Entering a competition

Entering is done from the event's own page, by the person competing — or, for a child under 18, by the parent who manages their profile. Nobody enters on your behalf.

Before you can enter

Three things on the athlete's profile decide which divisions are open to them, and it is worth having all three right before an event you care about:

• Date of birth — sets the age they compete at, and therefore which age categories are open to them.
• Gender — places them in a male or female division, at events that split by it. They are never asked; it is read from the profile.
• Rank — their current belt, recorded per sport on their profile. At a belt-graded event this is the division they enter, not a choice.

An academy is not required to enter, but it is what puts their medals under the right club in the standings.

Choosing a division

Open the event. You describe your division rather than picking one off a list, using three dropdowns:

1. Age category — the ones you cannot enter are shown greyed out with the reason, never hidden.
2. Grade — at a gi event this is filled in from your recorded belt and cannot be changed. At a no-gi event that runs experience levels, you choose. Some professional events have no grade at all.
3. Weight — one rung of the ladder for your age category.

Underneath, the division those three describe is spelled out before you commit — Male · Adult · Blue · -76kg (-167lbs).

If nothing is open to you, the reasons say why in plain words:

• Adult is for 18 to 29 — they compete as 55.
• Teen 1 runs White, Grey, Yellow, Orange, Green — their grade is not among them.
• Record a rank in this sport on the athlete profile first.
• This event is open to federation members only — join the federation, and make sure your membership is paid.

Each one names the axis that failed, so it is clear whether the fix is a profile edit, a different category, or a federation membership.

Weight is a rung, not a number you type

You are never asked what you weigh. The division carries the limit — -64kg (-141lbs) — and choosing that rung is your declaration that you will be at or under it on the day.

Both units are always shown, so there is nothing to convert and no rounding to get wrong.

Pick the class you can make, not the one you would like to make. The scales settle it, and there is no appeal to a number typed in weeks earlier.

Registration closes, and then nothing moves

Every event has a closing time, shown on its page. After it:

• Nobody new can enter.
• You can no longer change division. That includes moving to a heavier class.

This is not administrative strictness. The draw is built from a fixed list of names, and a list that changed underneath it would invalidate every contest already drawn from it.

If something genuinely has to change after closing, it is the organiser who can move you — not you.

The weigh-in

If the event weighs competitors in, its page shows when the scales open.

An official records what the scales read, and the platform compares it against your division's limit. Being exactly on the limit passes — -64kg means 64kg is fine.

On the day

Once the organiser generates the draws, the event page shows the full tree for every division: who fights who, which mat it is on, and an estimated time.

Your division stays on one mat all day. You will not be sent to a different one between your own contests.

Next steps

• Federations and membership
• Competition day: draws, mats and results