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Matt Soskins

1976
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Win/loss statistics

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Victories - - - 18 6 24
Losses - - - 18 9 27
Win ratio - - - 50.0% 40.0% 47.1%
Pool victories - - - 13 6 19
Pool losses - - - 14 7 21
Pool win ratio - - - 48.1% 46.2% 47.5%
DE victories - - - 5 - 5
DE losses - - - 4 2 6
DE win ratio - - - 55.6% 0.0% 45.5%

Seasons start on August 1 and end on July 31.

Scores

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Easy wins† - - - 6 4 10
Easy wins % - - - 33.3% 66.7% 41.7%
Close wins‡ - - - 6 1 7
Close wins % - - - 33.3% 16.7% 29.2%
Close losses‡ - - - 4 2 6
Close losses % - - - 22.2% 22.2% 22.2%
Big losses† - - - 8 3 11
Big losses % - - - 44.4% 33.3% 40.7%

† Easy victories or big losses are 4+ touches in pools, 7+ in standard DEs, and 5+ in veteran or youth DEs.

‡ Close bouts are 1 touch or fewer in pools, 3 or fewer in standard DEs, and 2 or fewer in veteran or youth DEs.

Events

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Events - - - 5 2 7
Tournaments - - - 3 2 5

Competition history

7 competitions, 51 bouts

Division 1 Championships/April NAC

Veteran Men's Saber A2, VET April 24, 2023

Place 28 of 46 Seed 30 Not ranked Rating E23

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 4:5 ANFORA Andrew T. 13 - C23 16 Team Touche Fencing Center 2441 2225 24.7 37%
Pool
D 1:5 DUDNICK Christian 41 - U 15 Fencing Academy Of Denver 1999 2200 41.2 63%
Pool
D 2:5 MATT Chris 2 - A23 3 Capital Fencing Academy 3147 2159 4.6 6%
Pool
V 5:1 GORMLEY Peter J. 45 - U 46 Zeta Fencing 1811 2155 18.5 71%
Pool
V 5:2 GRAFF Jon 16 - C23 34 Cobra Fencing Club LLC 2318 2173 35.9 41%
Pool
D 2:5 LEAR Donald W. 27 - D19 10 Southwest Florida Fencing Academy 2426 2209 21.3 36%
T64
V 10:4 DI GENNARO John 28 - D19 37 Manhattan Fencing Center 1735 2655 33.8 90%
T32
D 8:10 THORNTON Ronald J. 1 - A23 2 Capital Fencing Academy 3654 2689 27.4 8%

Division 1 Championships/April NAC

Vet-40 Men's Saber B1, V40 April 23, 2023

Place 9 of 16 Seed 14 Not ranked Rating E23

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 1:5 SEIDEL Jonathan J. 13 17 E23 5 Manchen Academy Of Fencing 2564 2175 21.5 27%
Pool
V 5:0 DHAR asif 7 8 U 14 Capital Fencing Academy 1719 2154 19.1 75%
Pool
V 5:4 PAI Dong-Ying 16 - U 3 Twin Cities Fencing Club 2554 2173 36.4 33%
Pool
D 2:5 KALLIO Jeffrey E. 1 1 C23 6 Forge Fencing Teams 3252 2209 4.7 5%
Pool
V 5:0 DAWSON Todd 6 7 E19 16 Athens Fencing Club 1855 2204 20.8 71%
T16
D 5:10 PAI Dong-Ying 16 - U 3 Twin Cities Fencing Club 2500 2774 119.5 60%

The 2023 Battle in Seattle Veteran Events

Veteran Men's Épée A1, VET January 27, 2023

Place 15 of 15 Seed 15 Not ranked Rating U

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 1:5 CRANOR Erich L. 4 - A20 1 Northwest Fencing Center 2860 2500 398.9 36%
Pool
D 4:5 LIPTON Michael D. 12 - C21 9 East Bay Fencers Gym / Halberstadt Fencers' Club 2088 2101 398.7 51%
Pool
D 0:5 GOOSSENS Bruno 3 - A21 5 2717 1702 71.0 10%
Pool
D 2:5 VARNEY John R. 6 - A19 3 Salle Auriol Seattle 2818 1631 42.3 6%
T16
D 5:10 GOOSSENS Bruno 3 - A21 5 3319 2500 249.1 21%

The 2023 Battle in Seattle Veteran Events

Veteran Mixed Saber E1, VET January 27, 2023

Place 1 of 8 Seed 6 Not ranked Rating U

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
V 5:4 LARA Alfred 2 - B19 3 Oregon Fencing Alliance 2383 2155 67.0 36%
Pool
V 5:3 WILLEMSE Jamie 3 - C23 6 PDX Fencing - - - -
Pool
V 5:1 ST. CLAIRE-KING Tiffany 7 - U 8 PDX Fencing - - - -
Pool
D 2:5 CRETEN Joachim 1 - B22 3 PDX Fencing 1863 2222 71.6 71%
Pool
D 4:5 MA Yanjie (Jeff) 5 - D19 5 Salle Auriol Seattle 1907 2151 59.8 65%
Pool
V 5:4 DIRSMITH Benjamin J. 4 - D22 2 Salle Auriol Seattle / Washington Fencing Academy 2298 2091 54.1 37%
Pool
V 5:2 REITER Michael L. 8 - U 7 Salle Auriol Seattle 1938 2145 30.0 63%
T8
V 10:9 WILLEMSE Jamie 3 - C23 6 PDX Fencing - - - -
T4
V 10:3 LARA Alfred 2 - B19 3 Oregon Fencing Alliance 2850 2330 350.6 25%
T2
V 10:6 DIRSMITH Benjamin J. 4 - D22 2 Salle Auriol Seattle / Washington Fencing Academy 2210 2681 93.5 74%

Leon Auriol Open

Senior Mixed Saber C2, SNR November 12, 2022

Place 15 of 32 Seed 25 Not ranked Rating U

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
V 5:2 SANDS Thomas 26 - U 31 Salle Auriol Seattle 1160 2256 8.9 95%
Pool
V 5:2 HOLMES Sabrina 16 - U 26 Salle Auriol Seattle - - - -
Pool
D 1:5 HUANG Zekai 5 - C20 9 Salle Auriol Seattle 2302 2265 62.8 48%
Pool
V 5:4 DIRSMITH Benjamin J. 6 - D22 13 Salle Auriol Seattle / Washington Fencing Academy 2261 2202 65.2 46%
Pool
D 1:5 RYABKOV Stanislav 15 - E22 8 Salle Auriol Seattle 1584 2268 112.4 86%
T32
V 15:14 NADEL Joshua 30 - U 18 Salle Auriol Seattle 2681 1942 566.4 22%
T16
D 11:15 BULL Anderson 1 - B22 1 Salle Auriol Seattle / Manhattan Fencing Center 2900 2508 178.0 31%

Battle in Seattle

Div I-A Men's Saber B2, D1A January 29, 2022

Place 26 of 29 Seed 23 Not ranked Rating U

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 1:5 YANG Dylan 17 - E22 16 Premier Fencing Academy LLC 2425 2504 112.6 55%
Pool
D 2:5 RIGGINS Littleton K. 8 - C21 13 Salle Auriol Seattle 2806 2391 50.2 26%
Pool
V 5:3 DANYO David 27 - U 22 Salle Auriol Seattle 1760 2341 34.6 81%
Pool
D 2:5 XU Andrew 3 - C22 3 PDX Fencing 2615 2375 57.3 36%
Pool
D 0:5 KROON Lucas 13 - D21 5 South Bay Fencing Academy 2446 2318 61.8 42%
T32
D 8:15 HOLZ Daniel 5 - C21 7 Premier Fencing Academy LLC 3118 2079 137.5 13%

January NAC

Vet-40 Men's Saber E1, V40 January 8, 2022

Place 5 of 9 Seed 6 Not ranked Rating U

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 4:5 COLTER richard 4 11 U 6 Denver Fencing Center 1788 2500 842.0 75%
Pool
D 3:5 SEIDEL Jonathan J. 2 4 E19 2 2620 1658 103.3 13%
Pool
V 5:0 LI Li 5 - U 7 Peninsula Fencing Academy 1844 1555 342.6 37%
Pool
D 3:5 CHANG Eric 8 - U 3 Golubitsky Fencing Center / Lilov Fencing Academy 1896 1897 200.4 50%
Pool
V 5:1 DAWSON Todd 1 4 E19 8 Athens Fencing Club 2098 1697 290.4 29%
Pool
V 5:1 PLONKA Derek 7 - U 3 Avant Garde Fencers Club, Inc (CA) (AGFC) 2165 1987 188.5 40%
Pool
V 5:4 REFAEE Ahmed H. 3 - B19 1 Tim Morehouse Fencing Club (Port Chester) / Premier Fencing Club 3241 2176 282.3 8%
Pool
V 5:1 WINER Heath B. 9 - U 9 The Fencing Center 1859 2458 45.5 81%
T8
D 9:10 CHANG Eric 8 - U 3 Golubitsky Fencing Center / Lilov Fencing Academy 2500 2500 420.5 50%