For the first time in thirty months, the IBJJF World Championships is back. Today, the blue belts and the female brown belts will take on deep divisions to try to earn the most coveted title in jiu-jitsu: IBJJF World Champion.

Throughout the day, we’ll be providing updates right here, including results, analysis, clips of the best action and growing trends.

Follow along right here throughout the day to keep up with your favorite athletes and teams.

1:40 p.m. ET

An hour into the blue belt lightweight division, and several athletes have emerged as frontrunners.

Tad Cravens of Pedigo Submission Fighting, Lisander Lopes of Unity and Johnathan Waid of Gracie Barra have each demonstrated the potential to win the deep bracket. 

Lopes has emerged into the quarterfinals, while Waid and Cravens still must pass through the round of 16. 

Here is one of Lopes best submissions so far.

In the featherweight division, Sean Bliemaster has been throwing up interesting submissions, hitting a buggy choke and an ankle lock, and becoming the first featherweight to make it into the quarterfinals.

2:00 p.m. ET

Tad Cravens is now in the blue belt lightweight semifinal, after submitting Loris Bresolin of Checkmat with an anaconda choke. He'll face Lisander Lopes. On the other side of the bracket, Johnathan Waid will face Enzo Azara.

2:30 p.m. ET

The blue belt lightweight final is set. Tad Cravens will face Felipe Pena blue belt Enzo Azara for the first 2021 IBJJF Worlds gold medal. Cravens vs Lopes was a closely fought match, one of the best of the day early on.

3:15 p.m. ET

Enzo Azara won the first 2021 IBJJF Worlds gold, taking the blue belt lightweight division with a triangle victory over Tad Cravens in 21-seconds. The team points total is now as follows:

• Gracie Barra - 10

• Pedigo Submission Fighting - 3

• Unity Jiu-Jitsu - 1

Check out the lightweight final here.

3:45 p.m. ET

Rafael Costa of Carlson Gracie will fight for the featherweight blue belt title in the final. He will face Unity's Jonah Gratt, who defeated teammate Mateen Stevens in the semifinal via footlock.

The no.1 seed middleweight Carlos Heredia lost in the semi final to the no.38 seed, Jose Ndilu. Ndilu submitted Heredia, and will move ahead to the final.

4:05 p.m. ET

Jonah Gratt is now a world champion. He defeated Rafael Costa via advantages, earning Unity's first gold of the weekend and earning nine points for his team.

Here are the team points totals:

Unity - 11 points

Gracie Barra - 10 points

Pedigo Submission Figthing - 3 points

Carlson Gracie - 3 points

R1NG - 1 point

5 p.m. ET

Henry Flores defeated blue belt Pan champ Andre Baroni in the light featherweight final, earning nine points for Alliance in the team standings. Baroni scored three for GF Team. Unity and Dream Art also earned a point.

Jose Ndilu defeated Victor Araujo via armbar in the middleweight final. Hear from Ndilu in this interview:

5:20 p.m. ET

Danylo Wruck of Alliance submitted Nation Gibrick of Pedigo in the men's blue belt medium heavyweight final, earning nine more points for his team. Wruck won all five of his matches via submissions, and added to his stockpile of 2021 major podiums; he won double gold earlier this year at Pans.

5:53 p.m. ET

Varun Mehrotra defeated Quinton Dixon in the blue belt roosterweight semifianl, and will take on Arthur Francsico in the final later today.

Leonardo Ferreira defeated Peter Hailer in the men's heavyweight blue belt final. That's nine more points for Alliance.

Pedro Marcolino defeated Marcanthony Leon in the blue belt ultra heavyweight final.

6:30 p.m. ET

Nine more points for Unity, Varun Mehrota won the roosterweight gold.

Nicklas Hartman of Zenith defeated Unity's Salron Zephrin in the men's blue belt super heavyweight final.

9:50 p.m. ET

Danylo Wruck won double gold at blue belt, hitting seven submissions in nine matches and earning his purple belt on the podium.

Amy Campo of Zenith also won double gold at brown belt, hitting several submissions, including one in the absolute final. She received her black belt on the podium.

Here were the female brown belt champions

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / ROOSTER

Jhenifer Aquino Gonzaga

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / LIGHT-FEATHER

Rafaela Alexandra Policarpo da Rosa

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / FEATHER

Gabriela A. Pereira

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / LIGHT

Vitoria Carollina Araujo Vieira

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / MIDDLE

Iasmim Casser da Silva (Casser recieved her black belt from Gui Mendes matside)

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / MEDIUM-HEAVY

Amy Scot Campo

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / HEAVY

Paige Ivette Borras

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / SUPER-HEAVY

Mayara Kaori Oishi

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / OPEN CLASS

Amy Scot Campo

The female blue belt champions were:

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / ROOSTER

Melody M. Y. Wong

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / LIGHT-FEATHER

Thaynara Victoria Soares da Silva

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / FEATHER

Karina Nicole Lagrana

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / LIGHT

Olivia Schauer

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / MIDDLE

Heloysa Fernanda Araujo Oliveira

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / MEDIUM-HEAVY

Giovanna Jara de Souza

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / HEAVY

Laura Kolm Schmidlin

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / SUPER-HEAVY

Lyndsie Maurene Hauck

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / OPEN CLASS

Thaynara Victoria Soares da Silva

Thaynara Silva took double gold, winning the absolute division after taking gold in the light featherweight division, a rare accomplishment.

After day one, here are the leaders in the team race:

ADULT MALE

Alliance - 39 points

Unity - 15 points

Cens Academy -10 points

Gracie Barra - 10 points

ADULT FEMALE

Dream Art - 30 points

CheckMat - 29 points

GF Team - 23 points

Zenith BJJ - Las Vegas - 18 points

Unity Jiu-jitsu - 15 points