10th Planet Jiu Jitsu East Coast 16 Man 155 lb Championships! SIGN UP NOW/CASH PRIZE!

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Just throwing this out as a reference too. most competitors are between 20-40 and the average is 168-179 in that age group for all males. Im up for watching the little guys fight, always exciting. If there is only gonna be 1 division though it would be nice to take the average human weight and use that as a guage ... slightly bigger guys can cut if they want and the little guys can attempt to put a bit on ....

Oh and the only other thing I would point out is that in the last tournament we had like 3 guys from Rochester in the under 155 catagory because of pull outs etc ... and that was only trying to get 8 guys not 16. I may be completely off base but I think there would be more not less competitors if it was raised to 165 or 170.

Originally Posted by Liquidrob

Mike Seabrook fights at rumble weight

I just laughed at this a lot

We did have 3 guys,along with 3 guys from louis s team

That's kinda what I'm getting at, 6 of 8 guys were from 2 schools. Might be realistic to up the weight limit to gain more peeps. Again in the 156+ division Jeff gave up at least 50lbs to at least 2 of his 3 fights. There were guys that were 230+ easy and Jeff is 175-180. Now we want 16 guys? Don't think it'll be easy to do unless we up the weight, especially if the goal is to have it purple belt and up.

Being a JJ noob, forgive me for adding to what Stew is saying, but when I found out that the divisions were 155 and under, 156 and up, I was all "wtf..."

I weigh in right now at 166-169 and as a noob it is quite noticeable when a guy has 30, 40, or 50 pounds on me. I still roll, but I would be totally euchered if I weighed 156 and rolled a 220lb practitioner.

I was saying to Stew the other day that I am surpised there aren't 3 catagories, for small, medium and large players.

ttt

Had a convo with Eddie, we are keeping it at 155.

Updated list of competitors:

Scott Yockel (Rochester)
Jon Helton (Charlotte)
Huan Chen (Rochester)
Mike Seabrook (Hartford)
Matt Hester (Omaha)
Max Dominique (Montreal)
Raul Diaz (Montreal)

If I'm missing someone let me know.

Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

Updated list of competitors:

Scott Yockel (Rochester)
Jon Helton (Charlotte)
Huan Chen (Rochester)
Mike Seabrook (Hartford)
Matt Hester (Omaha)
Max Dominique (Montreal)
Raul Diaz (Montreal)

If I'm missing someone let me know.

Bad ass line up so far