The Axe Badger Blog

The 2025 Urban open and come and gone, and I spent the greater majority of my time in those hallowed halls snapping away pictures. I...

IATC 2025 happened this past weekend, and I've finally managed to dig out from all the sleepiness and content gathering to present to...

It can strike almost instantly - in fact, it hit me just as we were crossing the border between New York and Pennsylvania (on the way...

Still don't much feel like writing, yet - but I didn't want to be stickdead in the cosmos so I thought I'd at least offer up a bunch of...

Well, it was bound to happen. I've written about so many things on this blog that I'm left with the most loosely-associated topics to yap...

I've done the Urban Axes: Baltimore New Year's Day marathon twice, now. Yesterday (actually, today. I'm writing this after getting home),...

At the start of November my good friend, and all round great human being Matt Evison (aka Happy Axemore) is helping host the IATF major...

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Star Girl just after they threw against Queen HBO (having just played a match about 5 seconds...

It's here: the one night every ~2 months that feels like a high school dance. Where the performance of the past 7 weeks disappears and I...

It was the beginning of September. Still very hot, still very much summer here in Lancaster, PA. I was dillying. Dallying. Then I got an...

The Urban Open was the very first bigtime tournament I went to. Granted, I didn't compete that first time (I didn't yet understand the...

An odd quirk of having Meduseld Meadery as one's axe house is how they aren't open Monday or Tuesday. That means one can't practice at...

While I've attempted to write a longform article about my experience at the Urban Axes (Baltimore) New Year's Day Over/Under tourney, I...