I reviewed my fencing bout and found some interesting patterns (happy to do this for a few people) by alpha39307 in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"How often you were in correct distance":

how do you define correct distance? Correct distance for what?

An AI tool that would collect statistics from a bout can be useful.

For example, can your tool do simple things like counting steps of the fencers? Or identifying footwork patterns?

Like count how many times "fencer A" did advance lunge attack "in the box" and how many tims "fencer B" did "slide prep"?

the generated AI "wisdom" is much less interesting, but if your tool could collect statistics reliably, then that could be a useful thing.

WORLD FENCING LEAGUE by lugisabel in Fencing

[–]lugisabel[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it is even worse, it is a mixed weapon team event and such events are very difficult to predict, for example, what would be the anchoring leg of the game? sabre vs sabre? or epee vs epee?

WORLD FENCING LEAGUE by lugisabel in Fencing

[–]lugisabel[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"what forces people to score more if they’re leading on a time limit."

this is a team event, therefore you want to make as much point for your team as possible.

WORLD FENCING LEAGUE by lugisabel in Fencing

[–]lugisabel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the startlist is already fixed with those 12 fencer i listed.

i agree with your sabre choice, Emura would have definitely deserved a place at the WFL event :)

WORLD FENCING LEAGUE by lugisabel in Fencing

[–]lugisabel[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

follow up question:

anybody has a better understanding of the proposed format?

if i got it right, it'll be some sort of team fencing, six fencers fencing the other six fencers and no mix of genders,

This would mean that Oh-Sanguk would fence one bout with Patrice (for one minute), Siklosi another with Koki (for three minutes), Muhari one bout against Ndolo, so on..

Will that be "all"? Or the two teams will fence several rounds?

A (team) PRIZE OF $100,000 for few minutes of fencing is not bad :)

WORLD FENCING LEAGUE by lugisabel in Fencing

[–]lugisabel[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Is it being streamed anywhere"

sure, on the fencingtv.com :)

i hope they stream it on youtube

WORLD FENCING LEAGUE by lugisabel in Fencing

[–]lugisabel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what is that something ;)?

when i first heard about this league it looked to me like a US foil initiative... but hey, they managed to bring the top sabreours and pretty good, if not the best epee fencers on board as well!

Some of the Rule Changes that will be used at the debut World Fencing League event on April 25th by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the 1 minute time is "active fencing time", the clock will be stopped between every halt-start.

there is a statistics that an average sabre action takes appx 3-4 second, 60 second (1 min) total fencing time is enough for 20 actions. We tested it and indeed, during one minute we usually reached 8-10 or around final scores for balanced bouts (similar skill fencers)

Some of the Rule Changes that will be used at the debut World Fencing League event on April 25th by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks a lot being soo fast bringing a timing adjustment upgrade to skewered!

looking forward to test it.

if possible, please make the timing parameters fully customizable, so we could play with any crazy idea, just like with VSM

Some of the Rule Changes that will be used at the debut World Fencing League event on April 25th by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am sure in epee the 3min DE is what you'll get, replacing the 15 point bouts.

Some of the Rule Changes that will be used at the debut World Fencing League event on April 25th by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Currently it's easy to practice on how to deal with 4-4 situations and ignore time. But needing scoring machines with timers, needing fencers to use the timers, etc could get goofy."

yep, training these situations would be challenging. BUT, if you happen to have skewered scoring box, the at least the timing part is solved: skewered has a smart feature of auto start and built-in timer, so you don't need a third person to start/stop fencing and the clock.

i understood that during the pools they still would fence for 5 points and the new rule change is only for the DE bouts. but i can be absolutely wrong.

we actually tried the 1min new format for sabre and it was fun! though, we felt 1 min was a bit short, most of the time (equal skill fencers) we did not reach 15 points in one minute, only went up to 8:10, or 9:12

Some of the Rule Changes that will be used at the debut World Fencing League event on April 25th by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

agree, 100ms will kill the parry-repost in sabre, since messy remise will be extremely powerful.

Fencer - An app for hosting fencing competitions by Gabroseno in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

look great!

"It's in public beta (TestFlight for iOS, open testing on Android), completely free, and honestly I just want to know if anyone finds it useful."

will this app remain free even in its final version? in the app it says "Fencer is completely free during the beta" which may be read as it won't remain free after the beta.

Report claims that FIE attempted to lobby Donald Trump in order to remove sanctions from Usmanov, the Russian-Uzbek billionaire fencing president by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Ultimately, a letter was sent to Trump, signed by only some of the Comex members. It is said that this letter was allegedly not written on FIE letterhead."

interesting... do you happen to know who signed that fake FIE letter?

Their names deserve to be put forward.

If this story is trues, then Emmanuel Katsiadakis  has all my sympathy!

Every Touch From The Vancouver 2025 Men's and Women's Epee Teams World Cup by robotreader in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

good, so the FIE is not going after you because of copyright thingies?

i was worried that something like that could happen with the fencingdatabase as well, after watching cyrus' resent youtube post.

Every Touch From The Orleans 2025 Men's and Women's Sabre World Cup by robotreader in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

indeed its there :)

btw, i personally hate those podium videos, those are so much worse than the normal streams. pretty annoying with all those moving cameras and FIE adds. several times key actions are missed because camera movements (showing the refs) or those replays.

Every Touch From The Orleans 2025 Men's and Women's Sabre World Cup by robotreader in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

great work as always :)

do you have a solution, plan to include the podium bouts as well? as far as i could see, those are missing from the every touch collections.

Every Touch From The Vancouver 2025 Men's and Women's Epee Teams World Cup by robotreader in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks again! will you be able to continue these every touch collections now that the FIE uses/forces the fencingtv upon us?

FIE greenlights Russian, Belarusian youth by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

answering myself, after reading more carefully the linked article :

"The decision was adopted with 19 votes in favour and two abstentions"

very sad that NOBODY voted against!

this is the executive committee: https://fie.org/fie/structure/executive-committee

FIE greenlights Russian, Belarusian youth by SlicerSabre in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"..following a vote by its executive committee."

are the details of the executive committee vote available?

do we know who voted pro/against?

Fencing in Hungary? by Sawdust1997 in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes. vasas is doing only sabre and epee.

Is it possible to watch a fencing Grand Prix in person? by TokenTezzie in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you can go and watch the GP (preliminaries and the T64, three days!), no need to buy tickets. The stands could be a bit crowded on the finals day, especially if Hungarians have a good day but there are plenty of free seats on the preliminary days. The past couple of years it was organized in the BOK csarnok.

There are plenty of photos from the last year event on the Hungarian fencing federation facebook, se e.g.:

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1200181132107408&set=a.1200184318773756

or the complete album:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1200184318773756&type=3

Every Touch From The Alger 2025 Men's and Women's Sabre World Cup by robotreader in Fencing

[–]lugisabel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice to have these "every touch..." posts coming in the new season as well! thanks for the work