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| TAGB Competitions |
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| Ruling systems |
| TAGB competitions take place every few months or so, and are all over the country. There are roughly 5 each year - |
| * The English championships |
| * The Scottish championships |
| * The Welsh championships |
| * The British championships |
| * The area championships |
| At each tournament, there are several categories: |
| ladies, men's, boys and girls. |
| In sparring |
| The adult categories (16yrs +) are divided further by weight. The junior categories are divided further by height. |
| These categories are then separated further by belt colour. |
| In point-stop competitions (usually the area champs), the categories are: |
| Yellow tag - blue tag |
| Blue belt - black tag |
| All black belt grades together. |
| In 'normal' continuous sparring competitions, the categories are usually: |
| Yellow tag - green tag } (both of these categories are still only 'point - |
| Green tag - blue tag } stop' sparring) |
| Blue belt - red tag |
| Red belt - black tag |
| All black belt grades together |
| The point system is as follows: |
| 3 points - kick to the head |
| 2 points - kick to the body |
| 1 point - punch to the body or head |
| On a continuous sparring square, there are 4 corner judges, each with a score keeping device. Each time they see a point being scored, they record it and at the end of a two minute round, they show who scored the most points. |
| There is also a referee, who follows the fight in the centre of the square. They have the control to sop the fight, but do so only if necessary (i.e. heavy contact has been used, or the fight goes outside the area). They have the deciding vote. |
| The two opponents start by bowing to their referee, then facing and bowing to each other. They will be spaced about 2 meters apart at the start of the fight. |
| Each round is two minutes long, and most fights are only one round long. |
| At the end of the round, the corner judges show their winning contestant. The fighter with the most votes wins the fight. |
| If there is a draw, there will be another round fought. And the corner judges again have a vote. If there is another draw, the 3rd and final round will be fought. If, at the end of this round, the results are still even, the referee will have the deciding vote. |
| In point stop sparring, there is one referee, one mirror judge, one corner judge, and one or two score-keepers, set out in the following arrangement: |
| blue cross = referee |
| red crosses = competitors |
| green cross = mirror judge |
| lilac cross = corner judge |
| Point stop sparring is much more influent as it is stopped more frequently, for various reasons: it is stopped if either the mirror judge or the referee sees a point scored. It is also stopped if the fight becomes scrappy & goes outside the area, if contact gets too heavy, if someone is injured, if no one is attacking, or if time runs out. |
| When a point is scored, two of the judges must see it to give the points. However, the referee is once again in control, and can override any unseen decisions made by the other two judges. |
| The rounds are 2 minutes long each, and whoever has the most points at the end of the two minutes is the winner. If the competitors have the same number of points, there will be another round. The winner of this 2nd round is the fighter with most points. |
| If the 2nd round is also a draw, the fight will go into sudden death &,where the first fighter to score any number of points is the winner. |
| In the patterns events, all children (boys and girls) are more than likely competing against each other. |
| As the events are usually including only two belts (ie yellow belt and green tag), the competitors have a choice of two patterns which they can do, which correspond to their grade. (ie Do San and Won Hyo) |
| There are 5 umpires, who each have a set of scoring cards, and the competitor starts on a marked place on the floor, so the umpires can see how far out they are at the end of their pattern. The umpires start with a set score (say 6.0 for the yellow belt/green tag category) and they take 0.1 points away from the competitor for each mistake they make, or for a problem with the presentation of a movement. The average score in each category is usually around x.2 (ie 5.2 out of 6.0). |
| In the sparring events, the two contestants knocked out; in the semi-final will receive a bronze medal. |
| The winning finalist will receive a gold medal, and the other finalist will receive a silver medal. |
| In the patterns events, the places are clear through a point system. |
| The highest scoring competitor will receive gold. |
| The second highest scoring competitor will receive silver |
| The third highest scoring competitor will receive bronze. |
| The top three scoring competitors will receive a medal. If there are more than 3 top scoring competitors (ie two people are joint first and two are joint second) |
| The two top scoring will repeat their pattern until the judges decide who has performed the best. These will be awarded gold. The other will be awarded silver. |
| The two joint second competitors will also have to repeat their pattern, in the hope of winning a bronze. The loser of the two will win nothing. |
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