MIT fenced admirably, with two third-place finishes and two more in the final eight.
Fencers compete round robin in five to seven person pools, in five-touch bouts.
Based upon their performance, they are ranked and fence fifteen touch direct elimination bouts until only one remains victorious. Epee shows promise The epee squad was hit hard this year by a combination of graduation, study abroad, and injury. Fortunately, the MIT team proved to be as deep as they were talented, calling upon squad leader Paul J. Thordarson '01, Neal K. Devaraj '02, Brendan P. Miller '02 and Alberto F. Viscarra '02 to fill some rather large shoes. After crushing one opponent in DEs, he lost a close bout, 15-9, to a tough Tufts epeeist, placing him 9th overall. Close behind was Devaraj, who left pools with a strong 4-2 mark.