YoYo Related News From Around The World
The 2019 contest season is in full swing around the world, and as usual all eyes are on Japan to see who will be advancing to Japan Nationals and finally to the 2019 World YoYo Contest. Check out full results from the Central Japan Regionals, along with video of the winners!
We’ve got video of the winners of the 2016 World YoYo Contest! You can view Prelim & Semi-Final routines here: YoYoVideoArchive, and the rest of the Finals are being uploaded slowly but surely here: 2016 World YoYo Contest on YouTube.
The results are in! A huge THANK YOU to everyone who voted, we appreciate your support! And now…here are your winners for the YoYoNews Best of 2014!
5A World Champion Takeshi Matsuura squeaked out a win here in a narrow margin over US National and 44Clash Champion Zach Gormley. Takeshi took 2nd Place in 1A at the 2014 World YoYo Contest, and everyone is looking to him for a win on his home turf at the World YoYo Contest in Tokyo this year. It’s rare for a player to be such a threat in multiple divisions, but Takeshi’s skill is off the charts and everyone is looking to him to be the next Shinji Saito. And speaking of…
12-time World Champion Shinji Saito ran away with your votes this year, proving that even after a year of very little contest activity his skill still absolutely dominates the minds of yoyo players everywhere. YoYoFactory’s Shu Takada toook the next highest percentage of votes, and is definitely a favorite for this year’s event in Tokyo. If Shinji doesn’t compete, Shu’s only real competition will be reigning World Champion Takuma Yamamoto, and that’s going to be a close match.
sOMEThING’s Hajime Miura, the current World Champion, brought home a solid win over 3-time World Champion Hank Freeman. Hajime and Hank are the top two 3A players in the world these days, and either of them could take home the gold on any given day. With Hajime just coming in to his prime, and Hank gearing up for a completely new 3-minutes of tricks for the 2015 World YoYo Contest, the only thing that’s certain is we’re going to get one hell of a show.
4-time World Champion Rei Iwakura (who recently announced his departure from Team YoYoJam) ran away with the win in our reader poll, but Michael Nakamura and Ben Conde nearly tied for second place. Zac Rubino has been making a lot of noise on the contest scene, but hasn’t built up his fan base just year. With Rei stepping down from YoYoJam and possibly changing his role in yoyoing to focuse more on performing and organizing, this could leave the field wide open for next year.
6-time World YoYo Champion Takeshi Matsuura took an easy win in the “Best 5A Player” category, much like he does at nearly every contest he enters. Even with the 5A division losing popularity around the world, Takeshi’s skills are still recognized and rewarded by players and judges alike.
This was an INCREDIBLY tight race, but the winner by just FOUR votes is Riccardo Fraolini! His Instagram feed for the past year has been the site of some of the most mind-blowing yoyo tricks ever captured on video, and even though everyone agreed that Piotrek Smietana’s “10,000 Hours” is one of the greatest yoyo videos of all time, Riccardo’s tricks were just too amazing not to win.
Ky Zizan’s 1A Freestyle at the 2014 Las Vegas Open was mind-blowing. The tricks were dense and flawless, the choreography to music was impeccable, and when he came out on stage and dropped his shirt to reveal a custom HOOPZ jersey designed for him by Paul Escolar, we knew all hell was about to break loose. Ky has been making some strong moves at yoyo contests over the past couple of years, and with a seed to the Semi-Finals at the 2015 World YoYo Contest in Tokyo it’s safe to say we can expect big things from him this year.
It’s no surprise to anyone that 2014 Worlds took top honors in this reader poll. From the venue to the 4-camera HD live stream, from the incredible amount of talent on stage to the sightseeing and after-parties in Prague, the 2014 World YoYo Contest was the absolute pinnacle of yoyo contests worldwide in the modern yoyoing era. Hats off and high-fives to Jan Kordovsky, Ondra Sedivy, and the entire Czech yoyo scene for hosting such an incredible event. The gauntlet has been thrown…the 2015 World YoYo Contest in Tokyo, Japan has a lot to live up to!
Congratulations to all of our winners, and thanks so much to all of our readers for their votes!
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2014 Vietnam National YoYo Contest! Check out video of the top winners below, and head over to YoYoAccessory’s YouTube Channel for video of all the competitors.
The 2014 Hungarian National YoYo Contest has come and gone, and former World Champion Janos Karancz has taken the title again!
Check out video below of the winners…we’ll post full results when we get them.
The level of play was high at the 2014 Hong Kong YoYo Contest…check out video of the Top 3 winners in each division, courtesy of our friends at C3YoYoDesign and the Hong Kong YoYo Fan Club!
The results are in for our #thisiseyyc Instagram contest with C3YoYoDesign! Each winner will receive a Limited Edition EYYC Level.6 and #thisiseyyc t-shirt in their size.
The winners are:
Today was the California State YoYo Championships, held in Sacramento, California. Check out partial results below, along with video of all the winners!
Today was the 2014 Florida State YoYo Contest, in Sanford, Florida. Check out the full results below, and video of the Top 3 winners in each championship division Huge thanks to Brandon Jackson for sending us the results and video!
We’ve got the final results of the 2014 European YoYo Championship! The competition was fierce, but in the end it was Germany’s Carlos Braun taking the championship in a huge upset! Janoz Karancz, the favorite to win, came in a staggering 5th Place in a 1A Division with some of the highest level of play we’ve ever seen in a European competition.
C3YoYoDesign’s David Molnar absolutely DESTROYED the 5A division with one of the best counterweight routines I’ve ever seen, and was the clear winner by a margin of more than 17 points!
We’ve got results for Day Two of the 2014 European YoYo Championship!
We’ve got the winning freestyles from the 2014 ShenZhen YoYo Contest, held last weekend in ShenZhen, China. Thanks to Jeremy from KingYoStar for getting these to us!
1A Finals – 1st Place – TianLe Chen
1A Finals – 2nd Place – 黃瑋傑
1A Finals – 3rd Place – 杨泽华
2A/3A Finals – 1st Place – 陳俊熙
2A/3A Finals – 2nd Place – 陳文輝
2A/3A Finals – 3rd Place – 苏陈栋
4A Finals – 1st Place – 何显祥
4A Finals – 2nd Place – 许永豪
4A Finals – 3rd Place – 吴锦楠
5A Finals – 1st Place – 崔正瑜
5A Finals – 2nd Place – 吴俊杰
5A Finals – 3rd Place – 陈祖烨
CLYW has posted the final results of their video contest!
Something about CLYW really brought out the best in people, because the entries for this contest are some of the best we’ve ever seen for any yoyo video contest. Winners are below, along with the commentary from CLYW. Congratulations, everyone!
First off I wanted to thank everyone for putting the time into creating such wonderful works of art! We were blown away by all of the amazing videos that came in for Round 1, and the top 10 did not disappoint for Round 2. Our favourite video was CMAK’s, it had everything we were looking for and more. It had a great story and was visually stunning. WOW!
CMAK is the winner of the full 2014 Collection, we’ll be shipping him an Arctic Circle: 2nd Expedition, Gnarwhal 2, Bonfire and Puffin 2. Once we get back from holidays we’ll start shipping everything out to our contestants.
For Most Inspiring, we have the Trinity YoYo Club’s video. It was incredibly touching and definitely catches what yoyoing is all about to all of us. We really enjoyed your use of the skateboarding quote. The Trinity YoYo Club has done so much for yoyoing this year and has helped inspire a whole new generation of throwers. Hats off to you guys!
For Most Dope, we have Andy Jones’ video. I think this has happened to all of us, you’re completely in the zone feeling like a yoyo rockstar and then BAM taken right back down with the words How old are you? You sure brought it Andy and we’re super impressed with how good you’re getting. WOW!
For Slickest Tricks, we have Chase Baxter. You brought the tricks, well done!
Each of these honourable mentions will be getting a brand new Bonfire along with a Yeti for winning Round 1. Thanks so much guys!
Huge thanks to YoYoAccessory.com for getting up video from the 2013 Vietnam National YoYo Contest! Looks like the skill level in Vietnam just keeps rising…it’s great to see this scene continue to develop.