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In response to
"I really don't understand the scoring in Judo. It'll be 0-0 for an indeterminate amount of time. -- nm"
by
David
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There are essentially two ways to score nowadays (the rules were changed a few years ago)
Posted by
Marlowe
Aug 3 '24, 18:38
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1) You throw your opponent cleanly in the ground. A perfect throw (Ippon) is when the person lands on their back. Half-score (Wazari, or it seems, Waza-ari) is when they land mostly on their side.
2) If someone immobilizes the opponent for 20 seconds, that's an Ippon. For 10 seconds, that's a Wazari.
Ippon ends the fight immediately. One Wazari won't. But a second Wazari will also end the fight, as it sort of upgrades the first one to an Ippon.
After 4 minutes, whoever leads wins, and if it's a tie, it goes to a golden score period that can last forever, and whoever scores anything wins.
Yellow cards for a bunch of things. Other than the fact that a third one will end the fight immediately, they don't change the score in any way.
So just looking at the box score is misleading because indeed it will be most of the time 0-0, some of the time 1-0 (or 1-1, but that is surprisingly rare), and either 1-0, 10-0 or 10-1 at the end.
FWIW, there was a lot of complaining about the officiating, so there is a chance that they will adapt the rules in the near future.
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