2025/2026 OFA Youth Cadet Circuit #2

The OFA is pleased to welcome you to the second tournament of the 2025/2026 season at Burnside Agriplex in Stratford, on November 22 and 23, 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

Burnside Agriplex

353 McCarthy Rd, Stratford, ON N5A 7S7

Vendor

IMEX sport will be there.

https://imexsport.ca/

Event Fees

$50 Administration Fee

$70 Youth 9 or Youth 8 (Born between 2017 and 2020)

$70 Youth 11 or Youth 10 (Born between 2015 and 2018)

$70 Youth 13 or Youth 12 (Born between 2013 and 2016)

$70 Youth 15 or Youth 14 (Born between 2011 and 2014)

$70 Cadet (Born between 2009 and 2012)

Registrations close on Sunday, November 16th, 2025, at 11:59pm.

Late Registrations

If a participant wants to register late, the event fee will be doubled.

Refund Policy

If the participant wishes to withdraw from the competition prior to the registration deadline, the Admin fee and the Event fee will be refunded.

Once the registration deadline has passed, if the participant wishes to withdraw, only the event fee will be refunded.

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.

Note

U15 athletes will be split into two divisions for the direct elimination rounds. The number of athletes in each division will be announced on the morning of the event, based on the total number of registrations. Typically, the goal is to have the top 16 ranked athletes after the pool rounds qualify for Division 1.

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/

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