July 03, 2009

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POMME DE TERRE 2009 RESULTS

Thank you to all of the fencers, volunteers and referees for making this year's Pomme a resounding success.

Complete results are now available.

LOST ITEMS? If you lost anything at the Pomme, please contact Jeff Altbush, jeff@altbush.com, 781.640.3883.


VETERANS CHALLENGE 9

September 5-6, 2009

Registration form is available here.

PLEASE NOTE: if you picked up an entry form for this event at the Pomme, the schedule for Sunday has changed slightly.

 

 To all advanced fencers (A, B, C) in New England,
 
Ed Mullarkey of 3MB has started an informal inter-club competition  league specifically for advanced fencers (A, B, C). The primary goal  is to achieve better results at the national and regional level by making high-level competition a regular part of training. The plan is to meet twice a month and rotate competition around the clubs in the Division. For more information, contact Ed by sending email to: league@3mb.org.  Information is also posted on the 3MB website:  www.3mb.org
 
Ed is also looking for referees (new and experienced) who would be  willing to volunteer their time and refine their skills.

 Winter/Spring Schedule

is now available. Click here to download


Event Pre-Registration

Online Preregistration generally closes the Wednesday prior to a tournament, and sooner for Qualifiers and Special Events

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Message from the Chair

Welcome to the second half of the fencing season!

 

Our new schedule is finally ready and I apologize for it being much later than it should. Besides being very hard to find venues/dates for all the qualifier competitions we as a Division must hold, the North Atlantic Section had even more problems confirming dates for the Junior Sectionals. Our schedule is impacted by that and we could not publish ours until those dates were fixed. The work of putting together a schedule that pleases all fencers and coaches is very hard and to that effect we do not like having to run the Senior Team competition on a Saturday night with the U16 qualifier on the next day. But considering factors such as the number of weekends available and the projected availability of referees due to college meets, we think we have done about as well as possible.

 

The new policy of getting a $5 discount when registering through askFRED seems to be working, but maybe not optimally. If we are going to be able to use this as a planning tool for hiring of referees etc., we may need to make the incentive for pre-registering even higher. The Board is studying this and will make a decision before the start of the Fall season.

 

Jan Hoftun

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