The NASKA Banquet is an awards ceremony to honor and recognize your accomplishments for the 2025 year. Family and friends are welcome to attend and help celebrate your achievements.
Overall Grand Champion
Overall Grand Champions with other ratings will also have the opportunity to purchase eligible awards.
Grand Champion
Grand Champions with other ratings will also have the opportunity to purchase eligible awards.
World Champion is a competitor who placed 1st in any division listed in the World Black Belt Ratings.
World Champions with World Top Ten ratings will also have the opportunity to purchase World Top Ten awards.
World Top Ten is a competitor who placed 2nd through 10th in any division listed in the World Black Belt Ratings.
World Champion Team is a competitor whose team placed 1st in any team division listed in the World Black Belt Ratings.
World Champions Team with World Top Ten ratings will also have the opportunity to purchase World Top Ten awards.
World Top Ten Team is a competitor whose team placed 2nd through 10th in any division listed in a team World Black Belt Ratings.
National Champion is a competitor who placed 1st in any division listed in the National Ratings.
National Champions with National Top Ten ratings will also have the opportunity to purchase National Top Ten awards.
National Top Ten is a competitor who placed 2nd through 10th in any division listed in the National Ratings.
We are excited to announce that this year once again we will be allowing all attendees to select their seats in advance of the banquet. After the registration deadline of January 14th, we will send out an e-mail to all of the attendees letting you search for other registered competitors and choose your table. Groups and teams can reserve tables after January 10th to let their teammates select from.
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We can make arrangements for attendees with food allergies. Please note when registering if any food allergies apply.
All competitors receiving awards must register for the banquet regardless if he/she is able to attend.
The deadline to register for the NASKA Banquet and guarantee your awards will be available for pick-up at the NASKA Banquet is Wednesday, January 14th at Midnight.
Ratings posted are the final ratings provided by NASKA. Please notify us if there is any errors in your ratings or the spelling of your name at the time of registering.
The AKA WARRIOR CUP is proud to host the NASKA Awards Banquet at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk.
No. You can order awards to be shipped to you. However, to access the awards and order them, you must register for the banquet and pay the registration fee.
Everyone pays the banquet registration fee regardless of whether they can attend. This Banquet fee covers all administrative, handling, and processing of your awards, all shipping for USA-based participants, most of the shipping for international attendees and all costs, including food, for the in-person portion of the event. In addition, it helps cover the cost of the free awards included for all NASKA Overall Grand Champions, Grand Champions, World Champions, and National Champions.
*NASKA as an organization does not pay for or fund the Banquet in any way. It is completely funded and produced by the AKA Warrior Cup. Despite the Banquet fee, the AKA Warrior Cup makes no profit and, in fact, donates much of the expense for the banquet in order to assure the quality and professionalism NASKA competitors deserve.
Due to the shorter amount of time between opening banquet registration and the banquet itself, the deadline to claim and purchase awards has been extended. You can register and claim or purchase awards through January 31, 2026.
Before you decide your ratings are incorrect, please go check the links for World Ratings: HERE and National Ratings: HERE, and search for the competitor’s name in each. This action will bring up all divisions in which the competitor is rated. By clicking on the competitor’s name, you will see a drop down list showing all results included in the rating and points earned for each result. Verify that there is an error through this process before submitting a support request.
If you find that there is an error in placement, missing results, etc you are also asked to verify during the banquet registration process. The first step when you begin to register is to view your ratings and to verify them or to submit a support request if there is a mistake. Rest assured that we will work with you to resolve all issues so that you can select the correct awards.
*Please use this process or the support request link on MATAction.com for any correction requests. We cannot respond to social media messages, emails to other accounts or phone calls regarding corrections.
We are using MAT Action to register competitors, friends and family. Please click Register to go to MAT Action
