Basic Format
The tournament is fought in five segments: Heavy Blade, Heavy Blade & Dagger, Heavy Blade & Rigid Parry, Heavy Blade & Soft Parry and Case of Heavy Blade.
Each segment shall be fought under “period fencing” rules, rather than under “cut & thrust” rules.
Scoring is done using Swiss Elimination (see details below), within each segment, with the winner for the whole tournament being decided by the sum of points achieved over all segments.
Variations Allowed
For those lacking authorisation in a specific combination, substitutions can be done as follows:
| Side weapon | Substitution(s) allowed |
| dagger | Rigid parry, empty hand |
| rigid parry | Dagger, empty hand |
| soft parry | Rigid parry, dagger, empty hand |
| second sword | Dagger, rigid parry, empty hand |
Note that a fencer who is authorised in the form used in the segment can only substitute “empty hand” instead of another off-hand implement.
Scoring Details
The Swiss Elimination tournament method is fenced in multiple rounds. With an even number of fencers, every fencer fences in every round; with an uneven number of fencers, one fencer (different, each round) gets a pass.
In the first round, matches are essentially random. In the following rounds, people with the same number of wins, so far, are paired up (a “pass” is counted as a win).
The number of rounds depends on the number of fencers. 2 fencers is a single round, 3-4 is two rounds, 5-8 is three rounds, 9-16 is four rounds, and so on.
For the tournament as a whole, each “segment” will be scored from 0, with the overall winner being the person who gets the highest sum of scores from all five segments.
Sponsor and Marshal: Ingvar Gråhök
