SFPFC '13 - Results from day 1

FiF had 7 fencers at today's P3/4/5 Scottish Fencing Plastic Foil Championships, out of the 30 participants.

All 7 came home medallists : one gold, 5 silver, one bronze.

From North Merchiston, well done to Kalu - Scottish Fencing P5 Champion Boy 2013 - and Katie - P5 Girl Championship Silver medallist.

From Sighthill, Oskar won the P4 Boys Silver medal, in a controversial final.

From Carrickvale, Samuel won the P3 Boys Silver medal, losing narrowly 8-7, and Izzy reached the semi-final to win the P5 Boys Bronze medal, knocked out by the eventual winner, Kalu.

From Craiglockhart, Rosie won the P4 Girls Silver medal.

From Bruntsfield, Ben won the P5 Boys Silver medal, after losing narrowly to Kalu in the final.

Tomorrow the P6 & P7 Championships start at 11am  (bringing the P7 event forward from the original noon check-in).   Make sure you specify "Salle FiF" on your entry forms and Scottish Fencing membership forms - or you'll get charged an extra £12-£15 pounds.

Scottish Fencing Plastic Foil Championships 2013

Check-in for tomorrow's P7 event has been brought forward from noon to 11am.

Please make sure you arrive at the new, earlier time.

(What happens if only some people arrive at the time is either - "late"comers will be disqualified; or everyone who arrives at 11am will have to wait around until noon before check-in completes.)

When you check-in:

Make sure you put "Salle FiF" on your entry form and your Scottish Fencing membership application form.

Or you'll get charged an extra £12 or £15!

Scottish Fencing Plastic Foil Championships 2013 - entry deadline extended

Yesterday, Scottish Fencing (SF) announced that entries to this year's SFPFC have been extended until Friday, 24th May.

This year, the championships will be held at Fencing Fun's metal-weapons fencing headquarters, Holy Rood High School.

Primaries 3,4 & 5 compete on Saturday, 25th May, and Primaries 6 & 7 compete on Sunday, 26th May.

Primary 3 check-in is 8:30am-8:45am, on the Saturday

Primary 4 check-in is 11am-11:15am, on the Saturday

Primary 5 check-in is 2pm-2:15pm, on the Saturday

Primary 6 check-in is 11am-11:15am, on the Sunday

Primary 7 check-in is Noon-12:15pm, on the Sunday

n.b. The P6 & P7 events are on SUNDAY, definitely.  
(Please ignore SF's website and entry-form saying "Saturday").

To enter, fill in the on-line form at:
http://fencingevent.com/SPFC13.html

Select "Salle FiF" as your club - this entitles you to a £10 Social Membership of SF.
Otherwise, you will have to take out an Under-13 Membership of SF for £25.

Membership of Salle FiF costs £3, payable at the Championships, or next time you see a Salle FiF official.

More information: 
The SF website: http://scottish-fencing.co.uk/node/510
The competition webpage : http://fencingevent.com/SPFC13details.html

For statistics junkies:

FiF Fencers take 1st, 2nd & 3rd in the first event

For the events Salle FiF entered, we made up 23% of the field, and we made up 21% of the total children entering the Scottish Plastic Foil Championships.

We had entries in 7 out of the 10 categories.

For the seven events we entered, we were 23% of the field; we won 48% of the medals, and 22% of the events.

For the events our girls entered, we were 86% of the field, and we won 83% of the medals, and 50% of the events.

For the events our boys entered, we were 19% of the field;  we won 33% of the medals, and 20% of the events.

Overall, across all 10 categories, we were 21% of the field; we won 33% of the medals, and 20% of the events.

Congratulations to our fencers!

I hope everyone had a great day. There were lots of smiling faces.

Salle FiF fielded 23 fencers out of a total field of 110, and contested seven of the ten events.

We won two out of those seven events, and 10 out of the 21 medals we contended for!

Congratulations to all our fencers, and we will be sending you full details of how you did as soon as we can.

Special congratulations are also due to:

Bronze medallists:

• Caelan
• Freddie B
• Mariam
• Rachel, (who had to struggle against a sudden-onset bout of acute food poisoning which took hold half-way through her event)

Silver Medallists:

• Grace
• Ismail
• Jane, (who incidentally beat (a sick) Rachel)
• Josh H

Scottish Champions

• Rosie,  who was 6th overall boy or girl in her entire year group
• Sean S, after a hard-fought final play-off.  He was also best overall in his year group.

Pictures will be available soon!  If you took pictures, please do send them, or a link to them, to us, via fencing is fun scotland at gmail dot com (without the spaces).

If you're willing, please also send to Scottish Fencing, via admin at scottish hyphen fencing dot com

Scottish Plastic Foil Championships are today!

Good luck to everyone taking part!

Salle FiF has fencers taking part in:
the Boys' P3, P4, P5 and P6 Championships;
the Girls' P3 and P7 Championships.

Salle FiF founded!

Today, Salle FiF has been created.

Prof. HT "Bert" Bracewell, the now retired National Coach and National Development Officer of Scotland, has kindly agreed to be our Honorary President, allowing us to use the word "Salle" in our title.  In fencing circles, Salles are the training centres of a specific Master. The organisers and committee of Salle FiF are delighted to have such an eminent Master leading our Salle.

Our new committee have created a constitution, and handed in an Affiliation form to the British Fencing Association via the Home Country Governing Body, Scottish Fencing.

So, as of today, members of Salle FiF may join Scottish Fencing as Social Members.