NAGA 2025 Albany Grappling Championship

Name: NAGA 2025 Albany Grappling Championship
Start: 2025-02-15T08:00:00-05:00
Location: Washington Avenue Armory

Schedule

Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

Washington Avenue Armory | Albany, NY

The North American Grappling Association (NAGA) presents the Albany Grappling Championship on February 15, 2025, at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany, NY. NAGA tournaments have no-gi and gi (BJJ) divisions for all skill levels and all ages. Our tournaments are on time, fair, and safe. NAGA uses Smoothcomp so you can track what time, and on which mat you are going to compete. More information about NAGA and our tournaments can be found on our website nagafighter.com.
NEW FOR 2025
2 MATCHES TO ALL COMPETITORS
2-Person Divisions: Best 2-out-of-3
3-Person Divisions: Round Robin
4-Person + Divisions: 4 or more competitors will now have a 3rd place bracket for those who lose a match enabling them to compete again at no extra cost.
These new bracket types will make sure each competitor has a chance at two matches per division (barring injury, opponent withdrawal, etc.) so they can gain that valuable experience on the mats.
AFFORDABLE PRICING – AS LOW AS $79 TO COMPETE
$79 - Register by 1/04/25, Use coupon code ALBANY40 at checkout
$99 - Register 1/05/25 to 1/18/25, Use coupon code ALBANY20 at checkout
$119 - Register 1/19/25 to 2/07/25 (Early Bird Registration)
$139 - Register 2/08/25 to 2/12/25 (Normal Registration)
$169 - Register on 2/13/25 or 2/14/25 (Late Registration)
Spectators: Infants are free. Children 12 & under are $10. All other spectators are $20 (online or at the door).
* Limit 1 coupon per competitor per tournament
* Extra Divisions including Absolute are $35 each
$500 PURSE TO THE MEN'S EXPERT NO-GI ABSOLUTE DIVISION WINNER
NAGA is excited to offer money prizes at all our 2025 events to the winner of the Men's Expert No-Gi Absolute division.
NAGA AWARDS
NAGA has the best awards in grappling! Expert division winners are awarded championship belts. Non-expert children 13 & under division winners are awarded kids championship belts. Non-expert teen and adult division winners are awarded medals. NAGA also awards teams who place first through third in Adult Overall, Adult No-Gi, Adult Gi, and Kids & Teens.
EVENT INFORMATION
All divisions will take place on Saturday. Children and teens compete first followed by adults. When you arrive at the venue, you will check-in at the NAGA Front Desk to pick up your registration cards and any spectator passes. From there, you will weigh-in then proceed to the referee interview.
WEIGH-INS
- All competitors can check-in/weigh-in on Friday from 6:00PM to 6:30PM. This is not mandatory, you can weigh-in on the event day.
- If you do not make the weight you registered for you will be placed into the weight class of what you weighed at the event. Please try to be as accurate with your weight as possible.
- Once a competitor accepts their weight and it is entered, the weight cannot be changed.
- On event day, all children & teens who did not weigh-in on Friday must be checked-in and weighed-in by 9:30 AM. Children and teens who weighed-in on Friday, and have no one in their bracket, please arrive at this time so we can provide you your options.
- Adult competitors need to be checked-in and weighed-in 60 minutes prior to their scheduled division start time. The start times can be found Friday night on the Smoothcomp website.
FAMILY DISCOUNTS
NAGA offers a family discount. The discount only applies to competitors, not spectators. For 2 family members the discount is $35, 3 members is $70, 4 members $105, and so on.
- Family rates are only valid for the following: a parent paying for themselves and their minor child or children (under the age of 18), a parent paying for their minor children (two or more children under the age of 18).
- To obtain a family discount, register all the competitors, then call our office at 860.537.3686, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 9AM and 5PM EST. You can also email us at [email protected]. We will refund the appropriate amount back to the form of payment used.
REGISTRATION/BRACKETING USING SMOOTHCOMP
NAGA uses the Smoothcomp tournament management system for registration and bracketing. Smoothcomp is a tournament management system that allows you to register and pay for a tournament online. The system generates brackets that competitors can view and track their estimated division start time and their mat assignments. After the tournament, individual and team results are posted on Smoothcomp.
If this is the first time you are using Smoothcomp, you will need to create an account with them before you can register for a NAGA tournament.
Cash or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, and Discover) are the only accepted forms of payment in person (spectators and merchandise).
For more information on pricing, directions, divisions, rules, and more visit the NAGA website, nagafighter.com.
There is a scam where the scammer will post on an event page saying they need to sell their tickets due to (insert tragedy here) or are streaming the event, or now they are even trying to sell merchandise. We work to delete these as they appear and contact Facebook support, but please be aware and do not click the links they provide.
See you on the mats in 2025!