Indes Ferox Gladio adds mixed-weapon lineup to Tournament of Roses 2026

Indes Ferox Gladio is pushing Tournament of Roses beyond a standard longsword bracket and into something closer to a full competitive package. The Portland-area club’s 2026 edition will pack five tournaments into two days, add a dedicated bay for mixed-weapon free sparring and ad hoc games, and give spectators an on-site pub and a second-floor viewing mezzanine, all of which could make the weekend more useful for fighters and more watchable for everyone else.

The event is scheduled for June 27-28 at Rose City Futsal WEST in Tigard, and third-party listings place it from 8:00 a.m. Saturday through 7:00 p.m. Sunday. Rose City Futsal says the West facility, at 10831 SW Cascade Ave, opened in 2016 and has three indoor courts, a layout that helps explain how IFG can run multiple divisions, sparring space and spectator areas without squeezing the event into a single narrow ring of action.

The competitive slate is the real statement. Open Longsword remains the centerpiece, but IFG is pairing it with WNBT Longsword for women, non-binary, trans and under-represented-genders fencers, along with Messer, an experimental Sword & Buckler division and Ringen. That mix gives the weekend more than one way to matter. Longsword can still carry the marquee value, but Messer and wrestling widen the lane for specialists, and the Sword & Buckler test case could become the kind of distinctive bracket that sets a model if it lands well.

IFG’s ruleset suggests the tournament is designed for sharper fencing rather than attritional exchanges. The longsword standard is built to encourage fencers to avoid getting hit, including by doubles and afterblows, while keeping safety as a primary goal. It also states that the tournament is intended to be inclusive regardless of race, gender, ability or sexual orientation, which gives the event a clear identity as both a competitive test and a deliberate entry point.

The scale from 2025 shows why this format matters. Last year’s Tournament of Roses drew 104 fighters and recorded 189 fights in Mixed Steel Longsword, 77 in Mixed Steel Single Rapier and 48 in Underrepresented Genders Steel Longsword. That followed the 2024 Spring Fling version, which ran June 15-16 with four tournaments, making the move to a five-event slate a meaningful expansion rather than a cosmetic one. With Rosebud 2026 also on deck as a beginner’s tournament, Tournament of Roses is becoming the flagship of a larger pipeline, the kind of weekend other HEMA events may soon look to copy.