Team competition

Team competition (단체전, danchejeon) is one of the two main divisions of kumdo competition, the other being individual competition. Each team fields several competitors who fight one-on-one bouts in a predetermined order, and the team result is decided from those individual bouts.

The most common team has five members. By order of appearance, the positions are called seonbong (선봉), chabong (차봉, also called i-wi, 2위), jung-gyeon (중견), bujang (부장) and jujang (주장). Teams of three and seven also occur, and nine-member teams exist but are rarely used. For the seven-member format, the Korea Kumdo Association (대한검도회) lists the order seonbong, i-wi, sam-wi (3위), jung-gyeon, o-wi (5위), bujang, jujang in its 2022 tournament guide.

• How it is decided: the rules mention two methods, seungjasubeop (승자수법), where the team with more bout winners wins, and yeonseungbeop (연승법).
• Ties: in the 2022 tournament guide, a tie is settled by a daepyojeon (대표전), a single bout with no time limit. In another tournament's rules, equal winner counts are broken by the number of points scored (seungbonsu, 승본 수), and if still tied, by a one-point daepyojeon.
• Time: in that 2022 tournament, bouts lasted 3 minutes in the youth and women's categories and 4 minutes in the men's category.
• Line-up: the 2022 guide allows the order of competitors to change from match to match, provided it is submitted 20 minutes before the match starts.

Each individual bout follows the individual-match rule: best of three points, won by the first competitor to score two within the time limit.