All Star Open being held at Cal Tech Aug 9th, 2014

Come and fence in the sanctioned All Star Open at Cal Tech this Saturday August 9th, 2014.

Vendors will be available and Epee, Foil, and Sabre events will be held. Please register online and pay at the door. More info can be found on AskFred here.

Summer National Results 2014

Below are a list of our top 16 finishers in each event from the SoCal Division. Full results can be found at www.usfencingresults.com

Vet 50 Men's Foil out of 46 fencers
2.   Douraghy, Jamie   -   LAIFC

Vet 60 Men's Foil out of 24 fencers
7.   Piatkowski-Nazarro Rpt, Marek   -   LAIFC

Vet 60 Women's Epee out of 15 fencers
10.   Grotts, Loy   -   Swords

Vet 70 Women's Epee out of 5 fencers
1.   Bedrosian, Patricia   -   COUT

Vet 40 Women's Epee out of 27 fencers
16.   Chang, Amanda Yen-Shih (Amanda)   -   Fortune

Vet 40 Men's Epee out of 37 fencers
16.   Hu, Jansen   -   LAIFC

Vet 50 Men's Epee out of 63 fencers
12.   Loeffler, Carl   -   LAIFC

Vet 50 Women's Saber out of 17 fencers
2.   Mazorol, Lydia   -   D'ASARO

Div II Women's Epee out of 114 fencers
6.   Luong, Shirley   -   Fortune   -   Earns C14
9.   Daniel, Chloe   -   Fortune
11.   Gory, Andrea   -   Unattached
14.   Lau, Kirsten   -   Fortune

Vet 70 Men's Saber out of 11 fencers
5.   Dobrzanski, Lucas   -   KERN ATHL F.F.

Vet 70 Women's Foil out of 6 fencers
3.   Bedrosian, Patricia   -   COUT

Div II Men's Epee out of 140 fencers
6.   Gomez, Isaac   -   Fortune   -   Earns C14

Vet 40 Men's Saber out of 21 fencers
15.    Sang, Jae   -   ZFencing

Div III Women's Saber out of 100 fencers
7.   Grigore, Anita   -   LAIFC

Div IA Women's Epee out of 74 fencers
11.   Lau, Kirsten   -   Fortune   -   Earns B14
14.   Gifford, Emily   -   Fortune   -   Earns B14

Div III Women's Epee out of 117 fencers
13.   Beihold, Emily   -    Swords

Div IA Men's Epee out of 78 fencers
7.   Strong, Sean   -   Presidio   -   Earns A14

Div II Women's Saber out of 96 fencers
16.   Grigore, Anita   -   LAIFC  

Senior Team Women's Epee out of 15 teams
5.    LAIFC    -    Horowitz, Lee, Nixon
9.   Fortune Blue    -    Gooch, Gifford, Luong, Mckenna

Div I Men's Saber out of 164 fencers
15.   Costin, Michael   -   Avant Garde

Div I Women's Foil out of 134 fencers
14.   Zeiss, Madison   -   LAIFC

Senior Team Men's Epee out of 38 teams
8.    LAIFC    -    Hansen, Jensen, Nixon

Senior Team Men's Saber out of 15 teams
2.   AGFC   -   Costin, Palabrica, Strauss, Loss


Div I Women's Epee out of 163 fencers
3.   Horowitz, Jennifer   -   LAIFC

Senior Team Women's Saber out of 10 teams
5.  Salle D'Asaro   -   Fedorovsky, Kim, Macarr, Zhuang

Junior Men's Epee out of 361 fencers
12.   Yoo, Justin   -   LAIFC
15.   Horowitz, Charles   -   LAIFC

Junior Men's Foil out of 346 fencers
13.   Ahn, Aaron   -   GOLUBITSKY

Junior Team Women's Saber out of 14 teams
10.   Salle D'Asaro   -   Doherty, Kim, Zhuang
13.   Salle D'Asaro #2   -   Lin, Loy, Sherfa 

Junior Team Men's Epee out of 65 teams
2.   G-Unit   -   Hesslegrave, Horowitz, Yoo, Raynis

Y12 Women's Epee out of 84 fencers
12.   Shamsian, Shaya   -   LAIFC

Junior Team Women's Epee out of 29 teams
3.   LAIFC   -   Horowitz, Lee, Nixon
12.   Fortune Blue   -   Gifford, Luong, Mckenna, Xu
14.   Fortune 2   -   Wilkins, Daniel, Lau

Cadet Men's Epee out of 252 fencers
1.   Horowitz, Charles   -   LAIFC   -   Earns A14
12.   Thein-Sandler, Adrien (Adi)   -   LAIFC

Y10 Men's Foil out of 122 fencers
11.   Ayupov, Ilya   -   UFA

Y12 Men's Saber out of 150 fencers
5.   Shin, Richard J.h.   -   Avantgarde

Cadet Men's Foil out of 242 fencers
3.   Ahn, Aiden   -   GOLUBITSKY 

Cadet Women's Epee out of 158 fencers
16.   Ruiz, Esther   -   Swords

Y14 Men's Epee out of 190 fencers
2.   Ewart, Stephen Jr.   -   Swords
3.   Thein-Sandler, Adrien (Adi)    -    LAIFC   -   Earns A14
7.   Kravitz, Zach   -   LAIFC

Y12 Men's Foil out of 186 fencers
12.   Louie, Bryce   -   LAIFC

Y14 Men's Saber out of 173 fencers
8.   Kwak, Daniel   -   AvantGarde

Y14 Women's Epee out of 126 fencers
8.   Lau, Kirsten   -   Fortune
15.   Wilkins, Lily   -   Fortune

Y10 Men's Epee out of 63 fencers
9.   Moosekian, Stafford   -   Swords
10.   Shin, Joshua   -   LAIFC

Socal Division Annual Membership Meeting

We are hosting the Socal Division Annual Membership Meeting on Saturday July 12th at 3:30 pm at 132 S Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank Ca 91502. We will be voting in new board members and going over the budget and new items of interest.  All voting members of the USFA Socal Division are welcome to attend.   

Upcoming touraments

Please see Askfred for a full list of competitions in your area. Below are what is currently available to register for before Summer Nationals in the SoCal area.

Presidios Kumite Foil Event  June 8th, 2014

Swords Women Epee Event Part deux  June 14th, 2014

SoCal Youth Challenge #4   June 15th, 2014

UFA Foil Cup June 15th, 2014

Z Southern California Sabre Cup June 22nd, 2014

Please email the Division if you'd like a tournament listed here as well!

Amy Fortune Memorial

Come celebrate Amy Fortune's life on Saturday, May 31st starting at 6pm. Food and drinks will be provided followed by live saxophone music, speeches, and a slide show.

The Lodge is located at 204 W. Foothill Blvd., Monrovia, 91016 (the corner of Primrose and Foothill Blvd.)

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either the Foothill Unity Center, 415 W. Chestnut Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016 or the Washington County Animal Shelter, 525 Sells Ave., Johnson City, TN 37604.

For any question regarding the memorial please email Geoff at gbrussell411@gmail.com

SoCal fencers have an excellent showing at World Championships!

Congratulations to our fencers who represented the SoCal Division and LAIFC in  Junior and Cadet events at the World Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

In cadet women's épée,  Kasia Nixon put up a strong finish and took home a bronze medal.

In cadet men's épée, Justin Yoo fought hard but lost 15-14 to take home the silver while Charlie Horowitz finished 29th with one more year in cadet to fence.

Justin Yoo in the Junior Men's épée event performed excellently and took the bronze medal home. Two medals in a week at the world championship level is amazing! Keep up the great work.

Let's root for the US Men's épée team where Justin will be fencing for the US as well.

Video can be found on the FIE YouTube channel and results can be found at www.fencingworldwide.com.

Congratulations to our SoCal Fencers for fencing in this past weekend's Qualifiers for Summer Nationals

While there were several fencers in the epee events, the sabre and foil events could have had more fencers which would have increased the number of qualifiers in each event. Congratulations to all those who came out to fence and qualified in their events.

Below are the places and qualifiers in each event:

Y14 Women's Epee
1st     Stella Smyth            LAIFC                                     Qualified
2nd    Melody Lo              Fotune Fencing                         Qualified
3rd     Kate Peterson          LAIFC                                     Qualified

Y14 Men's Epee
1st     Isaac Gomez            Fortune Fencing                       Qualified
2nd    Benjamin Raanan       Beverly Hills Fencers Club         Qualified
3rd     Christopher Kim       Swords Fencing Studio             Qualified
3rd     Adrian Ballard           Fortune Fencing                       Qualified

Div II Men's Epee
1st     Luke Sirand             LAIFC                                      Qualified      Earns C14
2nd    Ethan Madison         LAIFC                                      Qualified
3rd    Isaac Gomez            Fortune Fencing                         Qualified
3rd    Simon Redding         Fortune Fencing                         Qualified      Earns D14
5th     Jonah Cho               LAIFC                                       Qualified
6th     Emon Daroian          Swords Fencing Studio               Qualified
15th   Jansen Hu                LAIFC                                       Qualified Vet Men's Epee
20th   Erik Knutzen            Fortune Fencing                         Qualified Vet Men's Epee
21st   Joseph Freeman        Fortune Fencing                         Qualified Vet Men's Epee

Div II Women's Epee
1st    Rachel Bang              Unattached                                Qualified
2nd   Shirley Luong            Fortune Fencing                         Qualified
3rd    Chloe Daniel             Fortune Fencing                          Auto
3rd    Nouneh Assadourian  UCLA                                        Qualified
7th    Barbara Antonio         Fortune Fencing                         Qualified Vet Women's Epee
8th    Penny Segal              Fortune Fencing                         Qualified Vet Women's Epee
9th    Lucero Fernandez      Fortune Fencing                         Qualified Vet Women's Epee
10th   Ramona Priester        Fortune Fencing                         Qualified Vet Women's Epee
11th   Amanda Chang          Fortune Fencing                         Qualified Vet Women's Epee

Div III Men's Epee
1st     Kevin Barkett             Unattached                              Qualified      Earns D14
2nd    Jonathon Monroe       Beverly Hills Fencers Club         Qualified      Earns E14
3rd     Jonah Dipaola            Swords Fencing Studio             Qualified      Earns E14
3rd     Jansen Hu                 LAIFC                                     Qualified      Earns E14

Div III Women's Epee
1st     Penny Segal               Fortune Fencing                        Qualified      Earns E14
2nd    Carson Becker            Fortune Fencing                        Qualified    
3rd     Barbara Antonio         Fortune Fencing                        Qualified    

Div II Men's Saber
1st    Eric Sang                    Z Fencing LA                            Qualified
2nd   Sean Patucci                Chaminade                                Qualified
3rd   Jonathan Schor             Unattached                               Qualified

Y14 Men's Saber
1st     Daniel Kwak               Avant Garde                              Qualified
2nd    Alexander Jones          Avant Garde                              Qualified
3rd     Nathan Gi                  Z Fencing LA                             Qualified

Div II Women's Saber
1st     Anne Kim                   Salle D'Asaro                             Auto
2nd    Anita Grigore              LAIFC                                      Qualified
3rd     Ava-Rose Beech         Avant Garde                               Qualified
3rd     Melina Mallory            LAIFC                                      Qualified

Y14 Men's Foil
1st      Bryce Louie                LAIFC                                      Auto
2nd     Ryan Wixen                LAIFC                                      Qualified
3rd      Christopher Kwok       Guerra Fencing                          Qualified
3rd      Carter Williams           LAIFC                                      Qualified

Y14 Women's Foil
1st       Tiffany Lu                 Swords Fencing Studio               Qualified
2nd      Kiersten Sandoval       Salle La Verne                            Qualified

Div II Men's Foil
1st      Michael Kuzmak          LAIFC                                       Qualified
2nd     Matthew Jin                Ca Institute of Technology           Qualified
3rd      Michael Mashevsky     Salle La Verne                             Qualified
6th      Michael Tiffany           Points West Fencing Center          Qualified Vet Men's Foil
7th      Sam Wuebben             Presidio                                      Qualified Vet Men's Foil

Div II Women's Foil
1st      Sophia Lambrecht         Salle La Verne                           Qualified
2nd     Caitlin Mckenna            Fortune Fencing                        Qualified
3rd      Chris Craig                  LA Fencers Club                        Qualified
5th      Harriett Eckstein           Presidio                                     Qualified Vet Women's Foil

Div III Men's Foil
1st      Parker Williams             Unattached                                Qualified
2nd     Michael Mashevsky       Salle La Verne                            Auto
3rd      Ryan Wixen                  LAIFC                                      Qualified
3rd      Eugene Vinitsky            Unattached                                 Qualified
6th      Richard Lim                  Beverly Hills Fencers Club           Qualified Vet Men's Foil

Div III Women's Foil
1st     Katie Fisher                   Unattached                                 Qualified
2nd    Chris Craig                    LA Fencers Club                         Auto
3rd     Emily Leeper                 Guerra Fencing                           Qualified
3rd     Harriett Eckstein            Presidio                                      Qualified

Div III Women's Saber
1st     Sawako Iizuka               Avant Garde                                Qualified
2nd    Sylvie Sanders               LAIFC                                        Qualified

Y14 Women's Foil
1st      Melina Mallory              LAIFC                                        Qualified

Div III Men's Saber
1st      Kevin Barkett                Unattached                                   Qualified
2nd     Troy Richardson           Salle Couturier                              Qualified
3rd      Connor Dotson             Vistamar                                      Qualified


Full results can be found here.

Congratulations to all the above fencers!

March 2014 NAC Memphis TN Results

Congrats and good work to all the fencers who competed this weekend in Memphis, TN.

Friday started with the Div III Men's Épée event where Emon Daroian from Swords finished 11th and Kevin Chao placed 32nd out of a field of 98. Good job you guys!

In the Y10 Women's Foil event, Rowan Park from LAIFC placed 15th. Great job!

Our only Y14 Women's Foil Team from LAIFC took home the gold with Chen, Park, and Tsai. Great job girls!

In Div III Women's Saber, Anita Grigore from LAIFC placed 6th out of 68 fencers. Fantastic finish!

Five girls finished in the top 32 in the Y12 Women's épée event, Shaya Shamsian 8th, Octavia Tyagi 11th, Josephine Lieber 16th, Kate Petersen 25th, and Stella Smyth 29th, all from LAIFC. Congratulations girls!!

Congratulations to Nick Itkin from LAIFC for placing second and earning his B14 in Y14 Men's Foil!

Great job to Asher Bailey from LAIFC for finishing 12th in the Y10 men's saber event!

Congrats to our Y14 Men's Épée fencers, Adrien Thein-Sandler, Zach Kravitz, and Stephen Ewart Jr for finishing 5th, 6th, and 18th respectively. Great job guys!

Good job to the LAIFC women's Y14 Épée team of Lee, Nixon, Kimura, and Beddingfield for finishing third!

Great job to Maxwell Yee from LAIFC for taking the gold in Div III Men's Foil out of a field of 119!

In the Y12 Men's Saber event, congrats to Richard Shin for placing 7th and Jude Stephenson  for placing 14th, both from Avant Garde. Congrats boys!

Out of 87 fencers, Anita Grigore from LAIFC finished 11th in the Y14 Women's Saber event! Great job!

In Y14 Women's Épée, Hanna Lee from LAIFC placed third and Chloe Daniel from Fortune finished 7th. Karolina Nixon and Kimberley Kimura placed 13th and 25th, respectively and both from LAIFC. Great job girls!

Excellent job to our only Y14 men's épée team comprised of Stephen Ewart. Jr from Swords, Adrien Thein-Sandler from LAIFC, Zach Kravitz from LAIFC, and Jonah Cho from LAIFC. They competed under the name #SoCal and took home the gold beating out very skilled teams! Great job guys!

In Y10 men's épée, congrats to Joshua Shin and Michael Mun from LAIFC for finishing 6th and 7th, respectively. Also to Andrew So from LAIFC for placing 13th and Stafford Moosekian for finishing 27th from Swords. Great job and keep up the good work guys!

Good job to Bryce Louie, 22nd, and  Eric Yu, 23rd, both from LAIFC for their top 32 finishes in  Y12 Men's Foil!

Congrats to John Lee from LAIFC for placing 23rd in Y12 Men's Épée!

Great job Alexandra Park from LAIFC for finishing 19th in Y14 women's foil!

Congrats to Eric Yu from LAIFC for taking the bronze in Y10 men's foil and to Ryan Tobin from LAIFC for placing 29th!

Great job to Chloe Daniel from Fortune for finishing 5th in Div III women's épée out of 54 fencers!

Excellent job to Richard Shin from Avant Garde for placing 23rd in Y14 men's saber!

Great job SoCal fencers! Keep up the good work and see you at this upcoming Summer National Qualifiers held at Caltech this weekend.

SoCal Division Membership Meeting held March 8th

Thank you to all who came out March 8th to partake in the semi-annual Membership Meeting. Meeting Minutes will be posted once finalized under the "Meeting Minutes" tab.

The Calendar has been updated with sanctioned and unsanctioned events from AskFred with corresponding links.

If you are a club and want to host a tournament, please go to the "Forms" tab and fill out the Tournament Sanction Request Form and email it to the SoCal Chair.

Once you have an AskFred link up and want it posted here, please email the SoCal Chair.

We are resolved to keep this website updated and relevant, please send any pictures and results to the Web Admin to be posted here.

Thank you and please come back for more updates!

SoCal Division Annual Meeting to be held March 8th

The SoCal Division Annual meeting will be held Saturday March 8th at 3:30pm.

The meeting will be held at 132 S. Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA 91502.

All nominations for board positions and executive committee members should be sent to swordsinc@yahoo.com.

We encourage any SoCal adult members to attend and to be involved with the Division process. Please let us know if there are any other questions. Thank you.

SoCal Division Summer National Qualifiers to be held March 22- March 23rd.

The SoCal Division Summer National Qualifiers will be held March 22nd-23rd. The link to Askfred more info is here.

You must be a SoCal Division Member and must be a permanent US resident or a US citizen to compete. Thank you for your time.

Socal JO Foil Qualifiers being held with an Open Epee and Open Saber Events

Hello All,

The SoCal Division is holding the JO Foil Qualifiers this Sunday Dec 8th at Cal Tech. Only SoCal members will be able to fence in those events. Those events are $35 with preregistration and $50 at the door. No CASH will be accepted. Please bring a check or money order in the correct amount.

We are also hosting an OPEN Epee and OPEN Men's and Women's Saber events. These events are open to everyone, not just SoCal Division members. These events will be reffed and will be $15 with pre-registration online and $30 at the door. No CASH will be accepted. Please bring a check or money order in the correct amount.

The pre-registration deadline will end tomorrow. Make sure to register today to avoid the at the door fees. Thank you!

Pre-register here.

More info here.

Who is coming here.

Socal JO Epee and Saber Qualifiers

Congratulations to all the fencers listed below for qualifying in their events:

Culpepper	Peter	Fortune Fencing	U17ME
Ewart	Stephen	Swords Fencing Studio	U17ME
Redding	Simon	Fortune Fencing	U17ME
Sirand	Luke	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U17ME
Graham	Jack C.T.	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U17MS
Jones	Alex	Avant Garde Fencers Club	U17MS
Kaufmann	Zane	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U17MS
Bang	Jamie	Fortune Fencing	U17WE
Daniel	Chloe L.	Fortune Fencing	U17WE
Nixon	Karolina	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U17WE
Kupiec-Weglinski	Sophie	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U17WS
Mallory	Melina	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U17WS
Pfeifer	Jessica	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U17WS
Madison	Ethan	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U20ME
Maestri-Petnunas	Preston	Swords Fencing Studio	U20ME
Kravitz	Zach	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U20ME U17ME
Pfeffer	Jared	Guerra Fencing Studio	U20ME U17ME
Strong	Sean	Presidio Fencing Club	U20ME U17ME
Szumlas	Algird	Fortune Fencing	U20ME U17ME
Thein-Sandler	Adrien	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U20ME U17ME
Strauss	Zachary	Avant Garde Fencers Club	U20MS
Zeiss	Jacob	Avant Garde Fencers Club	U20MS
Moss	Jachin	Avant Garde Fencers Club	U20MS U17MS
Beddingfield	Catherine	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U20WE U17WE
Lau	Kirsten	Fortune Fencing	U20WE U17WE
Mckenna	Caitlin	Fortune Fencing	U20WE U17WE
Wilkins	Lily	Fortune Fencing	U20WE U17WE
Xu	Olivia	Fortune Fencing	U20WE U17WE
Grigore	Anita	Los Angeles International Fencing Center	U20WS U17WS
Kim	Anne	Salle D'Asaro	U20WS U17WS
Wolpert	Mila	Avant Garde Fencers Club	U20WS U17WS

SoCal JO Quals for Foil now with Open epee and Saber Events

Hello all,

The SoCal JO foil Quals will now be held at Cal Tech in the Brown gym on Dec 8th. Parking is free on Sundays. Gloves will be checked for holes and tears, please be prepared.

Along with the quals, we are also hosting reffed $15 Open epee and Men's and Women's Saber events. If there are less than 5 women's saber fencers, the events will be combined. As with any SoCal Qualifer, NO CASH or Credit will be accepted. Please make sure to bring checks to pay for your events.

The link to AskFred is here.http://askfred.net/Events/Prereg/prereg.php?tournament_id=24697

Thank you for your time.

SoCal Division JO Qualifiers

Due to the loss of venue and the last minute availability of the other venue, we've split the JO Quals to two Sundays. They will be held at Pilgrim High School located at 540 S Commonwealth Ave, Los Angeles, Ca 90020.

JO Épée and Saber Quals will be held on Sunday November 24th.

JO Foil Quals will be held on Sunday December 8th.

We apologize for the inconvenience but the loss of the Santa Clarita venue was sudden.

We thank Pilgrim High School for the venue. No bags will be allowed on the floor due to space restrictions. There are locker rooms where bags can be placed. Spectators will not be allowed on the floor as well, only coaches. There is a second story balcony over looking the strips.

Please pre-register on Askfred for the Quals. Thank you for your time.

Sept 7th for regular fee deadline for SoCal Musketeers RYC!!!

Sept 7th is the regular fee deadline for the SoCal Musketeers RYC! Please sign up and pay today to avoid double entry fees!! Thank you!!!

More information can be found on AskFred here http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=22751

Updated Tournament Sanction form available for download in the Forms tab.

First RYC of the Season to be held September 14th-15th!!

Get a head start on qualifying for youth events at the first RYC of the season at the 2nd Annual SoCal Musketeers RYC! They have T-Shirts available online to purchase with your registration as well! So pre-register today!

More information can be found on AskFred here http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=22751

LAIFC Invitational Labor Day Weekend

Another one of the first tournaments sanctioned by the SoCal Division this season is the LAIFC Invitational. Go, fence, and be merry!

More information can be found at askfred here http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=23016

All Star Open Starts Aug 17th-18th

Come and join in our first SoCal Division Sanctioned event of the new 2013-2014 year at the All Star Open!

More information can be found on AskFred here http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=22478

SoCal Division Fencers Finish in Top 8 Consistently

SoCal Division Fencers did very well at the Summer Nationals and July NAC events. Justin Yoo and Kasia Nixon have a strong start to the National Team route this year with strong 1st place and 5th place finishes.

Go to the News/Results page for the full list of our top 8 finishers!

Schedule of Fees and Policies

Fees

Function	Price (Up To)
Bout Committee Organiizer	$250/day for qualifiers; $150/day for regular Division events
Bout Committee Helper	$100/day
Referees (/rating)   Unrated   8-10   5-7   1-4	/day $75 $85 $100 $125
Referee Assigner	$150
Referees (travel)	Per USFA guidelines, in event of  travel in excess of  50    miles
Tear Down/Set Up	$100/day for regular Division events; $150/day for qualifiers
Armorer	$200/day for qualifiers, $75/day for regular Division events (if needed)
Vendor (1 table, inside or outside  at the discretion of the Bout Ctee Org’r	$50/day
Equipment Storage	$100/month
Website Maintenance	$100/month

Division Equipment Rental

Requests for use of Division equipment must be submitted in advance. The organizer is responsible to pick up and return equipment at the convenience of the Division.

Rental fee for Division equipment for So.Cal. Division member clubs running So.Cal. Division sanctioned events is $35 for one scoring box, two reels, and two floor cords (a "strip set"); the fee for all other uses (e.g., use by member clubs of other USFA Divisions, or use for non-sanctioned events) is $100 per strip set.

Charges apply for each set borrowed, whether used or not. Charges are on a per-tournament-day basis (e.g., $35/strip/tournament day), and are payable in advance. Division weights, shims and other supplies may be requested at no additional charge. Renter is responsible for any required repair or replacement of damaged or lost equipment.

For equipment rentals, a $150 deposit is required, also payable in advance. This amount will be returned if the organizer returns all equipment to the Division’s equipment storage location within four (4) calendar days from the end of the tournament. This deposit does not excuse liability for further costs, if the replacement of lost or damaged equipment amounts to more than the deposit. (Advance payment requirements do not apply to schools or colleges.)

Division Tournament Sanctioning Policies

Sanctioning conditioned on Board/Executive Committee approval and submission of completed Tournament Sanction Request form (to Division Chair. It is the Board’s policy to accept all tournament sanction requests submitted on the appropriate form:  (1) subject to the approval of the Chair, (2) provided there are no other previously approved, similar (same age/gender/etc.) events scheduled for the same day(s), (3) provided the form is submitted by a So. Cal. Division member club or Division representative in good standing (i.e., Member dues paid up, no past-due amounts owed to Division, etc.), (4) venue is insured (need copy of USFA certificate).

All USFA rules must be enforced. Membership must be verified at the door. If even one competitor is not a current member (not listed on the posted USFA membership list as of the date of the event) without submitting a new membership form with the tournament documents, the sanctioning for the ENTIRE tournament will be withdrawn.

A So. Cal. Division Board member (or designee) must be present at the event to observe and attest that the USFA rules were adhered to. Compensation, if any, is between the board member and tournament organizers.

The complete result list and all supporting tableaux and documentation for each event, presumed new classifications and new membership applications must be submitted to the designated Division officer. New classifications will be verified and submitted to the National office by the Division.