@sakatuca Best Yoyo of the Year 2024 Poll

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@sakatuca is polling for Best YoYo of the year 2024 and is collecting data through a Google Doc. If you don’t speak or read Japanese, that’s ok, use the Google Translate feature. For YouTube videos use close caption auto translate to get sub titles. Would be cool to see what the rest of world thinks which is the best for 2024.

Google Doc Link あなたが選ぶ2024年ベスト・ヨーヨー・オブ・ザ・イヤー

Your Choice for the Best Yo-Yo of the Year 2024

Voting Guidelines for Your Choice of the 2024 Best Yo-Yo of the Year

■ Selection criteria

This offer applies to all yo-yos released between December 2023 and November 2024. This includes tournament limited editions, pre-sale models, and privately made models.

■Notes

Only one submission per person is allowed, so you must log in to your Google account . If we determine that multiple submissions have been made, your votes will be invalid.

■Application Deadline

Until 23:59 on Saturday, November 22, 2024

■ Explanation of each department

In the survey, please select your yo-yos in the following categories. Answering all categories is optional, but “Best Yo-Yo of the Year” is required. You can also select multiple yo-yos in each category.

① Best Yo-Yo of the Year ※Required

Choose the yo-yo you think is the best this year. Select the one yo-yo that is the best across all categories.

② Best High-End Category *Optional

Please select a high-end model for competition. Specifically, this includes bimetal and titanium models, signature models for competition, and other models that represent this year’s competitive yo-yos.

③Best Casual Yo Category *Optional

Please choose boutique yo-yos for everyday use or casual use. This category is for yo-yos for casual use, which is our specialty, so it is also the main category behind the scenes.

④ Best Playo Category *Optional

Choose the best yo-yo made from plastic materials. Yo-yos made from plastic materials such as POM, polycarbonate, ABS, etc. Mixed plastics are acceptable, but plastic and metal combinations are not.

⑤Department you wanted to buy from *Optional

Please choose a yo-yo that you wanted to buy but couldn’t get your hands on, for example, because it was too popular, was only available at a tournament, or was too expensive.

■How to apply

  • Please select your yo-yo in the application form and submit it.
  • Please note that each person may only submit one entry. Multiple votes will be invalid.

■ Announcement of survey results

The results of the survey will be announced in a YouTube video on our channel between early December and New Year’s Eve 2024. We look forward to your vote!

■ Handling of personal information

  • The personal information provided when voting will be used only to compile the survey results and will not be used for any other purpose.
  • Applicants’ personal information will be managed appropriately and will not be provided to any third parties.

Please let us know which yo-yo is your favorite!

We look forward to your valuable feedback in helping us decide which yo-yo will be the face of this year.

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Sorry if I gave away the results. Its obviously gonna be oranges all the way down

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Bumping as a reminder. Just got a couple that I wanted to play before I make my vote. Its any Yo-Y0 released from 12/1/2023 to 11/30/2024. Its been a strong year for Delrin and Side Effect throws but I feel W!ld really got a strong hold on the competitive scene…

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Now that the election is over we can Vote on something that is really important; Best YoYo of the Year 2024

① Best Yo-Yo of the Year
Choose the yo-yo you think is the best this year. Select the one yo-yo that is the best across all categories.

  1. Dreamcraft Asora Post-Type : 03 @suspense
  2. MK1 / Turner Return Tops Bathysphere @MarkD @Raindog3030
  3. At Design Lab ZERO @atdesignlab

Reason for selecting
The Asora is just everything I want in a Yo-Yo, light base weight with the ability to customize with Side Effects or Caps and a classic High Wall design

② Best High-End Category
Please select a high-end model for competition. Specifically, this includes bimetal and titanium models, signature models for competition, and other models that represent this year’s competitive yo-yos.

  1. SENSE Senti-Metal

Reason for selection
Modern Meta Design and not too wide

③Best Casual Yo Category
Please choose boutique yo-yos for everyday use or casual use. This category is for yo-yos for casual use, which is our specialty, so it is also the main category behind the scenes.

  1. Yoyorecreation Diffusion Mg

Reason for selecting
Classic Diffusion and as premium as can be, Float and Spin with a great sound

④ Best Playo Category
Choose the best yo-yo made from plastic materials. Yo-yos made from plastic materials such as POM, polycarbonate, ABS, etc. Mixed plastics are acceptable, but plastic and metal combinations are not.

  1. MK1 Tangent @MarkD

Reason for selecting
Big year for Delrin and this one was just first out of the block, great feel and weight

⑤Department you wanted to buy from
Please choose a yo-yo that you wanted to buy but couldn’t get your hands on, for example, because it was too popular, was only available at a tournament, or was too expensive

  1. CLYW/Duncan Peakhand @bjardin @unklesteve

Reason for selecting
Love the Freehand and the Peak, this is just a collectors players dream combo, couldn’t get to worlds and still anticipating a release

To Vote yourself see OP or click link below, use Translate if needed

Google Doc Link あなたが選ぶ2024年ベスト・ヨーヨー・オブ・ザ・イヤー

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Don’t forget to vote. Any 2024 release is on the table, there were a handful of 2nd runs and some brought back like the Avalanche Redux. The Butterfly 95 year editions are also game, a few TP Mustangs also dropped. but maybe you were all in on the Canopy Collection. Link in the OP or down below

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LOVE the Asora and the Bathy. The Tangent is an excellent pic as well.

As for the ZERO, I wasn’t a fan, but I did really dig the mono.

Time for me to go fill out the form!

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I think the primary flaw in gathering information about ‘Best yo-yo of 2024’, is that there is a high probability that most answers are based on minimal comparisons between the potentially top contenders.

Consider this> at least a few hundred yo-yos will be released in 2024. Let’s just say, to error on the low side, that 160 yo-yos were released during the year.

Ok… let’s just ‘guess’ that this thread will get 60 responses. Of those 60 responders, most likely, less than 10 percent(16) have even tried maybe 20+ from the 160 released.

Compounded by the reality that of the 60 responses that may appear in this thread, some of the best yo-yos released by the smaller vendors, were probably less than 60 total production runs. So that would mean that a good number of really fine playing yo-yos, never even ended up in the hands of players to evaluate.

So, mostly, there is no functional/usable ‘depth’ to the gathered intel.

Half the response in this thread may be from players that haven’t even tried 10 of All the yo-yos released for the year. So… if a responder says he/she/whatever, feels that the Best yo-yo of the year is the Bathy(for example). And you ask that person, how many 2024 releases have you thrown? And they respond, well, just the Bathy and an Evolve.

The majority of responders will be drawing their favorites conclusions on only what they have used, it’s simply unrealistic to give a gold ribbon based on personal thoughts on yo-yos you have tried.

A more realistic thread would have been titled, ‘For the year 2024, what is the very best playing yo-yo you have thrown?

(Abstract parallel) You work in an office building. One of your co-workers asks, ‘Which girl do you think is the prettiest in the building’? The building is 27 stories high. You have only seen the girls on the 3rd floor. And you haven’t even seen all of them. So, you can only really say, ‘Well, I can only consider the girls on the 3rd floor. And I can only pick from the girls I have seen. <> that certainly won’t get you very close to the finish line.

PS… nothing ‘wrong’ with the OP posting up a Poll. But even if 60 people responded in this thread and every single one of them said, ‘Hands down… the very Best yo-yo of 2024 is the Luftverk plastic Stelvia’. < but they have only tried several of the 160 releases of the year.

It would not be best yo-yo of the year. It would just be best yo-yo they tried during the year.