Potential New Olympic Fencing Event

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

Originally Posted by shlepzig

I would suggest the following.

1. Preceded with pool format 3 rounds (long day, this is the killer), one for each weapon. Seed according to all 3 rounds.

I have fenced in a 41-man ME poule in one day, so it is doable. However, I think that one should seed people according to their worst weapon. a truly versatile fencer is good at everything. Someone who is great at two and is bad at the 3rd will fare relatively well according to your seeding, but I would not call him versatile.

Originally Posted by shlepzig

3. Call all 3 periods at 5 touches, so that someone who is great at one weapon can dominate the final 14 touches at the end of the bout after just managing not to get hit in the previous periods. In the unlikely case of a tie, fence the tie-breaker with the weapon at hand.
Shlep.

Well, we obviously have diametrically different opinions on how a 3-weapon event should be constructed. For those who are great in one weapon but bad at the other two we already have one-weapon events, why should one construct a multiweapon event to cater to them?


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[oiuyt]

Originally Posted by PeterGustafsson

I have fenced in a 41-man ME poule in one day, so it is doable.

As have I (mixed in my case). On the day before fencing a 25-man MxF pool and the day after a 27-man MxS pool. Plus 2 DE bouts each on the sabre and epee days (top-4 were fenced off).

Long days are fun.

The tournament I'm referring has an additional 3-W prize using the sum of the ordinal rankings from the three days.

Will be an annual event (with capacity fields of 51 (epee) and 36 (or possibly 39) (foil/sabre)). Come play with us.

-B