On the first day of the New Year 2017, the first International Fencing Open was held at the International Sports Center in Pudong, Shanghai. Hosted and operated exclusively by Universal Sports, the event attracted more than 1,600 competitors from around the world.
High - standard, full - scale competitions lead the popularization of fencing
On the occasion of "the 10th anniversary of the founding of the World Sports Organization" and "the completion of the World Sports (Shanghai Pudong) Center", this event is invited to the world. By the end of the registration, more than 1,600 fencing fans from universities and clubs around the world, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, the United States, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. have signed up. The athletes are aged from 4 to 70 years old. It can be regarded as a truly international national competition.
There are male/female foil, epee and sabre individual and team events. The age range is from children to 17+. The competition is divided into 65 groups according to different sword types over two days. The rules of the competition shall be the latest rules of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) approved by the Chinese Fencing Association: After the group round, the individual competition shall enter the single-defeat direct elimination system. After the semifinal, the loser will tie for the third place and be awarded a medal; In the team event, the losing semifinalists will play the third and fourth place finals.
If the stereotype is that fencing is an aristocratic sport, the 100,000 or so people trained in the world over the past decade are proof that fencing is becoming more popular and leading to national fitness, as evidenced by today's event.
Scientific and technological facilities facilitate the intelligent upgrading of venues and professional operation of events
In order to create an international and professional level of fencing events, Wanguo selected the venue of this competition in the world's largest fencing hall - the World Sports Center. The World Sports Center covers an area of 35,000 square meters. Relying on its grand scale and advanced facilities, the venue will set up a warm-up area of 1,000 square meters, 82 fencing courses of international standard, and a final venue that can accommodate 1,000 spectators, as well as a high platform that can match the Olympic standard. At the same time, there is a professional team of hundreds of coaches as match judges, adhering to the principles of fairness, fairness and openness to make real-time judgments.
For this event, International Sports is committed to building a fully intelligent stadium, using Hawk-eye technology for the first time. The event video system has been certified by the International Fencing Federation (FIE) and meets the requirements of FIE. Through high-quality pictures and the corresponding playback rate, the moment of the player's hit can be more clearly displayed to the referee and the audience. Through the replayable video pictures, the referee can provide more accurate judgment basis and a more professional competition environment for the event.
In addition, the professional software certified by the International Sword Federation is adopted for the processing of competition results, with highly integrated data and abundant external interfaces to realize real-time collection of on-site data, external data transmission and real-time release of online data. At the same time, the newly developed "Check in" intelligent recording system is adopted in 2016, which can provide athletes' entry records and real-time release and inquiry of their results, and realize instant message sharing on mobile terminal. Registration, schedule, groups, event progress, results, etc., can be obtained at a glance and mastered in real time.
This competition also uses the Olympic standard large screen display, through the real-time data update, to provide timely and accurate event information and performance display for the audience and participants.
From a national perspective, the full range of scientific and technological means adopted in this competition ensures the high quality of the competition, greatly improves the efficiency of the competition, improves the spectator experience and improves the overall experience of the participants.
Sword casting education, enlighten the development of young people
When it comes to fencing, it can no longer simply be called a competitive sport. In sports, fencing can fully develop children's physical potential and stimulate their enterprising spirit. Whether in personal cultivation, will quality or physical development, can bring great benefits to children from an early age. Fencing practice can not only improve the physical quality, coordination ability, focus, judgment and reaction ability, but also exercise the agile and flexible thinking, adaptable and overcome difficulties of various psychological qualities, which can enable the sword exercver to achieve self-confidence, self-control and self-cognition, improve their comprehensive ability to face the future competition and challenges. These are all necessary conditions for a child to be successful.
In addition to daily training, teenagers need to grow up in competitions and benefit from competitions. Therefore, the competition is also based on the principle of communication, creating a connection for participants, so that players from all over the world can share in this fair and memorable event.
There is a set of words that can adequately describe the role fencing can play in the development of youth: "strengthen the body, enlighten the mind, know the manners, and control the heart". In the current era of consumption upgrading, sports can be regarded as one of the best lifestyles, and International Sports believes that sports is one of the best modern education methods. It is the unremitting pursuit of every ten thousand people to cast swords and educate people and carry the future.
Of course, this is not the first time that Universal has tried to run independent events. As the pilot of the domestic fencing training industry, which has been established for more than a decade, Universal Sports has its own annual and quarterly fencing league and fencing championship. The International Fencing Open, on the other hand, has a larger scale and more professional facilities, which will undoubtedly be a landmark step in the development of the International Fencing IP.
In the future, Wanguo Sports will continue to deepen its efforts in the field of fencing. First, it will do a good job in the club and second, it will do a good job in the league, release the value of the competition, strive to develop unique IP for the competition, and explore the extension of the fencing industrial chain.
