2022 IBJJF Curitiba International Open

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• ▸ Across the 37 recorded matchups at the 2022 IBJJF Curitiba International Open, the submission rate sat at 49 percent, with 18 finishes by submission. That is close to a coin flip on whether a match ended on the mat or on the scoreboard.
• ▸ Chokes dominated the finishing menu here, with the Guillotine Choke, Armbar, and a generic Choke all tied at 3 apiece as the most common submissions on record. If you train the guillotine, this was your kind of event.
• ▸ Rafael Paganini led all competitors with 6 wins, 4 of them by submission. One of those came in the Absolute Division semi-final, where he caught Higor Lima with a Guillotine Choke.
• ▸ Mica Galvao and Pedro Alex dos Santos both went a perfect submission-only route through their brackets, finishing all 4 and all 3 of their recorded wins respectively. Galvao capped his run with an Ezekiel Choke over Carlos Andrade in the Middleweight final.
• ▸ Not every top finisher relied on submissions. Higor Lima, Wellington Luis, and Anderson Munis each racked up recorded wins with 0 submissions between them, with Munis taking the Super Heavyweight final on advantages over Pedro Paulo Agrizzi.