The Winners from the We@pon Design Contest! 

Here are the honorable mentions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AB4bMuPL4VY.html

Skall: We sorted out troll entries. Also Skall: B A N A N A F A L X.

To all the five hundred and more who participated in the contest, thank you! For the last couple of months, it's been a pleasure seeing all of your unique and interesting designs. There were so many entries that we all liked. :) A massive thanks to Skall in particular for letting me host this contest on his channel. And an equally massive thanks to Blargedy, Vaughn, and Quinn, who not only contributed prizes, but helped prepare and sort entries. Congratulations to the winners! All of you are super awesome. ♥

The Cooper Khopesh is such a good design in surprised it wasn't used in history. It seems like a really practical weapon for line infantry

you should make a page showing the entries just would be cool to see the ideas from the internet

The great rapier is definitely a job for the guys over at That Works!

I'm honoured to lose to these designs. Mine was kinda trash, compared to them. Good job everyone and congratulations to the winners!

I just had a shadiversity ad on skalls channel. Didnt expect that

anglo-saxon long sword 10/10 would buy

"Thrust oriented polearm" isnt that just a spear

"virginity intensifies" Skal knows his audience.

The winner not being called "The Koopersh" is just baffling

I didn't win, but I'm not even mad about it. Those are some really good designs. Congratulations to the winners

Can Quinn make a Video Series about how he makes this Copper Khopesh? It would be pretty dope to watch this cool looking design take Shape. :D Congratulations to the Winners! All of these designs looked pretty awesome.

That anglo-saxon longsword gave me hot flashes. I fell in love with it.

Thank you Skal, I'm glad you like my Anglo-Saxon sword! I'm honored to be mentioned among so many great looking designs, well done everyone! Also, thank you to everybody who helped to organize the contest!

The script used for the "Wyvern's Claw" blade looks like the Glagolitic script, the oldest known Slavic alphabet! It was famously used in The Witcher series. This specifically looks like the angular variant that was used in Croatia in the Early Medieval Period.

For once in the french language, you do have to pronounce the "s", at the end of "fleur de lys".

usually i've seen videos where a contest is concerned, the winner would be announced at the end. skall: *uno reverse card*

I'm so disappointed in myself for missing this.

Dude you should see if Matt and Illia at that works would like to make the Anglo Saxon longsword

This contest was one of the best ideas your channel has ever had! Absolutely loving it.

18:13 As someone who can fluently read Croatian Glagolitic, this inscription makes little sense, it's mostly gibberish, with some English-looking words. Glagolitic script was developed for Slavic languages, this variant specifically for the Croatian variant of Old Church Slavonic. It is totally unsuitable to write English. The left side reads: DHU . GAETH ZVAERE - ? - NAEV'DE PB TIP - BOTOM YV GROP IZ - FUŽER Ž - NECK YB - TOP CUT - ÖITH - TIP - TO - BŽED HIDE - ?OUR - BŽADE FINGER - OVER - GUART DO - NOT - PROVOKE MAGIC - ÖIŽ - BETRA? ZVAERE - ? - NAEV'DE - YIŽ * * PROTECT - AŽ CARVE - BUNES - ON - FUTER RuNES - HEAT - ON - USE FEYU - EM - ÖITH - BŽOYU EŽYUER - SPECH - IS KE? BECAL - ZVAERE - ? - NAEV'DE BECAL - ZVAERE - ? - NAEV'DE BECAL - ZVAERE - ? - NAEV'DE ESEA - ?N - AER - FRAEREN AE - VA - VORT - AEP - TIR- NA - CARN

I hope you do this again seeing the designs of these makes me know for certain I should have entered

Wow, these are all great. But I have to say, I love that Anglo-Saxon style longsword, I think it's one of my favorite weapon design I've seen a long time.

I whole heartedly agree with posting the entries pictures online! I wanna see them all! (Including the plagiarism and copies)

When you’re about to watch skallagrim and get an ad from shadiversty

That anglosaxon longsword looks like someting Conan would use.

There has certainly been a lot of hard work in those entries and the detail is just amazing, well done to all those that entered.

I’m so sad I didn’t find out about this contest until June 2nd. 😢 these look awesome though! 😆 hope you guys all do another of these!

That feel when you accidentally submitted your entry too late, because you misread the deadline... lol

18:30 That actually a Glagolic Script a alphabet that Kiyevian Russians used shortly before the Cyrillic was invented.

I could see pharaoh guards using the coopers khopesh. It's a very nice design. Everybody's designs were amazing.

Nobody: C H A D B A N A N A F A L X

That feeling when he have to title the video we@pon to avoid demonetization.

I get on here and see "Neiot and Quin helped SWORD out the entries" AHAHAHAA

I didn't know the circle mace and the extra curled sword were real! Cool! I personally LOVE the second place. TBH, I always had a hard time understanding what, for me, constitutes an aesthetically pleasing sword/cold steel weapon and THIS is probably the closest thing that made me NOT think too much about it!

The great rapier is easily my favorite. That's my ideal weapon.

Last time I was this early pommels were still relevant.

Hello Skallagrim! Are you planning to do another one of these in the near future?? I would be very interested to take part! I do not care if you have an entry tax :D

the last thing that needs to be done is getting all of the competition contestants to fight to the death in and arena armed with the weapons they conceptualized so we can see which of these is truly the superior weapon design.

I really liked all of the designs.And concuratilatons to all winners :D And thank you skall for making this contest,it was fun to work on this and i see i have yet a lot to learn about designing swords,axes,daggers etc. Maybe i didn't win but i had the chance to see some really beautiful designs. :)

That 2nd place winner is just...gorgeous. Would love to see this made. Btw, artist's name is in the lower right corner. Artur Zima

Congrats to all the winners. Looking forward to seeing the honourable mentions next.

Awesome video Skall, great idea, great way to reach out to the community, very interesting stuff. More of this! Thanks and keep well

I ABSOLUTELY love the Great Rapier. Very cool.

These were so good! Great blend of creativity and realism.

This contest was an awesome idea. If possible it would be great for this to become a yearly event!

These are some fantastic designs, and I mean that in every sense of the word. Congrats to all the winners!

also, that pole-arm design is pretty damn clever. makes it (in my opinion) easier to hook enemy weapons, as you can do it from a distance (minimizing risk of failing to hook and being left open for counterattack) as well as a more pronounced hook, making it easier to do. really nice!!

This is a really great idea, Skal! Such great ideas!

The kopesh polearm and great-rapier are weapons I know well. Both of them have been part of my DnD fantasy setting for almost two decades now, part of a collection of functionally sound non-historical weapons. It does not surprise me much to see such designs mentioned as stand-outs, or that one of these designs won the contest. (The only reason I did not enter one of them myself was that I didn't think they would win, and I had an interesting idea to share with Skall.) ------ I read through the other comments, and a lot of people seemed interested in the great-rapier. I have built a working version of this weapon three times in my life, have practiced quite a lot with them, and so have some observations. It is great at blocking -- it is two-handed, light in the air, and the hilt doesn't go past the elbow (critical to your defense options). It is great at zoning against any weapon shorter than itself, due to its speed and the level of stability you get with two hands. It is a FANTASTIC thrusting weapon, superior to a spear for about half a dozen reasons that I won't get into here. It can be used well one-handed if you are fast on your feet and have some space to maneuver in. But it utterly sucks at making deep cuts (relative to most other blades) or dealing with bigger shields. In terms of design, the main details you want to include: -- a 2 inch gap between your hand and the crossguard, to assist the crossguard in protecting your hand -- enough weight in the hilt to balance the blade at 4 to 6 inches in front of the guard, along the blade -- a wide flat-bottomed pommel so that you can ram into it with your torso to drive the point thru armor -- no guard on the back half of the cross-guard, if you need to use it one-handed (example: fighting injured) ------ My own entry was a lightweight two-handed weapon trapping tool with about a 3ft reach past the guard; something of a horseshoe on a short stick, but each prong of the horseshoe was shaped something like a scimitar. You advance, force confrontation, trap the enemy weapon, then proceed to pretty easily murder them without letting their weapon go as you do so. The off hand's grip was designed to manipulate the weapon alignment with some leverage, and also allow "axe swings" of the weapon from about 4ft past your hand. There is also a short spike between the prongs, in case you needed to stab into a trapped arm. I've never seen anything like it even in fantasy art, but it's sound in concept and I thought it original enough to win. ------ Seeing the other entries... I wish that I had styled up my weapon schematic a lot more. I didn't realize that the weapon-smiths wouldn't be taking artistic liberties with design, so my schematic looks a bit modern relative to the fantasy drawings shown in the video. I could have had twisting metal, animal heads, ancient runes, and such. Certainly there was a ton of room for it. ------ I'm curious about all the entries that didn't make the videos (this one or the next). Is there a place where we can go to view all the submissions? That would be interesting to me.

OMG! Thank you so much skal! Honestly never thought my design would win, and really enjoyed the other winning designs. Congrats to the other winners and thank you so much skal!

I would love to see more of this, actually useable weapon designs.

All you guys who have sword designs that you want made for real, find a 3D artist, get them or someone else to make a mod for Blade & Sorcery, and then get VR someday. They may not feel like a real sword all the time in VR, but to see it in 3D in front of your face, satisfying as hell.

Just here to spread some information. That language which we saw with the Wyvern's blade is called Glagoljica. It comes from the middle ages and it comes from the world Glagoljati which means to talk. The language was most predominantly used in the current Balkan region of the world and there are still many stone engravings left of the language.

18:00 It's glagolitic script for anyone wondering. Old slavic alphabet

15:15 does any other weapon attack people with aneurisms? Who cares that it attacks you? Obvious winner.

I really enjoyed being apart of this and seeing all these amazing designs. I can see why these designs won, especially over my design (although that wasn’t hard to do considering my design was amateur at best and horrible at worst). This was a very fun contest and I hope that you can do something like this again in the future, have an amazing day!

That name "banana falx" starts a song in my head which kind of doesn't fit the topic...

hmm I got a shadiversity ad for his movie of the book.

Guess which weapon but it will finish them off quite rightly honestly I prefer the name dragons fingernail and may be used as the fleur-de-lee to a dragonlance

never been so fast in my life lol

Oh. And I thought a ms paint drawing would be ok Btw didn't know there where so many artists in the HEMA community

Great video! I am floored by the quality of the concepts submitted. I think you chose the most interesting one as the winner, but the top three are amazing. Also, a few of the others are super cool, but also would work. The trident, the great rapier, the mace and the nordic blade were also very inspiring.

These were all great. I might want to add some of them to my fantasy RPG world or even own one some day.

“Virginity intensifies” 17:05 Skallgrim 2020

I’m surprised that the Atlantis Trident didn’t make more of its ability to trap other weapons in the slot-shaped space between the tines.

I wish i knew this was happening... I have so many designs and i hope he does this again some day

I knew i wasnt going to win, but i was hoping to get runner up. Thank you Skall though, it was nice to try

Dang... I didnt even know this competition was held. I wish i knew this would have been fun to participate in. Maybe next time.

I think a lot of people would like to see all of these made. If many different sword makers each made one as a showcase piece it might happen. As an incentive, Skall could agree to do a review of each one as free publicity for the maker. After the review, the swords could either be returned to the maker as a display piece or auctioned off with the proceeds going to the maker to cover the cost of making it. What does everyone think?

Cooper Khopesh is cool until you decide to stab with it and it becomes a harpoon. Loved that Kriegsmesser looking one.

wow these were quite interesting - really curious about the pole-pesh from a martial standpoint, totally dig the design of the anglo-saxon longsword and elven crescent sword (could totally see this in a fantasy game or series). really impressed by all these interesting designs

Skall & Sly? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

coopers khopesh is a weapon from warhammer 40k used by magnus the red or at least looks like it. I wish I new about the contest

I would love to see all of these weapons in a fantasy RPG game or even a movie, they’re all awesome with form and function as all great weapons should have. My favorites were the pole arms and the Nordic sword.😋

We've learned that Skall really likes the khopesh, perhaps a bit too much.

I'm disappointed I missed this contest, I have a great design for a melee weapon I could have submitted :( Cool seeing all of these

Gotta love the "@" in the title, damn can't even use some basic words or RU-vid gets touchy huh.

Very well done everyone! It was a good contest and the winners definitely deserve it. I thought I would at least hit last runner up, but I suppose that's the way it goes. Ya'll enjoy your prizes, can't wait to see the Cooper Khopesh in action too.

congrats to all the winners! cant wait to see the big ol khopesh in action!

The second blade looks like it might have been picked up at to the Battle of Chris Christensen as maybe something the black prince dropped

Can't wait to see the honorable mentions!

The fourth Prize winner would be easily mounted with a net that would lock it into place much like a Chinese short spear locking ring only my preference would be threaded in addition it would be an excellent way to solidly mount the blade as the blade would set in a rest and the nut would move thereby allowing for built-in flop and being able to remove the slack at will

great competition man. So i was going to enter with a design for a tazer batton for modern military/police - but I THOUGHT the prize was having a weapon made - and that's a no no in my country (UK). didn't know there were other cool prizes too. Serves me right for not looking into it sufficiently! Great designs all and gratz!

Congratulations to all the winners, kudos to all participants. It was a really nice competition. Thank you Skall for this.

It would be AWESOME if you could put all the one that weren't obvious copy on an album (not just the winning one), i would really like to go through it !!

PLEASE do more videos in this vein I’m loving loving loving the creativity and it’s f’ing beautiful. Bravo sir.

Please do another competition, I would love to make submissions, or maybe open a discord where people submit designs and you just do videos looking at them and talking about them

The Hybrid Chopper is 🔥🔥🔥 10/10 Would break the bank for one. 12:40

Very happy to have been able to participate,even if i didn't last long i imagine,it was pretty fun! Good job to all the participant.

Skall: "I like Polearms" Polandball: "Yes, me too!"

I really look forward to Cooper Khopesh. I saw similar design on one of the miniatures in W40k (Thousand Sons Legion Praetor, for those who would like to know), where it was called Force Axe, and I was quite impressed to its visual design. I was wondering how it would fare in combat (in terrestrial conditions, of course), but I was a little worried to ask (some people unfortunately tend to take fantasy designs as personal insults), so, here is (or will be) the answer

Hey, here's a question you might want to tackle one day: what would modern armies look like if only muscle-powered weapons and vehicles were allowed? Given modern manufacturing and materials for both weapons and armour, and several iterations to work out the meta, what do you think we'd settle on?

I wish I'd gotten an entry in... oh well, next time, I guess.

the ultimate weapon "a bag of pommos" they can't attack you if they can't get to you

awww... i didn't know there was any contest i have had a design in mind for a long time now that i would love to have a review of any kind

I really look forward to Cooper Khopesh. I saw similar design on one of the miniatures in W40k (Thousand Sons Legion Praetor, for those who would like to know), where it was called Force Axe, and I was quite impressed to its looks. I was wondering how such design would fare in combat (in terrestrial conditions, of course), but I was a little worried to ask (some people unfortunately tend to take fantasy designs as personal insults), so, here is (or will be) the answer

this is an amazing list of 'what if' weapons