2024 ADCC World Championship

The ADCC World Championship is a submission grappling tournament held every two years, widely considered to be the most prestigious submission grappling tournament in the world.^[1]

Competitors have to qualify by finishing first at a continental qualifying events, known as ADCC Trials, or by being invited to compete by the organization. Returning champions were automatically qualified.

2024 will be the first edition of the tournament to have a third women's weight division. This marks the first edition of the tournament since 2007 to have more than two women's divisions.^[2] Head organizer Mo Jassim later confirmed that this would also be the first edition of the tournament since 2007 to include a women's absolute division.^[3]

It was announced in July 2024 that all competitors would be paid to show for the first time ever, and that they would receive a minimum of $2,500.^[4]

The timing of the tournament overlaps with the inaugural Craig Jones Invitational, which also led to notable withdrawals by fighters including Tommy Langaker, Roberto Jimenez, Kade and Tye Ruotolo.

Men's divisions will have sixteen competitors: eight qualified athletes, seven invitations and the defending ADCC champion. Women's divisions will have eight competitors: approximately four qualified athletes, three invitations and the defending ADCC champion; there may be some variation due to returning champions, invitees and trials winners moving into different weight divisions. Only the female winners of European, Asia & Oceania, North American, and South American second trials qualify for the World Championship.^[5]

Qualifiers

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Trials			Men					Women
Event	Date	Location	-66 kg	-77 kg	-88 kg	-99 kg	+99 kg	-55 kg	-65 kg	+65 kg
1st European Trials[a][6]	16 September 2023	Warsaw, Poland	Owen Jones	Jozef Chen	Santeri Lilius	Luke Griffith	Heikki Jussila	Josefine Modig[b]	Sani Brannfors[b]	Ane Svendsen[b]
1st North American Trials[c][7]	14–15 October 2023	Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA	Dorian Olivarez	Elijah Dorsey	Jacob Couch	Paul Ardila	Dan Manasoiu	Alexandira Enriquez[d]	Morgan Black[d]	Amanda Leve[d]
2nd North American Trials[e][8]	30–31 March 2024	Las Vegas, Nevada, USA[9]	Deandre Corbe	Andrew Tackett	William Tackett	Michael Pixley	Mike Perez	Jasmine Rocha	Helena Crevar	Elizabeth Mitrovic
1st South American Trials[10]	2 March 2024	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Kennedy Maciel	Luiz Medeiros	Charles Negromonte	Cassio Costa	Jose Inacio dos Santos	Brenda Larissa[f]	Ana Quieroz[f]	Maria Ruffatto[f]
2nd South American Trials[11]	9 March 2024	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Fabricio Andrey	Alexandre de Jesus	Pedro Marinho	Henrique Cardoso	Victor Honorio	Anna Rodrigues	Ana Vieira	Maria Ruffatto
2nd European Trials[g][12][13]	17 February 2024	Zagreb, Croatia	Gairbeg Ibragimov	Tommy Langaker	Taylor Pearman	Marcin Maciulewicz	Mark Macqueen	Margot Ciccarelli	Aurelie Le Vern	Nia Blackman
1st Asian Trials[h][14]	25 November 2023	Singapore	Ethan Thomas	Kenta Iwamoto	Izaak Michell	Declan Moody	Josh Saunders	Adele Fornarino[i]	Wang Jue[i]	Hillary Loh[i]
2nd Asian Trials[15]	10 May 2024	Bangkok, Thailand	Xu Huaiqing	Levi Jones-Leary	Lucas Kanard	Daniel Schuardt	Mansur Makhmakhanov	Adele Fornarino	Sula-Mae Loewenthal	Nikki Lloyd-Griffiths

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Invitees

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Men					Women
-66 kg	-77 kg	-88 kg	-99 kg	+99 kg	-55 kg	-65 kg	+65 kg
Diogo Reis[j]	Kade Ruotolo[j]	Giancarlo Bodoni[j]	Kaynan Duarte[j]	Gordon Ryan[j]	Ffion Davies[k]	Amy Campo[k]	Gabi Garcia
Ethan Crelinsten	JT Torres	Tye Ruotolo	Mason Fowler	Victor Hugo	Mackenzie Dern	Beatriz Mesquita	Nathiely De Jesus
Kauã Gabriel	Nicky Ryan	Jacob Rodriguez	Cyborg Abreu	Gutemberg Pereira	Mayssa Bastos	Brianna Ste-Marie
Ashley Williams	Jonnatas Gracie	Gabriel Almeida	Roberto Jimenez	Nick Rodriguez		Amanda Leve
Josh Cisneros	Micael Galvão	Elder Cruz	Nicholas Meregali	Felipe Pena		Morgan Black
Kieth Krikorian	Dante Leon		Rafael Lovato Jr.
Deigo Oliveira	PJ Barch		Eli Braz
Gabriel Sousa	Oliver Taza		Alex Grandy
	Andy Varela
	Javier Zaruski
	Mateusz Szczecinski
Sources:[16][17][18][19][20][21]

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