YoYo Related News From Around The World
Earlier today, YoyoFactory’s only “graduated” protegé, Marcin Drzewiecki won the 2012 Polish National Yo-yo Contest held in Lodz with a killer freestyle!
This is Marcin’s second national title in a row, he also got 4th place at the European Yo-yo Contest earlier this year and is the newest star in the traditionally strong Polish scene.
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Kazuki Okada, of team Febre’s, took back the West Japan 1A throne this year, after finishing 2nd place in 2011. This is Okada’s fourth West Japan title!
In 2A, Ryo Yamashita dominated the division, taking 1st place by a large margin, while Hajime Miura faced a tougher competition in 3A, barely edging out favorite Taiichiro Higashi.
4A and 5A titles went to Duncan Crew members Kazuaki Sugimura and Takayuki Kuriyama, respectively.
Check the final standings!
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An action-packed weekend approaches quickly!
In Japan, one of the country’s oldest regional contests, West Japan will take place in Osaka. Plenty of well known names are expected, including Tatsuya Fujisaka, Ryosuke Iwasaka, Ryo Yamashita, Ryusei Saito, Taichiro Higashi, and Kazuaki Sugimura. A certain “Jyon Ando” is listed among the 58 1A players, and it remains to be seen if that’s the legendary John Ando himself!
Live transmission is planned on Ustream!
In Europe, the attention is turned to Poland, running the eleventh edition of its national contest. Poland’s old and new talents will meet again after an excellent show earlier this year at the European Yo-yo Contest. European Champion Grzegorz Wojcik, from One Drop, and YoyoFactory’s Marcin Drzewiecki and Mateusz Ganc are no doubt the favorites there.
Stay tuned, as we’ll be back with contest updates throughout the weekend!
Asia’s biggest contest is back! Readers will remember the contest was postponed last November with no new date defined. This week we had an announcement of a new date, from July 13th to 15th, in Singapore.
From the announcement, AP will be held along with this year’s Singapore Nationals, at the Singapore Street Festival!
Several people complained on Facebook that the dates are the same as this year’s China Yo-yo Contest, which is itself a huge contest where several players from Hong Kong and mainland China compete, so one of them will probably be missing Chinese contestants.
More information should be up in the near future, so stay tuned!