Archives for January 29, 2013

YoYoFactory‘s 2013 West Coast Tour and Southern California YoYo Contest ended with a bang this weekend, with dozens of new yoyo players showing up to compete for the very first time, and established champs like Alex Hattori, Ernest Kahn, Clint Armstrong, and more competing for the top prizes. The YoYoFactory demonstration team spent two weeks in and around the Palm Springs area doing daily school and in-store demonstrations and teaching sessions, and judging by the contest turnout the tour definitely did its job! With an estimated attendance of more than 600 people and nearly 50 registered competitors, YoYoFactory is doing a great job bringing new players to the sport, and they got a ton of press for this event! Full results are below!

There was also an unfortunate mistake made during score tabulation that resulted in Alex Hattori’s score being incorrectly listed the day of the event at 7th Place, instead of his correct placing (shown below) of 2nd Place in the Open Division. Contest organizer Tyler Severance has issued this apology:

I would like to offer a huge apology to Alex and Linda Hattori. Alex did an incredible job with his 3A freestyle in the Open division, but unfortunately there was a mistake made while calculating scores and Alex’s 1A Prelim score was used instead of his much higher Open score. He didn’t recieve his earned 2nd place title and instead was calulated as 7th. Alex and his mother Linda very kindly asked to see his raw scores and remained persistent during a busy time of the contest, showing us a mistake that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. I would again like to apologize to Alex and his mother but also thank them for bringing this to our attention, and we certainly intend to improve our accuracy for the future.

1A Champion – Paolo Bueno

Open Champion – Patrick Borgerding

1A Prelim