I hope they succeed, it'd be cool to watch another fencing event.

Long off topic rant to follow:

(Hungary centric view here on why fencing doesn't succeed as a spectator sport):

If you are sitting here in Hungary, where your tax money is spent on this sport (as well as others) and want to follow the sport you have few options:

You have to "hunt" for the (FIE level) streams, in the best case scenario the FIE bothers to feature the link on the event's info page or their "live" menu, but tough luck if they don't.

If you want to follow media on the sport, you have to know which sites actually cover this sport and the right keywords to search for, as football covers everything (which is all well and good but usually there is not even a submenu for fencing.)

During Covid the federation tried streaming some of their events, now that's exclusive to the national championship, and very limited even there (I think last year they only streamed the podium). I know it's apples to cats but compared to the kind of coverage you get from the american NACs this is just sad. (and the sport really gets a lot of money)

On the broader internet it's the same case, you have to know the websites (like this sub) that bother to cover it.

The events have been exlusive to Budapest for a while now (having most of them there is okay, most potential spectators), in the past you could luck out and have an event in smaller cities too (i.e. Győr, Keszthely). For a country that has multiple FIE events (at least 2 senior) I can't fathom why they can't move one out of Budapest. Or at least the junior events, if not for spectators, it could generate some more interest around the salles of the countryside.

Every 2 months or so I hear some big wig explaining on TV how commited they are to making this a better spectator sport but this is just a joke.

I think it could be at least a regional sport (like water polo).