At the UBM rendezvous a couple years back I started doing a "bow skirmish" that was a 3 person team event. We put clay targets in hangers in front of the target butts. There were two target butts side by side and there were three targets hung on each butt. All six shooters stepped up to the line at the same time and each had 6 arrows. The "on deck" teams stood behind the shooters to act as spotters.
The gist of it is this: Each clay target represents an opposing member of the other team. You MUST shoot at your own target until you break it but as soon as you do, you can begin shooting at the others to help your team mates. When you break your target, you eliminate the shooter in your spot on the opposing team. Since you are not looking at the other teams targets, spotters are used to watch the targets of the other team and tap the shooter on the back to let him know that he's "out".
...Targets for team A...........................Targets for team X....
...represent team X............................represent team A.....
....X1........X2........X3........................A1........A2........A3....
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..................................15 yards apart.....................................
....A1........A2........A3........................X1........X2........X3....
......Team A shooters.............................Team X shooters.....
......On deck teams.............................On deck teams.......
.....act as spotters.............................act as spotters.....
Everyone starts to shoot at a given signal. The spotters are watching the corresponding target on the target butt their shooter is NOT shooting at. Ex. If I'm spotting for shooter X1 of the team on the right, I watch the clay target in front of shooter A1 of the team on the left that REPRESENTS shooter X1 . The instant that clay target gets broken I tap my shooter on the back and he's "OUT". In the event of both shooters hitting their target at about the same time, they are both "out" just as if a real battle and both arrows were in the air at the same time so both shooters would have been shot by the other guy.
To make it fun, razzing and heckling from the crowd are strongly encouraged.
If all shooters (still in the game) of both teams run out of arrows, time is called and they all go retrieve arrows and start again. Don't laugh, it happens!
We did the full double elimination routine with drawings to start the matchups and buys where needed.
On a side note, trad gangs own Charlie Lamb and his buds were usually there. I think it was the first year I'm thinking of but they called their team (I think) the Wautauga Bowmen and the first time they stepped up to bat all three of them drilled their targets on the first shot to end it in about a second flat! Them boys could shoot! Crusty ol' farts....