Today at the sport center “Forza” organised by Martial arts center “ The Strongest & Roots BJJ” and the Macedonian BJJ federation, was held the first international BJJ competition and thanks to the great organisation and scenario, the entire event ended by 4:00pm.

Everyone in attendance could enjoy a free Wi-Fi, discount at the coffe bar, dressing room, showers and online live stream for all BJJ fans in Macedonia and abroad.

There were more than 15 high quallity teams of multiple counties such as Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, Germany and Turkey. With this event and the performance shown today it is proven that this martial art is rissen on a whole new level.

Also we are thankfull for the great supervision by the certified referees that came from Serbia.

In the team competition, the members of “The Strongest & Roots BJJ” dominated and took the first place with 146 points, which is 111 points more than the second ranked team, Ipon from Bulgaria.

Team competition results:

1. The Strongest & Roots BJJ with 146 points

2. Ipon with 35 points

3. BJJ Caminho with 28 points

4. Twisted JJ with 24 points

The most acomplished competitor and winner of the speacial prize – suplements valued in 110 euros from our sponsor “PBC” was the member of “ The Strongest & Roots BJJ” Stefan Pecevski.

Also, winners of the three valuable awards – tattoos valued in 150 euros sponsored by one of the best tattoo artists Vasko Zlatev are:

1. Stefan Pecevski –“The Strongest & Roots BJJ”

2. Nenad Esracador Ristevski –“The Strongest & Roots BJJ”

3. Blagoja Trajcevski –“The Strongest & Roots BJJ”

Winners of the BJJ kimonos, sponsored by Roomaif, are:

1. Menka Stojanoska – Winner of the absolute division and division for girls, member of “The Strongest & Roots BJJ”

2. Stefan Pecevski – Winner of the white belt absolute division, member of “ The Strongest & Roots BJJ”

3. Nikola Milovanovic – Winner of the blue belt absolute division, member of “ BJJ Caminho”

4. Ahmet Fedai – Winner of the purple belt absolute division, member of “ The Strongest & Roots BJJ”

We would like to express out gratitude to the members that helped organising this event, to our sponsors “ Cevahir Sky City”, “PBC”, “Vaskoz Tatto Studio”, pizzeria “ Studio F”, and

Results:

Female category – 60 kg.

1. Menka Stojanoska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Katerina Nikolovska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Dijana Bozinovska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Albiona Agoli – Tirana MMA Center.

Female category + 60 kg.

1. Selma Biberovik – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Martina Petreska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Katerina Atanasoska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Almina Totich – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

Super fight

1. Milovan Janjic (purple belt – 94 kg.) – “BJJ Caminho”;

2. Marko Jokmanovikc (brown belt – 70 kg.) – “Mata Leao ATM BJJ Montenegro”

Purple belt category – 76 kg.

1. Borislav Kirilov – “Twisted JJ”;

2. Julian Maloku – “Tirana MMA Center”;

3. Muhamed Cevahir – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Gert Kocani – “Tirana MMA Center”.

Purple belt category – 82.3 kg.

1. Danilo Bakic – “Zerjal”;

2. Ahmet Fedai – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Luka Vujovic – “Equipe Fabricio”.

Blue belt category – 64 kg.

1. Kristian Vachkov – “IPON”;

2. Aleksandar Zatkoski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Levrjon Nurkaj – “Tirana MMA Center”.

Blue belt category – 70 kg.

1. Denis Teylov – “IPON”;

2. Martin Yordanov – “IPON”;

3. Dimitrije Antic – “Alliance”.

Blue belt category – 76 kg.

1. Bojan Dikov – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Simeon Batalov – “IPON”;

3. Emil Kadakevliev – “Twisted JJ”;

3. Sava Nedeljkovic – “BJJ Caminho”.

Blue belt category – 82.3 kg.

1. Branko Simonovic – “Zerjal”;

2. Aleksandar Stojicic – “RIO Grappling Nis”;

3. Aleksandar Jakimovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Besfor Dorezi – “Tirana MMA Center”.

Blue belt category – 88.3 kg.

1. Igor Rakocevic – “Zerjal”;

2. Radoslav Kovachev – “IPON”;

3. Marko Andjelkovic – “RIO Grappling Nis”;

3. Vladimir Velickov – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

Blue belt category – 94.3 kg.

1. Ivo Dimitrov – “Twisted JJ”;

2. Vasul Nuchev – “IPON”;

3. Sinisa Stojanoski – “Carlos Maia Macedonia”;

3. Goce Todorovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

Blue belt category – 100.5 kg.

1. Nikola Milovanovic – “BJJ Caminho”;

2. Bruno Xhaferaj – “Tirana MMA Center”.

White belt category – 70 kg.

1. Nenad Ristevski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Martina Stefanovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Georgi Mladenov – “Zenit”;

3. Vuk Vidojevic – “RIO Grappling Beograd”.

White belt category – 76 kg.

1. Stefan Pecevski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Marko Popovik – “Mata Leao ATM BJJ Montenegro”;

3. Filip Ilievski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Petar Arshinkov – “Twisted JJ”.

White belt category – 82.3 kg.

1. Blagoja Trajcevski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Ivan Vrstovshek – “Zerjal”;

3. Mario Kirilov – “IPON”;

3. Dusan Lalic – “RIO Grappling Nis”.

White belt category – 88.3 kg.

1. Andrej Petrushevski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Vasko Denoski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Aleksandar Smilevski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Martin Stojanov – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

White belt category – 94.3 kg.

1. Petar Stanojevik – “RIO Grappling Nis”;

2. Nebojsha Apostolovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Jane Stefanovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Sasho Nicheski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

White belt category – 100.5 kg.

1. Ilija Cvetkovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Trajan Miloshevski – “Carlos Maia Macedonia”;

3. Nenad Djuric – “RIO Grappling Nis”.

White belt category + 100.5 kg.

1. Dejan Simonovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Dimitar Siljanovski – “GFT Munich”;

3. Almedin Kolashinac – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

White & Blue belt (under 18) – 64 kg.

1. Nikola Kostadinovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Mihail Nikolov – “IPON”;

3. Leonid Todorov – “Zenit”;

3. Teodor Todorov – “Zenit”.

White & Blue belt categoru (under 18) – 75 kg.

1. Martin Petrov – “IPON”;

2. Vahan Petev – “Twisted JJ”;

3. Gabriel Cvetanov – “Zenit”;

3. Ilija Spaseski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

White & Blue category (under 18) – 90 kg.

1. Kristian Nikolov – “IPON”;

2. Vladimir Vecev – “IPON”;

3. Klajdi Arqimandriti – “Tirana MMA Center”;

3. Ilija Ignjatovic – “RIO Grappling Nis”.

White & Blue category (under 18) + 90 kg.

1. Stefan Velkovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Joan Blagoev – “Zenit”.

Female absolute category

1. Menka Stojanoska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Selma Biberovik – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Martina Petreska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

4. Dijana Bozinovska – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

Purple belt absolute category

1. Ahmet Fedai – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Milovan Janjic – “BJJ Caminho”.

Blue belt absolute category

1. Nikola Milovanovic – “BJJ Caminho”;

2. Goce Todorovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Aleksandar Jakimovski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Kristian Vachkov – “IPON”.

White belt absolute category

1. Stefan Pecevski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

2. Petar Arshinkov – “Twisted JJ”

3. Martin Stojanov – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;

3. Nenad Ristevski – “The Strongest & ROOTS BJJ Macedonia”;