We attended KWON Grandslam at Solihull Sports centre on Sunday 23rd March 2014. Myself – Mr O’Loughlin and Stuart Hicken from The Martial Arts Federation of Great Britain, observed that the FEKO international officials that were judging Kata were awarding their own teams high scores and marking visiting teams very low scores to ensure that their own team won all the medals. There were students from the FEKO team that did their kata but were not strong – there was no power to there moves but got good scores whilst other competitors showed good technique and very strong moves but were not given good scores to reflect this. During the Kata competition once all the FEKO had been on and taken part one of the officials approached our official and told him to score the remaining teams low. There were 4 of their judges to our one so the scoring system was totally unfair and open to biased scoring. This is totally unacceptable and also needs to be addressed when KWON meet up with all of the officials to discuss their behaviour. Match fixing is unsportsmanly and not acceptable in Martial Arts or any sport. There were people who attended on the day to take part in the competition. They worked very hard and to a good standard but were cheated out of medals because of crooked officials fixing scores. KWON you need to get this sorted out. We want reimbursing because we had give back money to fighters that never fought because they were matched up to fight their own team members and did not fight at the time. We paid a lot of money out on entries to the competition on they day. Also with travel expenses etc we spent a lot of cash out on a wasted day that was corrupt and unenjoyable.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:13:27 +0000