https://www.socaldivision.org/your-first-tournament-part-three-direct-elimination/ USA Fencing Tue, 22 May 2018 06:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.socaldivision.org/your-first-tournament-part-three-direct-elimination/#comment-69 Mon, 21 May 2018 18:26:57 +0000 https://www.socaldivision.org/?p=1991#comment-69 Great article! For the impatient fencers: Kids often want to know who they are going to fence when the seedings come out after the pools (but before the tableau is posted). The formula is the following: Table (minus) your Seed (plus) one. So, if there are 17 fencers and you are seeded 16th after pools, here is the calculation: 32 (table) – 16 (your seed) + 1 = 17 (your opponent). So, you fence the 17th seed. (The winner of that match means you are in the next table — so, 16 (table) – 16 (winner of the match takes the better seeded seat) + 1 = 1 (thus, the winner of 16th vs17th will fence the 1st seed). Another example: If you are seeded 15th after pools, it is 32 – 15 + 1 = 18 (since no one is 18th seed, you have no one to fence, so you get a bye; then go down to the next table: 16 (next table) – 15 + 1 = 2 — so, you will fence the 2nd seed.

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