Our Yearly Summer Fencing Tournament!

Hot Sword Summer 2025 is coming!

This year, our event will be TWO DAYS!

Saturday, June 28th -
Morning: Open Rapier with Optional Sidearm
Afternoon: Open Singlestick

Sunday, June 29th -
Morning through early Afternoon: Beginner Synthetic Longsword with
Open Steel Longsword running simultaneously!

You can purchase tickets here!

You can find the rules here!

While we will reserve the right to halt ticket sales at 64 tickets per event, we do not believe it is likely we will have to do so - so if you receive a "sold out" message from Eventbrite PLEASE let us know as this is likely in error!

As always, if you have any questions or run into any issue please email us at:
Societyofhistoricalfencing@gmail.com

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 

See you next year!