About how many tournaments does you Div hold in a year? Or if you live in a small div, how many are held in the nearby area? I know in the southeast (Georgia) it is not uncommon to be able to go to a tournamnet almost every weekend for most of the season. At the worst there will be two a month.
How about other areas?
__________________
If you give a man a fire, he is warm for the night.
If you set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
My first thought when asked that question is "too many!" We at LEAST try to have one or two tourneys a month from August to May, our official season in Michigan. Last year, I believe we had one just about every weekend. That was a quick way to burn out...& go broke!
__________________ "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
We're probably a small- to medium-sized division. We hold about one tournament a month. There's always foil. Sabre and epee are 2-3 times per year (not counting divisionals). The core group of competitive fencers (about 5) usually goes to all of the NAC's, Summer Nationals, and the larger regional events within a reasonable (6 hours or so) driving distance.
However, it boils down to only six events in each event category. Still, I fence about 17 tournaments a year: the six Bay Cup, the six PCS circuit, the Division Championships, the Sectional Championships, the NACs and Summer Nationals. That's quite a bit, a little more than twice a month, considering that we don't fence in August and September, and some months (December) is somewhat restricted due to holidays.
It depends onthe size of the division, of course. Wyoming's only got 31 people total, according to the last report at the USFA...that's a good sized open foil in SoCal.
This season we scheduled 22 days of competitions, totalling 75 seperate events.
That's the curse of being the 3rd largest div in the nation, I guess, but I get a LOT of fencing in!
------------------
Sam Signorelli -- I'll be mellow when I'm
DEAD!
I should menttion that almost all of those tournaments held are three weapon. (although the sabre events often tend to have 6 fencers or less, the same for most of the exclusivly women's events)
__________________
If you give a man a fire, he is warm for the night.
If you set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
Linear Mode
