38-0, 31-0, and 24-0 All Fall (Mar 14-15)

The weekend's largest rating gain belongs to Jayden Lu, a grey belt at Gracie Barra Westchase. Lu competes at both Austin III Gi and Austin III NoGi, goes 5-0 across both formats, and gains +7,100 Jits — 1,320 clear of the next closest riser. Five matches, five wins, no format preference, no margin for error used.

Devin Rogan Jr. of Gracie Barra New Mexico posts the weekend's longest unbeaten run: 6-0 at NAGA Amarillo for +5,780 Jits. Two Gracie Barra grey belts at two different tournaments in two different states — and between them, 11 wins, zero losses, and +12,880 Jits gained. The GB pipeline runs deep this weekend.

Jigen Nagata carries a 99-19 career record and a 7,122 Jits rating into Austin. He beats Kai Wong twice — by points in gi, by submission in nogi — and is the highest-rated fighter among the weekend's 10 cross-format double winners. All 10 of those doubles come from the Austin pair of events, where Pablo Silva BJJ fields the most fighters and JJWL runs 810 combined matches across the two brackets.

Lj Walton of Six Blades Jiu-Jitsu and Hazel Edwards round out the top five risers. Walton goes 4-1 at FUJI Virginia Beach for +5,760 Jits. Edwards goes 4-0 at Newbreed Greenville for +5,690. Both gain more Jits in one weekend than most fighters earn in a full season.

FUJI BJJ Virginia Beach produces five of the weekend's seven deep bracket runs — fighters who win four or more in a single division. Jameson Dannelley of Tidewater Jiu-Jitsu leads them at 6,743 Jits, the highest-rated deep bracket winner of the weekend, with four straight in the 6-7 NoGi Intermediate division. Benjamin McConnell of Brabo Academy runs the same division at 5,591 Jits. Kiera Bre Thomas of Ares BJJ and Rae Torres both sweep the 8-9 NoGi Intermediate bracket. Noah Starr of 10th Planet Georgetown completes Virginia Beach's haul with four wins in Kids Gi 6-7 Grey Belt.

The other two deep bracket runs come from FUJI BJJ Minnesota, where Arlo Dachel of Alliance St. Croix and Major Durmic of Tracks BJJ each win four in the 10-11 age group — Dachel in grey belt, Durmic in white belt. Same age, same tournament, different belts, same result.

FUJI events produce all seven deep bracket runs this weekend. No other organization registers one. Virginia Beach runs 357 matches at 50% submission rate, and Minnesota adds 258 at 61%. Whether the bracket depth comes from field composition, seeding structure, or just the way FUJI draws its divisions, the pattern is hard to miss.

Matson Robert Jones walks into Newbreed Greenville with 223 career matches and a 108-115 record. Sub-.500. A fighter who has spent a long time on the mats without a winning percentage to show for it. He draws Gunner Deyoung of rilion gracie greenville — 24-0 career, 5,487 Jits, the longest active unbeaten streak in the bracket. The 3,177-Jits gap is the weekend's widest upset. Experience counts for something that a win-loss record does not measure.

The same tournament produces a second clean record broken. Bryson Wood (18-4, 5,119 Jits) hands Gabriel Argueta of Boss Grappling his first career loss. Argueta enters 31-0, a grey belt who has never lost across 31 consecutive matches. Wood crosses a 1,562-Jits gap to end it. Two unbeaten records fall at one Newbreed event in Greenville, South Carolina.

The weekend's other streak breaks carry less surprise. At Austin III NoGi, Yanelie De Leon (24-16, 3,054 Jits) edges Sophie Alessandra Garcia to end a 22-win streak — but the 119-Jits gap between them means this is practically a coin flip on paper. At FUJI Virginia Beach, Kennedy Rauenhorst (6,930 Jits) ends Peyton Oakley's 19-win streak as the clear favorite. The streak falls, but the higher-rated fighter wins. Expected outcome, unexpected ending.

Pablo Silva BJJ is the weekend's clear number one: 111 medals from 91 fighters across three tournaments — IBJJF Dallas, Austin III Gi, and Austin III NoGi. Seventy-one of those medals are gold. Pablo Silva sends nearly a hundred kids to compete across two cities and three events in one weekend and brings home more gold than most academies collect in a month. No other academy cracks 70 total medals this weekend.

Triton Fight Center runs the best per-fighter efficiency of the weekend: 38 medals from 13 fighters, a 2.9 rate. That is nearly three medals per kid who steps on the mat. Culture BJJ follows at 2.4 from a compact roster of 18.

Jayden Lu of Gracie Barra Westchase gains +7,100 Jits on a 5-0 weekend across both Austin III events — the largest single-weekend gain across all 18 tournaments, and it is not close. The gap between Lu and the second-highest riser is 1,320 Jits. Lu competes in both gi and nogi, wins every match in both formats, and walks away with a number that would take most fighters months to accumulate.

The drops column tells a Glicko-2 story. Gracie Parker of Mendes Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu goes 3-2 on the weekend and drops -4,680 Jits — the hardest fall of the week despite a winning record. Three wins and two losses sounds competitive, but Glicko-2 does not weigh wins and losses equally. It weighs whom you beat and whom you lose to. Parker's two losses cost more rating than her three wins earned. On the other end, Ira Klug of Jream Academy drops -2,020 Jits on an 0-4 weekend. No ambiguity in that one.

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Next weekend stretches across two days and 30-plus events. Phoenix XI Gi and Phoenix XI NoGi lead Saturday's JJWL card. New York V Gi and New York V NoGi follow on Sunday — the East Coast gets its own double-header. ADCC makes multiple appearances: US Open San Jose, US Open Phoenix, and South American Trials in Indaiatuba. Add Newbreed Destin, Newbreed Treasure Coast, NAGA Utah, NAGA Long Island, AGF Louisville, FUJI Lansing, and a Grappling X Oregon date in Portland, and this weekend's 18-tournament count starts to look modest.