My instructor (and teammates) tore up the US Open
My teacher Eduardo Rocha competed with our team at the US Open. He won gold at black belt Senior LHW and Open Weight as well. What's crazy is, in 5 matches, nobody scored a single advantage or regular point on him. He just steamrolled the whole place. Also one of our top brown belts won gold for brown belt Senior LHW and open weight, Jeremy Adkins. He is a monster, and a nightmare to fight against. You have to win 5 competitions to get promoted by Eduardo. Jeremy won 5 at purple belt, decided he wasn't good enough to be what he considered a brown belt, tore off his stripes, started over again, and got his belt by winning 5 more in major competitions in like 4 months or something ridiculous.