Carnegie Mellon Fencing Club
2005 Eleventh Annual Holy Grail Championships
Saturday, April 2, 2005
One of this year's largest team events in Pennsylvania will be held on Saturday, April 2, 2005.
Events are as follows: Mixed Foil, Mixed Epee and Mixed Saber.
Registration ends at 10:30 A.M. Fencing will start promptly thereafter. (The gym opens at 10:00 A.M.)
Fencing will be in the same gym as last year: Skibo Gymnasium on Tech St, CMU Campus (2nd floor). Directions are available on our website (
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~fencing).
The format has been altered slightly from previous years, in order to keep ending times reasonable:
Each event will consist of two rounds: one of round-robin pools for seeding purposes and one direct elimination round. The pools will consist of 15-touch relay 'lightning rounds'. 100% of teams will be seeded into direct elimination, which will follow the the USFA relay 45-touch bout format.
The top two teams in each event will win a fencing DVD with World Cup footage (that is, one DVD per team, to first- and second-place finishers in each weapon). People seemed to agree with us last time that fencing DVD's were cooler than medals, and this year we've placed the order well in advance to give the purchasing office as much time as they want to screw up.
The organization which accumulates the highest point totals will claim possession of the Holy Grail trophy for one year, and will be required to defend its title at the 2006 championships!
Teams are composed of three fencers each (all in the same weapon) with an optional alternate. Composite teams from more than one organization are allowed in those cases in which an organization cannot field a complete team on its own.
Double entering is prohibited. No exceptions.
Entry fees will be $25 per team of 3 (or 4) fencers, payable at the door. Pre-registration is optional, but highly appreciated: e-mail fencing at andrew dot cmu dot edu to let us know how many teams in each weapon your organization will be bringing.
We ask that each participating club bring a working set of scoring equipment (machine, reels, floor cords, etc.), if available. Please let us know if you can do this, so we know how many strip setups to borrow/rent.
If you need directions to the event or have other questions, please contact us either by phone or e-mail.
Please feel free to forward this advertisement to anyone who might be interested in competing. Any omissions from this mailing list - we intend to send it to any human being, or member of any other species, who knows what a sword is - are entirely accidental.
Thanks!
Carnegie Mellon Fencing Club, 2004-05
Electronic Mail: fencing at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Web Page:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~fencing/
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