ADCC North American Trials Scott Epstein vs Bryce Shepard

[Jason Eisner]

[Griffin Lambert]

As soon as the other guy got mount, he stopped it and gave him points. WTF!?!?

[AndyK5]

That was bologne man, seriously referee did not know what the fuck he was doing.

[Ron Almeida]

thats why they need to be submission only, refs suck...

[Jarrad Mckay]

Zebra need to start making grappling carpet. Fucking shenanigans. Scott got jipped twice.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

that seemed pretty shady...

[Nathan "Máquina"]

I normally wouldn't complain in public, but that match was ridiculous.

4 major mistakes by the referee which resulted in the loss in my opinion:

1) Three minutes in, when the points period started, the referee for some strange reason slapped Scott hard on the back instead of verbally saying "points" which is the standard in every other adcc match i've ever seen. Everyone knows that when the ref touches you you're supposed to freeze (as a precursor to moving the action back to the center of the mat) and of course Scott was super confused and let go of a vice grip which is his game.

2) You are not supposed to be allowed to run off the mat to escape a submission which the guy clearly did.

3) Once off the mat (and he was on the carpet), once the submission is let go, the action should have been stopped.

4) Let's say as a ref you missed the issues raised above in point 2 and 3, then how in the world do you let a guy go from the carpet to a mount where Scott clearly stopped rolling as the action should be done. And if you somehow let him keep going, how do you give him mount points at that time and restart? Meaning, if somehow you think the action should keep going despite the guy being completely out of bounds (to avoid the submission), then once he gets back in bounds, why stop at mount? If that's suddenly a viable mount (and it wasn't as you can see on the video) and they're back in bounds, why stop it? Because the ref was confused and slow and doesn't know what to do at that point.

I know in grappling tournaments you never know what to expect with the officials (btw, they were fine in my matches this tournament), but this one was blatantly ridiculous.

[djradoff]

What was with the original interaction of the ref, when he taps Scott on the back, which cause him to loose focus for a second...I didn't know any better I would think the Ref has something against 10th Planet, or Scotty.

[Jason Mallory]

That sucked.

[Jessie Saucedo]

and epstein gets robbed again,...some bullshit...