This usually occurs when someone registers for a tournament, and then subsequently adds their USA Fencing membership number to their Fencer's record. Registrations capture a fencer's state based on the point in time that a registration was made. If the registration was created before the USA Fencing membership number was present, that USA Fencing membership information will NOT be added to past upcoming registrations. The green checkmark represents the ability of AskFRED to verify at the time of the registration that all fencer information was correct and up to date. In order to add the membership, you must un-register and then re-register for the event.

Please note that this checkmark being present or not will not prevent your USA Fencing membership number from being provided to the tournament when they export the registration list for use in FencingTime (or their preferred software). We will still send them this information if it is present.

When signing up, AskFRED will send you an email to confirm that you own the email address associated with your account. This process is skipped if you use an oAuth process such as "Sign in with Google". Often, this email gets filtered into a non-primary inbox - make sure to check or search for an email from "askfred.net". If you do not have this email, you can request a new one here: https://www.askfred.net/users/confirmation/new

The means by which AskFRED obtains data from USA Fencing is a different system that powers the USA Fencing membership site. This different system can take up to a few days to be current in some situations. Broadly, it can take about 3 days on average for any changes to a membership to show up on AskFRED. You can speed this up, though, by clicking the "Refresh" button on your USA Fencing Membership card in your Dashboard area to request an immediate data refresh for your membership. This, however, doesn't always work because the data is not always present yet.

The most common cause to this problem is that your fencer has a USA Fencing membership set which contains different information, and you are registering for a USA Fencing sanctioned event. When registering for a USA Fencing sanctioned event, we will always use the information we have from your USA Fencing membership. We'd suggest checking this information on your USA Fencing membership card and/or on the USA Fencing membership site. If it is wrong, update it and then click the "Refresh" button on your USA Fencing membership card on AskFRED - it might take some time for this to fully propagate as some changes on USA Fencing's website must be manually reviewed. If this is not the issue or does not solve the problem, please reach out to support!

On a Tournament's information page or on your registration page, you can click the "Message the Tournament Organizers" link. This will take you to AskFRED's messenger service that will allow you to talk directly to all of the Tournament Organizers for a particular event. You must be logged in to do this.

There are several ways to cancel a registration, and each one depends on the tournament's details and configuration:

Tournament Organizers are responsible for uploading results to AskFRED. If the results are not present yet, they just haven't been uploaded yet. This could be due to any number of reasons, such as Division protocols for reviewing event results. If you have questions, please contact the Tournament Organizers.

You need a Bout Committee account in order to make your tournaments live. Please view the help section on this topic here. To create a Tournament for review or to connect a Stripe account, click on the "Bout Committee" link in the main navigation area. Posting tournaments is currently a fully free service.

All registrations are fully owned and managed by the Tournament Organizer themselves and their refund policies. The Tournament Organizer is the one who must refund your registration. You can reach out to the Tournament Organizer via the provided means (see this FAQ above) or by reaching out to the contact information provided on your receipt email.

If you were sent two receipts, please reach out to us via the support widget in the lower-right and let us know. If you do not have two receipts, its most likely that you were not double charged. One might be a preauthorization and not the final charge - this depends on the payment method used. Please wait for the charges to resolve on your credit card statement and then reach out to us to review the duplicates

AskFRED supports multiple currencies, which are set by the Tournament Organizer.

Visit the "I forgot my password" page to start a password reset.

The first and most effective step is to reset your password, which you can click here to do.

If this still isn't working for you, and you think you might have a legacy AskFRED account that was moved into the new system, you might need to confirm your email address, which can be done by clicking here.

Otherwise, if neither of these work, the next steps would be to try and create a new account, which can be done by clicking here. If this also does not work, please reach out to support for further debugging by clicking the icon in the lower right of this page!

You can modify all of this information in the "My Settings" page. If you provide a valid USA Fencing Membership Number, your membership information will override any custom information you provide to AskFRED.

You can submit a new club directly through AskFRED. Go to My Dashboard, select your fencer, click Fencer Settings, and click the Submit a new club link next to the club dropdown. Fill out the details and our team will review it. You'll receive an email once a decision is made.

To update an existing club's information (name change, location, etc.), please reach out to support.

There are two versions of me in AskFRED. How do I manage or remove duplicate profiles?

Duplicate accounts and profiles on AskFRED can create challenges for users and clubs. If a duplicate account exists on AskFRED, it can be deleted only at the explicit request of the account owner. The owner of the account in question must contact AskFRED support and request the deletion of their account and associated profile. Third parties, including club administrators, cannot request deletions on behalf of someone else, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Duplicate fencer profiles can be consolidated under specific circumstances. Requests must be initiated by the individual fencer or their legal guardian, and ownership verification is required before profiles are merged. An automatic consolidation may occur if the user adds their USA Fencing membership number to their AskFRED profile as matching records will be merged. If this does not occur, users or their guardians must contact AskFRED support directly. For any requests involving either deletion or consolidation of profiles, users are encouraged to contact AskFRED support through the official contact channels, ensuring that clear and verifiable information is provided regarding the account in question.

FRED stands for "Fencing Results and Events Database". Thanks to Bill Nary for the name idea.