• Apologies for not releasing fencers of the week yet, but we still are hoping to nail down some of the won-loss records (and key results) for individual fencers from the Northwestern Duals (namely the Ohio State kids, some from Wayne State, etc.). As soon as we can add those fencers to the pool of candidates, we will honor the outstanding performers from the past week.
• In addition to the blog entries for regular-season tournaments, we hope to ramp up coverage for the various conference tournaments, the four NCAA Regional events and then of course the four-day NCAA Championships. Some of you may not be aware that the various conference tournament have no bearing on individual fencer qualification for the NCAAs (in fact, many top fencers often have to miss those events due to World Cup conflicts, and some also elect not to fence if they are nursing a minor injury). On the other hand, the Regional competitions are mandatory for individual NCAA qualification and constitute 60% of a fencer's qualification for the NCAAs. The other 40% is based on a fencer's "seeding factor" entering the Regional, and that seed is based on how a fencer did in regular-season bouts versus varsity opponents (results vs. club/non-varsity opponents are thrown out, as are all bouts in the conference tournaments, such as the Ivy League and Midwest Fencing Conference championships).
• In general, we hope this site can help clarify some of the confusing aspects of college fencing (such as the qualification elements discussed above). We invite you to submit questions you may have – we'll do our best to locate the answers (just send an email inquiry to editor@collegefencing360.com).
• Likewise, we ask that anytime you notice a mistake, broken link, etc. on the site, please let us know. There's a lot of data floating around on this site, and there's sure to be content that is not quite right (likewise, anytime new items are available online – such as a school's media guide PDF, feel free to let us know, as it can be touch to be checking all the sites on a regular basis).
• Some of you are new to the site in the past few days and thus missed some of the blog entries that have scrolled off the blog page. We will try to repackage/archive these on the site (for example, one entry, about three-time NCAA champs, was cut-and-pasted into the history section). When content is shifted, we will give you a heads-up on the blog and on the main page.
• Plans are in the works to include links to scoresheets in PDF format, from the various tournaments (for both future and recent events). Ultimately, there probably will be a page, for example, dedicated to the St. John's Invitational that includes the blog recap text (and other commentary), PDF links to the scoresheets, maybe some photos, etc. We likely will have some requests in regards to users not forwarding/reposting the scoresheet PDFs (more on that later).
• We also hope to add a "newsstand" with links to those college fencing articles and feature stories that are so hard to find (now they will be collected in one place). CF360 likewise hopes to at some point generate some original content (such as feature stories and 20-question type capsules) that can shine a light on the various individuals in the sport.
• Finally, there still are a couple things to recap from the past weekend (including the Wellesley tournament), and we hope to knock most of that out later today.