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.