The 2011 Midwest Fencing Conference Championships Saturday, March 5 & Sunday, March 6 l Notre Dame, Ind. Saturday, March 5 - Individual Championships 8:00 a.m. - Men’s epee and women’s foil pools begin. 9:30 a.m. - Men’s epee and women’s foil direct elimination begin when ready. 10:00 a.m. - Men’s sabre pools begin 11:15 a.m. – Approximate start time for men’s sabre direct elimination. 1:00 p.m. - Women’s epee and men’s foil pools begin. 2:30 p.m. - Women’s epee and men’s foil direct elimination begin when ready. 3:00 p.m. - Women’s sabre pools begin 4:00 p.m. - Approximate start time for women’s sabre direct elimination. Sunday, March 6 - Team Championships 8:00 a.m. - Start time for men’s epee, men’s foil, and men’s sabre. 11:30 p.m. - Approximate start time for men’s epee, men’s foil and men’s sabre finals. 12:00 noon - Start time for women’s epee, women’s foil and women’s sabre. 3:30 p.m. - Approximate time for women’s epee, women’s foil and women’s sabre finals. 4:30 p.m. - Approximate start time of the awards ceremony (indiv. medals handed out first, followed by the team trophies). 2010 NCAA Women’s Epee 3rd-Place/First Team All-American Courtney Hurley Notre Dame 2010 NCAA Women’s Foil 5th-Place/Second Team All-American Hayley Reese Notre Dame 2010 NCAA Men’s Sabre 3rd-Place/First Team All-American Avery Zuck Notre Dame
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The 2011 Midwest Fencing Conference Championships
Saturday, March 5 & Sunday, March 6 l Notre Dame, Ind.
Saturday, March 5 - Individual Championships8:00 a.m. - Men’s epee and women’s foil pools begin. 9:30 a.m. - Men’s epee and women’s foil direct elimination begin when ready.10:00 a.m. - Men’s sabre pools begin11:15 a.m. – Approximate start time for men’s sabre direct elimination.1:00 p.m. - Women’s epee and men’s foil pools begin.2:30 p.m. - Women’s epee and men’s foil direct elimination begin when ready.3:00 p.m. - Women’s sabre pools begin4:00 p.m. - Approximate start time for women’s sabre direct elimination.
Sunday, March 6 - Team Championships8:00 a.m. - Start time for men’s epee, men’s foil, and men’s sabre.11:30 p.m. - Approximate start time for men’s epee, men’s foil and men’s sabre finals. 12:00 noon - Start time for women’s epee, women’s foil and women’s sabre.3:30 p.m. - Approximate time for women’s epee, women’s foil and women’s sabre finals. 4:30 p.m. - Approximate start time of the awards ceremony (indiv. medals handed out first, followed by the team trophies).
2010 NCAA Women’s Epee3rd-Place/First Team All-American
Courtney HurleyNotre Dame
2010 NCAA Women’s Foil5th-Place/Second Team All-American
Hayley ReeseNotre Dame
2010 NCAA Men’s Sabre3rd-Place/First Team All-American
Avery ZuckNotre Dame
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MFC Championship History/Fencing 101
PAST MFC CHAMPIONS
The Midwest Fencing Championships, held annually at Uni-versity of Notre Dame, crowns individual, squad, and overall champions from the Midwest Fencing Conference. The Midwest Fencing Conference is a group of 20 schools, which includes both club teams and NCAA varsity programs. The conference was created in 1998. Below is a complete list of past champions on both the men’s and women’s side.
What is the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships??
How the Tournament Is Set Up...
The two types of events that are held this weekend will be an individual tournament on Saturday and a team event on Sunday.
In the individual event the fencers will fence in small round robin pools to five touches. They will then proceed to the Direct Elimination where they will fence to fifteen touches and this will continue until there is a champion.
In the team events, each weapon squad will compete as a team against other schools in a Direct Elimination bracket based on the individual result from the day before. Fencers will compete one at a time against another team to five touches and the first team to win five bouts wins the match. This will continue until there is a champion squad in each of the six events.
When watching fencing, the director awards the touches, when he raises his hand the person on that side is award with the touch. There are three weapons in fencing; foil, epee and sabre.
•Foil—a light thrusting weapon that targets the torso, including the back, but not the arms. Hits are scored only with the tip; hits with the side of the blade do not count. Only a single hit can be scored by either fencer at one time. If both fencers hit at the same time, the referee uses the rules of “right of way” to determine which fencer gets the touch.
•Sabre—a light cutting and thrusting weapon that targets the entire body above the waist, except for the hands. The sabre is primarily used to slash, so hits with the side of the blade as well as the tip are valid. “Right of way” applies—only one fencer can score at a time.
•Epee—a heavy thrusting weapon that targets the entire body. All hits must be with the tip and not the sides of the blade. Epee allows simultaneous hits by both fencers.
Right-Of-WayOne of the most difficult concepts to visualize in foil and sabre fencing is the rule of right-of-way. This rule was established to eliminate apparently simultaneous attacks by two fencers.
In essence, right-of-way is the differentiation of offense and defense, made by the referee. The difference is only important when both fencers hit at the same time in foil and sabre. When this happens, the winner of the point is the one who the referee determined was on offense at the time the lights went on.
Epee does not use the right-of-way, any time a fencer registers a light on the machine they are awarded a touch.
