March 04, 2016

Club Elections - March 7, 2016

Herro fellow fencers!

On Monday March 7th at 8:00 pm, we will be holding our annual club elections to select the executives of 2016-17. You can nominate anyone, including yourself as long as you are a full time UBC student. By taking on the role as an exec, you will learn to run a club, manage club finances, work with others and many other valuable leadership skills.

There are currently five positions to be filled: 
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Social Coordinator

All nominees will have to prepare a 1-2 min speech to tell us why we should vote for you. If you are not running for any positions, we still encourage you to come on down to vote for or nominate your friends! (and fence of course)! Note that you have to be UBC student member to vote!

See you guys there!

March 01, 2016

Intercollegiate Tournament 2016 Results

Hi all,

The results of the Intercollegiate Tournament are up! We would like to give a BIG THANK YOU to all our volunteers, referees, random helpers and everyone else who decided to come all the way to UBC (especially from an island and from across the border) to compete with us! :)

We look forward to future Intercollegiate Tournaments, wherever they may be! See you all next year!

https://askfred.net/Results/results.php?tournament_id=32656

February 08, 2016

Club Equipment Order - deadline February 19, 2016

Hi folks,

Just a reminder that we are doing our 2nd club equipment order for the school year. Deadline to send in your personal orders (and non-refundable deposit) is coming up February 19, 2016.

We will be ordering from Absolute Fencing again.

Details on how to order is on our website: http://ubcfencing.blogspot.ca/p/equipment-orders.html

Please email your club order to fencingubc@gmail.com and add in details of your order (URL link, item, catalog #, sizing, colour, handedness, etc.).

February 07, 2016

2016 Club T-Shirt Competition

Hi all,

We are currently taking in designs for the newest club t-shirt! The deadline was January 31, 2016, but we will extend it to February 12, 2016. That gives you some time to design the logo. The winner will have his/her logo plastered on the club t-shirt PLUS he/she will receive a club t-shirt free of charge! All entries will be displayed sometime during fencing practice in February (date to be announced later). It will be voted on by the general membership! Yay! We'll number all entries so no one will know who did what. That way, voting will be less biased.

Here are the rules and criteria for the contest:
1. It may either be a black and white logo OR a colour logo.
2. It must be a fencing-related logo for the club.
3. It must be an original design. No plagiarism please!
4. No profanity, offensive remarks or inappropriate content are allowed.
5. The logo may have a combination of words, images or both. It is up to the artist to decide what they want in the logo.
6. Jpeg files are allowed. Other files are probably allowed - please talk to us in advance.
We recommend you use free legit programs like GIMP or Inkscape for illustrating your design.
7. Please make the logo at a considerable size so it may be enlarged for the t-shirt (if necessary). We will most likely be printing them off on 8.5 x 11 inch paper so try to make it big and clear (at least clear enough on normal sized paper).
8. One entry per person.
9. Winning submissions will become property of the UBC Fencing Club.

I suppose that is about it for rules. Pretty much anything goes (just nothing offensive, please!) :) Please send us your logo design at the club email address: fencingubc@gmail.com

If you are curious what was done in previous years, you can always ask members who have been around longer, or check out facebook for some. We had a few shirts up from various years.  If you have any other questions, please drop us an email. :) Good luck to all who enter!!

Voting will happen on the same day as club elections on March 7, 2016!

Peter Bakonyi Fencing World Cup - Feb 12-14, 2016

Hi folks,

Peter Bakonyi Fencing World Cup - Feb 12-14, 2016 at Richmond Oval.
There will be Men's Epee and Team Epee event. This is a FIE event, it will be the last Olympic qualifier before the Rio Olympics. I recommend checking it out because you will be watching high level Olympic fencers competing.

http://www.vancouverworldcup.com/index.php


Schedule: http://www.vancouverworldcup.com/files/2016Schedule.pdf

A bunch of us will be going to check out the world cup that weekend. If you wanna join us, give us a shout on our FB page!