YoYo Related News From Around The World
The 1A prelims for the 2014 Las Vegas Open were packed with talent, but only a handful of players could make it through to finals. Check out the full finals order for all divisions below, as well as video of the Top Five 1A Prelims!
(Apologies to Colin Beckford, who IS competing in 3A but got left off the list below.)
The official Asia Pacific Yo-yo Championship Facebook page has the qualifier results from the first day of AP 2014!
Most of the favorites made it, and finals should be a blast! In 1A, World Champions Hiroyuki Suzuki and Marcus Koh are joined by numerous talented young players. In 2A, plenty of Japanese veterans dominate the scene, led by the legend Shinji Saito himself. Finally 3A, 4A, and 5A present a more diverse selection, and should be also quite fun to watch!
Be sure to come back for the second day of AP on the live stream!
We’ve got the results of the 1A Semi-Finals and 5A Prelims! The field in 1A was narrowed from 183 competitors to just 25…and now we see who is heading to finals to challenge the seeded national champions for a chance at the World Title.
Only 11 players are advancing to the 1A Finals at Bay Area Classic, and here they are!
And don’t forget, the following players have already been seeded to the 1A Finals:
Good luck to all! And click here for the list of 2A – 5A finalists!
Many thanks to Rei Iwakura for the qualifier results of 44CLASH!
Check out who’s joining the seeds in the finals tomorrow!
Tune back tomorrow to see who will triumph this year in Yokohama!
Finalists for the 2A, 3A, and 4A divisions, and semi-finalists for the 1A division have been announced!
2A’s nice surprise came with veteran Jan Schmutz, from Switzerland, who made it to finals despite strong competition from Japanese players! In 3A, US players Alex Hattori and Patrick Borgerding failed to qualify, frustrating the home audience. 4A was a tough division, with twenty six players battling for just seven spots. Here, team YoyoJam managed to qualify no less than four players, with Rei Iwakura, John Narum, Ben Conde, and Ian Johnson.
Videos are being uploaded very quickly this year, courtesy of YoyoFactory and C3, and most freestyles are already up. Be sure to check their YouTube channels!
1A
Thanks to Taiichiro Higashi for the lists!
With over 100 players performing at the preliminary round, the 1A division at the European Yo-yo Championship was no walk in the park even for the top players.
2010 European Champion Vashek Kroutil, from the Czech Republic and team YoyoFactory qualified ahead of the pack, followed by Polish wonder Plamek, representing One Drop, and Duncan Crew’s most recent addition, slack-man Janos Karancz, from Hungary.
Here’s the list of qualified players:
Videos are already being posted, check out Vashek’s flawless 1 minute routine, courtesy of C3:
Be sure to check out C3’s YouTube channel for videos of 1A prelim freestyles and also 2A finals!
Repeating his excellent preliminary placing at Worlds this years, Ryota Ogi qualified in 1st place for the 44CLASH finals tomorrow. Let’s hope his finals performance lives up to his prelims this time.
Grant Johnson qualified in 2nd place in 1A and will perform in both 1A and 2A finals tomorrow. Ben Conde also qualified as 2nd in the X division and both will join Hank Freeman and Anthony Rojas as the remaining US competitors in Tokyo.
In the X division, 4A looks particularly strong. In addition to Ben Conde, former World Champion Rei Iwakura qualified in 1st place and they will face seeds Tsubasa Onishi, Kazuaki Sugimura, Futoshi Maruyama, and Kuo Po Han.
update: It looks like Futoshi is actually competing in 1A!
Here are the full results, via 44CLASH Twitter:
1A:
2A:
X:
YoyoFactory has been updating its Facebook page with pictures and live information from Tokyo. Be sure to check it out!
