2026 featured two tournaments, Castle Anthrax (advanced level with a continuous fighting ruleset), and Camelot (novice level with a punctuated ruleset).
We congratulate your winners:
Eddy Louis - Castle Anthrax
Raymond Clark - Camelot
We congratulate Andrew Colabella for winning the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch trophy for Coolest Thing Done On the Day, chosen by the judges.
Andrew discarded his sword at a crossing to hit a controlled and seamless double leg takedown of Adam Karwoski (pictured left) and mid-takedown, began to draw Adam's dagger from his sheath.
Perfection!
In the words of one competitor:
"Hey just wanted to tell you how much I loved Tis But A Scratch. Even when I do well, I always have a bad time at tournaments whose nonsense rules turn our art into a MOF-adjacent game the masters would not have recognized, but this felt like what HEMA tourneys should have been all along. "
2024-05-18_-_Tis_But_A_Scratch_Top_8.mp4If you want to see that it was like, the video from 2024 is to the left and Jeff Sovelove of NJHFA has this playlist!
