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The California State Yo-Yo Championships is one of the larger yo-yo contests in the United States. Players travel from across the country to show off their amazing tricks and combos, hang out with friends, and compete for thousands of dollars in prize-money.
This video showcases several amazing yoyo (and kendama!) tricks that were filmed at the contest.
Music: Luv(sic) Part 5 featuring Shing02 by Nujabes
Vimeo version here.
YoYoFactory has started updating us from their freshly started 2013 Rocky Mountain Tour:
What better way to start of the YoYoFactory Rocky Mountain Tour then, in the Rockies! As part of the tour, we set up at the USASA Snowboard National Contest in Copper, CO. From the minute we set up, people were hanging out playing Yo-Yo. Quite a few people already had skills and were throwing modern unresponsive YoYoFactory.
Expect to see plenty more updates as they wind their way through Denver, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins.
Tyler Severance and Harold Owens III give us the yoyo equivalent of a buddy cop movie in their new video, Severe vs HOT. All that’s missing is Harold saying “I’m too old for this $h*t” and Tyler jumping off a buildling.
Congratulations to Gentry Stein, the 2013 California State YoYo Champion!
Full results:
2nd Place – Zach Gormley (CLYW)
3rd Place – Charles Haycock (CLYW)
2nd Place – Shane Karan
3rd Place – Yoshi Mikamoto (YoYoJam)
2nd Place – Yoshi Mikamoto (YoYoJam)
3rd Place – Ian Smith
2nd Place – Zac Rubino
3rd Place – Steven Lee
2nd Place – Paolo Bueno (YoYoFactory)
3rd Place – Josh Yee
2nd Place – Josh Yee
3rd Place – Blake Freeman
Prelims have finished at the 2013 California State YoYo Contest, and the top contenders for the 1A (Single YoYo) division are looking good!
Advancing to finals are:
Charles Haycock
Anthony Rojas
Tyler Severance
Jensen Kimmitt
Zach Gormley
Eric Koloski
Kevin Nicholas
Clint Armstrong
Paul Dang
Adrien La
Jaime Kennedy
Ernest Kahn
Ian Lawson
Nate Dailey
Patrick Canny
JT Nickel
Tyler Goldman
Mike Marshall
Josh Yee
Keiran Cooper
Michael Nakamura
Wilson Van Gundy
Cory Hendon
Mitchell Ruskin
Be sure to check out the live stream here to watch the rest of the event!
YoYoFactory‘s 2013 West Coast Tour and Southern California YoYo Contest ended with a bang this weekend, with dozens of new yoyo players showing up to compete for the very first time, and established champs like Alex Hattori, Ernest Kahn, Clint Armstrong, and more competing for the top prizes. The YoYoFactory demonstration team spent two weeks in and around the Palm Springs area doing daily school and in-store demonstrations and teaching sessions, and judging by the contest turnout the tour definitely did its job! With an estimated attendance of more than 600 people and nearly 50 registered competitors, YoYoFactory is doing a great job bringing new players to the sport, and they got a ton of press for this event! Full results are below!
There was also an unfortunate mistake made during score tabulation that resulted in Alex Hattori’s score being incorrectly listed the day of the event at 7th Place, instead of his correct placing (shown below) of 2nd Place in the Open Division. Contest organizer Tyler Severance has issued this apology:
I would like to offer a huge apology to Alex and Linda Hattori. Alex did an incredible job with his 3A freestyle in the Open division, but unfortunately there was a mistake made while calculating scores and Alex’s 1A Prelim score was used instead of his much higher Open score. He didn’t recieve his earned 2nd place title and instead was calulated as 7th. Alex and his mother Linda very kindly asked to see his raw scores and remained persistent during a busy time of the contest, showing us a mistake that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. I would again like to apologize to Alex and his mother but also thank them for bringing this to our attention, and we certainly intend to improve our accuracy for the future.
1A Champion – Paolo Bueno
Open Champion – Patrick Borgerding
1A Prelim
YoYoFactory’s 2013 SoCal tour is going great, with the team doing a ton of school assemblies and in-store demonstrations and teaching sessions. Assistant YoYoFactory Tour Manager Seth Peterson says they’ve been performing for at least 1,000 people a day, and teaching hundreds of kids how to yoyo for the first time. “The store demos are really going great…tons of new players picking up yoyos and some kids are getting all the way to Braintwister within an afternoon!” says Seth. “There are already 40+ competitors registered for the contest this weekend, and we’ll be posting freestyles and results as fast as we can.”
YoYoFactory’s SoCal YoYo Contest is this Saturday, January 26th in Rancho Mirage, CA at The River. Check the contest website for details.
We’ll post results as soon as we get them. In the meantime, check out some tour pics of World Champion Tyler Severance, Czech National Champion Vashek Kroutil, and Ann Connolly!
(All photos by Seth Peterson)
If the fact that it’s an amazing yoyo, and easily one of the best plastic yoyo releases of the past 12 months, wasn’t enough to get you to buy a new Severe from YoYoFactory, this video should do the trick.
YoYoExpert has posted a peek at their 2013 trading card series…and this year’s lineup is 65 cards, their biggest yet!
I’m incredibly proud to also tell you that a few players will have special 365yoyotricks.com cards in the series…I’m literally grinning from ear-to-ear right now just typing about it. This year’s series is shaping up to be fantastic, and I can’t wait to get my set.
More info at www.YoYoExpert.com.
YoYoFactory presents the 2nd wave of Champions Collection signature model yoyos. They’ve put together a great range of Yo-Yos, from the bright pink Paul Han ONEstar to the silky matte black Miguel Correa Genesis+. They have new, original models like the machined plastic Severe for Tyler Severance, Harold Owen III’s H.O.T.or the game changing Shu Takada Loop1080. They’ve even brought on a new twist on a classic with the Victor Gravitsky Protostar, as well as a new yo-yo with an old friend, the Proton with Kentaro Kimura.
Check out YoYoFactory’s individual posts of each model for the full story on each model, plus specs and detailed photos. Expect the YoYoFactory Champions Collection to hit YoYoExpert around the 1st week of December!
It was a contest full of big names and fierce competition, with World and National Champions in all divisions! Taking first place in 1A and the US$1000 prize was World Champion Yuuki Spencer, followed by YoyoFactory team members Gentry Stein and Augie Fash.
The 5A title went to Tyler Severance, who beat Miguel Correa for the other thousand-dollar prize.
YoyoJam took home the titles in 2A, 3A, and 4A, with Joseph Harris, Alex Hattori, and Bryan Figueroa, respectively. Each of them took home 500 dollars!
Judging by the feedback by both attendees and those who followed the action on the live stream, it’s safe to say that California States was a huge success, and we hope to see more contests with coverage and prizes as good as those brought to us by Chris Allen, who ran this superb event!
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