How I felt wondering how rules would be inconsistently enforced throughout the Royal Event yesterday....it’s like a fun little game where you get to roll the dice every time a competitor would roll out of bounds (*cough cough* flee a submission attempt or back take or takedown). Will they get points? Will they start standing? Will they lose the position? At one point a competitor jumped onto his opponents back while he was completely outside the boundary....and was awarded points.
"Sometimes": the response to AJ Agazarm asking Bear from Shoyoroll how a double guard pull and one competitor coming on top should be scored.....
AJ didn’t know how to pronounce the name of the event or the rules for regulation or overtime.
Different money for women’s division and for men’s divisions based on weight classes/sizes....despite Nicole of Caio Terra Association submitting all of her opponents and having the most impressive showing of the day...got the least in prize money ($750). Wish they’d subtracted some $$ from the $1750 the heaviest men’s division winner got and given it to her for submitting each of her opponents....
Dubious Dom narrowly beat a purple belt firsy round with a back take with -30 seconds left, then lost and spent 5 minutes afterward talking to the refs.
A lot of gamesmanship, long belt ties, and fleeing out of bounds in the lightweight bracket in particular. It led to marches with very little continuous action, felt like I was watching the NCAA final four in basketball.Referees restarting matches after going out of bounds then other times awarding points or dragging them back in and keeping the position and restarting with the position...again, inconsistency decided by various referees on the fly....
Much like the maligned 5grappling lightweight bracket I watched before ACB bought up most of the Gi talent worth signing (I fell asleep during that event) a number of the competitors spent time fleeing and stalling and trying to ride out advantages and the like for minutes at a time. Refs seemed highly unwilling to utilize stalling calls as per usual but will tolerate multinple unnecessary lengthy belt ties and boundary fleeing to avoid points being scored. The mat space was not large but was also made worse by multiple competitors fleeing on the regular.
Some lower belt upsets with a female roosterweight beating a considerably heavier brown belt, and Nicole beating a brown belt to win the whole thing - she had by far the best performance of the day, finishing all her opponents and making it look relatively easy despite size or rank difference.
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