Point In Line - the Central Virginia Division Newsletter
No. 2007-04
23 June 2007
1. REMINDER - CHANGE IN CHECK-IN TIMES: We have changed start times forward to 9:30am for our Sunday meets. This lets us complete our event earlier, and frees up the space of our host for other fencing activity on their schedule.
2. REMINDER - UPCOMING EVENTS - THIS SUNDAY
IS EPEE: Preregistration is open at askFred:
Open 1 Touch Epee - SUNDAY, 24 JUNE at 9:30 AM: preregister at
http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/prereg.php?tournament_id=3822.
This event is fenced as a pool unique; depending on how many entries we have we
will fence either once or twice through the order.
3. RESULTS: Our open foil on 17
June was sparsely attended, so by agreement the fencers fenced through the pool
twice for 6 hard fought bouts each:
1st Place - Lincoln Marquis - earned a Junior classification
2nd Place - Walter Green
3rd Place - Brian Ainley - earned his Novice classification
4th Place - Minta Smith
4. BUSINESS MEETING ON 24 JUNE: Immediately after the meet on 24 June we will hold a short business meeting with two key items on the agenda: (1) acceptance of the draft by-laws (a second copy is attached to this mailing), and (2) election of officers for the 2007-2008 fencing year.
5. THREE WEAPON TEAM MEET: We will run our first team competition as a Three Weapon meet at the end of July. A three weapon team consist of one foilist, one epeeist, and one sabreur. The competition is fenced as a pool of matches between the various teams - each match is one bout of foil, one of epee, and one of sabre. If you have team mates in mind, now is time to start putting your team together. If you do not, but want to fence on a team contact wgreen@sallegreen.com, and Salle Green will serve as a matchmaker.
6. IF YOU KNOW OF ANY LOST FENCERS ...: Fencers can join the American Fencing League direct through the national website. We do not get any feedback when they do. If you know of anyone who has joined, and does not appear to be in the loop for our newsletters or events, please let us know.
No. 2007-03
14 June 2007
1. IMPORTANT - CHANGE IN CHECK-IN TIMES: Effective with our
meet this coming weekend, start times
are sliding forward to 9:30am. This lets us complete our event earlier, and frees up the space of our host for other fencing activity on their schedule.
2. REMINDER - UPCOMING EVENTS - THIS SUNDAY
IS FOIL, THE NEXT SUNDAY EPEE: Preregistration for both events is open at
askFred:
Open Foil - SUNDAY, 17 JUNE at 9:30 AM: prereigster at
http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/prereg.php?tournament_id=3821.
Open 1 Touch Epee - SUNDAY, 24 JUNE at 9:30 AM: preregister at
http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/prereg.php?tournament_id=3822.
Remember - PREREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. It lets us have the score sheets
set up and ready to go so that as soon as checkin closes we can start fencing.
If, for any reason, you have trouble with preregistration online, make sure you
e-mail wgreen@sallegreen.com with your intent to come. Of
course, we then have to go back and do your registration for you, as we use FRED
to report our results and for our points list ...
3. ARE YOU USING OUR WEBSITE? The
Central Virginia Division has a comparatively rich website at
http://centralvirginiafencing.org/. Our division specific rules for
competitions, the schedule, results of previous meets, and a variety of other
useful information. Use the website to help you manage your fencing.
4. MAY RESULTS:
On 13 May we fenced a Three Weapon Individual Meet:
1st Joseph Iaquinto
2nd Walter Green
3rd Nathaniel Ewell
4th Jonathan Iaquinto
5th Minta Smith
On 27 May we fenced an Open Sabre Meet:
1st Sam Archer - earned his Junior classification
2nd Walter Green
3rd Alex Snyder - earned his Novice classification
4th Minta Smith
5th Ryan Pellegrino
6th Pat Norman
5. NEW JUDGES TRAINING PROGRAM:
Good officials help to make good fencing. To help prepare our members to
perform well as judges we have established a judges training program. Full
details are available on our website at
http://centralvirginiafencing.org/judgetraining.htm.
6. BY-LAWS AND OFFICERS: Every member should have received a
copy of draft By-Laws for the Division by e-mail. In the same e-mail we
asked for nominations for officers for the 2007-2008 season. After the 1
Touch Epee meeting on 24 June we will hold a short business meeting to come to
closure on both. Please forward any suggested changes to the by-laws and
your nominations for office to wgreen@sallegreen.com as soon as possible.
No. 2007-02
11 May 2007
1. REMINDER - 3 WEAPON MEET THIS SUNDAY, SABRE ON 27 MAY: We will fence an individual 3 Weapon meet at Salle Green on this coming Sunday, 13 May, starting at 10:00. Preregistration is open at askFred: http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/prereg.php?tournament_id=3776 - remember, preregistration is required. A 3 Weapon meet includes 5 touches at foil, 1 touch at epee, and up to 5 touches in sabre. The event is fenced double elimination. If you are not going to fence, we would still appreciate help judging, score keeping, etc.
Our other May event is Sabre on 27 May - preregistration is available at askFred: http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/prereg.php?tournament_id=3777.
2. POINTS LIST ON FRED: Our points list for each weapon as maintained on askFred at http://askfred.net/Results/pointsLists.php is current. The annual Point Championships is determined by the total number of points in all weapons that fencers earn during the fencing year ending on 1 August.
3. TOURNAMENT RESULTS: We are now posting tournament results on askFred on the day of the event. A small turnout on 15 April for the Open Foil Meet did not deter the fencers who did participate. Robb White earned his Junior and Walter Green and Michael Workman their Novice classifications. Final placing was:
1st Place: Robb White
2nd Place: Walter Green
3rd Place: Michael Workman
4th Place: Pat Norman
The One Touch Epee Meet on 22 April attracted seven fencers, including two new members, Linda Barrett and Dot Mackey, attending their first competition above the club level. Congratulations to Breet Colbert for earning his Novice classification. Because we had a relatively small field, the pool unique was fenced two times through for 42 bouts. Final placings were:
1st Place: Joseph Iaquinto
2nd Place: Walter Green
3rd Place: Brett Colbert
4th Place: James McMath
5th Place: Linda Barrett
6th Place: Pat Norman
7th Place: Dot Mackey
4. THE SCHEDULE THROUGH JUNE: Plan to add to your points in the Point Championships or to improve your classification by showing up and competing:
13 May 3 Weapon Individual
27 May Sabre
17 June Foil
24 June 1 Touch Epee
29 July 3 Weapon Team
No. 2007-01
24 March 2007
1. SCHEDULE FOR THE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER 2007: The following events are scheduled through July 2007. Specific registration information will be posted on FRED (at http://askfred.net) for each event. Unless otherwise noted (1) the venue will be Salle Green, 1.9 miles north of Virginia Center Commons on Route 1 (11058 Washington Highway, Glen Allen), (2) registration fees will remain $2.00 for each event, (3) all events start at 10:00 am, (4) epee events are fenced pool unique, foil and sabre events are fenced as pools promoting to pools, and three weapon events are fenced double elimination, and (5) all events contribute points toward the Division Point Championships.
15 April Foil
22 April 1 Touch Epee
13 May 3 Weapon Individual
27 May Sabre
17 June Foil
24 June 1 Touch Epee
29 July 3 Weapon Team
2. WELCOME NEW MEMBERS: Welcome to three new members joined at our last event:
Sam Archer (Salle Green) Sabre
Ryan Pellegrino (Salle Green) Sabre
Alex Snyder (Salle Green) Sabre
We are glad you are active in the AFL and the Division, and we look forward to seeing you in more events in the future.
3. SABRE MEET RESULTS: A hard fought open sabre meet on 17 March resulted in a three way barrage for first place, with the eventual difference between first and third being 2 touches.
1st Walter Green (7 victories, 1 defeat, 22 received, 38 scored) Junior
2nd Joseph Iaquinto (6 victories, 2 defeats, 20 received, 38 scored) Novice
3rd Raymond Watson (5 victories, 3 defeats, 27 received, 37 scored) Junior
4th Sam Archer (3 victories, 3 defeats, 20 received, 20 scored) Prep
5th Alex Snyder (2 victories, 4 defeats, 26 received, 15 scored) Prep
6th Ryan Pellegrino (1 victory, 5 defeats, 29 received, 15 scored) Prep
7th Tom Watson (0 victories, 6 defeats, 30 received, 11 scored) - Prep
4. POINT CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS ON FRED: We now have the Divisions annual point championships point totals available on FRED. When we enter the results of one of our tournaments, FRED automatically computes the points and makes them available to you. To check your point totals go to http://askfred.net/Results/pointsLists.php or simply look in the results pull-down on FREDs front page for Point Standings. FRED lists the standings by weapon the total we use for the Annual Point Championships is based on the sum of the events you enter in all three weapons. Points for each event are awarded in inverse order to placing if there are 8 fencers, 1st place earns 8 points and 8th place earns 1 point.
5. CURRENT AFL RULES: Please be sure you are using the latest AFL rules the November 2006 edition, available at: http://www.americanfencingleague.org/AFL%20rules.pdf. This edition corrects some of the issues we noted in our Division rules, which are now in revision. Our new edition of Central Virginia competition rules will continue:
to fence three weapon events as 5 touch foil and sabre and 1 touch epee
to allow double elimination events in addition to single (direct) elimination at three weapon
to authorize the use of a 32 foot strip based on the old Amateur Fencing League of America rules
to prohibit the use of points darret in epee
6. WEBSITE: This coming week we expect to have a Central Virginia AFL website up and running. Further information will be out as soon as it is in business.