I bring you an update on yesterday’s Epée Club Cup.
The Epée Club Cup was held yesterday at the Leon Paul Fencing Centre. Despite a large number of last-minute withdrawals we had a total of 34 of 36 fencers on the day.
This was the first year we have had prize money for the competition, thanks to the CIO, and after all 5 rounds of the initial pools were completed – 272 fights in all – and about a 5th of these (21%) were decided either by 1 hit or on time.
The top 4 fencers from each group were promoted through to Direct Elimination. Three of the promoted fencers were Club members – Greg Allen, Phil Barbasiewicz and Neal Mallett – with Greg losing a closely contested final to the winner, Will East.
e Epée Club Cup - Cash prizes
The Epée Club Cup – which is being held at the Leon Paul Fencing Centre on Saturday 9th June – has just announced that there will be cash prizes totalling £1000.00 for the winners in each of the following categories:
Overall Winner (£400), Runner-up (£200), Third Place (£100), Top Female (£100), Top Under-20 (£100) and Top Veteran (£100).There will also be non monetary prizes for the eight finalists with the winner holding The Epée Club Cup for the year.