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RENDERING DECISIONS 

Match decisions shall be issued in the following forms: 

• Submission: When an athlete taps twice with his/her hand on the opponent, ground, or his/herself in a clear and apparent manner. When the athlete taps the ground twice with his/her foot, when arms are trapped by opponent. When the athlete verbally withdraws, requesting the match be stopped. When the athlete screams or emits noise expressing pain while trapped in a submission hold.
•  Stoppage: When one of the athletes alleges to be suffering from cramps, the opponent shall be declared winner of the match. When the referee perceives that a hold in place may expose the athlete to serious physical injury. When the doctor deems one of the athletes to be unable to continue a match due to injury rendered by the opponent using a legal hold. When an athlete presents bleeding that cannot be contained after being treated by the doctor on 2 (two) occasions, to which each athlete has the right for each injury and should be provided upon the referee’s request. When an athlete vomits or loses control of basic bodily functions, with involuntary urination or bowel incontinence.  
• Disqualification: When one or both athletes commit a foul, the referee shall apply appropriate penalties
• Loss of consciousness: The athlete shall be declared to have lost the match upon losing consciousness due to a legal hold applied by the opponent or due to an accident not stemming from an illegal maneuver by the opponent. 
• Score: The athlete with the most points shall be declared winner when the match has reached regulation time or in the event of the match being stopped due to both athletes suffering injuries. The referee shall award athletes points according to positions achieved, as shown in the table below. There will be no advantage points contributing to the outcome of the match.

4 Points:

Mount

Back Mount

Back Control

3 Points:

Guard Pass (maintaining North South or Side Control)

2 Points:

Takedown

Sweep

Knee on Belly

1 Point:

Top position from Double Guard Pull

• Referee decision: If at the end of a match both athletes have the same number of points, advantage points and penalties, it is the duty of the referee or referees (when there are three referees overseeing a match) to declare a winner. To determine the winner, the referee should take note of which athlete displayed greater offense during the match and came closest to achieving possible point- or submission-scoring positions.
• Random pick: Pick In the event of both athletes suffering accidental injury in a final match where the score is tied at the moment of the accident and neither athlete is able to continue in the contest, the result shall be determined by random pick

POINT SCORING 

• Points shall be awarded by the central referee of a match whenever an athlete stabilizes a position for 3 (three) seconds. 
• When the proper defensive counter for a submission hold results in exiting the match area, the referee shall signal 2 (two) points be awarded to the athlete applying the submission hold
• Matches should unfold as a progression of positions of technical control that ultimately result in a submission hold. Therefore athletes who voluntarily relinquish a position, in order to again score points using the same position for which points have already been awarded, shall not be awarded points upon achieving the position again. 
• Athletes who arrive at a point-scoring position while caught in a submission hold shall only be awarded points once they have freed themselves from the attack and stabilized the position for 3 (three) seconds. 
• Should an athlete achieve point-scoring positions while caught in a submission hold but only escapes the hold once no longer in the point-scoring position, will not be awarded points or advantages for those positions. 
• The 3-second stabilization count for one or several point-scoring positions will be interrupted, when the opponent locks in a submission hold during the count. 
• An athlete who reaches one or more positions (cumulative points) but is being attacked with a submission hold by his/her opponent, shall not be awarded points. 
• Athletes shall be awarded cumulative points when they progress through a number of point-scoring positions, as long as the three-second positional control from the final point-scoring position is a continuation of the positional control from the point-scoring positions from earlier in the sequence. In this case, the referee shall count only 3 (three) seconds of control at the end of the sequence before signaling the points to be scored.. 
• Ex: Guard pass followed by mount shall add up 7 points (3+4). 
• When both athletes pull guard at the same time, the athlete who achieves top position first is awarded one point. 
• Obs: In cases that the athlete achieves the top position by going straight to the side-mount, he will not receive points for the guard pass