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Before any result I’d like to thank everyone for showing up to Ireland’s largest ever submission wrestling tournament. I hope you all enjoyed the day and hope to see you soon at the next one later this year. As people may have noticed, we have a large gym but not a lot of spectating room, so I’d also like to thank everyone for the respect they showed the facility and the competitors by not overly crowding the rings and also for keeping the place clean. It took us literally 10 minutes to totally clean the gym and pick up water bottles (very few) which is a testament to the character of all of those who attended. I’ve been at tournaments where the room looked like a dump afterwards so thank you all. We intend to do it again quite soon so keep your eye on the Fight Tournaments page on http://www.informedperformance.com
Below are the results of the tournament. We are currently in the process of writing some software to do a lot of the organisation of tournaments automatically and as a part of that, we are going to try to implement a seeding process to reward those who compete and win regularly. Please help us in this by pointing out any innaccuracies in the comments for this post.
INFORMED PERFORMANCE SUBMISSION TOURNAMENT- AUGUST 14TH 2009
OFFICIAL RESULTS:
Novice divisions:
-57.5kgs
- Stephen Byrne
- Shona Maguire
- Amanda English
–64kgs
- Wilson Junior (no other competitors and Wilson insisted on collecting his medal)
-70kgs
- Andrew Byrne
- Karl Redmond
- Alan Mannion
-76kgs
- Hubert
- Karl McCormack
- Tony Bogos
-82.3kgs
- David Hayes
- Gary Mannion
- Stephen Finlan
-88.3kgs
- Kerem Muhsinoglu
- Jacob Carlson
- Billy Fahey
-94.3kgs
- Karol
- Greg Loesken
- Wojtek Antczak
-100.5kgs
- Patrick O’Brien
- Trevor Gibbons
- Anthony Walker
+100.5kgs
- John Campbell
- Andy Brady
- Michael Wilde
Intermediate Divisions
-64kg
- Jonathan O’Sullivan
- Tommy Martin
- Adam Brennan
–70kgs
- Luke Gibbons
- Evan Wynne
- Eoin Glynn
-76kgs
- Cian Conlon
- Chris McCafferty
- Rob Freeman
-82.3kgs
- Phil Tweezers McRory
- Shayn Mucha
- Maciej Jozek
-88.3kgs
- Ruari O’Bric
- Steve Healy
-94.3kgs
- Damien Mulgrave
- Gerard Gleeson
Advanced Divisions
-70kg
- Darren Whelan
- Chad Biddle
- Paul Fox
-76kg
- Liam O’Toole
- Andre Ramos
- John Walsh
-82.3kg
- Ciaran Toal
- Mick Duggan
- Howard Mannion
-88.3kgs
- Charles Fleming
- Shane Courtney
- Stephen King
-94.3kg
- Wayne The Sandwich Thief Fagan
- Neil O’Hara
- Daniel Icelandikkson
+100.5kgs
- Saulius Kilmantavicius
- Stephen Somerville
- Kenneth Brett
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Barry, since no one else seems to be leaving comments, I will.
Well done on the comp and IP so far!
Col
Posted by Colm | August 18, 2009, 11:05 amI commented on the main page, but allow me to repeat myself as I am wont to do:
BJJ rules are great for BJJ, but suck for sub wrestling. Good day all round though.
Posted by Clive | August 19, 2009, 7:29 pmWhat do you think is the best ruleset? I like the submission only thing sometimes but I’m not fond of it for elimination tournaments. FILA rules?
Posted by Barry Oglesby | August 19, 2009, 8:47 pmI think it’s more a question of what is the best ruleset for sub wrestling in Ireland than the best overall.
I would like to see a ruleset which:
1) Penalises(teehee) guard pulling and rewards takedowns.
2) Rewards sweeps more highly than guard passing. Anyone can mong past a guard eventually, but sweeping takes some skill. I can remember maybe two or three sweeps in the divisions I reffed. Most people won’t risk losing 3 points if they’re passed just to gain a measly two for a sweep.
3) Allows no celebrations on the mat, as in judo.
4) Eliminates advantages – as the Master said “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
Maybe I should just sit down and write some rules, then get Jim to run a competition based on them.
Suggestions for ipSTD (Informed Performance Submission Tournament Deux)
1. SUPERFIGHTS
2. ABSOLUTO
3. CHOCOLATE FOR REFEREES
Posted by Clive | August 23, 2009, 5:09 pm1) Penalises(teehee) guard pulling and rewards takedowns.
Yes I think this would be good. Not for me obviously.
2) Rewards sweeps more highly than guard passing. Anyone can mong past a guard eventually, but sweeping takes some skill. I can remember maybe two or three sweeps in the divisions I reffed. Most people won’t risk losing 3 points if they’re passed just to gain a measly two for a sweep.
I think that’s an excellent idea.
3) Allows no celebrations on the mat, as in judo.
Oh yes indeedy, I actually think if you celebrate on the mat you should have the decision reversed. Also next time I will impose a -1 point penalty for more than one coach in a corner or encroaching on the mat from a corner.
4) Eliminates advantages – as the Master said “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
I was not convinced of the advantages before but now I am. For me they are a good way of deciding tight matches as they usually reward the more agggressive guy.
Posted by Barry Oglesby | August 23, 2009, 9:05 pmForgot th answer the second part.
Maybe I should just sit down and write some rules, then get Jim to run a competition based on them.
Yes do, and better yet, I’ll run the next tournament based on them… or at least after some consultation 🙂
Suggestions for ipSTD (Informed Performance Submission Tournament Deux)
1. SUPERFIGHTS
Suggestions as to who should be involved?
2. ABSOLUTO
Absolutely. In fact I will make that a pre-registered event too. My mistake was leaving it until the day to see.
3. CHOCOLATE FOR REFEREES
No way. you have gone too far now.
I believe I actually owe you some beer.
Posted by Barry Oglesby | August 23, 2009, 9:14 pm