Post by schlager7 on Jul 13, 2008 20:36:49 GMT -5
July 24th is a Thursday, one of our regular fencing nights. It is also the birthday of Alexandre Dumas pere, author of The Count of Monte Cristo, The Corsican Brothers, Queen Margot, The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask (among many others).
Since he wrote lots of swashbucklers that were made into movies and got more than one person interested in fencing...
Since he was French...
I propose (feel free to shoot this one down), a 1-touch epee tournament for that night. Pools first. Double-touch equals double-defeat. Then DEs, double touch treated like a floor hit.
Purely intra-salle, non-USFA, no division rigamarole...
Since he wrote lots of swashbucklers that were made into movies and got more than one person interested in fencing...
Since he was French...
I propose (feel free to shoot this one down), a 1-touch epee tournament for that night. Pools first. Double-touch equals double-defeat. Then DEs, double touch treated like a floor hit.
Purely intra-salle, non-USFA, no division rigamarole...