Mendham Friday Evening Unrated Foil

Sponsored by: Absolute Fencing Gear www.AbsoluteFencingGear.com Slipp-Nott, www.Slipp-Nott.com Venue: Mountain View Schl, 100 Dean Road, Mendham, NJ Directions and Map: http://www.njfencing.org/directions/mendham.html Events Scheduled: Unrated Senior Women's Foil; Check-in closes at 6:00 PM; Entry Fee is $30.99 Unrated Senior Men's Foil; Check-in closes at 6:00 PM; Entry Fee is $30.99 'Senior' means all competitors are at least 13-years-old on January 1, 2009. Our goal is to run two D-1 rated events and hand-out 8 shiny, new USFA ratings. See the USFA competition classification chart: http://askfred.net/Info/eventClass.php Format of both events: Pools of 5, 6 or 7 fencers. 100% of fencers promoted to a direct elimination table of 15-touch bouts, which is fenced down to the winner. There is a no fence-off for third place. Engraved medals out to 3rd place. 11 Women: One pool of 6, one of 5. 5 byes in the round-of-16. 25 Men: Three pools of 6, one of 7. 7 byes in the round-of-32. Referees, 1 needed for every 6 fencers: 6 Confirmed : Rick Mayer(7), Dan Merchant(U), Andy Jung(8), Jeff Tishman(7), Omar Rehmane(6), Peter Dorfman(9) 2 In Reserve : Molly James, Ahmed Sattar Tentative : Mike Wolff Invited : George LaTorre, Bill Mindel, Jay Choi, Charles Astudillo, Brian Palestis, Bob Largman, Marissa Mustilli, Ralph Bellatoni Unavailable : Rachel Rowe, Barb Lynch, Marguerite Plekhanov Bout Committee: Skip Short, Patric Wallace, Tom Tishman Additional Information:

USFA membership is required. Competitors can join USFA at check-in.

There will be no walk-in registration. Competitors must register and pay $30.99 online thru FRED's secure server from GeoTrust. Those who pre-register without paying will have their registrations denied without further explanation. All paid registrations are manually approved and do not show immediately in the registration list. We check secondary club or school affiliation, USFA member status and USFA member #. If you will be joining at the door, just put in a single digit in the USFA membership # field.

Refunds To obtain a refund, do 2 things: Send an e-mail to tomtishman@aol.com and patric@thewallacegroupinc.com with the reason why you deserve a refund and your address. Then delete your registration from the registration list thru the MyFRED dropdown menu. Refund requests will only be considered from those who cancel BEFORE the tournament in enough time for us to adjust our referee logistics.

Check-in closes promptly at 6:00pm. Fencing does not have access to the school until 5:15. Please do not enter the school before then.

Full uniform including knickers, long socks and plastron required.

Check your weapons; Weights will be used. Questions? Call Tom Tishman at 973-229-6987, cell. Acknowledgements: Mendham Fencing Club would like to thank:

Absolute Fencing Gear of Bridgewater; the Striano, Short and Wallace families of Mendham; the Verona and Jung families of Chester; and the Mendham HS Fencing Parents' Association. This tournament would not be possible without the electrical scoring machines, reels, and floor cables they've graciously lent or donated to The Club.

The Board of Education of the Borough of Mendham for use of Mountain View School's Gym and Cafeteria.

The competitors from 26 different fencing clubs in eight different USFA Divisions who've supported our efforts to bring Friday Evening competitions to the NJ fencing scene. ______________________________________________________ For internal use only: Expenses: Sub Sandwiches: $ 61.47, AJ Engraved Medals: $ 69.42 Painter's Tape: $ 43.15 Soda & Gatorade: $ 43.55 Total for TT: $ 156.12 Previous: 163.48 Total: $ 319.60