America's community-voted BJJ awards

Won on the mats. Decided by you.

The BJJ Awards recognizes the best gyms, programs and coaches in each city, once a year, by public vote. Anyone can nominate. Every vote is email-verified and counted once. Nominations are open now, and the ballot is built from them.

Nominate Your GymRequest your city
Nominations openSouth FloridaMiami · Fort Lauderdale · West Palm BeachCloses Sep 30 · 6 categories openEnter →Opening next · pre-validatedOrlandoWinter Park · Kissimmee · SanfordAlready on the calendar · not a demand raceGet notified →Anywhere in the USYour cityRegions open where the community asks firstEvery request counts toward openingNominate your region →

South Florida · Season 2026 · Nominations

The ballot opens in October, built from these nominations

Nominations run all September, free and open. Anyone in the community writes in their gyms and coach in the six categories below. The five most-nominated in each become the finalists on the October ballot. Owners can’t nominate themselves — that’s the whole point.

6Open categories
Sep 30Nominations close
OctBallot opens
Nominate now

Free · one email confirms every category · why counts are private during nominations

CategoriesNOMINATIONS OPEN
Best BJJ GymWrite-in open
Best Kids ProgramWrite-in open
Best Competition TeamWrite-in open
Best Gym for BeginnersWrite-in open
Best Women's ProgramWrite-in open
Coach of the YearWrite-in open

Finalists are the five most-nominated in each category. How the count works →

The count

Every vote counted once. Every count public.

An award is worth exactly what its count is worth. So the count is the product, and it works the same in every city.

Every vote counted once

Confirmed by email

You vote. We send a link. You click. That click is what makes your vote count.

One person, one vote

One verified vote per category, per person, per season. Enforced at the database level.

Every count public

Public numbers

Every winner is announced with the final vote count attached, on the site and printed on the plaque.

Open methodology

How votes are verified, checked and counted is published in plain English for anyone to read.

Read the methodology →

Independent and black belt-run, with no media company behind it. Every category is decided on the ballot, and any offer comes only after the results are public. Who's behind it →

While nominations are open

Your gym only makes the ballot if its people nominate it.

Owners can’t nominate themselves. The people who train there can — and they’re the ones who decide who ends up on the October ballot.

Nominate the gyms you train at

Six categories. Write in any gym or coach. One email link confirms them all.

Tell your teammates

Ballots are built from nominations. If nobody writes your gym in during September, it doesn’t appear in October.

Tag @thebjjawards

We repost gym communities showing up for their own. The louder a city gets, the sooner the next one opens.

The season · every region runs the same clock

Four stages. Then it's over

SOUTH FLORIDA · NOWSep 1-30
Nominations

Anyone can nominate a gym or coach. Free and open to everyone.

Oct 1-31
Voting

The top five in each category reach the ballot. One verified vote per person, per category.

Early November
Winners

Winners are announced with the full count. Every winner receives a free digital badge.

November onward
The wall plaque

Only after the results are final is anything offered. Winners may order a plaque. Nobody has to.

South Florida nominations close September 30

Your gym won't
nominate itself

Six categories. The five most-nominated in each advance to October's ballot. One email confirms everything.

Nominate now

NOT IN SOUTH FLORIDA? REQUEST YOUR REGION →