2022 IBJJF San Diego Open

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• ▸ Across the 25 recorded matchups at the 2022 IBJJF San Diego Open, 15 ended by submission for a submission rate of 60 percent. If you were watching, the finish was more likely than any points decision.
• ▸ The two most common finishes on record here were the gi choke from back and the armbar, each landing 4 times. Both reward positional control, so the finishing game leaned on getting to dominant spots rather than scrambles.
• ▸ Adam Wardzinski went 5 wins for 5 submissions on record at this event. Every single one of his wins came by finish, which is about as clean as a bracket run gets.
• ▸ Adam Wardzinski and Guthierry Barbosa met in the Absolute Division final, with Wardzinski taking the submission win. Barbosa still had a strong event with 4 recorded wins of his own.
• ▸ Wardzinski closed out three finals by submission, including a heavyweight final over Fellipe Trovo by arm triangle choke and an absolute semi-final over Rafael dos Anjos Torres by gi choke from back. That is a back-and-choke game working from top to bottom of the bracket.