About the Event

First there was the T-shirt disaster Kinkos dealt us, and you can read about that below. Then LSU et. al. moved the football game from 7pm to 11:40am and so the traffic, police induced mayhem and sports fan idiocy that comes with that was thrown at us. Combine that with the weather turning decidedly sour on Friday and it raining mostly Friday and this Saturday - the ground was soaked. Inability to access due to barricades and mayhem combined with high water and muddy ground prevented the event from taking place on the levy. Not detered we set up shop in the parking lot in front of Georges' appartment and fenced on.

Initially, the sun came out and things cleared up - it looked very promising. The Southern tasted strong as ever. But then all hell broke loose as gallon after gallon of water fell from the sky. The fencers braved the down pour and the cooling water actually lessened the effect of the poisions although the cold nearly incapacitated some particularly suseptible fencers; right Beth?

When all was said and done, we had our three champions and and broke up to go home and dry off in preparation for the evenings festivities, after all... If you want blood, ..... you got it!.

The event is a CSFA organized event designed to remove the fencers from the typical surroundings of competition. It was conceived in the twisted little minds of the Founders: Thomas Smailus, George Fuller, Beth Hughes.

The Horcktoberfest used the current CSFA rules of the event.

Specifics

• Participation: Fencing by invitation only.
• Date: October 26, 1996, 10am - 3pm (times approximate)
  
  
• Champions!:
  • Foil Champion: Thomas Smailus
  • Epee' Champion: Gus Landry
  • Sabre Champion: Beth Hughes
  
  
• Prize Money: $CS 60 for 1st, $CS 30 for 2nd, $CS 15 for 3rd were awarded.
• Poisons: The usual array: Southern Comfort and the Victors Bain: the peppermint schnapps.
• T-Shirts: T-Shirts have been a real terror this time around. Kinkos certainly doesn't look very professional. On three occasions the shirts were promised, and each time I was dismayed to find no shirts. The 'employee of the day' running the place never had any clue as to why the shirts were not completed and the woman who tried to BS some excuse the third time they were not ready as promissed actually got pissy and rude with me and told me 'the shirts would be ready whenever they got around to them'. Be warned - Kinkos blows. It's just a bunch of amatuers who know how to push the copier buttons - or maybe the State Street location in Baton Rouge is just poorly run. In any case, we still don't have shirts, and I think they are giving up - so I'll have to find some other way of getting them made... stay tuned.

Pictures

Here is the photographic record

Here are pictures form the Horcktoberfest party that evening.