The skilled grappling scene has been quickly rising lately, with ADCC, CJI, WNO, Polaris and the UFC Combat Go Invitational amongst these ushering the best way and enhancing viewership and athlete pay. Most professional occasions aren’t any gi although, and IBJJF has since created their reply to these with knowledgeable occasion within the conventional kimono known as “The Crown.”
Their inaugural occasion occurred in 2023, and their upcoming second iteration on November 17 guarantees to be larger and higher.
The 2024 IBJJF Crown will as soon as once more host tournaments throughout six divisions — 4 for males, two for girls — however brackets have now doubled in dimension, going from 4 to eight-man tournaments.
A number of embellished BJJ stars have additionally been confirmed to be within the roster. This consists of 4 of the six returning winners from the inaugural IBJJF Crown in two-time world champ Tainan Dalpra, four-time world champ Erich Munis, and eight-time feminine world champs Gabrieli Pessanha and Luiza Monteiro.
Final 12 months’s middleweight winner and CJI silver medalist, Fellipe Andrew is presently unable to take part in IBJJF occasions, as he is among the few jiujitsu athletes to have been examined and suspended by USADA.
Exterior of the returning champs, the most important identify on the road up is five-time world champ Diego “Pato” Oliveira, who will return to gi competitors after lately taking silver on the 2024 ADCC World Championships.
The total record of rivals, together with all the pieces else it’s essential know in regards to the occasion, might be seen beneath.
Payouts and rulesets for 2024 IBJJF Crown
The 4 males’s divisions can be a condensed model of the everyday IBJJF gi weight lessons, with featherweight, middleweight, heavyweight and ultra-heavyweight. The 2 ladies’s divisions can be at light-weight and openweight.
For higher or worse, each match will once more be held underneath conventional IBJJF guidelines with factors and benefits, for 10 minutes every.
The 2023 IBJJF Crown additionally had $15,000 prizes for every match winner and $3,000 for silver medalists, with smaller purses for the opposite members. They revealed that the entire payout was an IBJJF file of over $120,000 in 2023. The bigger subject of rivals now may assist eclipse that whole, however no financial figures had been revealed for this 2024 iteration, as of this writing.
2024 IBJJF Crown full record of rivals
Featherweight (70 kg/154 lbs)
Diego Pato – 5-time world champ, 2024 ADCC silver
Kennedy Maciel – 2018 no gi world champ, 2019 ADCC silver
Jamil Hill-Taylor – 2018 IBJJF world champ
Osvaldo “Queixinho” Moizinho – 4-time no gi world champ
Ademir Barreto
Marco Mendes
Eduardo Granzotto
Joao Mendes
Middleweight (82.3 kg/181 lbs)
Tainan Dalpra – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 2-time world champ
Andy Murasaki – 2022 no gi world champ
Francisco Lo – 2023 no gi world champ
Elijah Dorsey – 2023 ADCC Trials Champ
Manuel Ribamar – 2019 no gi world champ
Mauricio Oliveira
Gabriel Galvao
Jaime Canuto
Heavyweight (94.3 kg/208 lbs)
Gustavo Batista – 5-time world champ
Adam Wardzinski – 2024 IBJJF world champ
Patrick Gaudio
Rider Zuchi
Paulo Merlin
Horlando Monteiro
Mateus Rodrigues
Matheus Spirandelli
Males’s Extremely-Heavyweight (Openweight)
Erich Munis – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 4-time world champ
Roosevelt Sousa – 2023 no gi world champ, 2022 ADCC bronze
Felipe Costa – 2024 ADCC bronze
Gutemberg Pereira
Pedro Machado
Marcus Ribeiro
Kjetil Lydvo
Kristof Szucs
Girls’s Light-weight (64 kg/141 lbs)
Luiza Monteiro – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 6-time world champion
Brianna Ste-Marie – 2024 ADCC Silver, WNO Champ
Margot Ciccarelli – ADCC Trials champ
Janaina Lebre Maia
Cassia Moura
Jaine Fragoso
Vitoria Vieira
Vitoria Assis
Girls’s Tremendous-Heavyweight (Openweight)
Gabi Pessanha – 8-time world champ
Nathiely de Jesus – 8-time world champ
Melissa Stricker Cueto – 2-time world champ
Tamiris Silva – 2024 IBJJF world champ
Mayara Custodio – 2021 no gi world champ
Giovanna Jara – 2022 ADCC Trials champ
Isabely Lemos
Maria Vincentini
2024 IBJJF Crown: Methods to watch, reside stream, begin time
The 2024 IBJJF Crown will occur on November 17, 2024 on the Walter Pyramid in Lengthy Seashore, California. Will probably be streamed reside on FloGrappling beginning at 3 p.m. ET.
There can be two mats, with matches occurring concurrently up till the ultimate rounds of the tournaments.
