South African Fencing Information

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GFA News: I have put up the rankings after GFA Closed Championships.

SAAFA News: I have put up rankings after the Gauteng Open last year. My apologies for the delay in posting them as there was an issue with one event that had to be resolved.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS: When importing fencers into a new competition, please use the "Memory -> Load" option on the "Fencers" tab, and then import the relevant ranking files. This will automatically bring in all fencers already on the ranking list with correct clubs and provinces. Please do not enter all the fencers manually or make changes to the format. Please create any new fencers in the same format. This will save all of us a lot of time.

VERY IMPORTANT: For those of you running competitions, please revert back to using Engarde 8. All freeware Engarde 9 programs have now been locked. I cannot export ranking information out of Engarde 9 any more so it makes updating rankings very time-consuming. I have to do everything manually now. I have put up the Engarde 8 installation and English language pack files if anyone needs them. If SAAFA purchases Engarde 9 licenses and distributes them, this will not be necessary. Until then, please use Engarde 8. There is very little functionality difference between the two version.

I would like to appeal to the various competition organisers to please email me the national ranking competition files as soon as possible after the competition has finished. The sooner I get them, the sooner the rankings are updated. I have also archived all national ranking competitions run on Engarde since 1996, so it would be a pity to lose some history. Same for competition entry forms. I would also like to appeal to the various clubs to please send me any corrections for misspelt names, or fencers who have moved clubs. Most importantly, please send me the date of birth for any junior (cadet/minim....) fencer who has a 0 displayed for their date of birth in the rankings. There is a feature for removing fencers from ranking lists when they are too old for a certain age group, but this does not work if the date of birth is not known. If seniors would like to have their date of birth on the rankings, please send them to me (if any seniors would like their date of birth removed, I can make a plan for you).

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Website Owner: Charles Kohler

Last Update: 18 January 2012