Over the weekend, medieval combatants in Mordhau set aside their swords for a nobler, more honest battle: the endless war against cancer and the inadequacies of the American healthcare system. For its 9th annual tournament, the Mordhau Fistfighting Championship turned its yearly fisticuffs into a fundraiser to help a fellow player face the massive costs of cancer care.
Cameron Elliott, a 21-year-old Mordhau player, was diagnosed earlier this year with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, an aggressive blood cancer. After just a few months of notoriously expensive treatment, Elliott's family now faces a staggering pile of medical bills. "It's no surprise that the American healthcare system has come up short for me," Elliott said in a video released last week. "And my treatment—which has been long and extremely difficult—has also been extraordinarily costly."
