Battle of the Nations - Live steel fighting

[merithyn]

Have any of you guys heard of this? Max and I have a few friends who are fighting in this. It's a hell of a lot of fun to watch.

Live feed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Za5tq-E7loo

More info from Wiki:

The Battle of the Nations is an international historical medieval battles world championship, first held in 2009,[1] and held in Europe in April every year since. It is a full contact competition, using metal weapons, and a standardized list of rules.[2] National teams in HMB compete at the championship in several standard nominations, including "Triathlon Duel", "Professional fights", "5 vs 5", "21 vs 21" and "all vs all". All battles are full contact, no stage reenactment battles are organized at the championship. In 2012 25 teams representing 25 countries entered the tournament [3]

[merithyn]

One of our friends just won his fight.

[Ed Anger]

Great, RenFaire faggots prance around.

[Razgovory]

The battle of the Nations occurred 200 years ago.  The Sixth Coalition won.

[merithyn]

Great, RenFaire faggots prance around.

Didn't watch the fighting, did you?

[Ed Anger]

Great, RenFaire faggots prance around.

Didn't watch the fighting, did you?

Yep


www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZXq2SvJ0U

[merithyn]

 

More blood in Battle of the Nations.

[merithyn]

The USA team is going up against Poland in 21 vs 21 right now.

EDIT: I lied. It's USA against Belarus. My bad. We got spanked.

[DontSayBanana]

Digging the striped livery, but did we just get our asses kicked by Poles?

EDIT: Just saw Meri's edit.  Guess that's not so bad.

[merithyn]

Digging the striped livery, but did we just get our asses kicked by Poles?

Belarus

Coming up soon: Poland and Russia

They're the two teams to beat. Russia has won every year for the last three years, and they LOVE to let everyone know that. They pitched a fit when the US wanted to include a team, saying that since the US didn't have a medieval history, we shouldn't be allowed.

[merithyn]

I need to learn French.

[DontSayBanana]

I need to learn French.

Ditto me.  Wish I had S sitting next to me; she's near-fluent.

[DontSayBanana]

Holy damn, that was lopsided.

[merithyn]

Did you see how many guys were laying on the ground after? Last year, Russia broke more bones than any other nation. (As in broke the bones of other nations... not their own. )

Ukraine and Italy up next.

[DontSayBanana]

Did you see how many guys were laying on the ground after? Last year, Russia broke more bones than any other nation. (As in broke the bones of other nations... not their own. )

Ukraine and Italy up next.

I'm totally rooting for Ukraine in this one.