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VENUE TWO - Gudvangen,Welcome to Gudvangen and the second venue of the Scandinavian Viking Tour! At the peak of summer this viking inspired eventing competition takes place in the beautiful valley of Gudvangen, in the Nærøyfjord of Norway. Once there was a viking village here and today you can find the tourist attraction viking village Njardarheimr. So you'll get the chance for a full viking expreience in a heartbreakingly beautiful nature! DEADLINE: FRIDAY 10TH SEPTEMBERMain journal - Judging matrix and tour points - Making new friends - Clinics - Prizes and awards - Discord For this eventing competition, you are asked to draw the cross country phase. But remember, story-wise this is a full eventing competition, and not a cross country competition. RULES, RESTRICTIONS AND CLASSESYou will yourself choose what level your horse and rider is competing at, from novice to advanced, and therefore age restrictions may vary along with what heights on obstacles you can picture in your drawing. You can check out THIS guide if you are unsure about suitable levels and ages.All entries will be judged as one class/level.The horses must be of a natural looking breed, fantasy colouring that might be explained with dye is permitted though. The riders must be human looking, but smaller features like elven ears that can be explained by plastic surgery is permitted.If you are unsure about your pair, ask!For guidelines regarding tack and clothing you could draw for your entry, check THIS out. But I will give you a lot of freedom and you will not be disqualified for not drawing a saftey west. In eventing a lot can happen, so drawing your horse misbehaving or your rider making an error will not cost you any points. However you might be disqualified from this event if you draw: A full fall of horse and/or rider OR horse jumping out of the arenaYour horse or rider getting (badly) hurt or ill somewhere at the competition groundsYour rider (in character) behaving badly towards other ridersGravely wrong picturing of discipline, season or location Art rulesONE drawing where you draw the cross country phaseDigital or traditional drawings are permitted (drawn animations as well)Minor photoparts, brushes and textures are permitted, but please use stock or your ownArt must be done by you, but others may help with redlines etc. Collabs are allowed, but inform me beforehand how you want to split the prizes.Check the judging matrix to get a hunch of how much effort you should put into your entry and to get bonuses if you are in for winning! LOCATION AND RESOURCESFictionally, this competition run over four days with different levels and classes which means that you will have a lot of freedom over time of day, weather, obstacles etc. that you may draw. The important thing to remember is that the course will go through the valley, and will not be up upon the mountains, even if some elevation will be present. The water jumps vill also not be out in the fjord, but in shallow crossings of the river that runs through the valley. Below you can see the approximate location of the cross country course on the map and for nerds you can check THIS map out if you want to know about the whole of the competition grounds.,Absolute position: 60°52'30.8"N 6°50'04.7"EYou can also read more about the location HERE You can read furthermore about the Viking village HERE You can check out THIS inspirational and informative document as well! It's full of pictures for your inspiration!I have designed a couple of obstacles for the competition, but I do love to see your own designs! The designs provided can be altered in any way you like, and you won't miss out on points if you disregard flags etc., The season is the middle of summer and all of nature is green and in full bloom. There will be no snow on the peaks of the mountains. The weather can be a bit up and down with temperatures between 18-27 degrees celsius (64-80 Farhenheit). Over the days that the competition is held we will see both hot, sunny and clear skies, to some drifting clouds, windy, misty, light rain, full skyfall, thunderstorms, hail. About anything Scandinavian summer can offer. The competitions will be held from morning to evening, but as the sun rises around 3 am and doesn't set until 10 pm, there will be no competitions at sunrise, sunset or nighttime. As you see you will have a lot of freedom with your entry! I have also done a promotion drawing of how an entry could look, just to give you some inspiration!,SUBMITTING YOUR ENTRYTo submit your entry, you comment to this journal or/and submit it to the right folder in the gallery. Your entry should have the following form in the artist comment: Rider name: (+link to reference if there is one) Rider age: Horse name: (+link to reference if there is one) Horse age: Horse breed: Country: Level:Entering the lineage horse raffle: YES/NO There is no pre-registration required, but you may pre-register your characters that you plan on entering the event or the clinic with, so it’s easier for people to feature them or ask you for interactions. Simply comment to this journal with this form: dA username:Rider name: (+link to reference if there is one) Horse name: (+link to reference if there is one)Planning on entering: EVENT/CLINIC/BOTH Open for interactions: YES/NO (if yes, state how people may reach you) May be featured: YES/NO CLINIC ,None other than the Olympic Gold medalist eventing rider Nina Grønnestad will hold a clinic in cross country here in her home country of Norway! She has created a full scheduel for this clinic and you all are encouraged to enter and not miss out on this opportunity! Day 1.Going over some important foundations. Everything happens from horseback and will be a mix between Nina explaining and teaching, and the participants doing it and then getting feedback. Mostly using one or two obstacles. Each block will take 1 ½-2 hours with a break between, participants can participate on one or both.Block 1. Getting the horses focus and attention.- Practicing transitions- Collection, speed control, balance- Turning exercisesBlock 2. What you think affect the ride- Fixing your mentality- Trusting your horse- Making sure the horse trust you- How to guide your horse without holding it back Day 2.More focus on jumping a set of obstacles, and navigating a smaller course. For participants who entered day 1, that will be repeated and asked to use what they have learned. More advanced ridings are welcome to only enter day 2.Block 1. Jumping- Technique- Judging distance- Handling strange obstacles- Water- Riding a small course with distracting surroundingsBlock 2. Trying out the event course-The participants get to ride the event course using what they have learned. Nina can not see the participant through most of the course, and it is therefor mostly for fun and for their own gain, not to get feedback. They can use what they have learned previously to analyse their own ride.After the tournament is over, Nina will appoint her favourite student and with entering the clinic you therefore have a chance to win this title and prizes! The clinic will be open to enter for the full tournament, so you don’t have to stress an entry for the deadline of this specific venue. Entering the clinic will give you tournament points as well. If you enter another horse than the one your rider enters in the competition, the tournament points will count towards your rider anyway. You don't need to enter this specific venue to be able to enter the clinic!Submit your entry for the clinic by commenting on this journal, or on this. You can also submit it to the right folder in the gallery. OTHER HAPPENINGSDuring the event, there also be held a Viking themed market where you can buy handcrafted goods, try out different craftmanships from the Viking age, try out shooting with bow and arrow and dress up as a Viking. This all takes place at the Viking village at Gudvangen that you can read about HERE.There will also be food trucks by the market and competition grounds, serving Norweigian food like their. Check out this moodboard for inspiration! And of course, don’t forget to check out the shops with Scandinavian Viking Tour merch! Have fun, and...May Thor protect you!

Rider name: Alexa Grazzianni
Rider age: 31
Horse name: The Siren
Horse age: 8
Horse breed: Obertaurer
Country: Canada

Class/level: Intermediate
Entering the lineage horse raffle: YES

Clinic Extra:

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Siren was a charm to ride a no nonsense type of mare - under saddle at least. Work oriented most of the time and surely pouring all of her heart in every cross country phase. Alexa couldn't be more pleased of that as it was her favourite phase of 3DE anyway, so they were both standing on the same ground. Having a mare that enjoyed water excessively surely helped a lot in such setting, battling with rain and mist was already enough of a challenge, let alone fighting a horse at every puddle.

Horse and Character Emii-M

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VENUE TWO - Gudvangen,Welcome to Gudvangen and the second venue of the Scandinavian Viking Tour! At the peak of summer this viking inspired eventing competition takes place in the beautiful valley of Gudvangen, in the Nærøyfjord of Norway. Once there was a viking village here and today you can find the tourist attraction viking village Njardarheimr. So you'll get the chance for a full viking expreience in a heartbreakingly beautiful nature! DEADLINE: FRIDAY 10TH SEPTEMBERMain journal - Judging matrix and tour points - Making new friends - Clinics - Prizes and awards - Discord For this eventing competition, you are asked to draw the cross country phase. But remember, story-wise this is a full eventing competition, and not a cross country competition. RULES, RESTRICTIONS AND CLASSESYou will yourself choose what level your horse and rider is competing at, from novice to advanced, and therefore age restrictions may vary along with what heights on obstacles you can picture in your drawing. You can check out THIS guide if you are unsure about suitable levels and ages.All entries will be judged as one class/level.The horses must be of a natural looking breed, fantasy colouring that might be explained with dye is permitted though. The riders must be human looking, but smaller features like elven ears that can be explained by plastic surgery is permitted.If you are unsure about your pair, ask!For guidelines regarding tack and clothing you could draw for your entry, check THIS out. But I will give you a lot of freedom and you will not be disqualified for not drawing a saftey west. In eventing a lot can happen, so drawing your horse misbehaving or your rider making an error will not cost you any points. However you might be disqualified from this event if you draw: A full fall of horse and/or rider OR horse jumping out of the arenaYour horse or rider getting (badly) hurt or ill somewhere at the competition groundsYour rider (in character) behaving badly towards other ridersGravely wrong picturing of discipline, season or location Art rulesONE drawing where you draw the cross country phaseDigital or traditional drawings are permitted (drawn animations as well)Minor photoparts, brushes and textures are permitted, but please use stock or your ownArt must be done by you, but others may help with redlines etc. Collabs are allowed, but inform me beforehand how you want to split the prizes.Check the judging matrix to get a hunch of how much effort you should put into your entry and to get bonuses if you are in for winning! LOCATION AND RESOURCESFictionally, this competition run over four days with different levels and classes which means that you will have a lot of freedom over time of day, weather, obstacles etc. that you may draw. The important thing to remember is that the course will go through the valley, and will not be up upon the mountains, even if some elevation will be present. The water jumps vill also not be out in the fjord, but in shallow crossings of the river that runs through the valley. Below you can see the approximate location of the cross country course on the map and for nerds you can check THIS map out if you want to know about the whole of the competition grounds.,Absolute position: 60°52'30.8"N 6°50'04.7"EYou can also read more about the location HERE You can read furthermore about the Viking village HERE You can check out THIS inspirational and informative document as well! It's full of pictures for your inspiration!I have designed a couple of obstacles for the competition, but I do love to see your own designs! The designs provided can be altered in any way you like, and you won't miss out on points if you disregard flags etc., The season is the middle of summer and all of nature is green and in full bloom. There will be no snow on the peaks of the mountains. The weather can be a bit up and down with temperatures between 18-27 degrees celsius (64-80 Farhenheit). Over the days that the competition is held we will see both hot, sunny and clear skies, to some drifting clouds, windy, misty, light rain, full skyfall, thunderstorms, hail. About anything Scandinavian summer can offer. The competitions will be held from morning to evening, but as the sun rises around 3 am and doesn't set until 10 pm, there will be no competitions at sunrise, sunset or nighttime. As you see you will have a lot of freedom with your entry! I have also done a promotion drawing of how an entry could look, just to give you some inspiration!,SUBMITTING YOUR ENTRYTo submit your entry, you comment to this journal or/and submit it to the right folder in the gallery. Your entry should have the following form in the artist comment: Rider name: (+link to reference if there is one) Rider age: Horse name: (+link to reference if there is one) Horse age: Horse breed: Country: Level:Entering the lineage horse raffle: YES/NO There is no pre-registration required, but you may pre-register your characters that you plan on entering the event or the clinic with, so it’s easier for people to feature them or ask you for interactions. Simply comment to this journal with this form: dA username:Rider name: (+link to reference if there is one) Horse name: (+link to reference if there is one)Planning on entering: EVENT/CLINIC/BOTH Open for interactions: YES/NO (if yes, state how people may reach you) May be featured: YES/NO CLINIC ,None other than the Olympic Gold medalist eventing rider Nina Grønnestad will hold a clinic in cross country here in her home country of Norway! She has created a full scheduel for this clinic and you all are encouraged to enter and not miss out on this opportunity! Day 1.Going over some important foundations. Everything happens from horseback and will be a mix between Nina explaining and teaching, and the participants doing it and then getting feedback. Mostly using one or two obstacles. Each block will take 1 ½-2 hours with a break between, participants can participate on one or both.Block 1. Getting the horses focus and attention.- Practicing transitions- Collection, speed control, balance- Turning exercisesBlock 2. What you think affect the ride- Fixing your mentality- Trusting your horse- Making sure the horse trust you- How to guide your horse without holding it back Day 2.More focus on jumping a set of obstacles, and navigating a smaller course. For participants who entered day 1, that will be repeated and asked to use what they have learned. More advanced ridings are welcome to only enter day 2.Block 1. Jumping- Technique- Judging distance- Handling strange obstacles- Water- Riding a small course with distracting surroundingsBlock 2. Trying out the event course-The participants get to ride the event course using what they have learned. Nina can not see the participant through most of the course, and it is therefor mostly for fun and for their own gain, not to get feedback. They can use what they have learned previously to analyse their own ride.After the tournament is over, Nina will appoint her favourite student and with entering the clinic you therefore have a chance to win this title and prizes! The clinic will be open to enter for the full tournament, so you don’t have to stress an entry for the deadline of this specific venue. Entering the clinic will give you tournament points as well. If you enter another horse than the one your rider enters in the competition, the tournament points will count towards your rider anyway. You don't need to enter this specific venue to be able to enter the clinic!Submit your entry for the clinic by commenting on this journal, or on this. You can also submit it to the right folder in the gallery. OTHER HAPPENINGSDuring the event, there also be held a Viking themed market where you can buy handcrafted goods, try out different craftmanships from the Viking age, try out shooting with bow and arrow and dress up as a Viking. This all takes place at the Viking village at Gudvangen that you can read about HERE.There will also be food trucks by the market and competition grounds, serving Norweigian food like their. Check out this moodboard for inspiration! And of course, don’t forget to check out the shops with Scandinavian Viking Tour merch! Have fun, and...May Thor protect you!

Rider name: Alexa Grazzianni
Rider age: 31
Horse name: The Siren
Horse age: 8
Horse breed: Obertaurer
Country: Canada

Class/level: Intermediate
Entering the lineage horse raffle: YES

Clinic Extra:

_______________________________

Siren was a charm to ride a no nonsense type of mare - under saddle at least. Work oriented most of the time and surely pouring all of her heart in every cross country phase. Alexa couldn't be more pleased of that as it was her favourite phase of 3DE anyway, so they were both standing on the same ground. Having a mare that enjoyed water excessively surely helped a lot in such setting, battling with rain and mist was already enough of a challenge, let alone fighting a horse at every puddle.

Horse and Character Emii-M