Date and schedule
Tournament will take place on 20 March 2015. Weight-ins will be at 8:30 AM, at 9:15 AM the rules will be explained and we should start the competition at 9:30 AM.
Place
Gym ZK Dunajplavba, Horárska 12/B, Bratislava.
Rules
- GI can be any color.
- Groin protector and earguard is not allowed.
- Match duration: adults - 7 minutes, juniors - 5 minutes.
- Allowed techniques:
- GI - IBJJF rules.
- NO-GI - IBJJF rules for brown belts (apart from juniors).
- All the competitors under 18 years of age must have a revers signed by their parrents. A template document will be available on this page starting 15 Feruary.
- At this tournament we have no weigth tolerancy and the competitor who wont be able to make their weigh will be disqualified with no registration fee return.
- Age categories:
- Juniors - date of birth between 21 March 1998 and 20 March 2001 (15 - 18 years).
- Adults - date of birth on or before 20 March 1998.
Ways of winning
- Submission within the match time limit.
- Disqualification of the opponent for banned technique.
- If the fight doesn't end by submission or disqualification within the time limit, the winner will be chosen as the fighter:
- Who had more submission attempts during the fight (the opponent must clearly defend the submission attempt to be considered into the count) or
- if there are no submission attempts, then the referee will make the decision and choose the more active athlete as the winner.
BJJ (GI) and belts
In BJJ the adults with white, blue and purple (only men) belts can start. All the belts compete in separate divisions.
For juniors all the belts compete in the same division.
Grappling level
Adults men grappling will be separated into 3 divisions according to the level of the grappler. One will be beginners (max. 2 years of training) and advanced (2 to 5 years of training) and experts (more than 5 years of training).
Women (adults) will have 2 level divisions - beginners (maximum 2 years of trainnig) and advanced (more than 2 years of training).
There are no level divisions in juniors.
Weight categories
Weigh in will be without the gi. Weight categories will be following:
Juniors - women: -60 kg, +60 kg
Juniors - men: -65 kg, -80 kg, +80 kg
Adults - women: -65 kg, +65 kg
Adults - men: -70 kg, -80 kg, -90 kg, +90 kg
Changes in weight categories
The organizer can change the weight categories according to the number of registrated competitors in the category (usually by joining more weight categories together if there are less than 3 competitors in one of them).
Registration fee
BJJ - 15 EUR, grappling - 15 EUR, BJJ + grappling - 25 EUR
Payment on site at the weigh-ins.
Prizes
- Medals for first 3 places.
- BJJ (GI) – A gi from the sponsor Pitbull west coast for the quickest submission of the day.
- Grappling (NO-GI) – Shorts and rash guard for the quickest submission of the day.
- 50 EUR for the best fighter of the tournament – decided by Nick Brooks (2nd degree Black belt under Roger Gracie).
Spectators
Entry for spectators is for free.
Registration
Registration will be open from 10 March 2016 till midnight 17 March 2016 using the form on this page.
Fill out the registration form.