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2015 World Yo-yo Contest Day 3 Freestyle Order

August 14, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

Another busy and exciting day awaits players and visitors tomorrow at the World Yo-yo Contest in Tokyo! The complete freestyle order can be found on the official website.

The semi-final round this year is where things get really serious, as only last year’s World Champions are seeded into the final round. All national and continental champions, in addition to the players qualified from the preliminary round, will have to prove their worth in this round.

These are some of the highlights in each division:

1A

48 players still remain in this division, and only the top 17 will join Gentry Stein in the final round. We saw great freestyles in the preliminaries, including a fantastic show by Shion Araya, but him and the other players from today will face tough competition. Among those seeded into the semi-final round are World Champions Hiroyuki Suzuki, János Karancz, Marcus Koh, last year’s runner up and 5A beast Takeshi Matsuura, Asian Champions Iori Yamaki and Ahmad Kharisma, European Champion Jakub Dekan and Mexican duo Paul Kerbel and Luis Enrique Villasenor. There are more favorites than spots in the final round!

2A

In addition to Hiraku Fujii, who dominated the preliminary round, we’ll also see the legend Shinji Saito, and Shu Takada competing in the semi-finals, and they should be among everyone’s favorites. Can the foreigners prevent an all-Japan 2A final round? Hong Kong veterans Liu Man Ki and Chan Chun Hay definitely have a chance, but it’s not going to be easy!

3A

With so many great 3A players competing, it’s hard to tell who can make it to the final round, but we have great hopes of seeing great shows from Patrick Borgerding and Ng Wang Kit, players who are not afraid to pull super risky bangers on stage! They will need every bit of concentration to go against super consistent players like Mizuki Takimoto, Taichiro Higashi, and Hank Freeman!

4A

A couple of World Champions failed to qualify for the semi-final round, and now Michael Nakamura is the only one competing for a spot in the final round, but even without the former champions, the roster here is stacked, with Ben Conde, Quentin Godet, Han Sanprasert, and Zac Rubino always bringing their best to the stage!

5A

The American players are on the spotlight in the 5A semi-finals, with World Champion Tyler Severance, last year’s runner-up Jake Elliott, and the winner from the preliminary round, Bryan Jardin, all with great chances of making it to the final round. Hideo Ishida and Yoshihiro Abe should be Japan’s best bets here. Also worthy of notice is Mexico’s Betty Gallegos. Tyler Severance’s protege is the only female player in the semi-final round! Go Betty!

The Women’s Division will also be held tomorrow, by the way, and it’s quickly becoming a very serious division, with 21 players competing in a preliminary round to select the 10 finalists!

Be sure to check the live stream tomorrow!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: featured, semi-final, tokyo, world yoyo contest, wyyc, wyyc2015

2015 World Yo-yo Contest Day 2 (preliminaries) results

August 14, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

What a day! The second day of the World Yo-yo Contest in Tokyo is now over and we’re reaching the decisive stages of the competition!

The number of players was again significantly thinned down, and unlike yesterday, the preliminary round does include evaluation scores, so proper freestyle skills were required in order to live another day!

Here are the qualified players in each division:

1A

The toughest division, as usual, with only 23 out of 93 players making it to the next round. Shion Araya, C3yoyodesign player from Hokkaido, took first place, followed by CLYW’s Ayumu Harada, and sOMEThING’s Christopher Chia. Christopher and Jeremy Tan were the two Singaporeans surviving the prelims.

Also with two players making it to the semi-finals is USA, with Colin Beckford from Team Duncan earning a respectable 9th place, and Werrd’s Eric Tran-Ton in 21st. China also has two players among the top players in this round, with Chen Yang, and Weichuan Wang. Slusny’s Matous Tomes, from the Czech Republic was the only European among the qualified players. Other foreigners making it were Benson Fok, from Hong Kong, and Arif Rhamadan, from Indonesia.

Names like Yusuke Otsuka, Ryota Ogi, Akitoshi Tokubuchi, and Shinya Kido come as no surprise, but we are also excited to see “Yo-yo Baby” Kazuya Murata showing he can compete with the big kids!

With so few spots, it’s no surprise that some of the crowd favorites failed to move ahead, including Palli, Zhao Chen, and Paolo Bueno.

  1. Shion Araya (Japan)
  2. Ayumu Harada (Japan)
  3. Christopher Chia (Singapore)
  4. Ryuichi Nakamura (Japan)
  5. Izuru Hasumi (Japan)
  6. Yusuke Otsuka (Japan)
  7. Yamato Murata (Japan)
  8. Chen Yang (China)
  9. Colin Beckford (United States)
  10. Toya Kobayashi (Japan)
  11. Akitoshi Tokubuchi (Japan)
  12. Benson Fok (Hong Kong)
  13. Shinya Kido (Japan)
  14. Kazuki Okada (Japan)
  15. Kazuya Murata (Japan)
  16. Ryota Ogi (Japan)
  17. Matous Tomes (Czech Republic)
  18. Tsukasa Namba (Japan)
  19. Kento Muraoka (Japan)
  20. Jeremy Tan (Singapore)
  21. Eric Tran-Ton (United States)
  22. Arif Ramadhan (Indonesia)
  23. Weichuan Wang (China)

The full preliminary ranking for 1A can be found here.

2A

No surprises at the top of the list in 2A, as Hiraku Fujii finishes over 10 points ahead of the second place. It’s also no surprise that the list of players qualifying for the semi-finals only includes Japanese players, but it’s great to see that a new generation of 2A players is now showing great maturity, and is able to compete against the more seasoned players. The only disappointment here is Koichiro Ueta, who had a double discard that cost him a spot in the next round.

  1. Hiraku Fujii (Japan)
  2. Shuhei Kanai (Japan)
  3. Tomoyuki Kaneko (Japan)
  4. Ginji Miura (Japan)
  5. Yamato Fujiwara (Japan)
  6. Arata Imai (Japan)
  7. Shuji Kotani (Japan)
  8. Yuki Yamaguchi (Japan)
  9. Reo Takamatsu (Japan)
  10. Hajime Sakauchi (Japan)

3A

Only seven players made it to the semi-final round in 3A, and we can expect a fantastic round tomorrow, as Takumi Yasumoto and Minato Furuta top today’s results! Elliot Ogawa, the sole US player, earned a respectable 3rd place, preventing a Japanese clean sweep!

  1. Takumi Yasumoto (Japan)
  2. Minato Furuta (Japan)
  3. Elliot Ogawa (United States)
  4. Ryosuke Ito (Japan)
  5. Sora Tahira (Japan)
  6. Yuto Yamaguchi (Japan)
  7. Yuki Fujisawa (Japan)

Full results for 2A and 3A can be found here.

4A

Takumi Yasumoto is on fire! Not only he qualified in first place in 3A, but he also tops the 4A list! We’ll definitely keep an eye on him tomorrow!

4A is the second largest division, with 34 players in the preliminary round, and while we are excited about showmen Ben Conde and Futoshi Maruyama making it to the next round, we are also sad to see World Champions Tsubasa Onishi, and Naoto Okada failing to advance. US Champion Bryan Figueroa will also be missed in the semi-final round, as mere 0.6 points prevented him from advancing. That these guys did not make it proves how advanced competitive 4A has become!

  1. Takumi Yasumoto (Japan)
  2. Tsubasa Takada (Japan)
  3. Yuki Nishisako (Japan)
  4. Shinya Muraki (Japan)
  5. Ryo Oishi (Japan)
  6. Ben Conde (United States)
  7. Keita Kido (Japan)
  8. Futoshi Maruyama (Japan)
  9. Chang Chih Chieh (Taiwan)
  10. Koyo Hashimoto (Japan)

5A

If you ever wondered how clean your tricks need to be in order to compete at the World level, Bryan Jardin’s routine from yesterday is all you need to see. With 9.5 in Cleanliness, and a perfect 10 in Execution, Bryan shows hard practice pays off handsomely! Oh, he also had 9.5 in Music Use!

And speaking of Bryan Jardin, the other Duncan team members also did great, with young Yoshihiro Abe coming in 2nd place, and Takayuki “Marron” Kuriyama in 4th, right behind the trick artist Sora Ishikawa.

Hiroyasu “Pon” Ishihara, who led the Wildcard round yesterday, barely made it to the semi-finals, as a discard put him as the 8th and last player to qualify. 5A legend Shingo Terada failed to move ahead, but we feel blessed to have been able to see him on the stage once again!

  1. Bryan Jardin (United States)
  2. Yoshihiro Abe (Japan)
  3. Sora Ishikawa (Japan)
  4. Takayuki Kuriyama (Japan)
  5. Naoki Uemae (Japan)
  6. Tatsunori Yoshiba (Japan)
  7. Ju Zi Liang (China)
  8. Hiroyasu Ishihara (Japan)

4A and 5A full results can be found here.

Join us again tomorrow for even more World Yo-yo Contest!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: featured, preliminaries, result, tokyo, world yoyo contest, wyyc, wyyc2015

Spin Dynamics – Go With The Flow Ep. 1

August 14, 2015 By Steve Brown

Spin Dynamics is starting up a new video series where each video is a compilation of tricks by various players using the Spin Dynamics Flow yoyo, all posted on Instagram. Post up your own tricks and tag them with #‎GoWithTheFlow, and Spin Dynamics might feature you in the next one!

Featuring tricks by Andrew Maider, Eric Koloski, Rain Bowrys, Nick De Valpine, Daniel Franco, Doug Kapinos, Andrew Pesce, Dylan Ostrowski, Micah Wingell, and Nick Gumlaw.

Yoyo used is the Spin Dynamics Flow.

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: flow, spin dynamics, yoyo tricks, yoyo video

POV [Bonus]: Nikita Apon

August 14, 2015 By Steve Brown

Russian awesome guy Nikita Apon has a bonus episode of the POV series, a first-person video series showcasing members of the YoYoFactory Russia team. Predictably, this video is awesome.

Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Too HOT.

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: gopro, nikita apon, too hot, yoyo tricks, yoyo video, yoyofactory

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