top performers will be pretty close and would like to award high achieving bowyers recognition of the skill level they have attained.

I kind-of expected that was a part of it.
In such case, I would rewrite (I won’t bother messing with font sizes this time) the last couple lines as

at the {ordinal number} EVENT NAME
on this
{ordinal number} day of {Month}
of the year {numbers}

with the dates as CE or AD or whatever the Babylonian equivalent is…
–centered, of course

–G!

[HoneyBadgerDC]

@Grestarian

I kind-of expected that was a part of it.
In such case, I would rewrite (I won’t bother messing with font sizes this time) the last couple lines as

at the {ordinal number} EVENT NAME
on this
{ordinal number} day of {Month}
of the year {numbers}

with the dates as CE or AD or whatever the Babylonian equivalent is…
–centered, of course

–G!

i will play with this on some blank templates I have. Thanks

[ftg]

I say go the other direction: e.g., “The First Annual HoneyBadgerDC Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence” and hope the recipients are Simpsons fans.

[Gatopescado]

190 yards is pretty damn impressive!

[kaylasdad99]

@Grestarian

Everything in Blue, below, should be centered horizonally…

Certificate of Achievement

Witnesseth Hereto
that

NAME

hath demonstrated a

---

level of bowyer’s skills
by crafting a bow which
was entered in the
**Broadhead Challenge **
and launched a
broadhead-tipped arrow
at least
_____ yards (____ meters)

on this
____ Day of _____ in the year ______

at the

EVENT NAME

---

HoneybadgerDC - Event Official

–G!
[Note, it’s not an award - given at the whim of a celebrity or authority. It’s a certificate - it commemorates an earned achievement, a publicized/standardized goal that has been met by certain individuals.]

@HoneyBadgerDC

I like this,

Concur. The only suggestion I might offer is to remove “Witnesseth Hereto” and replace it with

To All Who See These Presents, Greetings.
Be It Known

Also, consider inventing some suitably medieval-sounding word that is defines as your benchmark of 190 yds, such as “Infantryman’s-length.”

[HoneyBadgerDC]

@kaylasdad99

Concur. The only suggestion I might offer is to remove “Witnesseth Hereto” and replace it with

To All Who See These Presents, Greetings.
Be It Known

Also, consider inventing some suitably medieval-sounding word that is defines as your benchmark of 190 yds, such as “Infantryman’s-length.”

There are actually terms already in place for the English longbow users. This is more of a hunters round so the named distances should probably relate to a sportsman. But I do like that idea and will try and coin some fitting terms.