Live leaderboard • Submit your cut • Climb the ranks
The ladder is coming soon.
One ranking, every barber, scored on the work rather than the following. Here is how it will run.
What the Championship is
One ladder, not a season
Most competitions reset. This one does not. There is a single persistent ranking, and your position moves every time you submit graded work. No brackets to miss, no month to sit out.
Before and after, not a highlight
Entries are transformations from real client sessions — the head as you found it and the head as you left it. A finished cut alone does not show the work; the pair does.
The same scanner everyone else uses
Entries are graded by the scanner that grades everything else, against the same reference chart. Nobody gets a different scale, and a hard line caps at 74 in the Championship exactly like it does anywhere else.
Opt in, cut by cut
Entering is a separate choice you make after a cut is finished. Scanning a client never enters them, or you, into anything automatically.
Prizes to be announced
The ladder runs on its own regardless — placement is public whether or not anything is on the line. The prize structure will be posted here before any competition it applies to, so nobody enters guessing.
Get in position early.
The Championship scores the same graded cuts you are already scanning. Start building a record now and you will not be starting from zero when it opens.
Download Grade The FadeThe existing site lives at gtfchampionship.com
SUBMIT. GRADE. CLIMB.