Scott Bradley wins Green Chapel longsword title over 55-fencer field
Scott Bradley took Green Chapel’s 55-fencer Steel longsword field, beating Maksim Karavai in the final as Nicholas Bateman and Jordan Callier completed a deep podium.
Scott Bradley won Green Chapel 2026’s Longsword - Steel division, outlasting a 55-fencer field and finishing ahead of Maksim Karavai of Lake Forest Sword Academy. Nicholas Bateman of Fianna Historical Fencing took third and Jordan Callier of Wichita Fencing & HEMA Academy was fourth, giving the bracket a podium spread across four different clubs.
Green Chapel 2026 was held June 27-28 at the La Vista Community Center gym in La Vista, Nebraska, and the weekend included saber, longsword, smallsword duel and rapier. HEMA Ratings listed the tournament with June 27, 2026, as its date and noted that Hema Scorecard software was used, while HEMA Scorecard’s results show the Steel longsword division at the center of the action with the largest single-field numbers in the event notes.
The size of the bracket mattered. A 55-fighter longsword field does not leave much room for slow starts or sloppy energy management, and the final standings showed how tight the fight for the top spots was. Bradley and Karavai made it to the final, Bateman held third, and Callier added another club to the upper tier, while the fifth-place tie included Derek Swart of Center for Blade Arts, Daniel Cadenbach of Nebraska Swordfighters Guild, Riley Rief of Omaha KDF and Paul Ren of House of Blades. That kind of spread points to a field with real depth below the medal places, not just a narrow race at the top.
Bradley’s Green Chapel title also fit a pattern. He won the event’s Longsword - Steel division in 2024 as well, when that field had 40 fighters, so the 2026 result came against a larger and, by the numbers, more demanding bracket. Bateman’s third place echoed a strong 2025 showing at Gesellen Fechten, where he finished third in a 60-fighter Longsword - Tier B Open Steel division, while Callier had placed ninth in that same field. Those results make the 2026 Green Chapel podium look less like a surprise and more like a snapshot of where several of the region’s serious steel longsword programs stand right now.
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