WINSLOW — The Maine Skirmish grappling tournament will celebrate its 20th anniversary Sunday at Winslow High School.

The all-day tournament begins at 10:30 a.m. and will feature a number of different classes. It will open with kids sumo and teen events, leading up to the featured adult competition.

“It’s a freestyle grappling tournament, which means you can enter pretty much doing any style of martial arts,” tournament promoter Mike Huard said. “Most people will be using jujitsu, judo, wrestling or submission fighting. Most people of any other style won’t fair too well and they won’t enter.”

The adult division will be broken into four different categories — women, men’s lightweight, men’s middleweight and men’s heavyweight — with a King of the Skirmish champion to be crowned out of a division open to all comers.

The kids division competes in a single two-minute round, while all others last four minutes. If a submission is not achieved, the decision will go to the judges. Championship matches are six minutes, with a two-minute overtime possible in the event a decision cannot be reached.

Last year’s champions include Joshua Spalding, Shawn Smith, Bernadette Watkins, Dee Logue and absolute champion Nick Gulley. The tournament — which draws competitors from throughout the region and Canada — counts UFC alumni Marcus Davis, Kenny Florian, Tim Sylvia and Mike Brown as former participants.

“Pretty much every year we have 200 to 250 people that compete,” Huard said. “It’s a pretty full day of competition. We run four mats pretty much from 10:30 in the morning until 7 at night.”

Tickets for spectators are $8 and children 3-and-under are free.

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