Competitions
Competitions
We attend 1-2 ACAT tournaments every year, usually including the one hosted at UNC Chapel Hill in the fall.
Poomsae format:
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3 person mixed gender teams
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Beginner, Intermediate, Elite divisions
Sparring format:
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2-3 person same gender teams
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Beginner division:
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no headshots
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Intermediate division:
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USAT Junior Sparring Rules (reduced headshot strength)
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Elite division
Participating Schools:
American University
Liberty University
UNC Chapel Hill
US Naval Academy
UVA
Virginia Tech
ACAT (Atlantic Collegiate Alliance of Taekwondo)
ECTC (Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference)
We attend 2-3 ECTC tournaments every year, usually including those hosted at Brown University in the fall and Princeton University in the spring.
Poomsae format:
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Color belts:
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individual
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yellow, green, blue, and red belt divisions by gender
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Black belts:
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3 person mixed gender teams
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Sparring format:
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3 person same gender teams: one lightweight, one middleweight, one heavyweight
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C team:
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White to Green belts
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no headshots
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2 rounds of 60 seconds
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B team:
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Green to Red belts
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USAT Junior Sparring Rules (reduced headshot strength)
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2 rounds of 90 seconds
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electronic scoring
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A team:
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Blue to Black belts
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2 rounds of 90-120 seconds
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electronic scoring
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NCTA (National Collegiate Taekwondo Assocciation)
Every spring we assemble a small team to compete at the Collegiate National Championships.
Poomsae format:
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WT style:
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individual
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yellow, green, blue, red, and black belt divisions by gender
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Sparring format:
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individual
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same gender
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Color belts:
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4 weight divisions
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3 rounds of 1 minute
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Black belts:
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WT/Olympic rules:
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8 weight divisions
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3 rounds of 2 minutes
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Participating Schools:
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Lehigh
Liberty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northeastern University
New York University
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
Rutgers University
Stony Brook University
SUNY Empire State College
University at Albany, SUNY
University at Cortland, SUNY
Temple University
Tufts University
United States Military Academy
University of Connecticut
University of Maryland Baltimore County
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Vermont
Villanova University
Yale University
Participating Schools:
American University
Brown University
Columbia University
Iowa Central Community College
MIT
New York University
Princeton University
Stanford University
US Military Academy
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC San Diego
UT Austin
University of Vermont
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison