General Information

The tournament will take place October 20 & 21 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium in Santa Cruz, CA.

All schools are welcome to participate in this highly lauded and exciting event, taking place in the beautiful seaside city of Santa Cruz, in northern California, approximately 80 miles south of San Francisco. All belt levels in the Junior, Adult, Master, and Senior age categories will compete.

Sorry, but there will be no kids divisions at this tournament.

The fee for early registration, i.e., received by 11:59pm Thursday October 11th, is $65.00.

The fee for late registration (received by Oct. 15th 11:59PM) will be $80.00.

We will award medals and certificates for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each division, and every registered competitor will receive a complimentary tournament t-shirt, as well as half off of our featured Rules and Referees Seminar with Professor Alvaro Mansor.

Spectator Ticket Prices

25% of ticket sales proceeds will be donated to our featured charity the Second Harvest Food Bank.  Please help support this cause by encouraging your friends and families to come watch you compete.

The ticket window at the Civic box office will be open from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm on both days of the event.

To charge tickets by phone, call:

(831) 420-5260

Adults - $10.00

Kids - 6-17 $7.00

Kids - 5 and under Free

Seniors - Over 60 - $7.00

If you live in or near the Dublin area, you can also pick up spectator tickets at the follwoing location:

MMA Fightshop
The MMA Fight Shop
7000 Village pkwy suite i
DublinCA94568
(925) 829-5550

In addition to the general tournament, we will also feature:

Brown and Balck Belt Team Challenge 3

In 2005 Team Saulo Ribeiro took home the $3,000 prize.  In 2006 Team Gracie Barra led by current world champion Romulo Barral emerged victorious and will return again this year to defend their title.

If your team thinks it has what it takes to defeat Team Gracie Barra, then please visit the Team Challenge page for registration information.