# A contest question

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**Category:** Colin Beckford\
**Created:** [September 16, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-contest-question/293046 "2018-09-16T17:12:08Z")\
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What was one of the hardest contest to prep for? or will be?

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2015 Worlds. I had to prep for wildcard to finals which was really a lot. I didn’t expect to make it past semis, either, but I ended up finaling. A good strategy that I used that did help was doing the same format of song/tricks for prelim and semis 🙂