The 1st National Jujitsu Competition is coming!

1. Goals
- Growing the sport
- Create a competitive platform for jujitsuka
- Looking for potential candidates to represent Vietnam in the Philippines 2019 Sea Games

2. Time and location:
- Phu Tho training facility, HCMC
- Preparation starts from April 17, competition will be from April 20 to 21

3. Brackets (kg, weight-in without Gi)
- Male: -56, -62, -69, -77, -85, -94, +94, Open.
- Female: -45, -48, -52, -57, -63, -70, +70, Open.
- Gi only

4. Format:
- Brackets with 4 or more fighters will be Single Elimination
- Brackets with 3 fighters will be Round Robin

5. Who can compete?
- All the jujitsukas who are training in any club/gyms in Vietnam (foreigners/expats are very much welcomed)
- No limit in the number of fighters from each club
- Brackets must have at least 3 fighters from 3 different clubs to be validated
- Each club can have 1 coach to accompany the fighters and do sideline coaching

6. Ruleset: http://jjau.org/fileadmin/documents/Competition-Ranking/JJAU-BookletFinal-20150927_LQ_.pdf

7. Prize and rewards: Gold medals for winners from each bracket, silver for the runner-up, and bronze for the 3rd and the 4th positions. National Champion status for the Gold medal

8. Disciplinary:
- Fighters who violated the rules may suffer from points deduction, DQ, all status and prize stripped depending on severity.
- Individual quitting without validated reasoning will be fined 500.000₫
- Team quitting without validated reasoning will be fined 1.000.000₫
- Coaches with unreasonable conducts will be stripped of status and removed from the venue

9. Registration:
- Via this link https://goo.gl/forms/P0pyztuqrg7bddGk2
- The fee is 300.000₫/fighter, paid upon entrance

Q&A:
- Q: Why no belt division?
- A: Jujitsu belt is a mechanism which has no consistency, hence it cannot correctly reflect a combatant skill and prowess. In competition, we let the result speak for itself.

- Q: I don't know this ruleset, I know IBJJF only?
- A: This is practically IBJJF Black Belt ruleset

- Q: why a Vietnamese Tournament allows foreigners/expats to take part in? If we are filtering for SEA Games then this doesn't make sense?
- A: Jujitsu in Vietnam is still young. The Vietnamese are very much still at the learning phase and letting foreigners join will give Vietnamese plenty of chances to compete with good fighters, hence improving our level. The performance of Vietnamese fighters will be taken into account but he/she doesn't necessarily have to be the champ to be selected for SEA Games.