2024 WKL World Grand Finals
Saturday, January 4, 2025
HOTEL ACCOMONDATIONS: Galveston island has many hotels nearby the convention center. We recommend Hilton Hotel
which is next to the San Luis Convention center. For best rates you can also book your rooms through Hotel.com and other hotel sites.
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Information and Schedule
WKL World Grand Finals
You are cordially invited to the WKL World Grand Finals! Located in Galveston, Texas at the San Luis Convention Center! This is an OPEN tournament to all martial arts styles! With over 20k square ft of space, this 1 day event promises to bring top Competition from throughout the country. We hope you can come and enjoy a weekend of fun and exciting martial arts competition.
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
DOORS OPEN: 8:00 am
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SATURDAY: 8:30 am—All D-1 (Demonstration Division), ‬‬‬‬Stick Combat, Tag Sparring (title belt) and Open Weight Sparring (Title Belt)
9:30 am—All TNT Grappling/Sport MMA, Weapons, Creative Forms, Traditional Kata, All Demo, Self Defense, Demo Team. Handicapable, Team Kata, Traditional forms, and Breaking. This includes all adult Black Belt Katas, Adult Black Belt Weapons, and Adult Black Belt Point Sparring divisions. IMPORTANT- There is no restart at World Finals! Complete uniforms are required for traditional forms
Note: There will be no night finals. All 1st place kata/weapons and adult black belt sparring will be eligible for Grands. We will announce Grands to the stage near the end of the day.
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OVERALL GRAND CHAMPION AWARDS!
GIANT RING AWARDED TO:
· Most Supportive Dojo/School—Giant Ring
· Junior Black Open Forms—Giant Ring
· Junior Black Traditional Forms—Giant Ring
· Junior Beginner Forms—Giant Ring
· Junior Intermediate Forms—Giant Ring
· Junior Advance Forms—Giant Ring
· Adult 18+ Under Belt—Giant Ring
· Adult Open Forms—Grand Champion
(GIANT RING and $200)
· Adult Traditional—Grand Champion
(GIANT RING and $200)
· Adult Women Sparring Grand Champion
(GIANT RING and $200)
· Adult Men Sparring Grand Champion
(GIANT RING and $300)
· Adult Executive Men Sparring Grand Champion (GIANT RING and $300)
· Adult Black Belt Open Weight
Sparring Grand Champion (Giant Ring and $300)
HOW SEEDING WORKS
To qualify for the WKL "World Finals", a competitor must be seeded from their division within their region. PLEASE NOTE: Players are not limit to a region, and can attend outside their region to get a better seed at the World Grand Finals.
At World Grand Finals, there will be 3 tiers for every division. Player's winning 1st in the Regional World Qualifier, will be placed in the "Division Grand Finals". The 1st tier will be the non seeded (wild card) run-0ff, followed by the seeded players and then the Division Grand Final. Listed below are the 3 tiers used at WKL World Finals:
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Tier 1 - Non seeded (wild card) run-off will compete first in the "Wild Card" bracketing to determined one winner. Winner of the "Wild Card" will then be placed in the "Division Run-Off".
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Tier 2 - Division Run-Off composed of all seeded competitors except the #1 seed from each region. In the weapon, traditional and kata divisions, seeding will run in the order from the lowest to the highest point earner. A single elimination bracketing will be used for point sparring, continuous sparring, sport mma, grappling and stick combat, with standard seeding rules apply i.e., highest rated against lowest rated, second highest vs second lowest, etc. The winner of the run-off will then compete in the "Division Grand Final"
Tier 3 - Division Grand Final - all #1 seed from each region will be placed in random order in weapon, traditional and kata divisions. A single elimination bracketing will be used for point sparring, continuous sparring, sport mma, grappling and stick combat to determined 1st, 2nd and 3rd place World Champion!