Fights are over, come here discuss and ask shit about the sport. Also hype for the upcoming IMCF World Championship.
>What is Battle of Nations? The Battle of the Nations is an international historical medieval battles world championship, first held in 2009, in Kharkiv, Ukraine and held in Europe, in April, every year since. It is a full contact competition using metal weapons and a standardized list of rules. National teams compete in several standard events, with all being full contact - no stage reenactment battles are included.
How well did UK teams perform this year compared to other teams?
Harmless curiosity, don't want to slapfight or anything.
Nicholas Bennett
Ask questions here, I'll try to answer them to my best knowledge.
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Daniel Scott
Marshalls are hotpockets desu
Ruined a game of tic tac toe Russia and USA were having in the sand.
Thomas Phillips
Nice jobs from Ukraine desu
Christian Cook
Decently. 4th in 21v21 Not so good in 5v5 but we didn't have a weak team by any means.
Won the award for most drive to win
David King
>Italy running away Who would've guessed
Christopher Stewart
Solid underdog storyline, boyhood dream etc
Jason Butler
Based cameraman
Mason Richardson
>No one wants to fight on USA's side against Russia I think that settles the tournament. And other things too.
Lucas Hill
Anyone know if they generally upload the final matches to Youtube separately?
Robert Anderson
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Levi White
Yes yes I see I told you I'll go back and count myself
Colton Hughes
Battle of the Nations or HMBIA youtube channel usually reposts the streams in shorter chucks, single fights can be found by other uploaders usally.
Parker Ross
If you give me timestamps from fights I can probably make webms
Alexander Bailey
They don't separate anything, you have to search through a chunk of like 8 hours to find out what you're looking for but the thumbnail helps a bit when you hover the bar since most equipments are very colorful
Dylan Scott
Noice helmet on the aussie.
Mason Peterson
Dammit was hoping I could get a nice cut of the final
Alexander Adams
We even had a proposal this Battle of Nations don't forget
Aiden Torres
So? Did you already do?
Michael Cook
DEUS VULT
This guy was tossed several times from one team to another. He's still sitting in the list alone wanting to fight
Dominic Hughes
As much as I dislike Russians, I have to admit I count 22 as well, in the last fight only.
Which leaves me confused. That other user said they fielded 22 guys only for the last fight and not for the others, so it had to be intentional? And if it was, surely they'd know people would realise? How did you notice Russia?
Nicholas Wright
>May 28
Jesus, my birthday!
I'll watch it, thank you.
Matthew Carter
They'd most likely give the win to Russia. The last fight starts at 03:07:38 if anyone wants to check for themselves. youtu.be/wjG7GEzZvUc?t=3h7m38s
Lincoln Carter
Don't know. I'm not an organizer.
Christian Adams
>Basically BOTN without the slavs
Oh, nice
Is the ambiance as good?
Easton Butler
Shame because by how the fights were going Ukraine would've won with even numbers.
My assumption is they were switching some fighters due to injuries/exhaustion and made a mistake with the numbers. It woud be extremely dumb to do it on purpouse in the finals as the match is sure to be recorded whole.
Blake Roberts
>they were switching some fighters due to injuries/exhaustion Good point. Shame, doubt they know this Gold is going to be taken away from them. Their first in what was it, 8 years?
Hudson Murphy
It seems blame judges, not ukrainians. One user said that it were 22 ukrainian fighters and others decided to check it personally.
Connor Davis
>8 years? Yup
Nathan Anderson
wow, IMCD looks based
Owen Ramirez
>One user said that it were 22 ukrainian fighters How did he notice? Seems such an odd thing to spot. I had to go back a few times and find the right frame before I could do a proper count. I wonder if this extra fighter thing happens in other fights, seems like an easy mistake to make
Ian Sanders
Dumping some webms from the event. Was really fun all in all. Some really good fights. Final was great, just a shame about this 22 man thing
Anthony Fisher
What a good moment! :3
Landon Powell
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Joseph Lee
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Kayden Garcia
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Angel Stewart
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Anthony Anderson
Don't know. From our spectators there are a few of ex-fighters, maybe that's why.
Angel Long
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Kayden Phillips
hehe, got a new France-America friendship pic.
Need more France-Russian friendship pics, tho.
Hunter Gutierrez
This is still one of my favourites. Such a nice counter
Robert Powell
>WE'RE THE PANNONIANS, NOW
David Hughes
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Thomas Martinez
Russia tossing France
Gavin Rodriguez
Russia mauling France
Aaron Jackson
>I NEED SOMEBODY, HELP! >NOT JUST ANYBODY, HELP! >YOU KNOW I NEED A UKRAINIAN, HEEEEEEELP
Jason Brooks
UK bro taking a worrying hit
Easton Green
hu hum
Do I have to remind you we defeated you twice?
Thomas Clark
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Brayden Flores
Poor dude outside the list taking a blunt axe to his face
I have no idea what you are talking about
Austin Carter
The one spazzing out on the ground that is
Isaac Lopez
oh wow
Dylan Myers
hop, into my "in case of France-Britain banter thread" folder, it goes :^)
Isaac Sullivan
Is fighter user here? What's his take on this 22 Ukraine's thing?
Colton Murphy
Is there a Dutch team? And if yes, does it suck?
Zachary Thomas
Miscalculations happen, I've been in several cases where the fight has started with 5vs6 or 5vs4 by mistake. In bigger fights that shit is just bound to happen. The marshals should always count the number of fighters before a fight but it doesn't change the fact that Ukraine basicly won by cheating, even though unintentionally.
I'm honestly interested how they will solve this. Ukraine might get disqualified or they will put the blame on the judges. There's even the slight possibility of a rematch at a later date somewhere in eastern europe.
Cooper Martin
Yes, yes.
Angel White
See I'm not sure on their skill level.
Easton Baker
So now its over we have to wait a whole month?
Dylan Adams
>tfw everyone was so happy that Ukraine won I hope they don't get disqualified, and that they get to keep the Gold or do a rematch.
David Moore
>I hope they don't get disqualified I agree. In that case our guys will get a motivation. Russian commentator said that they had not been training in one team, just in their oun clubs. That's why we won 5x5 and lose the royal 21x21, where command work is especcially inportent.
Blake Stewart
>especially important selffix
Luis Stewart
whole year
Cooper Wright
>Québec
GOOD
Liam White
I can't imagine 5v5 could start like that without anyone noticing the error. It should be immediately obvious when you suddenly have an extra person or more enemies than you can handle. 21 is a different business, one guy more or one guy less it's still a massive mob and you can't assess its size without intentionally counting.
Whether it was intentional or not on Ukraines part it's still a massive fuck up by the referees who either can't count or missed a fighter slipping in, or even both.
Are they aware at least of this? Were there any statements, or it's just some rambling on Chinese caricature forum?
Anthony Ward
what a way to fall
Oliver Young
It's usually at smaller events with a tighter schedule and fights rarely go on for long before a marshal stops the fights and re-sets the fight. But it happens when there's a bunch with dudes with identical tabards and similar helmets.
I think it was an honest mistake on both parts. For what I understood, the russians have issued a complaint to the judges.
