The two sanctioning forms below provide the ability to sanction just a single tournament at a time or to sanction multiple tournaments that will all be hosted in the same area and with the same imagery at once. Lightspeed teams who will be regularly hosting tournaments throughout the year are encouraged to use the series form to submit their tournament plans for the whole year at once.

Please make a copy of this page and use it to create your registration page. It is a Google Sheet that will allow you to share a roster, tournament schedule, staff, and tournament information easily with us and with your competitors. More instructions are provided at the link.

Sanctioning Form (Series)

PRIMARY CONTACT PERSON

This should normally be the tournament director

Name

First Name

Last Name

Phone

(###)

###

####

BASE OR SQUADRON

TOURNAMENT SERIES NAME

LOCATION

Please include the proper name of the location if applicable (ie "Greeley Fencing Club"). This is important to properly insuring your event. This is only necessary if the tournament location(s) have not been the location of Lightspeed events in the past.

LOCATION 1

LOCATION 2

TOURNAMENT

Please include Date, Time, and Location, and the Competitor Class, Level, and Format of the tournament.

Information

Fill in the information for each tournament. Please include the name, tournament level (ie open, novice, advanced, etc), demographic if applicable (men, women, cadets, etc), location if different from above, and date. Please put each event on a different line.

STAFF

Please identify your staff members, especially your director(s) and referees. It is generally preferable for these roles not to overlap

SALES, REGISTRATION & MARKETING

Do you want Lightspeed Saber to host a registration page and accept enrollments and payments on your team's behalf?

(This will affect the cut that the league takes)

Yes, we want a registration page hosted at LightspeedSaber.com

We also want a marketing image made for us

Registration Pages

If providing your own registration pages, please link registration pages for at least the first two events. Please use the link provided at the top of the page for your registration page.

After you hit 'Submit' you will be redirected to a page where you can submit your marketing images. Please provide a version both with and without text.

You don't need to provide this if requesting Lightspeed Saber to make one for you.

MISCELLANEOUS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

If there are other details or questions for us, please leave them here!

Sanctioning Form (stand-alone)

PRIMARY CONTACT PERSON

This should normally be the tournament director

Name

First Name

Last Name

Phone

(###)

###

####

BASE OR SQUADRON

TOURNAMENT NAME

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

Please include the proper name of the location if applicable (ie "Greeley Fencing Club"). This is important to properly insuring your event.

Address 1

Address 2

City

State/Province

Zip/Postal Code

Country

REGISTRATION

Tournament info embed code

Publish your roster spreadsheet and then share the embed code here.

Registration page

If not requesting a hosting page at LightspeedSaber.com, provide your registration link. Please use the link provided at the top of the page for your registration page.

http://

TOURNAMENT MEDIA

Use the following Dropbox link to upload your tournament marketing images

https://www.dropbox.com/request/FDq3nLw37hlDUFiXFidc

BENEFITS OF A SANCTIONED EVENT

Lightspeed Saber wants to make sure that you’re receiving value from your membership in the league. In return for requesting your event:

Competitors may advance in rank and qualify for higher level tournaments (they must be paying league members)
Your tournament will be promoted in all of Lightspeed’s social media channels
Lightspeed can generate promotional art for your event upon request
The event, its staff, and its competitors will be fully insured (assuming all rules and requirements are followed)

FEE

Dependent on tournament size, whether Lightspeed Saber will host a registration page for you, and other factors. On average $1-4 per competitor. Subject to change.

ELIGIBILITY

Tournaments must fit the following criteria for eligibility:

All Lightspeed Saber safety rules must be followed, especially equipment standards
All staff and competitors must, at a minimum, have signed the online Lightspeed Saber liability waiver and appearance release form. Competitors do NOT need to be paying Lightspeed Saber League members.
Minimum of 5 competitors
You do NOT have to be recognized Lightspeed Saber base to hold a tournament.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In order for the tournament to be properly entered into data, careful records must be kept. Lightspeed Saber will not be able to calculate the tournament’s value nor your fencers’ performance without the following:

Fencer win/loss data (who beat whom)
Fencer point spreads (by how much?)

In addition, the tournament must be evenly or randomly seeded to ensure fair play for all competitors.

SIGN UP PAGE TEMPLATE

You may copy and paste the following template onto your sign up page and fill out the information for your tournament.

Date:
Time:
Location:
Tournament level:
Class:
Tournament size (number of competitors):
Tournament format:
Pools:
Pool size:
Qualifying competitors:
Rules:
Refund policy:

SAMPLE MARKETING IMAGE

Your tournament should have a main marketing image that states the name of the tournament, when and where it is held, and how to register. Please also include a copy with no text. Example:

This doesn’t have to be fancy! It can just be a photograph or stock art.

sanctioning application