2021 ADCC 1st European, Middle East and African Trial

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• ▸ The 2021 ADCC 1st European, Middle East and African Trial ran across 94 recorded matchups over two days in Lubon, Wielkopolskie. Submissions accounted for 40 of the finishes, giving the event a submission rate of 43 percent.
• ▸ Points decided 34 of the recorded matches at this Trial, the most of any single method. Add in 12 decisions and 6 advantages and you can see how much of the bracket came down to the judges and the scoreboard rather than a tap.
• ▸ Oliver Taza led all competitors with 6 wins on record here, but only 1 of those came by submission. He closed out the -77kgs final against Magomed Dzarbaev on an advantage, a fitting end to a run built on grinding out results.
• ▸ Eoghan O'Flanagan went a perfect 3 wins with 3 submission wins on record, finishing every recorded opponent including Thomas Loubersanes in the -88kgs final. When he showed up on the mat, the match tended to end early.
• ▸ Perttu Tepponen and Dominik Olszewski met in the -99kgs semi-finals, where Tepponen took the win by submission. Tepponen went on to beat Samuel Karas on points in the final, while Olszewski regrouped to win his 3rd place match by submission over Julian Stonjek.