Skewered Fencing Scoring Box
$800.00
Most scoring boxes tell you that someone scored. This one tells you what happened.
Instead of a fixed set of indicator lamps, it uses a full LED display — so it can show late-hit timing, whipover detection, and a reviewable timeline of the last second before every touch, including blade contact from parries. In a club, that turns the arguments nobody can settle into something everyone can look at: was the parry before the hit or after, is that body cord dropping out, how late was the remise really.
It does everything you expect a scoring box to do — FIE-compliant timing for all three weapons, bout and break timers, passivity timer, score and card display, a connection for grounded strips. The extra indicators can be switched off entirely, so it can behave like a conventional box whenever you want it to.
Each box is made to order with a colour highlight and a matching remote.
Reviewable hit timeline (patent pending)
Late hit and whipover indicators
FIE-compliant timing for foil, épée and sabre
Bout timer, break timer and passivity timer
Score, penalty card and period display, with last-scored indicator
Undo for accidental score clears and time resets
Rechargeable, programmable IR remote that attaches magnetically
Light layout optimised per weapon, and colourblind-accessible
Bluetooth and serial connectivity, with Wi-Fi hardware built in
Runs from mains power or a USB power bank
Automatic sleep, with instant wake on strip activity
Firmware updates over USB
Quantity
The timeline display
The last second of the indicator lamps scrolls continuously across the display. When a hit lands, that scrolling history freezes so everyone can see the sequence of events around the touch.
A central orange line marks blade contact from parries. Red and green lines above and below it mark valid contacts by each fencer, and the outer rows show fault indicators — a broken or unplugged body cord, or a short to the bell guard in épée or to a fencer's own lamé in foil and sabre.
Two vertical blue lines mark the start of the first hit and the close of the lockout window for the weapon in use. It can settle whether a parry landed before or after the hit, and it makes a flaky body cord visible instead of mysterious.
Patent pending.
Timing specifications
Programmed to comply with the October 2024 FIE material rules. The box checks for hits 20,000 times per second and evaluates connections on the strip with sub-millisecond precision.
Foil Minimum contact time for a valid hit — FIE requires 14 ± 1ms This box: 14 ± 0.1ms Double-hit lockout — FIE requires 300 ± 25ms This box: 300 ± 0.1ms
Épée Minimum contact time for a valid hit — FIE requires 2 to 10ms This box: 2.1 ± 0.1ms Double-hit lockout — FIE requires 45 ± 5ms This box: 40.1 ± 0.1ms
Sabre Minimum contact time for a valid hit — FIE requires 0.1 to 1.0ms This box: 0.2 to 0.3ms Double-hit lockout — FIE requires 170 ± 10ms This box: 170 ± 0.1ms Whipover exclusion — FIE requires 4 to 5ms through 15 to 20ms This box: 4.5ms to 15 ± 0.1ms
Firmware and updates
Apparatus timings are not fixed for all time. Governing bodies have revised them repeatedly over the years, and each revision has changed how the weapon is fenced.
This box updates over USB. Plug in a cable, the box appears as a drive, copy the new firmware across — no unit to ship away, no service visit.
For a club running several boxes, keeping the whole set current is an afternoon's work.
Remote control
Each box comes with a custom IR remote with tactile buttons and an indicator light. It carries two high-intensity IR emitters, one narrow and one wide-angle.
The remote recharges from any standard USB-C charger and can be set to a specific IR channel, so several boxes can run in the same hall without interfering with each other. Embedded magnets hold it to the box, or to any other metal surface.
Remotes can be temporarily reconfigured to drive another box when needed.
Connectivity
Bluetooth Available now Native integration with SFS (Super Fencing System), the iOS video replay app.
Serial Available now A high-speed RJ-11 connection for Skewered's video replay system and repeater display, and for an adapter to the Favero RJ-11 protocol.
Wi-Fi Hardware built in, integration in development Native Fencing Time integration is in development, along with a serial-to-ethernet uplink for hardwired setups.
Mounting and storage
A handle and a table-top stand attach to the box; the stand tilts slightly upward so the display stays readable from a low table.
M3 mounting holes around the display allow custom mounting — wall brackets, tripods, magnetic mounts and so on.
A storage container is available, and a travel-sized version of the box exists with a display half as wide and half as tall, otherwise identical.