Wide yoyos? No.
However, unresponsive yoyos are definitely cheating because technically they’re not “yoyos” anymore. In the collective cultural mind of the world, a “yoyo” goes up and down when you tug and throw it. Unresponsive throws are something else entirely. I’m not sure we should be calling them “yoyos” at all.
Basically, unless you can do the gravity pull, what you’re holding is not a yoyo. Maybe we should have the gravity pull as a compulsory demonstration on the yoyo trick ladder 
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You can do a gravity pull on an unresponsive yoyo.
It’s only cheating if you are using a Luftverk Octavia.
Sorry, I just read your post again and realized that you were saying you can do a gravity pull on an unresponsive yoyo, not can’t.
Holy smokes JHB made a topic.
I had the exact same thought…
Actually A very interesting story behind now he came up with that topic.
He just happened to be passing gas(keyword ‘behind’) and the gas formed letters like an Indian smoke signal.
As John turned and read the smoke, he felt compelled to post up exactly what the signals said.
Like a premonition, kinda.
Like a miracle sign from the silly question department.
…in reference to yoyos, cheating would/could be defined as using a yoyo that would give an individual an advantage for oneself or over others in a competitive situation.
Since ‘modern’ yoyos are identified primarily by performance potential and not by price; there are modern higher performance yoyos available at many price points most yoyo players can deal with.
Since most modern yoyos are identified as most functional for performing modern tricks(unless your name is Ed); then utilizing a modern yoyo to perform modern tricks presents no advantage over others using similar yoyos to perform the same tricks.
And when used in Competition, most all players that make it to the stage have modern yoyos. So having no advantage over others fails to constitute ‘cheating’… You can’t gain an advantage over another possessing the same advantage.
And since at least 95 percent of people on Earth that throw yoyos, never ever(like in never-ever-ever-never) compete in a single yoyo contest in their entire life; anything that even vaguely identifies as cheating is pointless.
When somebody comes out with a yoyo that does the tricks for you… Then we got some cheating activity going down…
One might say that unresponsive throws spin much longer than regular yoyos and therefore allow players to do many string tricks far more easily.
Depending on how yoyos are defined (do they come up with a tug of the hand?), using unresponsive is the closest one would come to “cheating”.
I seriously can’t believe you just said what you said immediately below what I just said. And that I am responding directly below what you just said below what I just said to clarify what I said above what you said above what I am saying right now because you said what you said…(<>Example of unresponsive talking bolstered by a few verbal regens to extend spin time)
You just said unresponsive yoyos are the closest thing to ‘cheating’. < basically right below my saying that since most yoyo players at the competitive level have access to the same modern yoyos; you can’t gain a cheating advantage over others that have the same advantage.
And if you want to get technical, yoyos beyond a certain level of unresponsiveness are irrelevant because most top level players seem to rely more often on excellent regen skills to keep yoyos powered up than on playing one throw down to zero spin.
Unresponsive is not even the ‘closest’ thing to cheating. Sometimes they can actually be a handicap since very unresponsive yoyos are sometimes more difficult to ‘regen’.
Hyper Infinity is difficult to play. Too heavy yet tilts very easily, if anything it only adds difficulty. A stock freehand zero is a lot easier to play.
