| Competition News |
| Champion Club |
| The points will be awarded as follows:- |
| Regional and County Leagues |
| The Region committee has been anxious
to encourage inter-club and inter-county matches to
enable the social fencers within the clubs to have the
opportunity to fence against opponents they have not
fenced before or have only fenced occasionally. |
| It is therefore hoped to get a regional
league system up and running from January the 1st. If
your club is interested in competing in a league or as a
county you already run a league, would you please send
me, David Sach (address on last page) the relevant
details of your club or county league. I will be willing
to assist in getting county leagues up and running. |
| It is hoped that matches could be
organised within a county league with the first two in
the county progressing to the regional finals, which
would be held on one day towards the beginning of the
summer. This would include all the finalists from all the
counties who would then fence off. |
| Ideally matches within the county
leagues would take place on a home and away basis. It is
hoped to get the leagues up and running in as many
weapons as possible, and that eventually senior and
junior leagues will be set up in all weapons. The senior
league will be for fencers over 16 and the junior league
for fencers under 16. If counties are unable to organise
a county league but have another team competition then in
the first year the top 2 in that competition can be
nominated for the regional finals. |
| It is hoped that this initiative will
succeed, so please reply even if you are only a one
weapon club, there will be separate leagues for each
weapon so do not worry about your league position being
affected if you have an amazing foil team but no
sabreuers, it will not affect the placing of your foil
team. |
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| As has been stated elsewhere in this
newsletter the Region has a cup for the Champion Club.
The basis for deciding the Region’s top club will be
on points awarded for entries and results in all the
region’s competitions. The competition will be open
to all clubs in the Region which are affiliated to
British Fencing. |
| All entries in an individual
competition (senior and junior) will be gain 1 point. All
team entries in the team championship will gain 3 points
(as long as all fencers are in the same club). Points
will also be awarded for positions 1st - 10, 2nd - 8, 3rd=
- 6, 4th (team competition only) - 5, 5th & 6th - 3,
7th & 8th -1. These points are per team in the team
event not per fencer. |
| To reflect the different standard in
the competitions the points for places are subject to a
multiplier as follows, Senior Individuals - x5, Team
events - x6, Intermediate foil - x3, U18 Youth - x2, U16
Youth - x1.5, U14 and U12 Youth - x1. |
| This competition will start from this
season’s Youth championships and end after the team
event. Fencers will only be allowed to fence and gain
points for one club in a season. If a fencer finishes in
the top 8 and is unattached, fences for an unaffiliated
club or a club outside the region no points will be
awarded for that place. |
| This competition will be somewhat of an
experiment this season and the points systems may be
changed in future to reflect the experience gained. It is
however hoped that it will encourage clubs to urge their
fencers to enter the Regional competitions, both to gain
from the experience and help their club towards being the
Champion Club. I |
| Competition Dates |
| The dates of this season’s
competitions are, Youth Championships - 10th December at
Brentwood, Senior Individuals - 6th & 7th January at
Felixstowe, Intermediate Foil - 18th March at Chelmsford
and Team - 12th & 13th May at St. Neots. |
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