2020 IBJJF South American Championships

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• ▸ Across 54 recorded matchups, submissions and points wins tied at 20 each, so the event split almost evenly between finishers and grinders. The submission rate came in at 37 percent.
• ▸ Back attacks defined the finishing at this event. Gi Choke From Back and generic Choke each showed up 5 times, the two most common submissions on record.
• ▸ Jaime Canuto led all competitors with 5 wins, but only 1 came by submission. He was winning on control and points rather than hunting the finish, including a points decision over Tyrone Gonsalves in the Absolute Division semi-finals.
• ▸ Wallace Costa took double gold in ultra-heavy and open weight just 48 hours after winning the CBJJE World Championship on December 11, 2020. All 4 of his recorded wins here came without a single submission.
• ▸ Jonata Gomes, freshly promoted to a new belt rank in the summer of 2020, took featherweight gold and closed it out with a rear naked choke on Sergio Antonio Santana Soares Filho in the final. He finished with 3 wins, 2 of them by submission.