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Benjamin Everson

2006

Aquinas Academy Fencing Club / Pittsburgh Fencers Club

Win/Loss Statistics

2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 Before 2020 All Time
Victories 14 10 1 - - 25
Losses 14 11 4 - - 29
Win Ratio 50.0% 47.6% 20.0% - - 46.3%
Pool Victories 12 9 1 - - 22
Pool Losses 10 8 3 - - 21
Pool Win Ratio 54.5% 52.9% 25.0% - - 51.2%
DE Victories 2 1 - - - 3
DE Losses 4 3 1 - - 8
DE Win Ratio 33.3% 25.0% 0.0% - - 27.3%

Note: Seasons start on August 1st and end on July 31st.

Scores

2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 Before 2020 All Time
Easy wins† 11 5 1 - - 17
Easy wins as % of wins 78.6% 50.0% 100.0% - - 68.0%
Close wins‡ 1 - - - - 1
Close wins as % of all wins 7.1% 0.0% 0.0% - - 4.0%
Close losses‡ 3 2 1 - - 6
Close losses as % of all losses 21.4% 18.2% 25.0% - - 20.7%
Big losses† 3 6 1 - - 10
Big losses as % of all losses 21.4% 54.5% 25.0% - - 34.5%

† Easy victories or big losses are those with the score difference of 4 or more touches in a pool, 7 or more touches in direct elimination, and 5 or more in veteran and youth direct elimination.
‡ Close bouts are those with the score difference of 1 or fewer touches in a pool, 3 or fewer touches in direct elimination, or 2 or fewer touches in veteran or youth direct elimination.

Events

2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 Before 2020 All Time
Events 4 3 1 - - 8
Tournaments 3 3 1 - - 7

Competition History

Murphy's Irish City Open 8

Unrated Mixed Foil (E1, U), March 24, 2024
Place 2, Seed 2, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club / Pittsburgh Fencers Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool W 5:1 DRIVER Holden 4 U 10 Corsair Fencing Club 993 1474 16.8 77%
Pool W 5:0 SHINN-CUNNINGHAM Barbara 10 U 3 Corsair Fencing Club
Pool L 3:5 GRADY Aidan 7 U 6 Upper St. Clair Fencing Club 1195 1491 38.7 66%
Pool W 5:1 DESOUSA BALLESTEROS Carolina 6 U 7 Corsair Fencing Club
T8 W 15:4 GRADY Aidan 7 U 6 Upper St. Clair Fencing Club 1641 1420 162.2 41%
T4 W 15:2 DESOUSA BALLESTEROS Fabian 11 U 3 Corsair Fencing Club 1463 1583 122.0 56%
T2 L 13:15 MILLER Maxwell 5 U 1 Cyranos Place 1504 1705 155.1 61%

Murphy's Irish City Open 8

Senior Mixed Foil (D1, SNR), March 24, 2024
Place 9, Seed 11, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club / Pittsburgh Fencers Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool L 3:5 HOERSTER John 13 U 12 Aquinas Academy Fencing Club 1268 1528 49.4 64%
Pool W 5:1 BLANK Erik 14 U 13 Indiana University of PA (IUP) Fencing Club 1501 1478 31.4 49%
Pool L 1:5 POWELL Sean 6 E24 2 Pittsburgh Fencers Club 1566 1510 37.6 46%
Pool L 0:5 LI RunLin 2 E24 5 Steel City Fencers Club / Corsair Fencing Club 1679 1472 28.8 37%
Pool W 5:2 LYON Claire 3 E24 8 Corsair Fencing Club
Pool W 5:4 NOSIK Gabriel 7 E23 7 Corsair Fencing Club / Fox Chapel High School Fencing Club 1307 1443 30.5 59%
T16 L 11:15 LYON Claire 3 E24 8 Corsair Fencing Club

For the Love of Fencing

Senior Mixed Foil (C1, SNR), February 11, 2024
Place 19, Seed 19, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club / Pittsburgh Fencers' Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool L 2:5 BURGOS Jacob 2 C23 3 Pittsburgh Fencers Club 2198 1651 23.3 19%
Pool L 4:5 LYON Claire 14 E23 15 Corsair Fencing Club
Pool L 2:5 HOLSTEIN Ariel 11 E23 7 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1935 1628 33.1 32%
Pool L 3:5 KAPLAN Maxwell 5 D23 6 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1789 1595 38.2 38%
Pool W 5:2 CARELLI Nathaniel 17 U 22 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1017 1556 20.3 79%
Pool L 3:5 GELLAD Luke 8 E24 11 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1521 1577 48.9 54%
T32 L 6:15 HANOVER Augustine 15 U 14 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 2500 1467 47.0 17%

Luau Open

Senior Mixed Foil (C2, SNR), January 28, 2024
Place 9, Seed 11, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club / Pittsburgh Fencers Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool W 5:1 THOMAS Elizabeth 22 U 20 Steel City Fencers Club / Corsair Fencing Club
Pool W 5:1 POWELL Sean 6 E23 7 Pittsburgh Fencers Club 1527 1645 53.5 57%
Pool W 5:1 FORNEY Cadence 26 U 24 Upper St. Clair Fencing Club
Pool L 2:5 COPELAND Nigel 3 D23 1 Cyranos Place 1853 1698 47.3 40%
Pool W 5:1 SHINN-CUNNINGHAM Barbara 14 U 18 Corsair Fencing Club
Pool W 5:0 DESOUSA BALLESTEROS Carolina 27 U 22 Corsair Fencing Club
T16 L 12:15 GELLAD Luke 23 U 8 Pittsburgh Fencers Club 2079 1581 113.2 26%

Irish City Open 7

E & Under Mixed Foil (D1, E), March 18, 2023
Place 14, Seed 18, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club / Pittsburgh Fencers Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool W 5:1 MAIOLI Daniel 26 U 21 Pittsburgh Fencers Club 1206 1828 34.3 82%
Pool L 1:5 KARNAVAS Bill 2 E23 9 Forge Fencing Teams 1700 1862 97.8 60%
Pool W 5:3 BURKARDT Victor 10 U 24 Steel City Fencers Club 1535 1764 46.4 61%
Pool L 3:5 RIALE Toren 15 U 13 Corsair Fencing Club 1654 1811 67.0 58%
Pool L 2:5 POLLETTA Julie 7 E21 5 Corsair Fencing Club
Pool L 4:5 LEE Hans 23 U 17 OnTarget Fencing Club 1342 1744 98.8 73%
T32 W 15:4 HOERSTER John 24 U 19 Aquinas Academy Fencing Club 2500 1645 411.8 24%
T16 L 4:15 LEE Ethan 6 E22 3 OnTarget Fencing Club 1459 2057 475.9 77%

PFC "C" and under Mixed Foil and Unrated WF

Div II Mixed Foil (D1, DV2), February 11, 2023
Place 11, Seed 13, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool W 5:1 LANG Garrett 19 U 16 Bethel Park Fencing Club 2500 1891 120.8 29%
Pool L 2:5 POWELL Sean 6 E22 10 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1273 2011 231.9 86%
Pool L 1:5 YAGODA Jace 12 U 5 Carnegie Mellon University FC / NYFA 2796 1779 23.2 14%
Pool W 5:0 WANG David 11 U 12 Corsair Fencing Club 1130 1756 38.2 80%
Pool W 5:3 STANOEV Sava 7 E22 15 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club / Tiger Fencing Club 1120 1795 33.3 79%
Pool L 1:5 MICHAELSEN Emily 1 C22 1 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club
T16 L 5:15 XU Andrew 4 D19 6 Bucks County Academy of Fencing 2941 1745 99.9 14%

PFC Winter Unrated Foil

Unrated Men's Foil (E1, U), February 5, 2023
Place 9, Seed 19, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool W 5:3 MISHRA Roshan 12 U 14 Upper St. Clair Fencing Club 2500 1785 275.3 26%
Pool L 0:5 DUNLAP Ian 3 U 2 Columbus Fencing And Fitness LLC 1429 2061 398.3 80%
Pool W 5:3 DONAHOE Linus 16 U 18 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1042 1662 71.4 76%
Pool W 5:2 MILLER Charles 9 U 8 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1375 1734 95.7 68%
Pool W 5:1 SUN Henry 4 U 7 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1247 1829 61.2 80%
T16 L 12:15 MILLER Charles 9 U 8 Pittsburgh Fencers' Club 1706 2500 755.4 75%

Irish City Open 6

E & Under Mixed Foil (D1, E), March 26, 2022
Place 13, Seed 12, Not ranked, Rating U, Aquinas Academy Fencing Club / Pittsburgh Fencers Club
Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Chance of
Victory
Pool L 3:5 YU Daniel 1 E22 9 Pittsburgh Fencers Club 2660 2500 394.7 45%
Pool W 5:1 SMITH Nolan 6 U 7 Corsair Fencing Club 2500 2105 414.4 38%
Pool L 1:5 CYMBALAK Sebastian 14 U 12 Pittsburgh Fencers Club 1245 2520 734.5 91%
Pool L 3:5 LITTWIN Simon 7 U 3 Corsair Fencing Club
T16 L 12:15 LITTWIN Simon 7 U 3 Corsair Fencing Club