Individual Competitions

Entry to competitions is to be made through your club representative or to the Tournament Chair at tournament@wafafencing.org.au directly by 5pm on the Wednesday before the event. The decision as to whether or not to run the competition will be made on the basis of entries received up to this time. There must be at least 5 entrants per weapon for that competition to run. Club Reps will be notified that an event has been cancelled and are required to pass that information on to the entrants from their club.

Entries will not be accepted later than the time specified (except by prior special arrangement with the DT for the particular competition) and absolutely will not be accepted on the day of the competition.

Roll call will commence for each competition at the advertised time. There will be three calls made at five minute intervals. If fencers have not presented themselves by the third call, they will be removed from the competition. Under special circumstances a roll call by proxy will be accepted for an entrant. If an entrant has guaranteed his or her attendance after roll call, but at a time (preferably prior to the commencement of fencing) agreed with the DT, then he or she may be permitted to participate in the competition.

The competition will commence promptly after roll call is completed. It is essential to be on time for competitions and to have warmed up prior to fencing.
Competitions will be scored electrically or visually as indicated on the calendar.

• Electrically scored competitions will be subject to weapons testing as indicated on the calendar.
• Competitions will be split by gender where possible in accordance with the existing WAFA policy.
• Results of individual competitions will be published by the tournament chair within a week of the matches occurring.

Updated WAFA rankings will be published by e-mail and on the WAFA website within a week of the end of each calendar month. They will incorporate all results up to the end of that month.

Fencers who are aged 40 years or above are eligible to compete in the Veterans category.

Open events = open to all.

'B' events = open to those fencers who have not placed in the top 3 (top 2 for an event that awarded = 3rd's) in an open/women's, (or won 2 intermediate or 'B' events) in the 12 months prior to the event.

'C' events = open to those who have not placed in the top 6 in an open/women's, (or top 2 in a 'B'/intermediate or won two 'C'/novice events) in the 12 months prior to the event.

U13 = fencers less than 13 years of age at 1 January of the current year.

U15 = fencers less than 15 years of age at 1 January of the current year.

U17 = fencers less than 17 years of age at 1 January of the current year.

U13 events will be run as a single round of poules followed by a direct elimination tableau of the top two fencers from each poule (or the top four if there is just one poule) to a maximum of eight in total. DE bouts will be fenced to 10 hits. Except for épée, U13 competitions will usually be judged visually.

The U15 and U17 events will be combined as a single U15/U17 competition (with separate women's events if numbers permit). At the end of the competition, two ranking tables will be produced – one containing all fencers (the U17 ranking) and one containing only the fencers under 15 according to the rules (the U15 ranking). The top three fencers in each ranking will receive the gold, silver and bronze medals respectively (even if this results in one fencer receiving two medals). These are all of the medals, but the DT may award additional certificates at his discretion (for the top U13 in a U15/17 competition, for example).