Holiday Spectacular
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Registration closes December 5, 2025 — in about about 2 months
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A festive event with a GMD special - Foil/Epee Doubles! Please sign up with two team members (one foil, one epee) - more details under 'more info'. Youth and Junior events in the afternoon.
Join us for some festive fencing this holiday season.
Please read the below as we have a unique doubles event that requires some understanding before signing up!
9:30 a.m. Foil-Epee Doubles. A unique GMD tradition! Team up with another fencer-one foil fencer and one epee fencer per team. Fence a series of 10-touch relays with other teams, with a coin toss to decide whether the foilists or the epeeists fence first. Open to all fencers born 2012 or earlier (i.e. teens and adults). We use a unique fence-for-all-places format (a.k.a. the Shark Pool system) that uses the first round of pools to sort the teams, then forms pools by tiers (top teams in the Shark Pool, with middle and lower tier pools), so that less experienced or less successful teams get to enjoy fencing each other in the second round without the sharks. Entry fee is $25 per team if registered by midnight December 1st, $45 per team after that, with a discount of $5 per team if your partner is your parent, child, sibling or spouse.
Please only enter TWO participants per team. AskFred will say the registration is not complete but the bout committee will review and approve once submitted.
2:30 pm (more or less...afternoon events will start as the Doubles wraps up)
Junior Foil - open to fencers born between 2005 and 2012
Junior Epee - open to fencers born between 2005 and 2012
Youth Foil - open to fencers born 2013 or later
Youth Epee - open to fencers born 2013 or later
Entry fee (payable at door) if pre registered by December 1st : $10 for registration and $10 for Junior or Youth events, $25 for doubles even - see info above about late fees/discounts.
Payment is by check (made out to VFA) or cash only.
Please bring exact change whenever possible!
Late fee if registered after December 1st: $15
US Fencing Competitive or Access membership required for Youth and Junior events.
Please do not register for two events that start at the same time.
Please stay home if you are sick. There is no penalty for withdrawing if you need to.
Full fencing uniform is required.
The chest protector rule, which requires an FIE approved covering, will be enforced for foil events.