One of the hardest things to do is to go to a tournament and find that their is no one in a bracket for you due age, weight, experience level, etc. It would be great if in the literature or tourney website that it will be mentioned how situations such as these will be handled. Many of the popular tournaments locally start their "masters" at age 30 or 40 leaving those much older in a bad situation, having to compete against someone much younger (with its inherent injury risk if the younger person is too gung ho) or similar. I believe an attempt should be made to have all inclusive brackets such as IBJJF has with senior 1,2,3,4,5 and the organizer can list for example that if there is no senior 5 available for you then they could move you up to perhaps senior 3 or similar. Thanks