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Congratulations to Emil Dahl for winning the inaugural Israeli Juggling Convention Fight Night. In his first ever FNC tournament he earned himself 500 rankings points, and enters the 2015 rankings race in joint fifth place.

Wes Peden was awarded a wild card entry into the tournament after defeating Omer Lewy and then, in a series of one-point matchups, beating every single other player who had qualified for the tournament in turn. After winning his way into the round of 8, Wes was promptly defeated by Yotam, who went on to take second place overall, beating Bar Mualem in the semi-final along the way.

Iver Tronstad’s winning streak of seven matches and two titles (Skjève 2014, BJC 2015) ended in his semi-final defeat at the hands of Emil Dahl, though he went on to play and defeat Bar Maulem for third place.

More information and results will be added to the Israel 2015 page soon, once it is fully submitted, and hopefully we’ll get some video too.

Iver Tronstad and Jon Peat took part in an epic and entertaining final match at the BJC 2015 Darton Fight Night. Watch this video before reading more:

Iver earned himself 500 rankings points in his first tournament of the year. Jon Peat’s second place finish, along with his results from Chocfest and Bath Upchuck, moves him to the top spot in the 2015 race rankings with 540 points, just ahead of Iver, Luke Burrage and Dave Leahy, all currently at 500 points each. His result bumps him up one place to sixth in the current rankings.

Jon has now also matched Alexander Müller’s “Always the Bridesmaid” record for losing in the most FNC final matches without ever winning a tournament. Both Jon and Alex have four second place finishes without an overall victory. Simon À Campo has three and Rufus Oelkers has two.

Here’s a video of all the action from the opening rounds:

24 jugglers took part in qualifications, with 12 players from five different countries in the knockout. Brook Roberts took third place, moving him up to fourth place in the current rankings. Iver put an end to Johnny Malcolm’s winning streak of 8 matches over three tournaments, and Johnny settled for fourth place.

Thanks to Martin King-Sheard for commentary, Max for organizing the tournament, Ashley Harris for the photos, and everyone who sent in video. See all the results and details on the FNC website.

Congratulations to Dave Leahy for winning the WJC 2015 Heerlen Fight Night! This is his third 250 FNC tournament win in a row, and increases his winning streak to 10 matches.

Sander Vanpraet, in his first tournament since winning DumBo Days 2014, took 2nd place. Jordy Sanchez and Simon À Campo placed 3rd and 4th, with Simon going undefeated in qualifications. In total 20 players took part.

The next tournament in the Netherlands will be the NJF 2015 Fight Night, which will probably be the second biggest tournament of 2015, and worth 750 points. Dave will face stiff competition from other top 10 players like Luke Burrage, Eóin Allan and Brook Roberts.

Thanks to Dave and Max for organizing the tournament, and to Vincent Groenhuis for the photos.

See all the results and details on the WJW 2015 Heerlen page on FightNightCombat.com

Jon Peat and Dave Leahy, both top 10 players, made it to the final of the Bath UpChuck 2015 Fight Night tournament.

This 250 level tournament experimented with a new scoring format: point-frame-match. Win three points and you take the frame, win two/three frames and take the match. Check out the video (with commentary) to see how the new format works, and to see who won:

See all the results and details in the Fight Night Combat website: Bath UpChuck 2015 Fight Night