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Fencing (NCAA)
Verdict
NCAA team: 9 fencers per gender (3 per weapon × 3 weapons); Dual-meet format: 27 individual bouts per dual (each fencer in each weapon faces each opponent fencer); Officials: director (referee) on each strip, scoring keeper at the box, judges (when manual scoring used)
Why people argue about this
People often assume that each fencer gets a bout against every other fencer in their gender group, which would mean 18 bouts per fencer if they compete individually. However, under NCAA fencing rules, only 9 fencers are competing simultaneously for each weapon, so the misconception arises because they think it's about individual matchups rather than simultaneous matches.
Send this to your friend — argument over.
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