AFF Schools Championships

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The Australian Fencing Federation runs Schools National Championships in the following categories:

• National Schools Championships - Individual
• National Schools Championships - Team

Unlike other AFF tournaments, fencers/schools need to qualify in order to fence at the National Schools Championships. For individual NSW competitors, the qualifier competition will be held in Sydney on 17 March and the competition will be held in Brisbane on 6-17 June. For the NSW team competitors, the qualifier competition, as usual, will be the AJ Rae/Roseanne White shields event held in Sydney on 28 April with the competition in Brisbane on 4-5 August.

Registration

Every competitor in an AFF competition must be fully affilated with NSW Fencing Association. Online affiliation (secure credit card payment) is available.

Note that fencers who have previously only fenced in Schools, Under-13 or Novice competitions may need to upgrade their membership from the base-cost registration (all that is required for these events) to full affiliation in order to compete in an AFF event.

Full details of affiliation/registration (including current costs) are available on the separate Membership page of this website.

Entries

Full details of entry procedures for AFF competitions are available on the AFF Competitions page of this website.

Equipment

All AFF schools championships are fenced using electrical apparatus, and require FIE standard protective equipment.

Full details of equipment requirements are listed on the AFF Equipment Requirements page of this website. Note that certain items of equipment must be submitted to Weapons Control at the start of the competition.

Note that the equipment available for hire by NSWFencing is not FIE standard, and so is not suitable for AFF tournaments. If you need equipment that is not stocked by NSW Fencing, you should make arrangements with your Club, or with one of the equipment suppliers.

Competition format

Individual

AFF schools competitions are fenced using the standard competition format, with a round of pools, followed by a Direct Elimination leading to an overall winner. Medals are awarded to the top eight fencers (unless there are fewer than 16 competitors, in which case medals are only given to the top four fencers).

AFF team competitions are run using the standard 45-hit relay format. There is no preliminary round of pools: the teams are placed into a DE tableau based on team members' results from the individual event at the tournament.

For full details, see the Competition Format page of this website.

Competition timetable

2012 Schools Championships (last updated 7 February 2012)
Date	Event	Event Information	General Information	Icon
16/06 to 16/06	National School Championship - Individual	Brisbane, Queensland Timetable to be announced	AFF Comp Info
04/08 to 05/08	National School Team Championships	Brisbane, Queensland Timetable to be announced	AFF Comp Info

Useful documents