Champion Forge Foil Tournament (DMFC 2016)
October 15, 2016
Registration Closes October 14, 2016
Indian Hills Junior High School
9401 Indian Hills Drive, Clive, IA 50325-6321 USA Map
Online Payments Not Accepted
Join the Des Moines Fencing Club for the first annual Champion Forge Foil Tournament. See the detailed description for the special format of this tournament and get excited for a day full of foil. Cost to enter is $35.00 per participant.
Registration Closes October 14, 2016
Indian Hills Junior High School
9401 Indian Hills Drive, Clive, IA 50325-6321 USA Map
Online Payments Not Accepted
Join the Des Moines Fencing Club for the first annual Champion Forge Foil Tournament. See the detailed description for the special format of this tournament and get excited for a day full of foil. Cost to enter is $35.00 per participant.
Note This is a Old AskFRED event. Registrations and results are all correct, but some other data could be missing.
Join the Des Moines Fencing Club for the first annual Champion Forge Foil Tournament.
Senior Mixed Foil:
A senior event featuring a round of pools, a D.E., a second round of pools split and decided by the D.E. results and then a full round of D.E.s Awards given to the top four placers from each branch. US Fencing. (See format description below)
Young Squires Youth Team Event.
A team event format fenced in the NCAA team format. Nine encounters, best five of those nine wins the match. Awards given to the best performing team and the top four performing individuals (regardless of team). Non-USFA.
Preregistration opens on 08/31/2016.
Preregistration closes on 10/14/2016.
Format:
Champion Forge Foil Open:
(Note: Our special "branching" format has been validated by the officers of the Iowa Division, the Fencing Official's Commission, and the US Fencing Tournament Committee)
All participants will be seeded as per usual Open event regulations into pools. Pools will be fenced as usual and all fencers will be seeded into a direct elimination tableau. Direct elimination bouts will be fenced as per usual open standards. After the first round of D.E.s is complete all of the winners will be reseeded by their initial pool results into a new set of pools. Similarly, the losers of the first set of D.Es will be seeded into their own set of pools.
Pools will be fenced a second time this time divided into two groups determined by results of the first set of D.E.s. After the second round of pools is complete each group of fencers will be seeded into new direct elimination tableau and proceed to fence off all D.E.s until all final placements are set. Awards will be given to the top four participants (first through third) from each of the two tableaus.
This event will be sanctioned by US Fencing and ratings will be earned by the individuals who won the first round of D.E.s based on the total initial number of participants and the ratings and placement of the top eight finishers. Participants who lost in the first round of D.E.s will be awarded ratings based on the number of participants starting in their second round of pools and the placement and ratings of fencers in the top eight placement of this event.
Here is the format (See here for a visual example):http://bit.ly/2dsjeKZ In our example assume no fencer "Upsets" in D.E.s. The higher seeded fencer always advances (of course this is variable in the actual fencing of the D.E.). Phase 1: All entering fencers are seeded into pools which follow the normal rules. In our example assume Fencers 1 and 2 are rated as B, 3 and 4 are rated C, and 5 and 6 are rated D. Everyone else, 7-24 are unrated. Assuming both Bs and both Cs finish in the top eight this will be a B1 Event with 24 athletes. Pools are fenced and a DE Table is seeded from the results. Phase 2: Fencers fence their first round D.E.s according to the table determined in Phase 1. Those with a high enough seed receive a Bye as usual (In our example this is 1-8, and the first round is a "Round of 32"). Phase 3: This is where the event gets unusual: After Phase 2 is complete all fencers are reseeded in to new pools determined by their previous D.E. results (See Phase 3 in the attachment). Those fencers that would advance to the next round of the Phase 2 D.E. Table (1-16) fence in one set of pools. These pools will not effect the Phase 2 D.E. Table and are being fenced purely for the fun of more fencing against a wider breadth of the top fencers in the top portion of the event. The results of these pools will not effect the D.E. table already determined by the results of the previous phase, e.g. Fencer 1 will fence Fencer 16 regardless of their Phase 3 Pool results. Those fencers eliminated from the Phase 2 D.E.table will similarly be seeded into their own pools. These pools represent the start of a new event where the pool results matter. This event would be between Fencers 17-24 and would be an E1. Phase 4: Fencers from the advancing pools resume their D.E.s from Phase 2 and fence out to completion. This event has been fenced through a standard event format with an inter-missionary pool in Phase 3. Upon completion of this part of the event fencers finishing first will be awarded a B16, fencers finishing 2nd-4th will receive C16, 5th-8th a D16, and 9-12 receive an E16. Additionally, those fencers eliminated in the first round of D.E.s (in Phase two), use their Phase 3 Pool results to determine a new D.E. Table then fence out a new event. This event has 8 fencers all of whom are Unrated, making this an E1 event. As such the fencer who wins this portion of the tournament (Fencer 17 in our example) would be awarded an E16. Start time: Doors open 7:30, Close of Registration 8:30, Commence fencing 9:00, Event end ~5:00. Young Squire Youth Team Tournament: All entrants will be randomly seeded into balanced teams of three to four participants forming four teams. Each team will fence each other team in serial until all possible team matches have occurred. Encounters between teams will be fenced in NCAA Team Tournament format. Each fencer on a given team will systematically fence each member of the opposing team in a regulation five touch Pool Style bout. Team victory will go to the team who wins five of the nine encounters. All nine encounters will be fenced, even in the case that a team wins five bouts before the resolution of all nine bouts. Team placement will be determined in order of Team victories, Individual victories within a match, Team Indicator, Team touches scored, team touches received. Awards will be given to all member of the winning team. After the team event is resolved the top four best performing individuals from any team (even if drawn from the same team) will be seeded according to their team event performance and will fence off for 1st through 4rd place in standard 15pt D.E. This event is non- US Fencing Sanctioned, but will follow all regulations mandated by US Fencing. Each team will be assigned a Volunteer Support who will help the children get on and off the strip, help with equipment issues, and facilitate the flow of the event as directed by the Referees and Bout Committee. This event is capped at 16 participants with preferential entry given first to DMFC participants. Start time: Doors open 7:30, Close of Registration 8:30, Commence fencing 9:00 event end ~2:30. Officials: DMFC will need at least seven Foil Referees and three Bout Committee members to successfully present this tournament. We will be attempting to fill these requirements internally to the extent possible. If we are unable to fill our staffing requirements we may need to self-direct bouts from the competitors, or cancel as determined by the DMFC Staff, and Board of Directors. However if you are able to provide services as an official please contact Coach Alex Harms at alexmharms@gmail.com. Officials will be compensated as below: Bout committee members and referees will be compensated at $50.00 for the day + one even share of 20% of Net income generated by the tournament. Bout Committee members, Referees, and official Youth Support Volunteers will be provided with a lunch (Estimated cost $10.00 per person).
Here is the format (See here for a visual example):http://bit.ly/2dsjeKZ In our example assume no fencer "Upsets" in D.E.s. The higher seeded fencer always advances (of course this is variable in the actual fencing of the D.E.). Phase 1: All entering fencers are seeded into pools which follow the normal rules. In our example assume Fencers 1 and 2 are rated as B, 3 and 4 are rated C, and 5 and 6 are rated D. Everyone else, 7-24 are unrated. Assuming both Bs and both Cs finish in the top eight this will be a B1 Event with 24 athletes. Pools are fenced and a DE Table is seeded from the results. Phase 2: Fencers fence their first round D.E.s according to the table determined in Phase 1. Those with a high enough seed receive a Bye as usual (In our example this is 1-8, and the first round is a "Round of 32"). Phase 3: This is where the event gets unusual: After Phase 2 is complete all fencers are reseeded in to new pools determined by their previous D.E. results (See Phase 3 in the attachment). Those fencers that would advance to the next round of the Phase 2 D.E. Table (1-16) fence in one set of pools. These pools will not effect the Phase 2 D.E. Table and are being fenced purely for the fun of more fencing against a wider breadth of the top fencers in the top portion of the event. The results of these pools will not effect the D.E. table already determined by the results of the previous phase, e.g. Fencer 1 will fence Fencer 16 regardless of their Phase 3 Pool results. Those fencers eliminated from the Phase 2 D.E.table will similarly be seeded into their own pools. These pools represent the start of a new event where the pool results matter. This event would be between Fencers 17-24 and would be an E1. Phase 4: Fencers from the advancing pools resume their D.E.s from Phase 2 and fence out to completion. This event has been fenced through a standard event format with an inter-missionary pool in Phase 3. Upon completion of this part of the event fencers finishing first will be awarded a B16, fencers finishing 2nd-4th will receive C16, 5th-8th a D16, and 9-12 receive an E16. Additionally, those fencers eliminated in the first round of D.E.s (in Phase two), use their Phase 3 Pool results to determine a new D.E. Table then fence out a new event. This event has 8 fencers all of whom are Unrated, making this an E1 event. As such the fencer who wins this portion of the tournament (Fencer 17 in our example) would be awarded an E16. Start time: Doors open 7:30, Close of Registration 8:30, Commence fencing 9:00, Event end ~5:00. Young Squire Youth Team Tournament: All entrants will be randomly seeded into balanced teams of three to four participants forming four teams. Each team will fence each other team in serial until all possible team matches have occurred. Encounters between teams will be fenced in NCAA Team Tournament format. Each fencer on a given team will systematically fence each member of the opposing team in a regulation five touch Pool Style bout. Team victory will go to the team who wins five of the nine encounters. All nine encounters will be fenced, even in the case that a team wins five bouts before the resolution of all nine bouts. Team placement will be determined in order of Team victories, Individual victories within a match, Team Indicator, Team touches scored, team touches received. Awards will be given to all member of the winning team. After the team event is resolved the top four best performing individuals from any team (even if drawn from the same team) will be seeded according to their team event performance and will fence off for 1st through 4rd place in standard 15pt D.E. This event is non- US Fencing Sanctioned, but will follow all regulations mandated by US Fencing. Each team will be assigned a Volunteer Support who will help the children get on and off the strip, help with equipment issues, and facilitate the flow of the event as directed by the Referees and Bout Committee. This event is capped at 16 participants with preferential entry given first to DMFC participants. Start time: Doors open 7:30, Close of Registration 8:30, Commence fencing 9:00 event end ~2:30. Officials: DMFC will need at least seven Foil Referees and three Bout Committee members to successfully present this tournament. We will be attempting to fill these requirements internally to the extent possible. If we are unable to fill our staffing requirements we may need to self-direct bouts from the competitors, or cancel as determined by the DMFC Staff, and Board of Directors. However if you are able to provide services as an official please contact Coach Alex Harms at alexmharms@gmail.com. Officials will be compensated as below: Bout committee members and referees will be compensated at $50.00 for the day + one even share of 20% of Net income generated by the tournament. Bout Committee members, Referees, and official Youth Support Volunteers will be provided with a lunch (Estimated cost $10.00 per person).