Well, you may still have to deal with a new foil point

. The design proposals I know of incorporate a 2-3 mm travel (i.e., has to get pushed in that far to light) and possibly a pressure spring of up to 1000 g weight-equivalent. This wouldn't make flicks impossible (ask any good epeeist), but they would be a much lower-percentage shot. A prototype was shown at the '99 FIE congress, with adoption to be voted on at the 2000 congress in December.
The reasoning behind not going with the longer debounce time was that if you were to make it long enough to reject a significant percentage of flicks it would also reject a lot of straight hits, too.
Of course, all this could go the way the rule about the mask bib being valid target in foil did

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-Dave