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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Layout & Strips, Part 6: Repechage, Plus Some SN Considerations
I’ve been fond of repechage ever since I figured out how it works. As a moderately geeky, detail-oriented BC person, I find it an interesting intellectual exercise to calculate all the backside table reseeds and swaps, and it’s always fun … Continue reading
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Tagged bout committee, DEs, fencing tournaments, repechage, Summer Naitonals, tournament management
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Layout & Strips, Part 5: DEs
At the end of the last post, we’d reached 11:00 am on our imaginary tournament day. All the pools from our ME and MS events have finished, and the promoted fencers are waiting for their DEs to be posted. While … Continue reading
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Tagged bout committee, DEs, direct elimination bouts, fencing tournaments, tournament management
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Layout & Strips, Part 4: Pools
From here on, I’m going to be talking mainly about national tournaments, which are different from any other category. Even large sectional championships or regional tournaments like Duel in the Desert or Pomme de Terre have a completely different feel … Continue reading
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Tagged bout committee, DEs, fencing tournament, pools, strip management
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Layout & Strips, Part 3: General Principles
OK, we’ve got strips laid out and numbered, so we’re ready to start the fencing. How do we decide which events to put where? For local tournaments, assigning strips is easy, so much so that even using the word “assigning” … Continue reading
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Tagged bout committee, fencing tournaments, strip management, tournament scheduling
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