Now the martial arts segment on YouTube is littered with a variety of freak fights and freak formats of all stripes. And among all this clowning, it was somehow forgotten that just over four years ago a really new, cool, furious and very spectacular format of martial arts was born in Russia. Unfortunately, the matter was limited to one single tournament, although the potential of these competitions, in my opinion, was simply cosmic. On December 1, 2018, the Thermopyle Team Combat team fight tournament was held in St. Petersburg, popularly christened Sparta after the name of the feature film of the same name. The creators of the new sport were the legendary fighter and promoter Nikolai Kudryashov, who back in the 90s was at the forefront of the creation of M-1 and mixed martial arts in our country, and businessman Daniel Litvinsky. Eight teams from different cities that evening fought in the Grand Prix tournament for relegation according to special rules. In a ring called Thermopylae th