2016 IBJJF American National Jiu-Jitsu Championship

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• ▸ Across 32 recorded matchups at the 2016 IBJJF American National Championship, points decided the most outcomes with 17, while submissions closed out only 9. If you trained for this event, you were far more likely to grind out a positional win than to get finished.
• ▸ The submission rate here sat at 28 percent, so nearly three quarters of recorded results went the distance on points, advantages, or a decision. This was an event that rewarded a patient, position-first game.
• ▸ Samir Chantre stood out for how he won, taking all 3 of his recorded wins by submission. In a bracket where most people won on points, finishing every match on record is a different kind of performance.
• ▸ Thiago Macedo and Lucas Barbosa each posted 4 recorded wins, the most of anyone at the event, though only 1 of those came by submission for each. Both were winning consistently while relying on points rather than the finish.
• ▸ The Featherweight final between Paulo Miyao and Thiago Macedo was decided by advantage, the tightest kind of margin. Macedo went 4 wins deep on record only to come up short in the closest possible result.