SoCal Swords dominate team standings at SoCal Swordfight 2026
SoCal Swords piled up 142 aggregate points at Sheraton Fairplex, nearly doubling Lonin League and showing the depth behind their latest HEMA crown.
SoCal Swords turned SoCal Swordfight 2026 into a depth test at Sheraton Fairplex in Pomona, California, finishing with 142 points in the aggregate school award and opening a huge gap at the top of the table. Lonin League was second with 79, meaning SoCal Swords won by 63 points in a format built to reward repeated bracket success, not just one breakout run.
That school table mattered because it tracked finalists, top-third finishes, top-half finishes and total points across a weekend that ran March 20-22 and featured 26 tournaments spanning multiple weapons, divisions and tiers, including Open, URG and U18. In a field that was reported to have drawn 500-plus competitors, the standings made clear that SoCal Swords were scoring in volume across the event rather than leaning on a single gold medal to carry the banner.
The rest of the top group backed up that picture of broad club strength. San Diego Swordfighters finished third with 59 points, followed closely by Einhorn LA Historical Fencing Arts on 56 and Academy of Arms, Los Angeles on 52. Indes Ferox Gladio rounded out the visible top six with 43. The tight cluster from third through sixth showed how a few additional deep runs in any division could have reshaped the middle of the standings, but no one was close to matching the pace set by SoCal Swords.
The size of the margin also points to a program that is not built around one good weekend alone. SoCal Swords had already led the aggregate school award at SoCal Swordfight 2024 with 105 points, ahead of Lonin League’s 82, Einhorn LA Historical Fencing Arts’ 70 and San Diego Swordfighters’ 49. Two editions later, the club did more than repeat at the top: it added 37 points to its own winning total and widened the gap on the nearest challenger from 23 points in 2024 to 63 in 2026.
That kind of spread is why the school award carries so much weight at SoCal Swordfight. In a tournament described by commentators in the Tier A finals video as the largest HEMA tournament in the world, the strongest signal was not a lone championship bout but a roster that kept placing across a crowded, multi-format weekend.
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