Entries Open

Tuesday 11 January 2022

Entries Close

Student/Competitor Deadline

Tuesday 15 February 2022 at 11:59pm

Institution Administrator Approval Deadline

Thursday 17 February 2022 at 11:59pm

Institution Administrators have 48 hours after the student/competitor deadline to approve entries.

Entry Costs:

• Individual - £28.75
• Men's Team - £72.50
• Women's Team - £54

The minimum grade accepted into the competition is 4th Kyu (orange belt). Any competitor with a grade below this minimum on arrival at registration will not be allowed to compete.

Each institution may enter up to 4 competitors in each of the following International Judo Federation weight categories for both the Kyu grade and Dan grade competitions:

The categories listed are subject to change. Categories are only available according to the number of entries received and / or the number of competitors who attend the event, and as a result some may be cancelled or merged either pre-event or at the event.

Team Event

Each institution is limited to one entry in the the men's and women's team competitions.

Institutions must rank their competitors on BUCS Play in order of preference before the closing date. Should BUCS need to restrict entries, this will be done equally across institutions.

No entries will be accepted on the day.

Individual Competition

Both the men’s and women’s Kyu grade competitions will include the requirement of 2nd Kyu (blue belt) and below, to the minimum grade of 4th Kyu (orange belt). The men’s and women’s Dan grade competitions will include 1^st Kyu (brown belt) and above.

Normally categories will be fought off using the elimination method of compound knockout which will be used for all categories with 8 or more competitors.

Where there are 5 or less competitors in a category this will be fought as one pool. 6 or 7 players in a category will be fought as two pools with a crossover knockout semi-final to final. Eight players or more in a category will be fought as a compound knockout, this may subject to change depending on the number of entries.

Team Competition

Teams are to be made up of existing competitors from the individual Kyu grade and Dan grade competitions. Men’s teams consist of 5 competitors. Women’s teams consist of 3 competitors.

An injured competitor may be replaced by an existing competitor from the individual competition, providing they are in the same weight category, or one category lighter. Injured competitors may not return to the competition in subsequent matches.

Men’s teams must consist of the following 5 individuals:

• 1 x -60kg / -66kg
• 3 x -73kg / -81kg / -90kg
• 1 x -100kg / +100kg

If an institution choses to enter only 4 individuals; they must not enter more than the permitted allowance per category as detailed above.

Women’s teams must contain 3 competitors in any weight category.

All competitors need to provide a valid British Judo Association (BJA) license and student identification at registration and weigh-in. Students without a license cannot compete.

Welsh Judo Association (WJA) Judo Scotland and Northern Ireland Judo Federation (NIJF) British Judo Council (BJC) Amateur Judo Association (AJA) Licences are also acceptable. 

International competitors who do not have a BJA license must provide their home national governing body (as sanctioned by the International Judo Federation) license at registration and weigh-in.

Competitors who withdraw after the entry deadline (23:59 Thursday 17 February 2022)  will still be charged the entry fee.

Competitors who do not withdraw, and do not register at the venue, will be classified as a ‘no-show’ and charged the entry fee and an additional £10 fine payable by the competitor’s athletic union or students’ union.

The Event Withdrawal Policy for 2021-22 can be found here.

Across the weekend, the University of Wolverhampton are undertaking a study to investigate the nutritional knowledge and weight making behaviours of those taking part in the event.

Students are invited to complete an online questionnaire on which the answers will help better understand the nutritional knowledge and pre-competition weight making practices of those competing in the combat sports such as Judo. Your answers will be valuable in helping the University to know how to make weight safely in the future. Please consider giving back your valuable knowledge. 

It will take just 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire.

Across the event weekend, please look out for the laminated QR codes that will be palced in the venue and warm-up areas, once scanned, these will direct you to the questionnaire. We will be available should you have any questions about the research.

Participants will be invited to an online seminar post event, where colleagues will share the outcomes of the study and have the option to talk with experts in the field of weight making for elite sport.