YoYo Related News From Around The World
Keiran Cooper said:
Opting out of competing at this year’s PNWR yielded arguably the most fun I’ve had at a yo-yo competition
and after watching this video, we agree. Looks like PNWR was an absolute blast, and huge thanks to Keiran for putting together such a beautiful love letter to this contest.
One of the best parts of heading to a contest are the house parties that spring up around them, and the videos we sometimes get from them. PNWR gave us a pile of serious talent crashing at Will Prater’s house, including Tessa Piccillo, Nehemiah Peterson, Alann “Hotpocket” Herrera, and AJ Garcia.
Sweet.
Jeffrey Pang brings us a ground level view of the 2017 Pacific Northwest Regional YoYo Contest, held recently in Seattle, WA. Featuring all the good stuff from Evan Nagao, David Ung, Colin Beckford, Harrison Lee, The Bird, Keiran Cooper, and plenty more.
Check out full results, scoring breakdowns, and video of the winners from the 2017 Pacific Northwest Regional YoYo Championship!
We got TWO recap videos from Harrison Lee this week…one from last year’s Las Vegas Open, and this one from this year’s PNWR. Fantastic…thanks, Harrison!
YoYoFactory cut together a great highlight reel from the 1A division of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Regional YoYo Contest, held this past weekend in Seattle. (Click here for full results and video of the winners.) Great looking footage as always from YoYoFactory!
The 2016 Pacific Northwest Regional took place over the weekend in Seattle, Washington and we’ve got full scoring breakdowns and video of the winners!
Harrison Lee brings us another fantastic contest recap video, this one for the 2015 Pacific Northwest Regionals! This one is a quickie, but gives a nice look at the hang-out scene at this contest.
Jeffrey Pang brings us an absolute masterpiece of a contest recap video, with highlights from PNWR 2015, the Pacific Northwest Regionals.
Featuring tricks from Michael Kurti, Zach Gormley, JT Nickel, Harrison Lee, Doc Pop, Ibrahim Rahman, Paul Dang, Eric Koloski, and more.
The 2015 Pacific Northwest Regionals was held this past weekend, and the level of talent at this event was intense! All of the players in the Top 10 were fantastic, but ultimately CLYW player Michael Kurti took home the top honors in the 1A Division. Check out the winning freestyles and full results below. (Players highlighted in yellow are the highest placing from the Pacific Northwest Region, and are seeded to Finals at the 2015 US National YoYo Contest. Players whose names are in red on the final scoring sheets are seeded to semi-finals at US Nationals.)
4th Place – Nate Dailey (Chico YoYo Company) – 87.7
5th Place – Michael Nakamura (sOMEThING) – 87.2
6th Place – Colin Beckford (Duncan Toys) – 80.9
7th Place – Luckey Yulin Li (King Yo Star) – 78.9
8th Place – Harrison Lee (CLYW) – 78.7
9th Place – Patrick Canny (YoYoFactory) – 78.5
[highlight color=”yellow”]10th Place – Odon Alberto Jr. – 74.5[/highlight]
11th Place – Matthew Poon – 71.7
12th Place – Michael Marshall (GSquared) – 71.2
13th Place – Noah Bachofen – 68.1
14th Place – Ken Luo – 67.7
15th Place – Paul Dang (One Drop) – 67.4
16th Place – Ethan Cheung – 65.2
17th Place – Nehemiah Peterson (Werrd) – 64.9
18th Place – Angelo Aguirre (GeneralYo) – 64.6
19th Place – Skyler Routon (Chico YoYo Company) – 64.4
20th Place – Lake Steppan – 60.9
21st Place – Aaron Bendich – 60.4
22nd Place – Kyle Hedges (Monkeyfinger) – 58.6
23rd Place – Zack Lin – 58.5
24th Place – Ibrahim Rahman (YoYoFactory) – 58.2
25th Place – JT Nickel (One Drop) – 54.7
26th Place – Stephanie Haight (YoYoJam) – 51.1
27th Place – Joey Montoya – 50.8
28th Place – David Ung (YoYoFactory) – 44.7
[highlight color=”yellow”]1st Place – Jordan Sambueno – 76.3[/highlight]
2nd Place – Hugh Higinbotham – 65.0
3rd Place – Alex Kim – 0.2
[highlight color=”yellow”]1st Place – Ken Luo – 79.5[/highlight]
2nd Place – Colin Beckford – 78.2
3rd Place – Elijah Tan – 72.0
4th Place – Mason DeVriend – 44.0
5th Place – Keiran Cooper – 15.9
[highlight color=”yellow”]2nd Place – Trivet Sembel – 79.3[/highlight]
3rd Place – Steven Yok Wai Lee – 78.3
4th Place – Nate Dailey (Chico YoYo Company) – 71.9
5th Place – Noah Bachofen – 71.6
6th Place – Jeremy McKay (King Yo Star) – 70.3
7th Place – Harrison Lee (CLYW) – 61.1
8th Place – Matthew Poon – 46.7
9th Place – Rick Cobb – 38.2
10th Place – Keiran Cooper – 35.9
11th Place – Anthony Martinez – 43.9
12th Place – Nehemiah Peterson (Werrd) – 34.4
[highlight color=”yellow”]1st Place – Kyle Hedges (Monkeyfinger) – 88.0[/highlight]
2nd Place – Patrick Canny (YoYoFactory) – 81.1
3rd Place – Boming Wang – 80.2
4th Place – Michael Kurti (CLYW) – 76.8
5th Place – Michael Marshall (GSquared) – 74.5
6th Place – Robbie Graham – 60.2
7th Place – Luke Reinert – 57.4
8th Place – Mason DeVriend – 50.8
9th Place – Aaron Bendich – 40.5
You can always count on 2013 Canadian National Champion Harrison Lee for a great recap video! Here is Harrison’s look at the 2014 Pacific Northwest Regional event, recently held in Seattle, WA. PNWR is the first NYYL Regional event of 2014, and a great way to kick off the contest season. Click here for full results from the event.
This is the 10th year of PNWR, organized by National YoYo Master Nathan Crissey. Next year he’ll be handing the contest over to TMBR’s Colin Leland and it’s moving up to Portland. Nathan had an absolutely amazing run building this event up into something truly first class…congratulations on an amazing run, Nathan!
Pacific Northwest Regionals at the Seattle Center was a HUGE regional this year. Some big names competed and the results are in! Props to Michael Nakamura for winning BOTH 1A and 4A! Talk about skill!
Some videos being posted via KingYoStar YouTube Page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/KingYoStarVideo
We’ve gathered up some great yoyo news from around the web…check out some great press coverage for PNWR, Palli, and Black!
More press for PNWR from SeattlePI.com!
Some awesome hometown press for Palli from News of Iceland.
And BLACK is getting some great press for this TED talk, including from Boing Boing and PC Mag.
Here’s a compilation of yoyo news around the web that we found…enjoy!
TechCrunch gives us an absolutely painful listing of every single yoyo-related pun imaginable in their non-coverage of two Kickstarter projects involving yoyos, and one involving a fire flying disc of some kind that they lumped in with yoyos for no discernible reason.
Korean pop fansite AllKPop.com gives us some great coverage of Hiroyuki Suzuki’s recent appearance on Star King with members of k-pop group KARA.
KomoNews.com published a great photo gallery from the Pacific NorthWest Regional YoYo Contest.