The following rules represent the standard ruleset for Tournaments being held by Royal Arts fencing academy. This includes: Ascalon, Blue Box, Looking Sharpe, and Hemmageddon
Direct Elimination (DE) matches or bouts will function identically to pools bouts with the exception of the total possible points being raised to twelve (12) points. In the event of a tie at the end of time, a sudden death exchange will be held. The first clean hit (i.e. no after-blow), will result in the win.