Optimus - Bucharest HEMA Open

Hello everyone! We’ve been getting a lot of questions about Optimus and we can finally give an answer: it’s still on! We’re really happy about the enthusiasm related to our event and we hope that you will maintain it until spring 2019 !

Taking into account the precious feedback we received from the first edition, we came up with a new and improved format and a new location better suited to our needs. We hope that you join us for three days (Friday to Sunday) next spring in Bucharest.

Date to be announced soon, like and subscribe for future updates.

Pictures (round one)

Poze din timpul evenimentului de HEMA din 13-15 Octombrie 2017.

Thanks to The Knight Shop International Ltd for providing the awesome HEMA medals for the Tournament and to our friends from Roxandy jewelry for customizing them.

"Design your own jewelry and make it as unique as you are" - www.roxandy.ro

“The Knight Shop is one of Europe’s largest retailers and wholesalers of replica militaria and associated giftware. As the UK’s market leaders their impressive portfolio boasts a 1,000 sq. ft. Shop opposite the World Heritage Conwy Castle, a 12,000 sq. ft. showroom and distribution Centre, a full time Historical Combat Academy and their very own 13th Century Medieval Tower currently housing the Tower Coffee House.” - www.theknightshop.com

Thanks to the team at HEMA Ratings for including the results from Optimus longsword 2017!

Our champion, Ionut Zainea climbed 202 places and is currently number 67 in the ratings. Check out more on the website:
http://hemaratings.com/periods/details/?ratingsetid=1&year=2017&month=10

We've added results from three events:
* Edgebana 2017 in Scotland, organized by The Institute For Historical Arts
* Heffac Event 2017 in The Netherlands
* Optimus Bucharest HEMA Open - Longsword - Autumn 2017 in Romania, organized by HEMA - Societas Milites Getae

All three events ran longsword tournaments and Edgebana also ran a singlestick tournament.

*Significant changes in Singlestick*

Singlestick is fairly volatile, so there's been a lot of changes there.

* Benjamin Hamilton of The AHA climbs to 1st place!
* Michel Rensen of Zwaard & Steen climbs 20 places to 12th!
* A bunch of people debut in the top 100.

For the full results, check out http://hemaratings.com/periods/details/?ratingsetid=12&year=2017&month=10

*Significant changes in Mixed/Men's Steel Longsword*

* Michel Rensen climbs 5 spots, to 27th!
* Nick van der Lee of AMEK clibs 31 palces, to 57th!
* Ionut Zainea of Societas Milites Getae and James MacGilp of The IHA climb 202 and 134 places respectively and end up next to each other on 67th and 68th!

You can se the full results here: http://hemaratings.com/periods/details/?ratingsetid=1&year=2017&month=10

Congratulations to all fighters, and thanks to Societas Milites Getae and HEMA CM for providing the data!

Dear all,

We would like to thank you for the participation and we hope that you had a good time. We were very happy to meet some of you for the first time and to see other friends again.

We're still collecting, selecting and editing all the audio-visual materials and we will publish them soon.

In the meantime, if you would be so kind to check in at the
https://m.facebook.com/PalatulMogosoaia/ when you post on your own walls and add the tags to your photos in order to find them easier.

Thanks for taking part in Optimus Bucharest HEMA Open 2017!

Sneak peek :)

Now that the event is over we would like to thank our sponsors, once again, for the prizes and for making this event possible

SPES Historical Fencing Gear

http://www.regenyei.com

PBT Historical Fencing

www.sparringglove.com

Faits d'Armes

The Knight Shop International Ltd

Primaria Municipiului Bucuresti

Palatele Brancovenesti

http://www.alexandrion.ro

http://www.asociatiaheritage.ro

EVENTSTUFF.RO

http://www.constam.ro

Also, we would like to give a big "Thank you!" to the trainers and judges:

Tobias Zimmermann

Matt Galas

Piermarco Terminiello

Adrian Faulkner

Antonius Karasulas

And last but not least to all the participants to this event, for your interest and for your support. See you at the next Optimus!🤺🤘

Quarter-final Match:

Black: Andrei Chirlesan vs Red: Zoltan Feczko

Winner: Red

Final Match - ready

Prizes ready. Waiting for the final match to start.
http://regenyei.com/

Bronze final live

Semifinals live now