Clear Lake Open

This is the Clear Lake Fencing Club's annual spring open fencing tournament. Competitions will be held in in mixed and women's foil, epee & sabre. This is a USFA event. All rules of the United States Fencing Association apply. All competitors must have a completed waiver of liability at registration. The waiver may be found at http://www.gulfcoastfencing.org/GCwaiverconsent.pdf Questions & comments may be posted at: http://texasfencing.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Tournaments&action=display&thread=3285 Maps to the Gilruth Center, Johnson Space Center: http://www.clfc.org/venues/gilruth.htm http://ams.cern.ch/AMS/Meetings/Meetings07/TIM_Jan07/GilruthMap.pdf Events Scheduled: 8:00 AM Senior Mixed Foil 9:00 AM Senior Women's Epee 11:00 AM Senior Mixed Sabre 12:00 PM Senior Women's Foil 1:00 PM Senior Mixed Epee 2:00 PM Senior Women's Sabre FEE STRUCTURE: Registration - $20.00 Each Event Fenced - $10.00 Late Fee (not pre-registered on this site by the date of the tournament) - $10.00 SENIOR FORMAT INFORMATION One round of 5-touch/3 minute bout pools. 100% advance to 15-touch direct elimination rounds. EQUIPMENT All weapons will be scored electrically. Equipment (masks, lames, and electric cords) will be inspected and marked. USFA MEMBERSHIP Current competitive membership of the USFA required. Membership forms will be available at the venue. If your membership is not pre-validated, you must be prepared to show proof of USFA membership, or at the door, fill out a membership form and pay $60 - check or credit card. Persons under age 18 MUST have a parent's signature on the USFA form. Preregistration opens on 01/04/2011. Preregistration closes on 03/17/2011.