Categories:
Male – White, Blue, Purple, Brown & Black belts (Adult 18 – 29 yrs)
Male – White, Blue, Purple, Brown & Black belts (Masters 30 – 35 yrs)
Male – White, Blue, Purple, Brown & Black belts (Senior 36 – 40+ yrs)

Female – White, Blue, Purple, Brown & Black belts (Adult 18+ yrs)

Juvenile – White & Blue (Adult 16 – 17 yrs)

Male/Female – (Kids 6 – 15 yrs)

Weight Divisions:
Male
-57.7kg Rooster
-64kg Super Feather
-70kg Feather
-76kg Light
-82.3kg Middle
-88kg.3kg Medium Heavy
-94.3kg Heavy
-100.5 Super Heavy
+100.5 Super Super Heavy

Female
-53.5kg Super Feather
-58.5kg Feather
-64kg Light
-69 Middle
-74kg Medium
+74kg Heavy

Juniors
4 to 5 years old
6 to 7 years old
8 to 9 years old
10 to 11 years old
12 to 13 years old
-23kg
-27kg
-32kg
-36kg
-41kg
-45kg
-52kg
-59kg
-68kg
-82kg
All children aged 13 and under that weigh over 82kg will need to compete in the teens division.

14 to 15 years old
16 to 17 years old
-45kg
-50kg
-55kg
-60kg
-65kg
-70kg
-75kg
-80kg
-85kg
-90kg
+ 90.1kg
Whenever possible, your child will be matched up with someone the same age as them. However, please understand that they may have to compete with others slightly older.
 

Grapplers Showdown BJJ Rules Made Simple:

Points:
Takedowns – 2 points (Person doing the takedown must end up in control to be awarded points)
Sweeps – 2 points
Knee in the belly – 2 points
Passing the guard – 3 points
Mount – 4 points
Back grab – 4 points

Advantage:
Advantages are awarded for technique applied that almost achieve points or almost submit opponent.
Advantages are NOT POINTS.

Legal / Illegal Techniques
Children (ages 13 & under) and Teen (ages 14 – 17) BJJ Competitors
• No attacks below the waist are permitted (ankle locks, knee bars, toe holds, heel hooks etc.).
• No wrist locks are permitted.
• No neck cranks or cervical locks are permitted.
• No scissors takedowns are permitted.
• No bicep or calf crunches are permitted.
• No slamming from the guard or to escape submission.
• No squeezing the legs around an opponent’s torso (from guard) as a submission.
• No “Boston Crab” techniques are permitted.
Note: Pulling the head down on triangle chokes and guillotines is permitted

White Belt Adult, Masters
• No attacks below the waist are permitted (ankle locks, knee bars, toe holds, heel hooks etc.).
• No wrist locks are permitted.
• No neck cranks or cervical locks are permitted.
• No scissors takedowns are permitted.
• No bicep or calf crunches are permitted.
• No slamming from the guard or to escape submission.

Blue & Purple Belt Adult, Masters
• The same rules apply to Blue Belts as the White Belts with one exception: Blue Belts are permitted to apply wrist locks and achilles locks.

Brown & Black Belts Adult, Masters
• Straight ankle locks to the outside, toe holds and knee bars are permitted (No heel hooks are permitted).
• Wrist locks are permitted.
• Biceps and Calf ‘crushes’ are permitted.
• No neck cranks or cervical locks are permitted.
• No scissors takedowns are permitted.
• No slamming from the guard or to escape submission.

Bouts will be decided by:
1-SUBMISSION
2-DISQUALIFICATION
3-POINTS
4-ADVANTAGES

*There are No overtimes – No Draws in any BJJ match.
In the event of a tie, the match will be decided by the Referee based on which competitor most aggressively attempted to win the match.