Question: How many national tournaments does the US host for fencers?
About the article "Fencing", section "Universities and schools".

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Collegiate fencing has existed for a long time.
Some of the earliest programs in the US came from the Ivy League schools, but now there are over 100 fencing programs in the US.
Both clubs and varsity teams participate in the sport, however only the varsity teams may participate in the NCAA championship tournament.
Due to the limited number of colleges that have fencing teams, teams fence inter-division (teams from Division I schools to Division III), and all divisions participate in the NCAA Championships.
Collegiate fencing tournaments are "team tournaments" in a sense, but contrary to what many people expect, collegiate meets are not run as 45-touch relays.
Schools compete against each other one at a time.
In each weapon and gender, three fencers from each school fence three fencers on the opposing team in five-touch bouts.
(Substitutions are allowed, so more than three fencers per squad can compete in a tournament.)
A fencer's individual results in collegiate tournaments and regional championships are used to select the fencers who will compete in NCAA championships.
Individual results for fencers from each school are combined to judge the school's overall performance and to calculate how it should be placed in a given tournament. 
Generally, an individual event consists of two parts: the pools, and the direct eliminations.
In the pools, fencers are divided into groups, and every fencer in a pool will have the chance to fence every other fencer once.
The size and number of the pools is determined by the number of athletes who have registered for the competition.
Pool bouts are three minutes long, and are fenced to five points.
If no fencer reaches five points, then the one with the most points after three minutes wins.
Pool results are recorded on a scoresheet, which must be signed by the fencers after their last match.
The referee will write down how many points each fencer scored in the bout, although normally if a fencer won with five points a "V" (for "victoire") is written down instead of a 5.
Losing a pool match does not eliminate a fencer from the tournament.
In some tournaments, there are two rounds of pools, with the second round following the same format, but with pools of different fencers.
After the pools are finished, the direct elimination round starts.
Fencers are sorted in a table of some power of 2 (16, 32, 64, etc.)
based on how many people are competing.
There are rarely exactly the right number of people for this to work out perfectly, so the lowest ranking fencers may be eliminated, or they may be included in the next highest power of 2 with the top fencers receiving a bye.
Once the table size has been chosen, fencers are slotted into the table like this: first place vs. last place, second vs. second last, third vs. third last etc.
A fencers place is decided by three factors: their victories divided by matches fenced, their indicator score, which is calculated by the numbers of hits for and against during the pool rounds, and finally their hits scored.
If there is no way of separating the fencers beyond these three indicators, then they are considered equal and draw random lots for their place in the table.
The elimination round matches in foil and épée are fenced in three periods of three minutes each.
In between each period, there is a one-minute break.
Sabre matches are so much faster that the three-minute mark is almost never reached.
Therefore, in sabre, when one fencer reaches 8 points, there is a one-minute break.
In all three weapons, the match goes until 15 points.
If no one has reached 15 points, then the fencer with the most points wins.
The rules for ties are explained above under Protocol.
The winner carries on in the tournament, and loser is eliminated.
Fencing is slightly unusual in that no one has to fence for third place.
Instead, two bronze medals are given to the losers of the semi-final round.
The exception to this is team events at international level, and individual events at the Olympic Games where a 3rd place play-off must be fenced. 
Hungary women's national bandy team is competing for Hungary in the international bandy tournaments.
The team has so far only made appearances in two world championship tournaments, in 2007 (as the host country) and 2008 (in Sweden). 
The USFA tracks ratings for its members.
Ratings are a system of classification for USFA fencers; they are primarily used to seed tournaments, but are also considered to be (very) broad indicators of skill.
When a fencer first joins the USFA, he or she will have a classification of "U", or "Unrated."
There are six different ratings in the USFA those being U (the lowest rating), E, D, C, B, A (the highest rating) Fencers may increase their classification—from U to E, and then up to A—by placing in USFA-sanctioned tournaments.
A tournament must have a certain amount of competitors, and those competitors must maintain a certain ratio of classifications, for the top fencers to be eligible for ratings. 
The Turkish Fencing Federation () is the governing body for the sport of fencing in Turkey.
It was founded in 1923.
In 1924, Turkish fencers began to attend the Olympic Games.
Every year, fencing tournaments are held by TFF.
The Turkish Fencing Federation is affiliated to the internation Federation Internationale d'Escrime and European Fencing Confederation.
The federation currently has 2500 fencers.