2026 - Year In Review

Number of Events : 199
Countries Represented : 27
Exchanges Recorded: 401,760
Matches Fought: 47,436
Tournaments Created: 740
Tournament Entries: 15,894
Event Registrations: 10,263
Unique Participants: 6,150
Clubs Represented: 944
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Warning!

This information is what event organizers & match table staff have entered into the database. It's accuracy/reliability will reflect their commitment to data integrity. Tournament registrations may be slightly inflated for some events if the organizer did not remove fighters dropping prior to the tournament, etc.
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American events removed for scaling.
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Province/State (for geographically large countries)
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American events removed for scaling.
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Province/State (for geographically large countries)
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Entries into tournaments which have been set up with a URG/Women's/WNBT designation.
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Avg Exchanges Per Day
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By # of Wins (Showing x / x)
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Tournaments which have been set up with a URG/Women's/WNBT designation.
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Exchanges in tournaments which have been set up with a URG/Women's/WNBT designation.
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Close matches are matches where a fighter won by only a single point, and the lowest score was higher than 3 points.
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Shutout matches are matches where a fighter scored 4 or more points, and their opponent scored none.
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The biggest point deficit a fighter has come back from and won. (Minimum of 8 exchanges in the match.)
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Number of times two fighters have met in 1v1 matches, across all weapons.
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Note: Only matches which have had staff checked in show up in this count. (wtf where are my matches?)
Judging (judge/director/ref/etc)
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Directors (including refs and assistants)
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Table
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All staffing roles
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All Judging Roles by School
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All Staffing Roles by School
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Software Improvements/Features in 2026
(Not included: minor tweaks, back-end changes, or things I forgot I added.)

January

  • Add personal stats dashboard.
  • Improve annual summary countries to break out non-US countries (for better scaling).
  • Add the ability to add a fighters nickname for the event.

February

  • Better grouping for schedule blocks in the individual schedule.
  • Improvements to the back-end in preparation to allow custom ranking algorithms.

March

  • Improvements to staff view on the schedule page.

April

  • Improvements to HEMA Ratings export page.
  • Show state/province breakdowns in the annual events summary.

May

  • Made match staff public.
  • Improved the documentation in the Help page.

June
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July

  • Bracket auto-seeding for teams now works.
  • Improve landing page layout and order of recent events.
  • Improved the On Deck window to be clearer to the director from far away.
  • Pool standings now show how many matches remain.

August

  • Have the event not reset itself if you idle too long.
  • Ability to define custom ranking algorithms.
  • Tournament landing page rework.
  • Add new information the a fighters personal profile.
  • Allowing auto-finalize of tournaments that have pool matches open.

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