A 58-Win Streak Falls at NAGA Myrtle Beach

Vagabond Brazilian Jiu Jitsu runs the show at AGF Midland. 84 medals from 43 fighters — a rate that borders on absurd. Adrian Tavarez leads the charge at 3-0 with two submissions and a +2,290 Jits swing, but the academy's depth is the real story. Twenty-two gold, thirty-eight silver, twenty-four bronze. That is not one fighter carrying a team. That is a program.

At NAGA Myrtle Beach, Chris Marroquin runs through five opponents as a white belt for gold. Five matches, three submissions. He enters unranked and exits with a number.

The Grappling Industries round-robin format again produces the weekend's deepest individual runs. At GI Cleveland, Xander Kai Wear wins five straight in No Gi Kids Intermediate and five more in Gi Kids grey belt — ten total across two divisions in one day. Maximus Jenkins matches the five-win pace in the No Gi Kids 8-9 bracket at the same event.

At GI Tampa, Collyn Mihelic runs through five opponents in the No Gi Kids Advanced 12-13 division, and Billy Baxter does the same in No Gi Adult Advanced on his way to a 7-0 weekend and +8,180 Jits.

LEAD BJJ out of Midland, Texas puts two fighters into the upset column at their home tournament — and both pull double upsets against the same opponents across formats. That is not a fluke. That is an academy that prepared its fighters for specific matchups.

The streak-breaking carnage goes beyond the three headliners. Sarfaraz Khalid falls at 17-0 to Adrian Tavarez at AGF Midland. Laiken Lampert drops her 16-win run to Eliana Slater at the same event. Marquise Mays loses at 18-0 to Thomas Manley at Newbreed Houston. Six streaks of 14 or longer snap across four tournaments.

Vagabond BJJ’s 84 medals from 43 fighters at AGF Midland is the highest single-tournament medal count of the weekend by more than double. Ares BJJ runs the most efficient operation: 31 medals from 13 fighters, a 2.4 medals-per-fighter rate at NAGA Myrtle Beach, with 19 of those gold.

Aiden Hill of Fortified Fitness gains +9,260 Jits on a 13-2 weekend at AGF Midland — the largest single-weekend Glicko-2 move across all twelve tournaments. Thirteen wins in one day, including the result that ended Zion Hill’s 51-win streak.

Billy Baxter of Hidden Leaf Jiu Jitsu goes 7-0 for +8,180 Jits at GI Tampa. Cahel Abram Valle of Vagabond BJJ adds +5,020 Jits on an 8-0 run at AGF Midland, reaching Prodigy tier at 5,162 Jits. On the drops side, Thomas Mendez III takes the hardest fall: -3,940 Jits on an 0-4 weekend.

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Three weeks, three historic streaks broken. The 46, 42, 58, 51, and 45-win records that fell since the ADCC US Open suggest something structural: as more fighters enter the database, the probability of meeting an unranked threat in any given bracket increases. The long unbeaten runs of early 2025 may simply be harder to sustain now. Next weekend will test whether any remaining streaks above 20 survive the growing field.