All fencers fencing challenge matches MUST wear the correct kit - that is they must be wearing an 800N plastron, 350N jacket, breeches and mask, socks and a glove.
Matches are to 10 points
Challenge matches always take precedence over non-challenge fights.
You may issue one challenge each session.
You may only challenge people one or two spaces above you.
Winning a challenge you have made results in the two fencers swapping places, defending a challenge successfully means the positions remain as they were previously.
You must fight challenges in the order they are delivered to you as far as immediately possible. This means that if a challenge is made against you by a person who can fence you immediately before you make a challenge yourself, you must fight the challenger (and win, obviously) before you can fight the person you have challenged. Equally, if you challenge someone, and are then challenged yourself, you can fight the challenge you have made before the one made against you.
You may NOT challenge a person who has just beaten you.
Refusal to fence counts as a loss; genuinely running out of time, or not fencing for reasons of illness or fitness reasonably outside of your control does not.
You can challenge someone in their absence. Should this happen two weeks in a row you are considered to have won the challenge.