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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

Filed Under: Contests, Featured Tagged With: 2016 world yoyo contest, worlds, wyyc, wyyc 2016

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!

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2015, featured, final, hajime miura, jake elliott, naoto onishi, results, shinji saito, tokyo, world yoyo contest, worlds, wyyc, wyyc2015, Zach Gormley

2015 World Yo-yo Contest Day 2 freestyle order

August 13, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

A super busy day awaits players and visitors tomorrow in Tokyo, as over 200 players will be competing in the preliminary round! The full list of competitors can be found on the official website.

The competitor list is a lot more diverse on the second day, as a lot of players come seeded from their respective national contests, and it’ll be quite interesting to see how the difference in styles play out on stage.

In addition to all the players qualified from the wildcard round, we have some top-notch players in this round:

There are still 95 players in the 1A division, including some strong contenders for the world title, including Yusuke Otsuka, Ryota Ogi, and Christopher Chia, and crowd favorites Palli Gudmundsson, Evan Nagao, and Riccardo Fraolini.

In 2A, the most expected performance is from Hiraku Fujii, and while the wildcard round was almost exclusively Japanese, the preliminary round gets a healthy number of foreigners, including four Korean players, a very welcome sight from one of the traditionally less represented countries in a World Yo-yo Contest.

3A gets the addition of World Champion Minato Furuta for the preliminary round, along with seeded players from Taiwan, Singapore, China, Korea, Malaysia, and the USA.

The second largest division in this round is 4A, with 33 players still fighting for a spot in the semi-final round. The wildcard round winners are joined by big names in this division, including Tsubasa Onishi, Jeon Ji Hwan, and Futoshi Maruyama. Tough competition for sure!

The highlights for the preliminaries in the 5A division are some of the world’s most technical and entertaining players, like Bryan Jardin, Sora Ishikawa, and Ryota Torigoe. And with both Hiroyasu Ishihara and Shingo Terada coming from the wildcard round, this division should be a delight to watch!

Tomorrow we also get to see the new “Over 40” division, with both yo-yo dads and veteran players competing at the main stage.

The Iron Mod contest, a tradition from the Orlando era, is also back this year, and will be held on the first floor for all to see! In this time-limited live mod contest, two teams of modders will need to come up with the best possible mod that includes a secret ingredient that will be revealed tomorrow! This time we’ll have Team USA vs. Team Japan, with mod experts Rob Tsou and Kyle Weems representing the US, and custom yo-yo god Shinobu Konmoto and Yuumi Shiga (The Mod Rangers) as Team Japan!

Be sure to catch the live stream starting at around 9:40AM Japan time! (12:40AM GMT)

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2015, featured, preliminaries, tokyo, world yoyo contest, worlds, wyyc, wyyc2015

Shu Takada x FUTURE BOYZ at the World Yo-yo Contest!

August 6, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

This year’s World Yo-yo Contest in Tokyo just keeps getting better!

Shu Takada & Future Boyz

EDM duo FUTURE BOYZ will be performing at the contest venue on Saturday, as well as presenting a collaborative work with World Champion Shu Takada, and releasing a very limited edition of the YoYoFactory Loop 1080!

FUTURE BOYZ are signed to Avex, one of the biggest entertainment groups in Japan, and a powerhouse in the electronic music scene in Asia! They’ve toured internationally and recently performed at the Omotesando Apple Store, which is probably the coolest Apple store in the World.

Now take all of that and add Shu Takada’s usual insane yo-yo performance, and you get an unmissable show in Tokyo!

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you throw a yo-yo contest party!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2015, avex, featured, future boyz, shu takada, tokyo, worlds

2015 Worlds Contestants – The Greatest Yo-yo Contest Ever!

August 1, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

We’re now less than two weeks away from the greatest event in yo-yo history, folks! The first ever World Yo-yo Contest in Asia, and the first time the Japanese elite will have the home field advantage!

Over five hundred contestants, and no less than twenty one current and former World Champions will be competing, including a handful of legends!

Japan predictably has the biggest number of competitors, with over half of the registered players, but there’s also a hefty number of players from other Asian countries, which were often under-represented at Worlds, such as South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. But even players literally from across the globe will be competing, with one player each from Brazil and Uruguay.

Let’s take a look at the top contenders from each division!

1A

World Champions competing: 6

Gentry Stein, the only non-Japanese defending champion, will face tough competition this year, as one would expect from a World Yo-yo Contest in Japan.

Among the former champions, Hiroyuki Suzuki is surely the most successful, and while last year he had to climb to the finals starting from the Wildcard round, he’ll have a shorter path this year, as one of the seeds from AP.

Two other World Champions, János Karancz, and Marcus Koh, are also seeded to the semi-final round, while 2008 champion John Ando, and 2009 champion Shinya Kido are among the 180 (!) players in the 1A wildcard round.

Other notable players that will have to make it through the crowd are a couple of crowd favorites, such as Hidemasa Semba, Ryosuke Iwasawa, Takahiro Iizuka, and Vashek Kroutil.

The strongest contenders in 1A are concentrated in the preliminary and semi-final rounds, where we find some of the World’s best. From Asia, Iori Yamaki, Takeshi Matsuura, Yusuke Otsuka, Ahmad Kharisma, and Christopher Chia. From the Americas, Zach Gormley, Ky Zizan, and Mexican power duo Paul Kerbel and Luis Enrique Villasenor. Finally, Europe sends some of their best, with Palli Gudmundsson, and the young European Champion Jakub Dekan.

Will we see a battle among the favorites? Or is there are surprise lurking among the 268 1A players? We’ll find out in a few days!

2A

World Champions competing: 4

The two greatest 2A winners of all time meet at the World Yo-yo Contest stage again for the first time since 2011! Current champion Takuma Yamamoto will face tough competition this year, not only from the legend himself, Shinji Saito, but also from 2012 World Champion Shu Takada! But the surprise among the 2A champions comes straight from history books!

Takumi Nagase, THP legend and 1999 World Champion (that’s pre-Orlando, folks!), is among the wildcard players, adding even more flair to this year’s Worlds!

Other notable players in this division are Hiraku Fujii, a legend in his own right, and Kiwamu Ebata, with his distinctive style. In addition to these, more than fifty other players, mostly Japanese, are registered, showing us that 2A is far from dead!

3A

World Champions competing: 3

Hajime Miura was unable to get top 3 at this year’s Japan Nationals; or was he saving the good stuff for Worlds? We’ll find out in a few days, as the current World Champion tries to defend his title for the first time!

Three-time World Champion and last year’s runner-up Hank Freeman is surely among the favorites for the title, as is 2010 champion Minato Furuta, but with 3A advancing in broad strides in the past couple of years, picking a winner is no easy task!

Japanese champion Tomoya Kurita is competing for the first time at the World Yo-yo Contest, and is one to keep an eye on. Mizuki Takimoto has competed at Worlds before, and should feel a bit more comfortable with the competition.

Contrasting with the precision of the Japanese players, Patrick Borgerding and Ng Wang Kit are known to go for the risky maneuvers, and should they land their bangers, they could have a shot at top 3.

4A

World Champions competing: 4

Rei Iwakura needs no introduction. The defending champion should be everybody’s top pick for this year’s 4A division after last year’s perfect routine and a couple of new tricks teased online this year.

But being the favorite doesn’t make the competition any easier. Michael Nakamura had a fast and solid routine last year, and comes from respectable wins at the Las Vegas Open and BAC.

Two other World Champions will be competing: Tsubasa Onishi starts the competition on the preliminary round, while Naoto Okada will have to take the long path from the wildcard round.

Almost eighty players will be competing in this division, including some of the top offstring contenders, such as Bryan Figueroa, Naoto Onishi, and Zac Rubino, as well as crowd-pleasers Ben Conde, Jeon Ji Hwan, and Futoshi Maruyama. A very interesting division for sure!

5A

World Champions competing: 4

1A and 5A machine Takeshi Matsuura only competed in (and won) 1A at Japan Nationals this year, so we’re sure to be treated with new tricks in his 5A routine at Worlds! Not only that, Takeshi winning two major divisions at Worlds in the same year is in everybody’s wish list after getting so close last year!

2007 World Champion Tyler Severance comes from a series of solid results from US Nationals and BAC. This is also the debut of his new yo-yo company, Recess Intl, and he’ll surely put on that extra effort for his brand!

Two legendary 5A names stand out amidst the wildcard contestants. Former World Champions Shingo Terada and Makoto Numagami decided to join the competition! Competitive 5A is a completely different beast from what it was in the early 2000s, but here’s hoping they make it to the later stages of the competition and bless us with some of their outstanding and beautiful yoyoing.

Among those aiming for the title, last year’s runner-up Jake Elliott is the top contender, followed closely by Hideo Ishida, and Sora Ishikawa.

This is the contest we’ve all been looking forward to! The World Yo-yo Contest will finally be held in the holy land of yoyoing! Who will be the winners of the greatest yo-yo contest in history? We’re about to find out!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2015, tokyo, world yo-yo contest, worlds

44FESTA Vol.13 – Ready for Worlds!

June 9, 2015 By Rafael Matsunaga

When we say 44FESTA is the coolest yo-yo meeting in the world, we’re not kidding. This was the last 44FESTA edition before this year’s World Yo-yo Contest, and what was the surprise mini-contest? English lessons and quiz!

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Yes! The 44FESTA crew is making sure the Japanese players do their best to receive all foreign players flying in for the contest, so the mini-contest was about common English phrases related to yoyoing!

There’s still time to learn some Japanese before Worlds and reciprocate their kind hospitality. I highly recommend you start with the most useful word “SUGOI”, which means amazing, and applies to everything in Japan, from the Japanese players’ mind-blowing tricks, to Tokyo’s futuristic skyline.

Next was a much-anticipated freestyle contest to take a sneak-peek at some of the best players’ routines, but also including a rare demonstration by the World Yo-yo Contest head honcho himself: National Master Hironori Mii!

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Check out Hajime Miura’s winning routine, and try not to drool too much at 1:04!

  1. Hajime Miura
  2. Shota Saga
  3. Tomoyuki Kaneko
  4. Daiki Tanaka
  5. Mizuki Takimoto

Watch all of the freestyles here!

44FESTA will be on hiatus until after the World Yo-yo Contest, and returns on August 29th. If you’re still in Japan after Worlds, I highly recommend you join Masanobu Iwata and the 44FESTA crew in their next installment!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 44festa, english, worlds

The IYYF Announces the New World YoYo Contest Round Structure

September 29, 2013 By Rafael Matsunaga

The newly-formed International YoYo Federation has just announced the round structure for future World YoYo Contests, starting with the 2014 contest in Prague.

2014 Worlds Round Structure

There are a couple of big changes here. First and foremost, due to the increasing number of national contests being held around the globe, national champions are no longer granted a spot in the finals, and will instead join the semi-final round.

Multinational, or continental contests are now fully recognized in the round structure, and winners of the Asia-Pacific YoYo Championships, European YoYo Championships, and North American YoYo Championship (if established) will all be granted a spot in the final round.

The top ten players in all National Contests will start in the preliminary round, which now has significantly less competitors.

Non-qualified players will still have a shot at the title, but will start at the new wildcard round. This will be a short 30-second freestyle round, likely held in a private room, with fewer judges evaluating the player’s technical skills (clickers only), and with limited music choice.

Seeding rules have also been announced, and determine the player’s eligibility for national titles and Worlds seeding. Some rules remain the same, such as the Worlds seeding term, which starts at the previous year’s World YoYo Contest and the start of the next edition of the contest.

Rules for players who can legally compete in more than one national contest are now addressed. In summary, a player can only compete at one national contest each year, and if he’s eligible to compete at two national contests for the same Worlds seeding term, only the first one will be considered.

Players from countries without a national contest will also benefit from the multinational contest rules, as placing among the top ten in those contests will grant a spot in the preliminary round of the World YoYo Contest.

These rules apply to all contests held from August 11th, 2013.

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: iyyf, world yoyo contest, worlds, wyyc

Goodbye, Orlando

August 23, 2013 By Rafael Matsunaga

I have fond memories of the World YoYo Contest stage at the Rosen Plaza Hotel. I competed there in 1A, 5A, and Combined divisions, I practiced there late at night to hide my tricks from my biggest rival and good friend Makoto Numagami, I faced public humiliation (and fame) at the Wheel of Penalty, I earned my World Title there ten years ago, and I was awarded National Master on that stage.

2013 was the last of fourteen years when the World YoYo Contest was held in Orlando. In many ways, the contest’s history throughout those years has influenced my own, and the development of yoyoing as a sport owes much of its current state to the Orlando era.

My own yoyo career started in 2000, up until that time, the yoyo was no more than a toy for me. That was when I came upon this clip:

The 2000 World YoYo Contest was the first one held in Orlando, thanks to Gregory Cohen’s effort to save the event after a near disastrous 1999 contest in Honolulu — a symbolic end of the late 90’s boom.

That clip video got me instantly hooked. Paul Escolar, Kohta Watanabe, Hidemasa Senba, and the 2004/2013 AP World Champion Tomiyuki Watanabe were all there.

A very important addition was made to the contest structure in 2000: the X division. In 1999, counterweight play was introduced by Steve Brown, Hironori Mii got second place at that year’s World Yo-yo Contest 1A division playing offstring, you can see Doc Pop introducing some Mobius, and Rick Wyatt throwing some 3A in the clip above. The X division, then judged by the contestants themselves, marked the recognition of the new styles as a developing force.

The contest was held at Universal Studios, outside, in the merciless summer Orlando weather. Just walking outside for a couple of minutes in Orlando is a torture, but in 2000, the entire contest was held in the Florida heat, humidity, and rain. Thankfully, that was the first and last time that happened, and the contest found a new home next year: the Rosen Plaza.

From 2001 to 2013, the Rosen Plaza Hotel, in Orlando’s overly-touristic International Drive, was a yoyo haven for three days a year. There’s nothing quite like being surrounded by other yoyo players for 72 hours. During the other 362 days of the year, you were the oddball yo-yo player, but during Worlds in Orlando, it felt like the World’s population was composed solely of fellow players.

Having a contest inside also meant perfect conditions for yoyoing, leading to an exponential increase in trick difficulty on the stage. But 2001 also set the precedent for the Artistic Performance division. Yu Kawada, the previous year’s 1A winner stunned the crowd by focusing on the performance aspect of his routine rather than going technical. He would not win 1A in 2001, but his freestyle inspired the creation of the AP division the next year. A division he would win himself in 2006 and 2013.

Note the almost complete lack of sponsors in the background. The scene would not recover so easily from the burst of the previous yoyo bubble.

My own first appearance at the World YoYo Contest was in 2002, competing in 1A, when compulsories were still in place. My first participation would end rather soon, missing Pop ‘n Fresh twice in a row. The judges for that trick were my now editor Steve Brown, and my current colleague at the IYYF board of directors, Hironori Mii. “Try again next year” — were Steve’s words as I climbed down from the little compulsories stage disappointed with my performance.

I would come back the next year, for sure. 2003 was another breakthrough year for the World YoYo Contest and for myself. That was the first year the fruits of the X Division would be reaped. After three successful and very popular showings in the “extreme” division, 3A, 4A, and 5A would finally be recognized as independent divisions, each awarding a new World YoYo Champion.

That would set the general format of the World YoYo Contest to this date. Another big change came in 2007, when compulsory tricks were replaced by one-minute freestyles, both in order to better evaluate the players as freestyle performers and to save the judges from the tedious job of watching the same tricks for hours. As 2013 has shown us, however, the system does not scale too well, and some adjustments are being worked on for the next editions of the contest in order to prevent the day-long preliminaries torture for the judges.

An interesting tidbit that took place in Orlando was the Combined Division. Held from 2006 to 2009, the division’s goal was to find out which player was the most proficient in all divisions. As the results clearly show, Shinji Saito was clearly better than everyone else — in addition to being nearly unbeatable in 2A — taking the award in all four instances of that division. The Combined Division was also the first to offer cash prizes at the World YoYo Contest.

The experiments and improvements made to the contest in Orlando set a solid foundation upon which the World YoYo Contest can build and grow. Worlds is now mature enough to take new steps, and advance further into a bigger and brighter future.

The 2013 edition was in some ways a fitting first step into that future. This was the biggest diversity ever among the top places in all divisions, with Hungary (János Karancz), Singapore (Christopher Chia), Mexico (Luis Enrique), Taiwan (Tuan Chih-Min and Who Theather), and of course Japan and United States all represented among the top three in different divisions, a sign of a healthy, growing, and competitive scene. The perfect scenario for the World YoYo Contest to set sail.

Next year, Worlds will be held in Prague, Czech Republic — the first edition under the management of the newly-formed International YoYo Federation — marking its first departure from the United States since the the first edition of its modern freestyle format in 1992.

Between doubt and excitement, the consensus is that the World YoYo Contest will never be the same. That’s probably right, and that’s also a good thing. The 2013 World YoYo Contest was not the same as the first contest in Orlando, it’s better in all aspects, much was learned, and all the experience from all these years will be carried on to Prague, then to Tokyo in 2015, and all Worlds editions to come.

The Orlando era will always be remembered as the time when we discovered what we wanted in a yoyo contest, when we figure out how to make it happen, and worked to make it happen. And none of it would have happened without the yearly efforts of one man, who turned the contest’s uncertain future into a solid present, and bright future.

Thank you, Greg Cohen.

Thank you, Orlando.

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: greg cohen, iyyf, orlando, world yo-yo contest, worlds

2012 World Yo-yo Contest Day 3: 1A & 5A results!

August 4, 2012 By Rafael Matsunaga

The final day of the 2012 World Yo-yo Contest is over! Check today’s results!

1A

  1. Hiroyuki Suzuki
  2. Marcus Koh
  3. Christopher Chia
  4. Harold Owens III
  5. Pong Si Yee Peter
  6. Gentry Stein
  7. Benson Fok
  8. Wong Kin Kwan
  9. Takeshi Matsuura
  10. Luis Enrique Villasenor
  11. Izuru Hasumi
  12. Zach Gormley
  13. Tatsuya Fujisaka
  14. Ricardo Marechal
  15. Shinya Kido
  16. Paolo Bueno
  17. Vilmos Zoltan Kiss
  18. Ryota Ogi
  19. Tomas Bubak
  20. Francesco Gioia

5A

  1. Takeshi Matsuura
  2. Takuma Inoue
  3. Hiroyasu Ishihara
  4. Hideo Ishida
  5. Tyler Severance
  6. Samm Scott
  7. Maya Nakamura
  8. Miguel Correa
  9. Naoya Takeuchi
  10. Gabriel Pedrosa

 

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 1A, 2012, 5A, 5a may, orlando, results, worlds, wyyc

2012 World Yo-yo Contest Day 2: 2A, 3A, 4A & AP results!

August 4, 2012 By Rafael Matsunaga

The first 2012 World Champions have been crowned! Meet the 2012 2A, 3A, 4A and AP champions!

2A

  1. Shu Takada
  2. Takuma Yamamoto
  3. Hiraku Fujii
  4. Joseph Harris
  5. Liu Man Ki
  6. Shota Aizawa
  7. Ryuya Kaneko
  8. Jan Schmutz

3A

  1. Hank Freeman
  2. Ng Wang Kit
  3. Minato Furuta
  4. Ken Takabayashi
  5. Taiichiro Higashi
  6. Eric Tran-Ton
  7. Donald Hodgkinson
  8. Yu Tsumura
  9. Wang Zerong
  10. Hiro Koba
  11. Takuma Inoue

4A

  1. Rei Iwakura
  2. Bryan Figueroa
  3. Naoto Okada
  4. Ben Conde
  5. Lim Aik Hwee
  6. Sean Perez
  7. John Narum
  8. Ian Johnson
  9. Peter Pong Si Yee
  10. Tomohiko Zanka
  11. Michael Nakamura
  12. Lam Yan Ting
  13. Gustavo Amaral

AP

  1. InMotion
  2. Takahiko Hasegawa
  3. Tomiyuki Watanabe
  • Ouka
  • Noel Kunz
  • Justin Weber

 

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2012, 2A, 3A, 4a, ap, orlando, results, worlds, wyyc

2012 World Yo-yo Contest Day 2: 5A Prelims and 1A Semi-final results

August 3, 2012 By Rafael Matsunaga

The 5A preliminary round and 1A semi-final round were held earlier today. This is the list of finalists joining the seeded players tomorrow!

1A

  1. Pong Si Yee Peter
  2. Shinya Kido
  3. Izuru Hasumi
  4. Benson Fok
  5. Tatsuya Fujisaka
  6. Takeshi Matsuura
  7. Gentry Stein
  8. Ryota Ogi
  9. Paolo Bueno
  10. Zach Gormley

5A

  1. Hideo Ishida
  2. Hiroyasu Ishihara
  3. Tyler Severance
  4. Maya Nakamura
  5. Miguel Correa
  6. Naoya Takeuchi

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2012, 5A, 5a may, orlando, prelim, results, worlds, wyyc

2012 World Yo-yo Contest Day 1: 1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A Prelim results

August 2, 2012 By Rafael Matsunaga

Finalists for the 2A, 3A, and 4A divisions, and semi-finalists for the 1A division have been announced!

In 1A, Ryota Ogi repeats his usual dominance in 1 minute freestyles and tops the ranking, followed closely by former World Champion Shinya Kido and Mexican powerhouse Paul Kerbel. Several of the favorites also made it to semi-finals, including Peter Pong, Tatsuya Fujisaka, Takahiro Iizuka, and Sebastian Brock. All these players have another hard day ahead in the semi-finals.

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

  1. Ryota Ogi
  2. Shinya Kido
  3. Paul Kerbel
  4. Pong Si Yee Peter
  5. Luckey Li
  6. Tatsuya Fujisaka
  7. Eric Koloski
  8. Izuru Hasumi
  9. Andrew Maider
  10. Benson Fok
  11. Gentry Stein
  12. Zach Gormley
  13. Akitoshi Tokubuchi
  14. Tessa Piccillo
  15. Joe Wilson
  16. Takuma Inoue
  17. Luis Orlando Abrajan
  18. Paolo Bueno
  19. Clint Armstrong
  20. Kevin Tandean
  21. Takahiro Iizuka
  22. Sebastian Brock
  23. Jesse Christie
  24. Michael Stecz
  25. Charles Haycock
  26. Palli Guodmundsson
  27. Takeshi Matsuura
2A
  1. Shota Aizawa
  2. Shu Takada
  3. Hiraku Fujii
  4. Ryuya Kaneko
  5. Jan Schmutz
3A
  1. Ken Takabayashi
  2. Taichiro Higashi
  3. Wang Zerong
  4. Eric Tran-Ton
  5. Donald Hodgkinson
  6. Yu Tsumura
  7. Takuma Inoue
4A
  1. Rei Iwakura
  2. Michael Nakamura
  3. Peter Pong Si Yee
  4. Tomohiko Zanka
  5. John Narum
  6. Ben Conde
  7. Ian Johnson

Thanks to Taiichiro Higashi for the lists!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2A, 3A, prelims, results, worlds, wyyc

The World Yo-yo Contest starts today!

August 2, 2012 By Rafael Matsunaga

The 2012 World Yo-yo Contest is about to start! Contestants are already all over the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando ready for action!

The competition starts with 2A Prelims at 10AM (EDT), followed by 3A Prelims at 11AM, and 4A at noon. Then, the whole afternoon will be occupied by the three huge 1A Prelim groups, with over 140 players battling for a spot in the semi-finals tomorrow!

YoyoSkills has its usual coverage page up, with the live stream and twitter box conveniently laid out on a single page. Instagram and Facebook are also flooding with pictures from the contest floor, so there’s plenty to enjoy even for those not in Orlando!

We’ll be back later with today’s results! Stay tuned!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2012, orlando, worlds, wyyc

An action-packed weekend approaches!

July 12, 2012 By Rafael Matsunaga

Yo-yo players around the globe are in for a treat this weekend!

In Asia, two huge contests will be held starting tomorrow. The Asia Pacific Yo-yo Championships, in Singapore, will be held from Friday to Sunday at the Hougang Mall. The other big event in the region is the China Yo-yo Corporation Championship in Guangzhou. While it’s unfortunate that the big names will be divided between the two contest, it makes for an exciting weekend nonetheless!

In the Americas, the US West Coast will host the Birdhouse Left Coast Tour, which brings along the YoyoFactory team. Also in the US, the traditional Mideast Regionals will take place in Plymouth, MI. Down south, Brazil Nationals will be held in São Paulo, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Brazilian Yo-yo Association.

And in just a couple of weeks, the Triple Crown of Yoyo in Chicago, and the World Yo-yo Contest will surely be the highlights of the contest season!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: ap, Asia Pacific, birdhouse, brazil, china, cycc, singapore, tour, triple crown, usa, worlds, yoyofactory

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