For those of you who haven't fenced States before here is an explanation of the format.
It is an individual meet, much like the SPA Invite, but how you place impacts directly how the team finishes in the team standings.
You will have a round of pools of 5 touches and then fence 15 touch direct elimination bouts, once you lose you're out. So, how you do in the pools is very important, the difference of only 1 touch can make a difference in your final placing.
To figure out the team awards, you take the top 3 finishers from SPA in each event. You get points equal to your finishing place and the team with the lowest number wins.

For example: If we finish 1st, 4th and 5th that would equal 10 points (1+4+5) we would beat a team that finished 2nd, 3rd and 6th (11 points) by 1 point. We can earn team awards for each squad, male and female, overall women's team and overall men's team and Overall combined team.