10th Annual Amarillo Open Fencing Tournament

[Chuck]

This tournament is shaping up to be a great tournament. The dates are October 3-4, 2009, at Amarillo College, in Amarillo Texas. Our events include:

Senior Mixed Epee
Senior Mixed Foil
Senior Mixed Sabre
Senior Women's Foil
Senior Women's Epee
Junior Mixed Foil
Junior Mixed Epee
Y14 Mixed Foil
Y14 Mixed Epee
Y10-12 Mixed Foil
Y10-12 Mixed Epee
Y10-12 Mixed Sabre

We anticipate that SwordMasters will be on hand providing strips and armory support. We should have 8 grounded strips and 2 or 3 non-grounded strips (gym floor in fencing salle).

Gerrie Baumgart has indicated that she plans to return to chair our bout committee and coordinate our referee assignments. Gerrie has headed up our bout committee for the last 4 to 5 years.

Check out Who's Coming on Ask FRED at:
http://askfred.net/Events/whoIsComin...nament_id=8868

To pre-register on Ask FRED, go to:
http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/pre...nament_id=8868

More information about the tournament on Ask FRED at:
http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.p...nament_id=8868

Much of the same information about the tournament may be found on the Amarillo College Fencing Association Website at:
http://www.acfencers.com/amarilloopen.html

SPECIAL AWARDS FOR SENIOR MIXED OPEN EVENTS
ACFA will be awarding a katana to the gold medalists in the Senior Mixed Open events.

The U.S. Air Force Academy has added the 10th Annual Amarillo Open Fencing Tournament to it's list of tournaments for the upcoming fencing season. Their fencers have already started appearing on the pre-registration list on Ask FRED, with more to come. We anticipate 25 to 35 fencers from the Air Force will be competing.

If you have any questions please email me at chuck@acfencers.com.

[oiuyt]

Might want to check your links....

-B

[Inquartata]

Odd. I used it yesterday, it worked fine then...

[oiuyt]

Originally Posted by Inquartata

Odd. I used it yesterday, it worked fine then...

The FRED posting is fine. The cut and paste to copy the links here involved the "..." abbreviations of the URLS, so the links here don't work.

-B

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by oiuyt

Might want to check your links....

-B

Thanks. The Links are now fixed.

[Chuck]

Swordmasters will be coming to the Amarillo Open. We are renting an additional 7 grounded strips to go with the 2 that we already own so we will have 9 grounded strips for the tournament. Swordmasters will also be serving as our exclusive fencing equipment vendor at the tournament.