Rules on league points and team competition
All ranked tournaments across the year contribute to an overall score for League each year. Medals are awarded for the top positions in each ranking, as well as a Team Prize for the club with the highest collective ranking.
Which Tournaments are ranked?
All of the main Open and Women’s+ tournaments are “ranked” tournaments. Most of these tournaments have their own ranking (e.g. Open Rapier & Dagger) but Open Longsword and the non-longsword Women’s+ tournaments are slightly different.
Women’s+ Rapier & Dagger, Sabre, and Sword & Buckler only have one tournament per year. So instead of having a single tournament “league” score, the three events contribute together to the “Women’s+ Renaissance” category. Apart from the change in weapons, this functions exactly like any other ranking.
For any tournament with an A and B tier – there is a single table for both A and B. However, any competitor who wins a medal in e.g. Open Longsword B will be placed in Open Longsword A for the rest of the league. This means that an under-ranked fighter entered in B can still in principle win the league if they go on to medal in Longsword A in later events, but only if they continue to do well in the Longsword A tournaments. It is not possible to win a league medal with results from ONLY tier B, regardless of score.
Beginners tournaments are unranked and do not contribute to either an individual or team ranking, as they are intended to be gentle introductions to tournament fencing.
Ranking in the individual competitions
Participants will be awarded league points for each weapon category after each tournament based on their ranking. These scores are added together and form a league competition in each weapon category stretching across all four events. Winners are determined by sum of scores from all events, and prizes awarded at the end of the final event.
1 points for 17th place
3 points for 9th place
6 points for 5th place
10 points for 4th place
14 points for 3rd place
18 points for 2nd place
22 points for 1st place
Ranking in the team competition
The team competition will be based upon the club that you have registered under. The club score for each event will be made up of the top four results from individual members of the club. This can be across multiple weapons, or in one weapon, but each individual can only contribute one score per event, even if entering multiple weapons.
The winner of the team competition will be the team with the most points after all events are concluded.
Tie-breaker
If two teams end up on the same final score after all tournaments the final placing will be decided by the highest amount of highest individual scores. If the amount of highest scores is equal, second highest scores are compared, then third highest and so on.
In case two fencers/teams share the same place after taking into account the amount of highest scores, the size of the tournament where they received their highest scores(s) will be used as the final tie-breaker.