In order to have your competitions ranked by the CFF, you are required to follow the following steps. See the Rules and Regulations for competition formats and ranking criteria.
- Pay the appropriate sanction fees for the events using the online form. Payment must be made 30 days before the first day of the competition.
- Run the competition in Engarde version 8.16 or later.
- Upon completion of the competition, forward the email confirmation of sanction fees, referee reports and the exported fff competition files from Engarde to pa@fencing.ca
To allow the automated ranking of results, you are required to use certain Engarde features in a specific manner. Please ensure accuracy when completing the information in the required fields. Incorrect information may lead to either a fencer being not ranked or the competition rejected. Use Engarde as follows:
Competition Options:
| Short Title – | The name of the
competition including weapon and age as Engarde saves using this information |
| Title on one line – | Full competition
details |
| Organizer – | Who applied and
received the sanction |
| Federation – | Canada |
| Competition domain – | National |
| Championship – | Any |
| Identification – | Any |
| Year – | Calendar year in
which competition is held |
| Weapon – | Foil, Epee or Sabre |
| Category – | Cadet, Junior, Senior
(Open) or Veterans (Masters) |
| Sex – | Male or Female (if a
mixed competition, the dominant gender) |
| Date – | Actual date of the
competition |
| Title 1…4 – | Any |
Fencers:
| Name – | Required |
| First name – | Required |
| Presence – | Required |
| Fencer number – | Optional |
| Club – | Fencers Club |
| State – | Optional |
| Country – | CAN – Required (If
blank or other Nationality – fencer will not be ranked in Canada eg USA) |
| Date of Birth – | Optional |
| Licence – | CFF Licence Number |
| FIE Licence – | Optional |
| Points – | Optional |
| Mask Number – | Optional |
| Sex – | M / F – Required |
When the competition is complete, go to:
File : Results files, other files : FFF transfer file : check results: final ranking : (check all athletes are included) : ranking to place first in file (1) : Save as year of competition_competition name_category/gender/weapon:
eg. 2014_Brock_Open_SMF.fff
If an event is mixed then the title reflects the largest gender number with the suffix _mixed added.
eg. 2014_Brock_Open_U15MF_mixxed.fff