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2014 Pan American YoYo Contest CANCELED

May 4, 2014 By Steve Brown

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The 2014 Pan American YoYo Contest has been cancelled. We’re going to reach out soon to the IYYF and see if this means the Las Vegas Open Yoyo Championship will remain a seeding event, or if it will continue on as a stand-alone contest.

To clarify, the organizers have confirmed the Las Vegas Open WILL proceed, whether it is an IYYF seeding event or not. The Asia Pacific and European multi-national events serve more than a dozen national events each, while the Pan American contest predominately serves the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil; there are national events in Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia but none of these have risen to the level of the rest of the contests in this region, and their champions are rarely able to attend events held outside of their respective countries. There have been rumors of the Bay Area Classic serving as the 2014 Pan American seeding event, but nothing confirmed from the IYYF.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank organizer Greg Cohen for his many years of service to the yoyo community and industry. He held the World YoYo Contest together for many years, when no one else had the resources or wherewithal to do it. While it appears his tenure as a major contest organizer has come to a close, we all owe Greg a huge debt of gratitude for his efforts. It’s now on the rest of us to build on the foundation that he laid and create a better, stronger international contest system moving forward.

Please read Cohen’s official statement below.

I have tried very hard to create a new major contest with a new mission for the yo-yo community. Unfortunately this may not have been the time to do it. Before I announced this event, we had verbal agreements of support from many sponsors and volunteers, but as the event has approached thing have changed that we appreciate that have prevented this support from coming through. Without having the  sponsorship we need to make this event a success and due to the fact we have had almost no hotel registrations to this point, I regret we are forced to cancel the Pan American International Yo-Yo Contest.

I had amazing hopes for this event to grow over the years, and to do some amazing things, and I am sad that this will not come to pass. One of my joys of running yo-yo contests has been to essentially build a clock with a fine movement, wind it up and see it run. Some years this has happened smoother than others, but until now it has always worked.

I am are sad to say that I have had to cancel this event, and I want to apologize to everyone who has give us their support, trust and time to help try create it over the past year.

It has been a pleasure to work with you all.

I look forward to the next Multi-National IYYF seeded contest that will be hosted by Steve Brown called the 2014 Las Vegas Open YoYo Championship, that will happen on December 29th and 30th.

Thank you all for letting me do what I love all these years, and I hope you will let me try again at some point in the future.

-GRegory Cohen

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: canceled, Pan American International Yo-Yo Contest

Pan American International Yo-Yo Contest Announced

February 12, 2014 By Patrick Borgerding

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There has been a lot of talk since the restructuring of the World Yo-Yo Contest by the IYYF about the possibility of creating a contest similar in function to the European Yo-Yo Championship and Asia Pacific Championship in America. Due to the number of National Contests that are now being held, which is a great sign about the expansion of the community, continental competitions will now be the only contests to seed to the World competition; however, America previously did not have a contest for Pan-America, thus Gregory Cohen (previous organizer of the World Yo-Yo Contest) and Isaac Kanarek (Chair of Mexican Yo-Yo Association) have teamed with Johnnie DelValle and Bill De Bois Blanc to bring the inaugural Pan American International Yo-Yo Contest (which would make the acronym PAIN–I’m not opposed to calling it this).

The contest will be held at the, apparently, timeless Rosen Plaza in Orlando, Florida, the previous home to the World Yo-Yo Contest from 2000-2013. This is a big step in the yo-yo community as the contest circuit is becoming more complete and well defined; however, the main concern with the World Yo-Yo Contest was that it had run stale at the Rosen, so it will be interesting to see if there are any substantial changes to inject some excitement into the new contest. With Isaac’s involvement, hopefully some positive changes come to fruition for contests held at the Rosen.

Keep an eye out on the website for when registration opens and additional info: Pan American International Yo-Yo Competition.

Here is an official statement from Contest Director Gregory Cohen:

After a lot of work, from a lot of people, the PAI yo-yo contest is now confirmed. It will be one of the three events that seed into the finals at the World Yo-Yo Contest, wich this year will be held in Prague. The contest will seed winners from every national yo-yo contest in North and South America. In addition to the Seeded freestyles that seed into the WYYC, this year we will also have a non-seeded freestyle division the will only be one minute freestyles (We’re open to naming suggestions here.) This is intended for players that are not at the top level to let them compete, and to let them have the exprience of a contest of this size.

We are happy to have the staff that has supported past Orlando events back, and the staff list will grow soon as we finalize staff positions.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Orlando.

-GReg

Director 2014 Pan American Yo-Yo Contest

Filed Under: Contests, General News Tagged With: iyyf, PAI, PAIN, Pan American International Yo-Yo Contest, world yo-yo contest

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