The modern version of fencing has the following three disciplines
- Epee
- Foil
- Sabre
These have different swords and different rules based on target areas
Two fencers face off on a 14 x 2m strip called the piste. Equipment includes a scoring box, system of reels, electric swords. Whoever gets the first hit scores a point. But there are also double touches where both fencers score a point.
The tournaments involve pools and direct elimination rounds.
Participants are divided into “pools” (Round Robin) with roughly 5 or 6 per pool. In the pools, the matches called bouts are for 5 points. Whoever reaches 5 points first wins the bout. After pools, the fencers are seeded and the brackets are drawn