Auckland Longsword

🐇 March Hares 2026 🐇

Thanks to everyone for making it out for March Hares 2026 last weekend.

We had a wonderful time hosting you all for our first swiss tournament. Fencers went through 12 rounds facing a new opponent each time.

There were 19 fencers total representing 7 clubs from around the country.

We've put together some of the photos taken by

It seems you all loved the swiss format!

The results are live on HEMA Ratings now.

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Well done to all fencers, especially the medallists:

1st Atreyu Norman
2nd Nico Leiseder
3rd Olive Nuttall

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Thank you, Adrien, for your insightful workshop on Sunday. It has given us all a lot to consider!

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Finally, thanks to our referees, table staff, medic, and photographer.

Pictures by

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Thank you Canterbury Historical Fencing Club for hosting another excellent Unicorn Fight Club 5 . It continues to be the biggest HEMA competition in New Zealand drawing participants from all corners of the country as well as fencers from Australia and sometimes further afield.

This year we felt everyone stepped up their fencing. Each pool was neck and neck with happy fencers putting their all into matches to come out on top thanks to tiered competitions in longsword and saber. The New Zealand historical fencers did an excellent job meeting the competition and the vibes were great all weekend because of it.

We sent 4 members to compete across longsword, saber, spear, sidesword, and rapier & dagger. All Auckland Longsword fencers fought hard and the results, particularly in Longsword, paid off.

Congratulations to all fencers. Thank you to the referees and staff. Thank you to Will for streaming this event for everyone at home. We cannot wait for the next one!

To our new friends we made over the weekend - if you're in Auckland let us know and we'll happily fence with you again. Additionally, thank you to Anna and Sarah for sharing your excellent photos with everyone.

Here are our full results from UFC5:

Longsword B Tier
Chris 3rd 🥉// Alex 5th equal // Reef 18th

Longsword A Tier
Chris 5th equal // Christian 5th equal // Alex 10th

Sabre B Tier
Alex 9th // Reef 15th

Spear
Reef 5th equal // Chris 14th

Sidesword
Reef 12th // Chris 13th // Christian 15th

Rapier and Dagger
Christian 12th // Chris 13th // Reef 17th