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Final List of Competitors for 2016 World YoYo Contest

July 17, 2016 By Steve Brown

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Online registration has ended for the 2016 World YoYo Contest, and we’ve got the final list of registered competitors!

Updates for the 2016 World YoYo Contest will be completely taking over YoYoNews.com very soon. We’ll have full coverage of the event, an embedded live stream of the contest with schedule, and we’ll have final results and scoring breakdowns posted direct from the contest as the winners are announced!

1A Division

Adrian Velez United States
Ahmad Kharisma Luhur Indonesia
Aidan Cioch United States
Alec Jones United States
Alex Salchert United States
Alex Muromcew United States
Andrew Riley United States
Andrew Pesce United States
Andrew Bergen United States
Andrew Maider United States
Anthony Bufalini United States
Anthony Cornell United States
Anthony Rojas United States
Aristidis Voultsios Greece
Ayumu Harada Japan
Beatriz Gallegos Gracia Mexico
Ben McNeary United States
Benjamin Kramer United States
Benjamin Diaz United States
Blaise Becker United States
Bradley Raye United States
Brandon Murphy United States
Brandon Napper United States
Brett Nemeroff United States
Brian Reece United States
Brian Long United States
Caleb Walker United States
Chad Drye United States
Chandler Steele United States
Charles Saunders, III United States
Chloé Monsonégo Belgium
chris rodrigues United States
Christian Kennedy United States
Christian Lee United States
Christian Veselovsky Canada
Clint Armstrong United States
Cody Krzyzaniak United States
Cody Brown United States
Colin Beckford United States
Connor Seals United States
Daniel Flaherty United States
Daniel Dietz United States
David Kane United States
Dennis Cinquegrani United States
Douglas kapinos United States
Elias Smith United States
EMILIANO RIVERO Mexico
Eric Tran-Ton United States
eric Koloski United States
Eric Rosenthal United States
Erik Bjork United States
Ernest Kahn United States
Ethan Cheung United States
Ethan David United States
Evan Gronberg United States
Evan Nagao United States
Evan Rodriguez United States
Evan Slack United States
Gabriel Adams United States
Gabriel Cabral United States
Gentry Stein United States
Grayson Johnson United States
Greg Angel United States
Haoze Yu Australia
Harrison Lee Canada
Hiroki Ishikawa Japan
Hiroyuki Suzuki Japan
Ho Kwan Li Hong Kong
Hunter Feuerstein United States
Ian Self United States
Indy Kwatra United States
Isaac Nozick United States
ISSEI SUZUKi United States
Ivan Maslin Kazakhstan
Jacob Vaughn United States
Jacob McKenney United States
jake lerman United States
Janos Karancz Hungary
Jared Marcus United States
Jason Gartling United States
Javier Augusto Martínez Mexico
Jeremiah Drabik United States
Joey Montoya United States
Jonathan Theis United States
Jose Wing Tung Lam Hong Kong
Josh Lerman United States
Josh Kanoff United States
Keiran Cooper United States
Kenta Kushiro Japan
Kevin Nicholas United States
Kilian Keefe United States
Kohel Mintz Canada
Ky Zizan United States
Kyle Derry United States
Louis Munson United States
Lucas Gremler United States
Luckey Yulin LI Canada
Luis Enrique Villaseñor Mexico
luis orlando abrajan flores Mexico
Luke Trautwein United States
Marcus Koh Singapore
Mark Mangarin United States
Micah Wingell United States
Michael Stecz United States
Michael Kurti United States
Michael Maddeaux Canada
Michael Ferdico United States
Michael Lundy United States
Miles Lance United States
Nate Dailey United States
Nehemiah Peterson United States
Nicholas de Valpine United States
Nicholas Beland Canada
Noah Chin United States
Pall Gudmundsson Iceland
Paolo Bueno United States
Paul Harness United States
Paul Kerbel Mexico
Petr Kavka Czech Republic
Philip White United States
Philip Pacific, Jr. United States
Rain Bowrys United States
Remy Baskin United States
Riccardo Fraolini Italy
RYAN COOPER Canada
Ryosuke Iwasawa Japan
ryota ogi Japan
Samuel Groven United States
Sean de los Santos United States
Sebastian Brock United States
sergio Licona Mexico
Seth Reddekop Canada
Shane Pelletier United States
Shane Lubecker United States
Shinya Kido Japan
Shion Araya Japan
SHUYUN TANG China
Sitta Nattasomboon Thailand
Stuart White United States
Takeshi Matsuura Japan
Tal Mordoch Israel
Tanner Feuerstein United States
Tate Hickman United States
Tessa Piccillo United States
Thomas Ford United States
Thomas-Henry Schindler United States
Tomoaki Clark United States
Tyler Brooks United States
Tyler Vienneau Canada
Tylor McCallumore United States
Vilmos Zoltan Kiss Hungary
Wilbert Chavez United States
Xinyu Zhang China
Yamato Murata Japan
Yuan-Ching Yang Taiwan
YUSUKE OTSUKA Japan
Yuuki Spencer United States
Zach Gormley United States
Zach Morris United States

2A Division

CHENGHAO YI China
Connor Scholten United States
Hiraku Fujii Japan
Hsing Yu Lin Taiwan
JONGKI YOON South Korea
JOSEPH HARRIS United States
SANTIAGO TORRES Mexico
Shu Takada Japan
shuhei kanai Japan
Takuma Yamamoto Japan

3A Division

Alex Curfman United States
Alex Hattori United States
Donald Hodgkinson United States
Elijah Tan United States
Hajime Miura Japan
Hank Freeman United States
Ian bellman United States
Minato Furuta Japan
Patrick Borgerding United States
Stuart White United States
Taiichiro Higashi Japan
Takaki Clark United States
TOMOYA KURITA Japan

4A Division

Andrew Riley United States
Ben Conde United States
Bryan Figueroa United States
Chen Zhao China
Christopher Chunn United States
Chun Hin Chan Hong Kong
Connor Seals United States
Eiji Okuyama Germany
Jeremy McKay Canada
Josh Kanoff United States
Lorenzo Sabatini Italy
Luke Guyre United States
Michael Nakamura United States
Michael Durdak United States
Petr Kavka Czech Republic
Philip White United States
Quentin Godet France
Rei Iwakura Japan
Richard Cobb United States
RYAN COOPER Canada
Ryan Connolly United States
Sean Perez United States
Stephanie Haight United States
Steven Lee United States
Stuart White United States
Teppei Hino Japan
TOMOHIKO ZANKA Japan
Tsubasa Onishi Japan
Tzu Wei Chang Taiwan
Yuki Uchida Japan

5A Division

Adam Wolfgang United States
Bryan Jardin United States
Chase Baxter United States
Jake Elliott United States
John Wolfe United States
Kai Zhang China
Luke Guyre United States
Naoya Takeuchi Japan
Paul Zorovich United States
Petr Kavka Czech Republic
Samuel Scott United States
Sebastian Brock United States
Shingo Terada Japan
Sora Ishikawa Japan
Takeshi Matsuura Japan
Tucker Holland United States

AP Division

Justin Weber and the NEW YORK YO-YO CLUB United States
Lin Hsing Yu (WHO Theatre) Taiwan
OLD SKOOL FAMOUS Japan
Tomiyuki Watanabe (TOMMY) Japan
Yang Yuan-Ching Taiwan

Women’s Division

Abigail Norris United States
Beatriz Gallegos Gracia Mexico
Chloé Monsonégo Belgium
Ewelina Wejner Poland
Kira Morrow United States
Lauren Palella United States
Parker Story United States
Stephanie Haight United States
Tessa Piccillo United States

Over-40 Division

Adam Lord United States
Richard Cobb United States
Steve Brown United States
Takahiko Hasegawa Japan

Spin Top Division

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2016 World YoYo Contest Updates

July 6, 2016 By Steve Brown

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The 2016 World YoYo Contest is nearly here, and we have a couple of updates for competitors and attendees.

Music upload deadline for all competitors is July 15, 2016. You must upload music for ALL rounds of competition that you intend to compete in. Wild Card competitors do not need to upload music, they simply have to choose from this list, but if you are competing in Wild Card you should still upload music for Prelims, Semi-Finals, and Finals.

Click here for Music Upload

Click here for Wild Card Music

Just added to the site is a special package for a group trip to Cedar Point, the second largest amusement park in the United States and located just an hour outside of Cleveland. The package includes admission to the park and round-trip transportation on a chartered bus. The bus will leave the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel at 10 am on Sunday, August 7th, bring you to the park, and then leave the park at 10 pm to return you to the hotel. Space is limited, get your tickets now!

Click here for Cedar Point Group Trip Tickets

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TYM.de Presents: World YoYo Contest 2015

April 12, 2016 By Steve Brown

The folks at TYM.de (which might be one of the longest running yoyo websites in the world…click here for an eye-shattering glimpse of what the site looked like in 1999) have released a video of their trip to the 2015 World YoYo Contest in Tokyo. It’s a long one, so settle in with some snacks and take another look back at Japan!

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IYYF Extends Deadline for WYYC 2018 Proposals

December 2, 2015 By Steve Brown

IYYF International YoYo Federation

The International YoYo Federation has extended the deadline for proposals to host the 2018 World YoYo Contest. The 2018 World YoYo Contest will be held in Asia.

There are several inquiries for running WYYC2018 in Asia, however, many of them are not fully ready for putting their proposals yet. Therefore IYYF extended the deadline to Feb. 1, 2016 from originally Dec. 1, 2015.

If you are interested in running WYYC2018 in your country, please send your proposal to iyyf@iyyf.org by Feb. 1, 2016.

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Reykjavik will host the 2017 World Yo-yo Contest!

November 15, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

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The International Yo-yo Federation has just announced that the 2017 World Yo-yo Contest will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland! The decision closes the 2017 (Europe) candidacy cycle.

Here’s the full announcement:

The International Yo-yo Federation is pleased to announce that Reykjavik, Iceland, has been elected as the host city for the 2017 World Yo-Yo Contest!

Featuring some of the most experienced and well-known yo-yo contest organizers from Europe and the USA, the team behind the 2017 World Yo-Yo Contest is ready to deliver an event focused on players, where contestants from around the globe will be able focus on competing in the best possible conditions.

The IYYF congratulates the Icelandic team, and is looking forward to a fantastic event! Further details about the event and Reykjavik itself will be available in the coming days.

We would also like to express our gratitude towards team Poland, for stepping up to the challenge and presenting themselves as candidates to run the most important event for the worldwide yo-yo community.

We’ll surely hear more about the contest in the coming days, so keep your eyes open for more information soon!

The 2018 (Asia), and 2019 (Americas) cycles are also ongoing, with candidate application deadlines for the former scheduled for December 1st, 2015 and August 1st, 2016.

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Honey String – 2015 World YoYo Contest

September 14, 2015 By Steve Brown

David Bolgarfalvy of Honey String brings us another post-Worlds clip video! If you watch all of the World YoYo Contest post-event videos back-to-back, it works out to like 46% of being there. Honest.

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Schedule and application dates for WYYC host candidate countries

September 13, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

The World Yo-yo Contest is coming back to the Americas in 2016, closing the first tour of the contest around the globe since the formation of the International Yo-yo Federation and the introduction of the round robin system.

The system will remain in place for the next contests, and the IYYF has announced the schedules for choosing future World Yo-yo Contest host countries.

Starting with the 2017 World Yo-yo Contest, these will be the general guidelines:

  • 3 years prior to the contest: all applicant countries/organizers must send in their application
  • 2.5 years prior to the contest: organizing country/entity is chosen by the IYYF
  • 2 years prior to the contest: country is officially announced
  • 1 year prior to the contest: venue is announced

2017 – Europe

The schedule for 2017 is slightly late, of course, but candidate European countries can still send in their application according to the following schedule:

  • October 15th, 2015 – deadline for application submission
  • November 1st, 2015 – IYYF makes a decision
  • November 15th, 2015 – host country for 2017 is announced

2018 – Asia

2018 is also slightly late, but very close to the proposed schedule.

  • December 1st, 2015 – deadline for application submission
  • February 1st, 2016 – IYYF makes a decision
  • August 1st, 2016 – host country for 2018 is announced

2019 – Americas

  • August 1st, 2016 – deadline for application submission

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YoYofficer Presents: World YoYo Contest 2015

September 11, 2015 By Steve Brown

YoYofficer got in some great filming with their team in Japan during the 2015 World YoYo Contest…check out some solid play by Ma HaiLin (China), Pisco OuYang (China) and Ryan Lim (Malaysia).

Yoyos used are the YoYofficer Quash and YoYofficer R (Proto).

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サマーナイツ (Summer Nights) – The #WYYC15 After-Party Video

September 6, 2015 By Gabriel Lozano

This video is recommended for audiences 21+.

The World Yo-Yo Contest 2015 held official after-parties on every night (Nights 1 through 4) after the contest. It was well organized, and incredibly helpful to have an officially sanctioned event. It helped unify everyone after the contest, despite everyone staying at different hotels. I think this should be a case-study for future contests, in terms of unification of players, and for monetization purposes. (Yoyo players like to party!) Details of the after-party structure can be found here: http://tokyo15.com/en/world-yo-yo-party/

The 5th night was at a nightclub in Shibuya, Tokyo, where DJ Kohta was spinning. We drank and danced until the sun came up and the trains started again.

Personal thanks to Dimi. Tokyo was too much for one person to take in, so Dimi helped shoot with another camera over several nights. So many of the great shots you see in this video were thanks to him. Without his support, this video would not have been possible. Thank you, Dimi. For more of his photos, follow him on instagram at @iam_dimi.

Music is サマーナイツ (Summernights) by Alejandro Dale.
It can be found on Soundcloud here.

Thank you for watching.

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2015 World YoYo Contest – iPhone Edit

August 31, 2015 By Steve Brown

Ewin Ee sent us this clip video from his trip to the 2015 World YoYo Contest, filmed entirely on an iPhone 6. Neat!

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The Biggest Winners in 24 Years of the World YoYo Contest

August 24, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

First written in 2012, updated with titles up to 2017.

We have no new World Champions in 2017! Every winner this year had won the World Title previously! In 1A, Shion Araya repeated his solid performance from last year to become only the second 1A player in history to win two titles back to back. Shu Takada won his third consecutive title, including the 2015 AP division title with Shaqler. Hajime Miura remains undisputed in 3A, winning his fourth straight title! Rei Iwakura proves hard work pays off, winning his sixth title! 5A saw the return of 2009 World Champion Takuma Inoue, winning his second title after eight years! AP also saw the return of past champions, with the Swiss duo InMotion! (Ivo Studer and Jan Schmutz) also winning their second title.

Some considerations before we give you the goods: we’ve only considered the “modern era” World YoYo Contest, held since 1992. There was one true World YoYo Contest before it, but it wasn’t a freestyle contest. Its winner was mister Harvey Lowe, in 1932. Between 1995 and 1997, the “Pro-Am” division was considered, and counted as 2A for this article’s purpose, as all winners in that division were expected to play with two looping yo-yos.

So without further ado, these are all the multiple time winners of the World YoYo Contest by number of titles.

Multiple Winners of the World YoYo Contest

Player Country Total Titles Divisions Years
Shinji Saito Japan 13 2A, Combined 2A: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015
Combined: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Takeshi Matsuura Japan 7 5A 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
Rei Iwakura Japan 6 4A, AP 4A: 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
AP: 2009
Daisuke Shimada Japan 4 X, 3A X: 2002
3A: 2003, 2004, 2005
Hiroyuki Suzuki Japan 4 1A 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012
Yu Kawada Japan 4 1A, AP 1A: 2000
AP: 2006, 2013 (with Spination), 2014 (with Spination)
Hajime Miura Japan 4 3A 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Shu Takada Japan 4 2A, AP 2A: 2012, 2016, 2017
AP: 2015 (with Shaqler)
Bill de Boisblanc USA 3 2A 1994, 1995, 1997
Takahiko Hasegawa Japan 3 AP 2002, 2005, 2011
Hank Freeman USA 3 3A 2011, 2012, 2013
Takuma Yamamoto Japan 3 2A 2008, 2013, 2014
Tomiyuki Watanabe Japan 3 AP 2004, 2013 (with Spination), 2014 (with Spination)
John Ando Japan 3 1A, AP 1A: 2008
AP: 2010 (with Shaqler), 2015 (with Shaqler)
Tomonari Ishiguro Japan 2 1A, AP 1A: 2001
AP: 2007
Yuuki Spencer USA 2 1A 2002, 2007
Eiji Okuyama Japan 2 4A 2003, 2007
Tsubasa Onishi Japan 2 4A 2004, 2010
Naoto Okada Japan 2 4A 2009, 2011
Atsushi Yamada Japan 2 AP 2010 (with Shaqler), 2015 (with Shaqler)
Takeshi Maruyama Japan 2 AP 2010 (with Shaqler), 2015 (with Shaqler)
Shion Araya Japan 2 1A 2016, 2017
Takuma Inoue Japan 2 5A 2009, 2017
Ivo Studer Switzerland 2 AP 2012 (with InMotion!), 2017 (with InMotion!)
Jan Schmutz Switzerland 2 AP 2012 (with InMotion!), 2017 (with InMotion!)

 

Shinji Saito dominates both 2A and Combined, and is the sole winner of the four editions ever held of that division. 4A has a surprising number of two-time winners, and Shaqler is the only team to win more than one World Title.

Surprisingly, we only had one first-time winner this year, Shion Araya!

One-Time World YoYo Contest Winners:

  • 1A: Ryoichi Suzuki (1998), Joel Zink (1999), Johnnie DelValle (2003), Shinya Kido (2009), Jensen Kimmitt (2010), Marcus Koh (2011), János Karancz (2013), Gentry Stein (2014), Zach Gormley (2015)
  • 2A: Dale Oliver (1992), Rocco Ysaguire (1993), Dale Myrberg (1996), Jennifer Baybrook (1998), Takumi Nagase (1999), Tomoya Kitamura (2000), Matt Harlow (2001), Yasushi Furukawa (2010)
  • 3A: Paul Yath (2006), Yuuki Tanami (2007), Hiroki Miyamoto (2008), Kentaro Kimura (2009), Minato Furuta (2010)
  • 4A: John Narum (2005), Taiki Nishimura (2006), Michael Nakamura (2013), Naoto Onishi (2015)
  • 5A: Rafael Matsunaga (2003), Makoto Numagami (2004), Maya Nakamura (2005), Dana Bennett (2006), Tyler Severance (2007), Jake Elliott (2015).
  • X: Hironori Mii (2000), Shingo Terada (2001)
  • AP: Mark Montgomery (2003), John Higby (2008)

What about per-country count? Can you tell how far ahead Japan is? Check it out:

World YoYo Contest Winners by Country

Country Titles
Japan 82
USA 26
Switzerland 2
Brazil 1
Canada 1
Singapore 1
Hungary 1

 

Japan is far, far ahead of the competition, having added another five titles in 2017, with USA in clear second, Switzerland comes third with the two title from InMotion!, followed by one-timers Brazil (Rafael Matsunaga, 2003), Canada (Jensen Kimmitt, 2010), Singapore (Marcus Koh, 2011), and Hungary (János Karancz, 2013)! If we take the 1932 Worlds into account, Canada rises to two titles, although officially Harvey Lowe competed for China, as there was another Canadian competing and rules only allowed one contestant per country.

Will someone ever equal Shinji’s astounding number? We’ll need to wait at least six more years to find out! Or hope someone wins more than one title in the same year!

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Zach Gormley wins the 2015 World Yo-yo Contest! Full results and commentary!

August 16, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

Photo by CLYW

Iori Yamaki, Zach Gormley, and Shion Araya

Zach Gormley is the winner of the toughest and greatest yo-yo contest in history!

In a final round filled with favorites, Zach Gormley brought his best and was crowned the new 1A World Champion last night in Tokyo!

2A was equally exciting, with Shiji Saito winning the battle of World Champions against Shu Takada and Takuma Yamamoto!

In 3A, Hajime Miura had no trouble whatsoever, finishing almost 20 points ahead of runner-up Alex Hattori!

We also got a new 4A champion! Naoto Onishi won offstring in an incredibly balanced division!

In 5A champion, Jake Elliott, won by the tiniest of margins: just 0.03 points ahead of Takeshi Matsuura!

Finally, AP was a delight to watch, but ultimately it’s a competition, and Shaqler won with a jaw-dropping routine! Check the full results and commentary below!

1A

With the new seeding rules in place, only the current World Champion was granted a spot in the final round. The result was a final round completely stacked with the best of the best who were able to make it through the qualifying rounds!

In such a high-level contest, predicting a winner was no easy task, reflected on the final scores, where there was only 1.5 point between the 2nd and 7th place finishers, but the online chatter correctly predicted Zach’s win! Another strong candidate was Iori Yamaki, who also had strong popular support, but ended up in 3rd place.

Perhaps the biggest surprise here is the young Shion Araya, who, despite competing at the World Yo-yo Contest for the first time, showed an amazing level of play and maturity, managing to do well not only in the qualifying rounds, but also in the grand final, earning a much-deserved second place!

Last year’s champion Gentry Stein had a great routine, but a single discard cost him the three points that would have put him immediately in second place, and perhaps even first considering the time spent switching yo-yos, and thus he finished 6th overall.

A few other strong contenders had discards as well. World Champions Marcus Koh, and Hiroyuki Suzuki, Ahmad Kharisma, Colin Beckford, and Ryota Ogi were all penalized for the yo-yo switch and ended up in the lower half of the placings.

János Karancz had several unbelievable tricks, as usual, but was unable to go as clean as he hoped, while Anthony Rojas had a fantastic routine, but ultimately without the trick density to achieve a high Technical Execution score.

2A

A fierce battle between World Champions took place in 2A, with Shinji Saito emerging victorious with a high-level routine we expect from the now 13-time World Champion!

Shu Takada brought some very innovative tricks to the stage, that combined with his usual top-notch choreography and music use, were enough to bring his pre-deduction score on par with Takuma Yamamoto’s, even though Shu’s Technical Execution score was almost 8 points behind Takuma’s.

What ultimately decided the final placings was Takuma’s Detach penalty. Hiraku Fujii also suffered from penalties and was unable to place this year.

3A

If there were any doubts about Hajime Miura’s supremacy after his fourth place finish at Japan Nationals, there surely are none left after his outstanding performance in Tokyo!

Finishing almost 20 points ahead of the second place with an unbelievable score of 96.5, Hajime Miura earns his second World Title and becomes a very young legend in 3A play!

In second and third places were US players Alex Hattori and Hank Freeman, respectively, both with very clean routines, but without the extra refinement and difficulty of Hajime’s freestyle.

Be sure to watch Patrick Borgerding’s routine as well! Pat himself stated his goal is not to win, but to bring insane tricks to the stage, and he did not disappoint, hitting all his bangers on the stage in Tokyo!

World Champion Minato Furuta had a very unfortunate run. His tricks were amazing, and he would have been a serious contender had it not been for two disastrous double discards that cost him 12 points in penalties, and a lot of downtime on stage.

4A

Naoto Onishi won the 4A World Champion title in a division where the final standings were decided by the penalties!

While Naoto’s routine itself was completely clean and deserving of the title, it was Takumi Yasumoto’s 2 penalty point that knocked down the latter to second place, and amazingly, Rei Iwakura’s astonishing 6-point penalty that cost him the World Title!

The next spots were taken by the three American players. 2013 World Champion Michael Nakamura had a solid routine, but his Performance Evaluation scores prevented him from getting a better placing. Ben Conde was certainly the crowd favorite, and while he managed to hit his unbelievable tricks, they were not in large enough number to guarantee a better Technical Execution score. An epic performance, nonetheless!

5A

Jake Elliott did it! The new World Champion becomes the man who beat Takeshi Matsuura in 5A! What everybody thought was impossible now becomes true as Jake Elliott raises the bar for 5A play, bringing a whole lot of new tricks to the division!

And check out the final score! This is the closest score ever to determine the World Champion! If this is any indication of the future, we can expect truly legendary contests with these two beasts of counterweight play!

On the human side of things, Sora Ishikawa repeats his third place finish from last year with another entertaining freestyle, followed by Hideo Ishida and Bryan Jardin, who went slightly less cleanly than they hoped.

AP

Shaqler! Wow! The AP division this year was truly amazing, and every performance there deserves to be watched several times, but Shaqler’s freestyle is truly epic! Their 2010 routine is already a classic, but this takes their teamplay concepts and skills even further!

The addition of Shu Takada brought even more energy and acrobatics to the team, and making them only the second team ever to win two World Titles!

Shaqler also took home the Entertainment Award, while BeatPoint’s beatbox/yo-yo combo was awarded the Artistic Award, and Taiwan’s WHO Theatre got the Creativity Award for their fantastic team offstring performance!

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2015 World Yo-yo Contest Finals Freestyle Order

August 15, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

The player order for the grand finals of the 2015 World Yo-yo Contest is now available on the contest’s website!

All divisions start with the last player qualified for the finals and finish with last year’s champion.

The contest starts with 4A, followed by 5A and AP in the morning, and resuming with 3A, 1A, and 2A in the afternoon.

The the greatest yo-yo contest of all time is coming to an end! Follow the live stream and don’t miss any of the action!

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2015 World Yo-yo Contest Day 3 results (semi-finals)

August 15, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

The 2015 World Yo-yo Contest reaches its final stage with a very strong roster and a few upsets! The semi-final round was a real treat, and we now have the complete list of contestants for the grand finals!

1A

A very tough round where players showed great preparation! Most went very clean, making it very hard to predict the outcome! The biggest let downs here were certainly Christopher Chia, whose control was lacking, and Paul Kerbel, who was unable to secure a good Technical Execution score.

We do get a nice and diverse set of players joining Gentry Stein for the finals, however, with established competitors and newcomers from around the globe!

World Champions Hiroyuki Suzuki, Marcus Koh, and János Karancz all secured a spot in the finals, as well as a very strong set of younger players: Ryuichi Nakamura and Shion Araya, who qualified in the first two places, Yamato Murata, who had a very solid routine, young Czech marvel Jakub Dekan, and Colin Beckford, coming all the way from the wildcard round to secure the last spot in the final round!

Check the full list below. It’s safe to say this is the strongest 1A finals in history!

  1. Ryuichi Nakamura (Japan)
  2. Shion Araya (Japan)
  3. Iori Yamaki (Japan)
  4. Yusuke Otsuka (Japan)
  5. Yamato Murata (Japan)
  6. Luis Enrique Villasenor (Mexico)
  7. Janos Karancz (Hungary)
  8. Anthony Rojas (United States)
  9. Ahmad Kharisma (Indonesia)
  10. Hiroyuki Suzuki (Japan)
  11. Zach Gormley (United States)
  12. Takeshi Matsuura (Japan)
  13. Marcus Koh (Singapore)
  14. Akitoshi Tokubuchi (Japan)
  15. Ryota Ogi (Japan)
  16. Jakub Dekan (Czech Republic)
  17. Colin Beckford (United States)

2A

No surprises in 2A, where World Champions Shinji Saito and Shu Takada top the ranking. Tomoyuki Kaneko also had a strong routine and ended up ahead of Hiraku Fujii.

It’s the first time Shinji Saito and Takuma Yamamoto will go against each other at the Worlds finals since 2011, when Shinji won his last title.

Also worth noting is the presence of both Chan Chun Hay and Liu Man Ki from Hong Kong in the finals.

  1. Shinji Saito (Japan)
  2. Shu Takada (Japan)
  3. Tomoyuki Kaneko (Japan)
  4. Hiraku Fujii (Japan)
  5. Arata Imai (Japan)
  6. Henson Chan Chun Hay (Hong Kong)
  7. Liu Man Ki (Hong Kong)
  8. Ginji Miura (Japan)
  9. Shuhei Kanai (Japan)

1A and 2A scores can be found here.

3A

The 3A final round deserves a lot of attention this year! In addition to 3-time World Champion Hank Freeman, who barely made it due to a discard, we’ll also get to see current Japanese champion Tomoya Kurita, 2010 World Champion Minato Furuta, and both Patrick Borgerding and Ng Wang Kit, who are not afraid to pull risky moves on stage.

But the star of the semi-final round was Alex Hattori, who showed impressive calm and consistency to top the list ahead of the equally strong Japanese roster!

Unlike previous years, there are no favorites here, and Hajime Miura will have to work extra hard if he wants to add a second World title to his collection!

  1. Alex Hattori (United States)
  2. Takumi Yasumoto (Japan)
  3. Mizuki Takimoto (Japan)
  4. Tomoya Kurita (Japan)
  5. Minato Furuta (Japan)
  6. Yuto Yamaguchi (Japan)
  7. Patrick Borgerding (United States)
  8. Ng Wang Kit (Hong Kong)
  9. Hank Freeman (United States)

4A

Despite Bryan Figueroa’s absence, the USA are very well represented in this division, with all three American players (Michael Nakamura, Zac Rubino, and Ben Conde) securing a spot in the final round.

The quality of the players in this division is unbelievable, with no less than four players getting a 10 in Execution, and Ben Conde’s routine was truly exceptional, scoring 38.5 out of 40 evaluation points!

Do these players have what it takes to dethrone Rei Iwakura? We are about to find out!

  1. Takumi Yasumoto (Japan)
  2. Michael Nakamura (United States)
  3. Naoto Onishi (Japan)
  4. Zac Rubino (United States)
  5. Ben Conde (United States)
  6. Lorenzo Sabatini (Italy)
  7. Ryo Oishi (Japan)
  8. Futoshi Maruyama (Japan)
  9. Zhao Chen (China)
  10. Kuo Po Han (Taiwan)
  11. Tsubasa Takada (Japan)

5A

Another brilliant display by Bryan Jardin in the semi-final round! The US player tops the list of players who will face Takeshi Matsuura in the finals with a very comfortable margin, followed by last year’s runner-up Jake Elliott, who, despite having an early restart, still managed to qualify in second place.

World Champion Tyler Severance was unable to qualify and will be missed in the final round, but we still get a quality roster with some of the best in Japan, including Yoshihiro Abe, Sora Ishikawa, and Hideo Ishida.

Unlike the other divisions, where it’s hard to pick a favorite, Takeshi Matsuura is probably still at the top of everyone’s bets in 5A, and the other players will have to pull some big surprises in order to beat the six-time World Champion.

  1. Bryan Jardin (United States)
  2. Jake Elliott (United States)
  3. Yoshihiro Abe (Japan)
  4. Sora Ishikawa (Japan)
  5. Naoya Takeuchi (Japan)
  6. Naoki Uemae (Japan)
  7. Hiroyasu Ishihara (Japan)
  8. Hideo Ishida (Japan)
  9. Kai Zhang (China)

Scores for 3A, 4A, and 5A can be found here.

Finals start at 10:30AM Japan time (1:30AM GMT), be sure to catch the live stream to follow the action!

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