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As flyers and other information are received by the Division Secretary for these events, links will be created within this calendar to allow you to go directly to the flyer or information page. Dates for other tournaments in the Southwest Section are added as the information is received from other sources. However, this calendar is NOT an official SOUTHWEST SECTION calendar, nor is accuracy claimed for other than North Texas events. Holidays are noted in red.

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2009-2010 Calendar Dates and events subject to change
10/05/09	10/05/09	Withdraw deadline for NAC A
10/05/09	10/05/09	Regular entry deadline for NAC C
10/06/09	10/19/09	Late entry, triple fee period for NAC C
10/09/09	10/09/10	Last day of Sukkot
10/09/09	10/12/09	Division II, Division III, Cadet NAC A	Des Moines, Iowa
10/11/09	10/11/09	Southwest Youth Series #1 (Youth 10, 12, 14 Foil, Epee, Sabre)	Gold Blade Fencing Center
10/12/09	10/12/09	Columbus Day
10/17/09	10/18/09	Longhorn Open (SSCC)	UT Austin
10/17/09	10/18/09	Remenyik Open (ROC)	Evanston, IL
10/24/09	10/24/09	Rising Stars BEGINNER YOUTH 10 and 12 #1 (and Parent Tournament Training)	FIT
10/24/09	10/25/09	Super Regional Youth Circuit	Rocky Point, NY
10/24/09	10/25/09	Cougar Call to Arms	University of Houston
10/16/09	10/26/09	Last day for classification changes for NAC B
10/31/09	10/31/09	Halloween
10/31/09	10/31/09	St. Mark's Open	St. Mark's School Dallas
10/31/09	10/31/09	Texas State Veterans 50+	Houston, TX
10/31/09	11/01/09	Crescent City Open
10/31/09	11/01/09	Salle Mauro Tournament	Salle Mauro, Houston
11/01/09	11/01/09	Daylight Saving Time Ends
11/02/09	11/02/09	Withdraw deadline for NAC B
11/06/09	11/09/09	Junior, Cadet, Youth 14 NAC B	Kansas City, MO
11/07/09	11/08/09
11/11/09	11/11/09	Veteran's Day
11/14/09	11/15/09	Wang Memorial SSCC and RYC	FIT/Gold Blade/CEFC, Will Rogers Memorial in Ft Worth
11/16/09	11/16/09	Entry deadline for NAC D
11/17/09	11/30/09	Late entry, triple fee period for NAC D
11/20/09	11/22/09	Super Regional Youth Circuit	Rochester, NY
11/21/09	11/21/09	Rising Stars Beginner Youth 10 and 12 #2 (Parent Tournament Training)	FIT
11/21/109	11/22/09
11/23/09	11/23/09	Last day for classification changes for NAC C
11/26/09	11/26/09	Thanksgiving
11/28/09	11/28/09	Eid al Adha
11/28/09	11/29/09
11/30/09	11/30/09	Withdraw deadline for NAC C
12/04/09	12/06/09	Division I, Veteran NAC C	Pittsburgh, PA
12/05/09	12/05/09	Rising Stars Beginner Youth 10 and 12 #3 (Parent Tournament Training)	FIT
12/05/09	12/06/09
12/12/09	12/19/09	Chanukah
12/11/09	12/13/09	Louisville Super RYC	Louisville, KY
12/12/09	12/12/09	All-Star Epee Invitational #4	Redlands Fencing, Oklahoma City
12/12/09	12/13/09	North Texas Division Qualifier for Junior Olympics	TBD
12/19/09	12/20/09
12/21/09	12/21/09	Winter Solstice
12/23/09	12/23/09	Last day for classification changes for NAC D
12/25/09	12/25/09	Christmas
12/26/09	12/27/09	Holiday Open 3-Weapon	FIT
12/26/09	01/01/10	Kwanzaa
01/01/10	01/01/10	New Year's Day
01/02/10	01/03/10
01/08/10	01/10/10	Duel in the Desert	Las Vegas, NV
01/09/10	01/10/10
01/10/10	01/10/10	Southwest Youth Series #2	North Texas Fencing Alliance
01/11/09	01/11/09	Withdraw deadline for NAC D
01/15/09	01/15/09	Division Qualifying forms due for Junior Olympics
01/15/10	01/18/10	Division I, Junior NAC D	San Jose, CA
01/16/10	01/17/10
01/18/10	01/18/10	Martin Luther King Day
01/19/10	01/19/10	Entry deadline Junior Olympics
01/20/10	01/25/10	Late entry, triple fee period Junior Olympics
01/23/10	01/24/10	Poujardieu Memorial (tentative date)	San Marcos, TX
01/29/10	01/31/10	Battle in Seattle (ROC)	Seattle, WA
01/29/10	01/31/10	National Capital Super Regional Youth Circuit	Annandale, VA
01/30/10	01/31/10	Gold Blade Open	Gold Blade
01/30/09	01/31/09	Regional Youth Circuit	Border, TX
02/01/10	02/01/10	Classification changes due for Junior Olympics
02/02/10	02/02/10	Groundhog Day
02/06/10	02/07/10
02/06/10	02/07/10	Alice Memorial (ROC)	Houston, TX
02/08/10	02/08/10	Withdraw deadline for Junior Olympics
02/08/10	02/08/10	Entry deadline for NAC E
02/09/10	02/15/10	Late entry, triple fee period for NAC E
02/12/010	02/15/10	Junior Olympic Championships	Memphis, TN
02/13/10	02/14/10
02/14/10	02/14/10	Valentine's Day
02/15/10	02/15/10	President's Day
02/16/10	02/16/10	Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday)
02/20/10	02/20/10	Lone Star Sabre Open #2	Lone Star Fencing Center
02/20/10	02/21/10	Heavy Metal Open	Texas A&M
02/27/10	02/27/10	Rising Stars Beginner Youth 10 and 12 #4 (Parent Tournament Training)	FIT
02/27/10	02/28/10
02/27/10	02/28/10	Cobra Super RYC	Jersey City, NJ
03/06/10	03/07/10	Grand Prix	Lone Star Fencing Center
03/08/10	03/08/10	Entry deadline NAC F
03/09/10	03/19/10	Late entry, triple fee period NAC F
03/13/10	03/13/10
03/14/10	03/14/10	Southwest Youth Series #3	Dallas Fencers Club
03/14/10	03/14/10	Daylight Saving Time begins
03/17/10	03/17/10	St. Patrick's Day
03/19/10	03/19/10	Classification changes due for NAC E
03/20/10	03/20/10	Vernal Equinox
03/20/10	03/20/10	Gold Blade 3-Weapon "C" and Under	Gold Blade
03/20/10	03/21/10	Paul Pesthy Memorial Super RYC	San Jose, CA
03/20/10	03/21/10
03/22/10	03/22/10	Withdraw deadline for NAC E
03/25/10	03/28/10	NCAA Championships
03/26/10	03/29/10	Division II, Division III, Veteran, Wheelchair NAC E	Dallas, TX
03/27/10	03/28/10
03/27/10	03/28/10	Regional Youth Circuit	Gulf Coast, TX
04/04/10	04/04/10	Easter
04/10/10	04/11/10	DeGall Memorial	FIT
04/10/10	04/11/10	Jeff Wolfe Long Island Challenge (ROC)	Rocky Point, NY
04/12/10	04/12/10	Classification changes due for NAC F
04/17/10	04/18/10	Section Qualifier for Summer Nationals (Division I-A, Under 19/Jr)	Oklahoma Division
04/17/10	04/18/10
04/19/10	04/19/10	Withdraw deadline for NAC F
04/23/10	04/26/10	Division I, Youth 10, Youth 12, Youth 14 NAC F	Virginia Beach, VA
04/24/10	04/25/10
05/01/10	05/01/10	Entry deadline for Team Events for Summer Nationals (venue TBA if fencing required)	TBD
05/01/10	05/02/10	North Texas Division Qualifier for Summer Nationals (Under 16/Cad, Youth 14, Div 2/3 )	Gold Blade
05/05/10	05/05/10	Cinco de Mayo
05/08/10	05/08/10	Lone Star Sabre Open #3	LSFC
05/08/10	05/09/10
05/09/10	05/09/10	Mother's Day
05/15/10	05/16/10	Gold Blade Youth tournament	Gold Blade
05/15/10	05/16/10	Danny Bukantz Open (ROC)	Maplewood, NJ
05/17/10	05/17/10	Division and Section Qualifying forms due
05/17/10	05/17/10	Entry deadline for Summer Nationals
05/18/10	05/24/10	Late entry, triple fee period for Summer Nationals
05/22/10	05/22/10	Round Robin Mixed Epee	North Texas Fencing Alliance
05/22/10	05/23/10
05/29/10	05/29/10	Wilson/Silvia Memorial (3-weapon)	Renaissance TBA
05/29/10	05/30/10
05/31/10	05/31/10	Memorial Day
06/05/10	06/06/10
06/06/10	06/06/10	Southwest Youth Series Championship	TBA
06/12/10	06/13/10
06/14/10	06/14/10	Flag Day
06/19/10	06/20/10
06/20/10	06/20/10	Father's Day
06/21/10	06/21/10	Summer Solstice
06/21/10	06/21/10	Classification Changes due for Summer Nationals
06/26/10	06/27/10
06/28/10	06/28/10	Withdraw deadline for Summer Nationals
07/03/10	07/04/10
07/04/10	07/04/10	Fourth of July - Independence Day
07/04/10	07/13/10	Summer National Championships (dates TBA)	Atlanta, GA
07/09/10	07/09/10	Isra and Mi'raj
07/10/10	07/11/10
07/17/10	07/18/10
07/24/10	07/24/10	"C" and Under Foil and Youth 10 and 12	FIT
07/24/10	07/25/10
07/31/10	07/31/10	Open Epee and Youth 12	FIT
07/31/10	08/01/10
2010-2011 Planning Calendar Dates and events subject to change
07/31/10	07/31/10	Open Epee and Youth 12	FIT
07/31/10	08/01/10
08/07/10	08/07/10	Open Sabre and Youth 12	FIT
08/07/10	08/08/10
08/11/10	09/10/10	Ramadan (depending on the moon)
08/14/10	08/15/10
08/21/10	08/22/10	End of Summer Open (3 Weapon) and Youth 10, Youth 12	FIT
08/28/10	08/29/10
09/04/10	09/05/10
09/05/10	09/05/10	Laylat al-Qadr
09/06/10	09/06/10	Labor Day
09/09/10	09/09/10	Rosh Hashana
09/10/10	09/10/10	Eid-al-Fitr
09/11/10	09/12/10
09/18/10	09/19/10
09/22/10	09/22/10	Autumnal Equinox
09/25/10	09/26/10
09/29/10	09/29/10	Last day of Sukkot
10/02/10	10/03/10
10/08/10	10/11/10	Division II, Division III, Cadet NAC	TBA
10/09/10	10/10/10
10/11/10	10/11/10	Columbus Day
10/16/10	10/17/10
10/23/10	10/24/10
10/31/10	10/31/10	Halloween
10/30/10	10/31/10
11/05/10	11/08/10	Junior, Cadet, Youth 14 NAC	TBA
11/06/10	11/07/10
11/07/10	11/07/10	Daylight Saving Time Ends
11/11/10	11/11/10	Veterans Day
11/13/10	11/14/10
11/17/10	11/17/10	Eid-al-Adha
11/20/10	11/21/10
11/25/10	11/25/10	Thanksgiving Day
11/27/10	11/27/10
12/02/10	12/09/10	Chanukah
12/03/10	12/05/10	Division I, Veteran NAC	TBA
12/04/10	12/05/10
12/08/10	12/08/10	Muharram/New Year
12/11/10	12/12/10
12/18/10	12/19/10
12/25/10	12/25/10	Christmas Day
12/25/10	12/26/10
12/31/10	12/31/10	New Year's Eve
01/01/11	01/01/11	New Year's Day
01/01/11	01/02/11
01/14/11	01/17/11	Division I, Junior NAC	TBA

02/18/11	02/21/11	Junior Olympic Championships	TBA

03/11/11	03/14/11	Division II, Division III, Veterans NAC	TBA

04/15/11	04/18/11	Division I, Youth 10, 12, 14 NAC	TBA

07/01/11	07/10/11	Summer National Championships	TBA


2011-2012 Planning Calendar Dates and events subject to change


10/07/11	10/10/11	Division II, Division III, Cadet NAC	TBA

11/11/11	11/14/11	Junior, Cadet, Youth 14 NAC	TBA

12/02/11	12/04/11	Division I, Veteran NAC	TBA

01/13/12	01/16/12	Division I, Junior NAC	TBA

02/17/12	02/20/12	Junior Olympic Championships	TBA

03/19/12	03/12/12	Division II, Division III, Veteran NAC	TBA

04/20/12	04/23/12	Division I, Youth 10, 12, 14 NAC	TBA

07/29/12	07/08/12	Summer National Championships	TBA


2012-2013 Planning Calendar Dates and events subject to change


10/05/12	10/08/12	Division II, Division III, Cadet NAC	TBA

11/09/12	11/12/12	Junior, Cadet Youth 14 NAC	TBA

12/07/12	12/09/12	Division I, Veteran NAC	TBA

01/18/13	01/21/13	Division I, Junior NAC	TBA

02/15/13	02/18/13	Junior Olympic Championships	TBA

03/08/13	03/11/13	Division II, Division III, Veteran NAC	TBA

04/19/13	04/22/13	Division I, Youth 10, 12, 14 NAC	TBA

07/28/13	07/07/13	Summer National Championships	TBA

2013-2014 Planning Calendar Dates and events subject to change


10/11/13	10/14/13	Division II, Division III, Cadet NAC	TBA

11/08/13	11/11/13	Junior, Cadet, Youth 14 NAC	TBA

12/06/13	12/08/13	Division I, Veteran NAC	TBA

01/17/14	01/20/14	Division I, Junior NAC	TBA

02/14/14	02/17/14	Junior Olympic Championships	TBA

03/14/14	03/17/14	Division Ii, Division III, Veteran NAC	TBA

04/25/14	04/28/14	Division I, Youth 10, 12, 14 NAC	TBA

06/27/14	07/06/14	Summer National Championships	TBA

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All National tournament entry forms may be downloaded from the USFA Web site forms page.
(Current USFA members, individuals and clubs, are sent these forms in the National Newsletter.) Return to top of Page

All National tournament entry forms may be downloaded from the USFA Web site forms page.
(Current USFA members, individuals and clubs, are sent these forms in the National Newsletter.)

An athlete may fence in an age category IF: 1) the athlete's birth year falls in that age bracket OR 2) the athlete is on the national point standing in the next younger age bracket. For example, if a fencer is 9 years old, he/she can fence in Youth-10 and Youth-12 but can fence in Youth-14 ONLY IF he/she has earned points in Youth-12 and is listed on the current Youth-12 point standings. For that same fencer to be eligible to fence in a Cadet event, the fencer must have earned points at a Youth-14 competition and be listed on the current Youth-14 point standings.
Points are awarded to places in the top 60% of the field to a maximum of 32nd place. At all National Championships points are awarded for places 1 to 32 regardless of the size of the field: Junior Olympic Championships, Division I Nationals, Junior, Cadet and Youth 14 at the Summer National Championships. Points for Youth 12 and Youth 10 at the Summer Nationals are given to the top 60% of the field down to 32nd place.

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Age and Classification Criterion for 2009-2010 NAC Entries

CATEGORY

Division I

Division II

Division III

VET OPEN

JR
(U20)

CDT
(U17)

Y14

Y12

Y10

CODE

DVI

DVII

DVIII

V40

U20

U17

Y14

Y12

Y10

AGE

Born on or before 1996

Born on or before 1996

Born on or before 1996

Born on or before 1969

1990 - 1996

1993 – 1996

1995-1998

1997-2000

1999-2002

CLASS

C, B OR A

C, D, E OR U

D, E OR U

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Age and Classification Criterion for 2010 Summer National Entries
CATEGORY	Division I	Division II	Division III	VET OPEN	U19 **	U16**	Y14	Y12	Y10
CODE	DVI	DVII	DVIII	V40	U19	U16	Y14	Y12	Y10
AGE	Born on or before 1996	Born on or before 1996	Born on or before 1996	Born on or before 1969	1991 - 1997	1994 – 1997	1995-1998	1997-2000	1999-2002
CLASS	C, B OR A	C, D, E OR U	D, E OR U	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
* Division I birth year does not change for Summer Nationals; ** Junior (Under 20) and Cadet (Under 17) become Under-19 and Under-16 for Summer Nationals.

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Important information concerning Regional Youth Circuit Events:
NOTES: Preferred format is one or two rounds of pools with 100% promoted to a direct elimination ladder of 2 of 3 5-touch bouts. "0" or "2" blades are required of all fencers competing in Youth 10 competitions.
There will be three Super Youth Circuits at which points will be awarded. Only one SYC result in the weapon and age group will be considered for the relevant National point standings. Points are awarded at the SYC to those placing in the top 40% of the competitive field, regardless of where the cut occurs, with no rounding, using the National point tables for Youth 10, Youth 12, or Youth 14 as appropriate.
Tournament eligibility:

For the NAC Y12 and Y10 tournaments, athletes must compete in at least one RYC or one SYC competition in the current season in the age category and the weapon in which the athlete intends to enter. NAC Y14 tournaments are open.
For the Youth 10 and Youth 12 competitions at Summer Nationals youth fencers must have competed in one RYC or one SYC or NAC Youth in the current season in the age category and weapon in which the athlete plans to enter.
For the Y14 National Championships at the Summer Nationals, Y14 fencers MUST either be on the Y14 National point standings on May 1 or place in the top 25% of their Division's Y14 qualifying competition. See Chapter 2 of the Athletes Handbook for more details on qualifying paths to the Summer National Championships.

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