Fence Dry! License

We are now issuing a paper document with paid memberships that provides documentation of membership and data current at the date of issue on the fencer's rank and classification. Updated licenses are available on request and at any competition where we have access to the Fence Dry! database and a printer.

Online Application

We have added an online application with provision for payment by PayPal to the website. This application gathers a little more data to help identify the characteristics of our membership, and the print application will be updated shortly to the same standard.

Registered Event

The Amelia Steel Rain or Shine Fence Dry! II youth tournament sponsored by Amelia Steel, the 4 H Fencing Club in Amelia County, Virginia, on 14 November has been registered as a Fence Dry! event.

New Rule for Three Weapon Events Points

Three weapon events are conducted relatively infrequently. Therefore, for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons, the requirement for participation in two events for eligibility for Annual Point Championships is relaxed to 1 three weapon event and participation in events in at least one of the other weapons, in those cases where only one three weapon event is held within a reasonable distance of the fencer.

Rank Rule for Entering Age Groups

Because we have now had fencers who enter a more senior age group with ranking points, a need emerged for a rule on how to transition their points from one age group to another. As far as we can tell this will generally be for moving up in age group, a Youth 13 fencer fencing in Youth 17, for example. The following rule is being applied:

When a fencer first fences in another age group the Ranking they hold in their original age group will be applied for their first bout in the new age group. From that bout forward they earn a Ranking in the new age group. This does not effect their Ranking in the previous age group.

Victories, classifications, and annual points do not carry forward to the new age group.

New Registered Event

Amelia Steel, the 4-H Fencing Club in Amelia County is hosted a youth dry foil and epee at the Amelia Middle School in Amelia Courthouse on Saturday, 25 July, with registration opening at 0830.

Change In Results Format

We have made a minor change in how results are displayed for competitions, eliminating the table boundaries. This is time saver in the production process - for reasons we do not quite understand, Microsoft Excel tables do not translate easily to Microsoft Expression, requiring a lot of work to make the table and cell boundaries appear. So, in the interest of being able to get results up more rapidly, we are printing results without the lines for all newly entered competitions. The information is the same.