Lachlan Giles announced that he will be holding a -99 and +99 kg tournaments to decide who will get the final two spots on his CJI 2 Australia/Eurasia team.
Read below to see how Lachlan will be choosing the competitors and the tournament format he’ll be using.
Lachlan Giles Announces -99/+99 KG Tourneys
As expected, CJI 2 Australia/Eurasia coach Lachlan Giles will be holding tournaments to decide open spots on his team. There will be a +99 and -99 kg division to decide two of the open spots.
Levi Jones-leary and Lucas Kanard have already been selected for the 77 and 88 kg spots on the team. Giles will also be using his wildcard pick for the 66 kg spot.
Invitational Round Robin Tourneys
In his Instagram post, Lachlan Giles went into detail on the process of choosing athletes and the tourney formats. He will be choosing six athletes for each division who have passports from either Australia or an Asia or Eurasian country.
Once Giles chooses the competitors, two round-robin tournaments will go down at a date TBD. Lachlan is particularly looking for athletes who go for submissions and put on exciting matches.
We’re eager to see which athletes Lachlan chooses for the trials and we would love to watch the matches.
Bobby is martial artist for almost 20 years with a BJJ black belt under Professor Sergio Miranda. He is also a karate black and former combat sports athlete, who loves all things grappling.
