Series Rankings 2008 - Final

The Allstar UK Youth Development Series has its own ranking system which runs across the 5 rounds of the competition - each fencer can count their best 4 results towards the final ranking list.

Attached to this page is the final rankings - we will endeavour to have this updated with a couple of days of each round - the first one was a bit delayed whilst we decided how to do this years weighting to reflect the new structure of the series.

Any queries or questions please contact us here.

Important Notes:

This ranking is in no way related to the Scottish Fencing (SF) Ranking list - only the SF rankings are used to select squads and teams and any questions about selection processes should be referred to the relevant weapon co-ordinator as listed on the SF web-site.
For SF ranking calculation purposes the fencers who are placed 3rd and 4th respectively in a YDS competition will be treated as finishing 3rd equal (this reflects normal UK competition where all the places are not fenced off)

View the FINAL (after Round 5) rankings online here -
(you can also download a Excel sheet copy of all rankings from the attachment link below)

Fencing points scheme are notoriously difficult to understand - and therefore the YDS ranking system is explained in the "YDS rankings explained" page below.

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YDS rankings explained

Creating a new ranking system is a complex task - so why did we decide to do so?

The Allstar UK Youth Development Series is not like any other competitions you are likely to enter. They exist to provide competitive experience in a condensed and high frequency environment (you will actually fence a lot more in a YDS competition than in any other competitive series with the same fencer numbers than any other series we know of - probably even anywhere in the world...)

We do this to give the biggest return for each event - the YDS is here to prepare fencers to enter the national level BYC, cadet, junior and Open competitions they will need to attend to develop their fencing into adulthood or if they wish to be selected for age related national representation (ie get selected for a Scotland squad...)

Because of this the YDS format differs massively from all other comeptitions out there - we typically have 2-3 rounds of poules, followed by DE rounds where all places are fenced off, or we use Repechage.

Having changed so much already to suit our goals, we therefore decided to create a ranking scheme that reflected the competitions and the fencers who take part in them.

The attached pdf document explains how we calculate the points for each round, agre group and weapon category.

If you have any queries please contact us here.

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