2014 Copa Podio Middleweight GP

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• ▸ The 2014 Copa Podio Middleweight GP ran across 38 recorded matchups on November 22 and 23. Of those, points decided 17, more than any other method, which tells you how tight the bracket played out.
• ▸ Submissions accounted for a 34 percent submission rate at this event, with 13 finishes on record. The most common finish was the gi choke from back, which showed up 3 times.
• ▸ Luiz Panza reached the final on a very finish-heavy run, with 6 wins and 5 of them by submission. Felipe Pena also had 6 recorded wins but got there differently, with just 1 by submission.
• ▸ Claudio Calasans and Luiz Panza met in the round robin, where Panza caught Calasans with a footlock for the submission. Calasans finished with 5 wins on record for the event, including a 3rd place match over Gregor Gracie that ended by injury.
• ▸ The final came down to Preguiça over Luiz Panza by points, decided on a 2 to 2 score. After a run of 5 submission wins, Panza ran into a match settled by the tightest possible points margin.