Tournaments

__**WHO AND WHY**__
 * __TOURNAMENTS__****__ Tounaments __**
 * Tournaments __envolved__ over the __eleventh__ __centery__
 * tournaments were the most violent games of the middle ages

**__MELEES__**
 * knights played in these tournaments
 * this let knights show off the skills
 * tournaments gave the knights the __oppertunity__ to earn money and __employment__ from the lords
 * the winners takes all of the losers __possetions__
 * melees were the most popular tournaments
 * this "game" had little rules
 * there was only one safe zone called a recess were the knights could repair their armor and tend to wounds
 * melees were fought between 2 groups, each grou