Mid-South "Big Blue" Fundraiser Open

Please join us for fun and camaraderie in a community effort to support bringing to life a new 17 strip facility located in the Brightleaf area of downtown Durham, NC. We need your help! Big Blue is a sponsored event and the efforts will go directly to support the things fencers need to fence. Big Blue events include: Open Mixed Foil, Open Mixed Sabre, Youth Combined Sharks & Minnows, Sabre TEAM, and Open Mixed Epee. Suggested donation amounts are $40 per open event, $40 per team and $20 for second entry. Open tournament format for the opens will feature 1 round of pools (5 touch bouts) followed by direct elimination tableau (15 touch bouts) down to the final. The Youth Combined Event will be open to fencers in the Y10, Y12, and Y14 categories. This will be a Sharks and Minnows style tournament with two rounds of pools and then DE tableau (15 touch bouts) fenced through to the final. Blade size 0,2, or 5 will be allowed. The Sabre Team event requires each team to be mixed gender, therefore team may have a maximum of 2 male and 2 female fencers. There are no age restrictions on the event therefore fencers age 10 and older are eligible to be on a team. Events Scheduled: Youth Mixed Combined (Y10,Y12,Y14) Saber Senior Mixed Epee Senior Mixed Foil Senior Mixed Saber Mixed Team must be mixed gender Team Saber Right now we are still fundraising for a washer and dryer, refrigerator, stadium seating and lockers. Your participation directly helps this effort! Thank you for all your support big or small! This will be our LAST event in the basement. Come celebrate! Preregistration opens on 09/03/2013. Preregistration closes on 10/25/2013.