Fight Night Combat

Website fixed but still a work in progress - 2025-07-08

The website is back! After a month, I've got a new version of the website working and back online. It might look exactly like the old website, but it's all completely new in terms of coding and technology and server stuff. The old website code was all written in 2013 and 2014, and hadn't been touched since then, except for minor features and bug fixes. The outdated technology was no longer supported by the web host, and so it all had to be fixed. Along with other issues, the whole site went down. But with lots of prodding, and with the help of new ai tools, it seems to be mostly working.

The bad news is that a lot of minor pages and features aren't there yet, but I'll get to them over the coming weeks.

The good news is that long term, this change will allow for new features and updates and redesigns (maybe a dedicated mobile version for running tournaments at conventions) far more easily and frequently than previously.

Thanks for your patience.

Major Tournaments 2025 - 2025-04-26

Announcing the Four MAJOR Tournaments of the 2025 Fight Night Combat season!!!

• Netherlands Jongleer Festival 🇳🇱 - 750 points - May 29th 2025
• European Juggling Convention 🇪🇺 - 1250 points - August 6th 2025
• Hamburg Jonglierconvention 🇩🇪 - 750 points - October 23rd 2025
• Fight Night Combat European Championships 🇪🇺 - 750 points - date and location to be confirmed (Nov/Dec 2025)

These are the four most prestigious tournaments of the year, with the highest level of competition and the most ranking points on the line. Last year Jasper Moens won three of the four of the Majors (at the British, Netherlands, and European juggling conventions) with Kilian Maidhof winning the European Championships.

The European Championships is an exclusive invite-only tournament, where winning one of the first three Majors is the quickest way to secure an invite. The rest of the places are filled up with the top seven jugglers in the 2025 Open Race Rankings… plus one special wildcard invite for an extra juggler to spice up the field (previously Wes Peden, Yaron Davidovich, Matias Alarcon Perez, etc).

Alongside the European Championships open tournament, the event will also host a Women’s European Championship tournament, with the top eight jugglers in the Women’s Race Rankings 2025 receiving an invite.

The other big tournaments filling out the 2025 Fight Night calendar are national-level 500 point events, with currently-scheduled tournaments in Italy (Celleno Juggling Convention), Norway, and the USA (IJA Summer Festival). There are always more tournaments being added to the calendar though, especially at the 250 level, so check it out here: https://www.fightnightcombat.com/tournament-calendar-2025.html

If you’d like to organise a Fight Night at your event, go for it! Just email in advance to be added to the tournament calendar.

European Championships 2024 Winners - 2025-01-21

Congrats to Kilian Maidhof for winning the European Championships 2024 Open Tournament!!! Kilian dominated the competition by winning all seven of his seeding matches, then his three knockout matches, to go completely unbeaten for the whole championship tournament. Only Jochen Pfeiffer has done this previously (in 2016 and 2017), and he only had to win four seeding matches instead of seven to go unbeaten, so Kilian has set a new benchmark in consistency in a single tournament.

This is also Kilian’s first ever Major 750 Tournament victory. The closest he has come before was a runner-up spot at the Berlin 2023 Fight Night. This time he beat Markus Utke 5-4 in a dramatic final match.

Jasper Moens, who was aiming to complete the first ever “calendar year grand slam” of all four Major tournaments (after winning the BJC, NJF and EJC Fight Nights) lost to Markus 2-5 in their semi-final.

Brook Roberts had his best-ever result at the European Championships by beating Jasper twice in the tournament, once in the seeding rounds and again 5-3 in the third place match. Revenge is sweet for Brook as he lost to Jasper in the final of the BJC 2024 Fight Night.

Congrats to Wiebke Schnapper for winning the European Championships 2024 Women’s Tournament!!! She beat Lena Dung 5-2 in the final to earn her first ever Fight Night Combat victory, and climbed to 2nd place in the 2024 Women’s Rankings.

Lena Dung earned her first ever Fight Night final match appearance the hard way, by beating Isabell Stroben, who didn’t lose a single seeding match, 5-3 in their semi-final. Isabell Stroben beat Merel Coppens 5-0 in the third place match.

Thanks to everyone involved in the tournament!