2025/2026 OFA Youth and Cadet Circuit #1
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The OFA is pleased to welcome you to the second tournament of the 2025/2026 season at Durham College in Oshawa on October 4 and 5, 2025 The youth categories (U9 to cadet) are on the program.
License
All participants are required to have an active Competitive CFF/OFA Fencing License or an equivalent license from the participant’s home federation. All Canadian fencers are expected to hold a Canadian license. You may purchase/renew your license via the Canadian Fencing Federation website in real time.
All international participants are required to present documentation confirming that they hold an active membership with their home federation, or a current, active FIE license.
Venue
Campus Recreation & Wellness Centre
21 Avenue of Champion, Oshawa, ON, L1G 8G3
Vendor
IMEX sport will be there.
Event Fees
$50 Administration Fee
$70 Under 9 (U9) or Youth 8 (Y8) (Born between 2017 and 2020)
$70 U11 or Y10 (Born between 2015 and 2018)
$70 U13 or Y12 (Born between 2013 and 2016)
$70 U15 or Y14 (Born between 2011 and 2014)
$70 Cadet (Born between 2009 and 2012)
Registrations close on Sunday, September 28th, 2025, at 11:59pm.
Late Registrations
If a participant wants to register late, the event fee will be doubled.
Refunds
If the participant wishes to withdraw from the competition prior to the deadline, the Admin fee and the Event fee will be refunded.
Once the deadline has passed, if the participant wishes to withdraw, only the event fee will be refunded.
Event summary
The OFA Circuit Youth #1 is the first event of the season.
The format of the Youth competitions
The U11 and U9 will be mixed up resulting in 2 events in total.
The format of the competition will be one round of pools (8 fencers or +) with 100% promotion. Advancement into Direct Elimination will be ranked on the results from the pools.
OFA rankings will be used for pools seeding.
Pool bout in 5 points / D.E bout in 8 points for U9 and 10 points for U11.
The results will count in the OFA rankings.
U13 and U15 events with greater than six (6) competitors will be separated by gender
The format of the competition will be one round of pools with 100% promotion. Advancement into Direct Elimination will be ranked on the results from the pools.
OFA rankings will be used for pools seeding.
Pool bout in 5 points / D.E bout in 15 points.
The results will count in the OFA rankings.
The format of the Cadet competitions
Seeding into pools of 6 or 7 will be based first upon HPP rankings and OFA rankings for Cadet, Junior and Senior categories
OFA rankings will be used for athletes not registered with the CFF HPP, with adjustments to be made only by the Directoire Technique (DT) based upon exceptional circumstances (e.g. former national team member without a ranking, foreign fencers). In cases where pools of 6 or 7 are not possible, the DT will determine the most practicable format, while ensuring to optimize competition.
All events will have one round of pools, with all participants promoted. Any events above 64 registrants may have an imposed cut of between 10-20% if necessary to ensure projected finish times, however, at least 64 fencers will be promoted if there are more than 64 competitors. In cases where cuts will be necessary, an announcement and posting will be made before the start of the event. Advancement into Direct Elimination will be ranked on the results from the pools in accordance with FIE rules.
Events are planned as separate events but may be combined if there are fewer than 6 registrants in one gender. If combined, both a combined and separate women’s DE will be held. Should the events occur on separate days, participants of the later event will be notified no later than 7 days before the event and given the option of combining with the other gendered event, or a refund of event fees.
Medals will be awarded to the four top spots of the event
No fencing for third place.
The results will count in the OFA rankings.
Equipment
Please refer to the CFF domestic competition equipment standards
https://fencing.ca/cff-domestic-competition-equipment-standards/
After consultation with our OFA Competitions Committee, it was determined that this rule (FIE Rule m.25.3) will be enforced only at tournaments where 800N (FIE) equipment is required.
To clarify, the rule was included in our tournament requirements following a wording update to FIE Rule m.25.3 last October. However, given that 350N manufacturers and suppliers in Canada do not carry the left-handed pants, and that the 350N (CE level 1) or better is the CFF equipment standard and the standard enforced at our competition, our OFA Competition Committee indicated that the rule concerning left-handed pants for left-handed fencers will not be enforced in our Ontario tournaments, including our OFA Youth Circuit Events. We apologize for the confusion and look forward to seeing you all at our first Youth Circuit Event on October 4-5.
Note – Blades
U9 – size 0 - 2 blades required for Epee and Foil / Sabre – Plastic Sabre (provided by organizers)
U11 – size 0-2 blades required
U13 – no special rules regarding the maximum blade length
U15 – no special rules regarding the maximum blade length