People who practice HMB are not professional sportsmen they have regular life with regular jobs. Countries hold competitions nationally to qualify to the World Championship which gathers huge audiences – tens of thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands of devotees will be watching battles online.
Each country forms national team through qualifying selections to participate at “Battle of the Nations”. There are several competitive categories which differ in rules and the number of competitors: “Duel” (1 vs1), “Group Battles” (5 vs 5), “Mass Battles” (21 vs 21). This year for the first time there will be Women’s Category in “Duel”. There is also “All against All” category which offers audience a great spectacle of mass infantry battles with more than 100 fighters at once.