1. Age requirements

  1. Age requirement(s)
    1. between 13 and 18 for Juniors
    2. 18 and over for Seniors

2. Weight requirements

  1. Weight requirements (in kilograms)
    1. Junior Women — Under 60; 75; 75 and Over; Openweight
    2. Junior Men — Under 80; 100; 100 and Over; Openweight
    3. Women — Under 65; 73; 80; 80 and Over; Openweight
    4. Men — Under 85; 100; 115; 115 and Over; Openweight

3. Matching guidelines

  1. Preferred tournament format: true double elimination is recommended, with a pool system for fewer than eight competitors.
  2. True double elimination system
    1. A true double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament’s championship upon having lost two games or matches.
    2. Basic structure
      1. All participants start in the Winners Bracket
      2. When a participant loses once, they move to the Losers Bracket
      3. If a participant loses again (in the Losers Bracket), they are eliminated
      4. The tournament continues until there is one player left in each bracket (Winner of the Winners Bracket and Winner of the Losers Bracket)
    3. Finals
      1. The Losers Bracket winner must beat the Winners Bracket winner twice to claim the championship
      2. The Winners Bracket winner only needs to win once in the final
  3. Pool system
    1. Categories with six or seven Competitors
      1. Preliminaries consist of pools of three or four competitors as necessary
      2. Two competitors are selected from each pool
      3. Competition is by direct elimination after the pools
      4. Determination of a winner in a pool is made on the following basis: the highest total number of wins determines the winner
      5. Winner of pool A fights the second place of pool B and the winner of pool B fights the second place of pool A
      6. Winners of these bouts meet to determine the gold and silver medals and losers are awarded bronze medals
    2. Categories with three to five competitors
      1. The competition consists of one pool of three, four or five competitors as necessary
    3. Categories with two competitors
      1. In weight categories with two competitors, the competitors fight twice. In case of a tie in victories, a third fight is held
    4. Tie breaking criteria
      1. The tied competitors compete again, round robin style in a pool of three
      2. In case the tie persists, the weight of the competitors recorded during official weigh-in determines their placing. The lightest places first, second lightest places second, etc.