Green Chapel 2026 adds five weapons, budget-friendly multi-event entry

Green Chapel 2026 is leaning into accessibility as much as competition, and that may be its biggest selling point. Omaha-Metro Armed Combat Academy will stage the two-day tournament June 27-28 at the La Vista Community Center gym in La Vista, Nebraska, with a five-weapon slate and a pricing model that makes multi-event fencing unusually affordable for a regional HEMA weekend.

The card stretches across saber, longsword, smallsword duel, rapier with offhand if desired, and sword and buckler. That gives the tournament a broad technical range, from cutting weapons to thrust-centric fencing and paired-weapon work, while the entry structure does the rest of the heavy lifting: registration is $20, plus $10 for each event, and signing up for all five costs the same as four. For first-timers, budget-conscious competitors and clubs looking for a full weekend without a major travel bill, that is the kind of math that can pull more fencers onto the strip.

The venue matters just as much as the bracket. La Vista Community Center is a civic space built around general use, not a specialty fencing hall, and it includes meeting rooms, a fitness center, a racquetball and wallyball court, a basketball court with three pickleball courts, and a game room. That makes Green Chapel feel less like a closed club exercise and more like a practical community event, one that can handle spectators, warmups and the logistical churn that comes with multiple weapons in one weekend.

The tournament also fits cleanly into OMACA’s existing identity. The club has already run Green Chapel before, including a 2025 edition at Bellevue University Lozier Gym in Bellevue that featured smallsword, longsword, rapier with offhand if desired, and mixed steel. OMACA has also posted Green Chapel video highlights, a sign the event has become a recurring marker on its calendar rather than a one-off experiment. Sponsor support from Monte Cook Games and Castille Armory in the earlier run showed the event could attract outside backing as well.

That continuity matters because the academy already teaches and spars in longsword, rapier, saber, smallsword, singlestick and sword and buckler, and HEMA Ratings lists the club with 28 fighters. Green Chapel 2026 is therefore not just a tournament with a clever Green Knight theme. It is a working model for how HEMA can grow outside major metro hubs: lower the cost, widen the weapon mix, and put the event in a venue that makes participation easy enough to try again.