CWRU Collegiate Open

FRED Announces the CWRU Collegiate Open (take two...or rescheduled) This event is open to all full time college student who fence with or without a college program. USFA membership is not required, however USFA rules will be enforced.(Fencers who must fence 'unattached' due to NCAA rules and regulations are welcome to do so.) Schools coming with more then 6 fencers are asked to bring at 1 set of scoring equipment. A cup will be awarded to the school(s) who earn the most overall points in men's and women's events. ------------------ Important Info: ------------------- Tournament: CWRU Collegiate Open Date(s): 04/20/2008 Location: Case Western Reserve University's Veale Gym, Cleveland OH Please note the following changes on this tournament as per Case Western Reserve University Fencing Club President which was sent out to pre-registered fencers: Dear Fencers, You are receiving this email because you are preregistered for the CWRU Collegiate Open this coming Sunday. At the time of this email, we had 9 non-case students signed up for the event which gives us an income of $90. If we open the gym at 8:00 a.m. we pay the school $25 per hour till 1 pm since it's normal hours are from 1-10pm on Sunday. This leaves us short, not including paying officials which we budgeted at least $150. So we have decided to do some quick re-planning of the event. We will still be fencing this coming Sunday. We will still have strips and scoring machines. But fencing will start at 1:30 pm, when the Gym opens. Also, being that the two major schools pre-registered are Case and Oberlin we will reformat things somewhat. It is now officially a schrimage fun fence day. We will be fencing 1:30 pm until 7:00pm or later if people choose. The entry fee is being changed to a floor fee of a flat $5 per person for coming. There will be no officials. This will be friendly matches with pool and DE format for each weapon. Women will fence with the men. We would really just like everyone to fence everyone else there. We would like it to be an atmosphere of just grabbing a partner and fencing until you are sick of it and then finding someone new. (If you have a complete scoring machine, it can still be put to good use for us.) At the same time as we are fencing, CWRU club will have an open invite to all Case students who have never fenced before but are curious to come and try the sport out. We will have a separate dry strip area with student coaches to allow new people to try out the sport. Obviously non Case fencers who are experienced are welcome to give new people pointers or discuss technique with other fencers.Please respond to this email with a simple yes/no for whether you plan on attending the event so we can have an idea of how many people to plan for. Thank you very much. Hope to see you on Sunday. Jesse –CWRU Fencing club President ------------------ To Preregister: ------------------ http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/prereg.php?tournament_id=5783 Preregistation closes on 04/17/2008 If your email program didn't make that URL clickable, copy and paste the whole URL into your web browser. If that fails, go to: http://askfred.net/ Check FRED for more info, like who is already preregistered, and such: Who is preregistered: http://askfred.net/Events/whoIsComing.php?tournament_id=5783 More info: http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=5783 http://askfred.net/ Thanks for using FRED! Any problems, try http://www.askfred.net or e-mail me at ILoveFredButIHateItWhenHeDoesThat@askfred.net Thank-you for playing!