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Our Yearly Summer Fencing Tournament!
Our Yearly Summer Fencing Tournament!
Hot Sword Summer 2026 - Get ready to rumble at our new location in Gainesville!
Hot Sword Summer 2026 - Get ready to rumble at our new location in Gainesville!
Hot Sword Summer 2026 is live!
Hot Sword Summer 2026 is live!
This year we have FIVE total events!
Saturday -
Rapier with optional offhand,
Singlestick
and Sword and Buckler!
Sunday-
Beginners Longsword
and Open Longsword!
We will have our Iron Fencer and URG award again this year as well
Get your tickets here!
Check out the rules at this link!
This year we have FIVE total events!
Saturday -
Rapier with optional offhand,
Singlestick
and Sword and Buckler!
Sunday-
Beginners Longsword
and Open Longsword!
We will have our Iron Fencer and URG award again this year as well
Get your tickets here!
Check out the rules at this link!
We look forward to seeing you there!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Hot Sword Summer 2026 is brought to you by the following Sponsors:
Hot Sword Summer 2026 is brought to you by the following Sponsors:
Purpleheart Armory|HEMA Alliance|Darkwood Armory|SPES | Castille Armory|Feather Smallswords|Keller Gauntlets|Krieger Weapons|Loman Leatherworks|Sparring Gloves|Swordier|Shoukat| Sigi Forge| The Knight Shop| Steel Mastery|Valkyrie Forge|Double Barrel Classic|Fence-acola|Steel Jam|Donnybrook|Derek Quintana|Alec Martinez .... And more!
At Hot Sword Summer 2025 we grew to a two day event!
At Hot Sword Summer 2025 we grew to a two day event!
Hot Sword Summer 2025 has come and passed, and we want to give a huge shout out to all our staff, volunteers, and judges who made this years tournament such an incredible success!
We had over 75 participants, including a selection of incredibly talented fencers from all over the country! This year our event was 4 events spread out over two days, and we are excited to present and congratulate the winners from each event:
Beginners Longsword:
1st Place - Nate Tennille
2nd Place - Connor Torbin
3rd Place - Adrian Zeniesienkko
4th Place - Iris Michael
Open Longsword:
1st Place - Benjamin Aycrigg
2nd Place - Paul Groover
3rd Place - Quoc Lieu
4th Place - Glenn Best
Open Rapier w/optional Offhand:
1st Place - Alec Martinez
2nd Place - Daniel Rauens
3rd Place - Ruperto Esteban
4th Place - Chase Thompson
Open Singlestick:
1st Place - Jack Richeson
2nd Place - Daniel Rauens
3rd Place - Tyler Rutherford
4th Place - Alec Martinez
Iron Fencer
Best overall combined score between all tournaments:
Daniel Rauens
URG Award
Best overall combined score among fighters of Under Represented Genders:
Iris Michael
Hot Sword Summer 2025 has come and passed, and we want to give a huge shout out to all our staff, volunteers, and judges who made this years tournament such an incredible success!
We had over 75 participants, including a selection of incredibly talented fencers from all over the country! This year our event was 4 events spread out over two days, and we are excited to present and congratulate the winners from each event:
Beginners Longsword:
1st Place - Nate Tennille
2nd Place - Connor Torbin
3rd Place - Adrian Zeniesienkko
4th Place - Iris Michael
Open Longsword:
1st Place - Benjamin Aycrigg
2nd Place - Paul Groover
3rd Place - Quoc Lieu
4th Place - Glenn Best
Open Rapier w/optional Offhand:
1st Place - Alec Martinez
2nd Place - Daniel Rauens
3rd Place - Ruperto Esteban
4th Place - Chase Thompson
Open Singlestick:
1st Place - Jack Richeson
2nd Place - Daniel Rauens
3rd Place - Tyler Rutherford
4th Place - Alec Martinez
Iron Fencer
Best overall combined score between all tournaments:
Daniel Rauens
URG Award
Best overall combined score among fighters of Under Represented Genders:
Iris Michael
Hot Sword Summer 2025 was proud to be Sponsored by:
Hot Sword Summer 2025 was proud to be Sponsored by:
Hot Sword Summer 2024 - our inaugural tournament - was held on June 22nd, 2024 and was an amazing success!
Hot Sword Summer 2024 - our inaugural tournament - was held on June 22nd, 2024 and was an amazing success!
We want to thank all our volunteers, our Judges, our club staff, and the vast array of talent that travelled here to join our tournament and test steel against one another! We had over 60 participants from five states, and we are excited to present and congratulate the winners of each event:
Beginners Longsword:
1st Place - Hunter Rue
2nd Place - Geofrey Panlaque
3rd Place - Tamim Khatib
4th Place - Emilio Luis Acosta
Open Longsword:
1st Place - Marshall Strong
2nd Place - John Knoch
3rd Place - Mark Whiteman
4th Place - Devon Klausner
Open Saber:
1st Place - Brad Cramer
2nd Place - Daniel Chastanet
3rd Place - Mark Whiteman
4th Place - Nickolay Mavrodiev
Iron Fencer
Best overall combined score between all tournaments:
Mark Whiteman
URG Award
Best overall combined score among fighters of Under Represented Genders:
Marian Zhang
We want to thank all our volunteers, our Judges, our club staff, and the vast array of talent that travelled here to join our tournament and test steel against one another! We had over 60 participants from five states, and we are excited to present and congratulate the winners of each event:
Beginners Longsword:
1st Place - Hunter Rue
2nd Place - Geofrey Panlaque
3rd Place - Tamim Khatib
4th Place - Emilio Luis Acosta
Open Longsword:
1st Place - Marshall Strong
2nd Place - John Knoch
3rd Place - Mark Whiteman
4th Place - Devon Klausner
Open Saber:
1st Place - Brad Cramer
2nd Place - Daniel Chastanet
3rd Place - Mark Whiteman
4th Place - Nickolay Mavrodiev
Iron Fencer
Best overall combined score between all tournaments:
Mark Whiteman
URG Award
Best overall combined score among fighters of Under Represented Genders:
Marian Zhang
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