by Peter Gustafsson | Feb 27, 2018 | Competition formats
In a recent blog post, I described how the Colley-Gustafsson competition format should work. In this blog post, I am going to outline what the positives are with the various aspects of the Colley-Gustafsson competition format, which I will be referring to as CGCF for...
by Peter Gustafsson | Feb 21, 2018 | Coaching
Fairly recently, I was coaching three of my students during a bout-centered session. In the first bout with which this blog post concerns itself, fencer A and B were free-bouting against each other in a 15-point bout. The final score was quite close, which was...
by Peter Gustafsson | Feb 18, 2018 | Miscellaneous
I usually write blog posts that go on for several hundred words, in one case over 3600 of them. This one breaks that mold, and is my tersest one as of yet, by far. It is inspired by what I have recently seen, one of my students maturing as a person by leaps and bounds...
by Peter Gustafsson | Feb 16, 2018 | Refereeing
Last weekend, I was head referee at one of the larger men’s epee competitions here in Sweden. I have been head referee there once before and three times at the regional championships, so this was my fifth time as a head referee. That competition has a unusual...
by Peter Gustafsson | Feb 7, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
Recently, I have posted a series of blog posts describing the Colley Matrix Method. The CMM is a method of ranking competitors based on head-to-head matches producing one winner and one loser, and it produces a well-ordered ranking even if the various competitors have...
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