Gordon Ryan is unsurprisingly complaining (again) after watching CJI 2.

After Day 1 of CJI 2, Ryan felt there was a “bias” against his New Wave team after Giancarlo Bodoni’s controversial “Brazilian tap.” Now, he’s complaining about “corruption” after New Wave lost by tiebreaker at Day 2.

Gordon Ryan: New Wave losing via tiebreaker at CJI 2 was ‘corruption at its finest’

CJI 2’s $1 million team tournament final had a lot of drama. Rivals and former teammates New Wave and B-Team met at the final, and with all five bouts going the distance, the match up initially ended as a 47-47 tie. In the event of a draw, the winner will be decided by the last match up, which was Nick Rodriguez’s dominant performance over Luke Griffith that judges scored a 10-8.

This led to B-Team winning the $1 million, but Gordon Ryan believes it was corruption. He believes CJI 2 officials made up the rules to guarantee that B-Team beat New Wave.

“Corruption at its finest. Not surprised at all,” Gordon Ryan wrote on instagram. “Making up rules on the spot is always a good way to guarantee your team wins.”

Did CJI change the rules? Was it even a bad scorecard?

It’s worth noting that there really is a bit of a conflict of interest with Craig Jones promoting the event, hiring the officials, and technically having a team he represents in the tournament. Craig Jones didn’t join B-Team on this tournament, and those conflicts were disclosed to the public in advance, but it is still there.

That being said, this doesn’t really read like corruption, and no they didn’t just change the rules now to make B-Team win.

Internet archives show that the CJI 2 website already displayed these very rules at least a week before the event:

“IF TIED ON SCORECARDS, THE TEAM WHOSE ATHLETE WON THE FINAL BOUT WINS,” CJI 2’s rulebook displayed. “IF THE FINAL BOUT IS A DRAW, THE WIN GOES TO THE TEAM WHOSE ATHLETE LAST WON A NON-DRAW BOUT.”

If Ryan was unaware of the rules, hopefully his New Wave teammates weren’t, because that’s been established before the event started.

As for Nicky Rod’s clutch performance, it added drama, but the scoring isn’t really farfetched.

New Wave seemed to have won three of the four initial matches, while Rodriguez was so dominant in the fifth match that a 10-8 score wasn’t surprising.

The only case I could see people making is that Dorian Olivarez also deserved a 10-8, but that’s subjective too. Either score would’ve been logical and acceptable, but ultimately, only Rodriguez’s clutch performance was deemed a 10-8 by the judges, which not only caused the 47-47 draw, it also served as the crucial tiebreaker.

It’s understandable if people don’t like the final outcome, but the rules didn’t suddenly change, and the scores were certainly logical and acceptable. It’s just that Ryan, as predicted, was always going to complain about CJI 2 regardless.

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