The 2019 World Yo-Yo Contest Thread

Do you know how we can watch a replay?

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I’m not sure, sorry!

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Didn’t go super clean but Remy still made the cut :ok_hand:

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Some of the prelims are up here, for 2a-5a:

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I was close!

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Thanks. Pretty sad that some random person in the crowd can do this but not the contest itself.

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I think the contest pays them to do it

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Can someone pick me up a Tourney set?

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Are there going to be AL Butterfly for sale online, or only at this event? Will pay shipping and extra if someone snags me one, if they will not be available online.

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Let’s see some more merch please.
This is curtesy @vegabomb

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I wish you’d have posted that a few hours ago. I coulda grabbed you one.

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I want a tourney as well but I am fine waiting until they sell it through ā€œnormalā€ channels later… it will be sold later outside the contest, right?

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Did they release the specs anywhere yet?

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Agreed! I wanna see more photos/videos of people’s loot! :smiley:

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The ones at the contest come in the cool wooden box with a contest branded plastic butterfly.

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Kind of hard to get excited for the new yo-yos that are being unveiled without having any idea what the specs are.

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See below

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I honestly can’t believe we are right back in the same boat as the National YoYo contest, absolutely horrid access to video coverage.

The Asia Pacific contest had multiple live stream options and all of the videos were available right after the round. Same with Japan.

Mean while we have to deal with the RIDICULOUS fact that we have to PAY to watch video of the contest and even then I had video connection issues and they didn’t put the videos up afterward!

I mean does anyone involved in this contest realize that like 1% of throwers can actually make it to Cleveland and the rest of us rely on the live stream and replays?

Jesus, it’s 2019, just put a damn iPad on a tripod and stream the thing on Instagram or Youtube or even FaceBook.

Instead we are using Vimeo (which doesn’t have an app on Smart TVs) like we time-traveled back to 2013 and there are no replays to watch except what people captured from the audience.

Am I the only one who thinks this is absolutely absurd?

I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks, I get home and literally all I get to see is the last two minutes of the results and that’s it. I am so bummed.

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I dont think so, but it feels smaller diameter wise… probably around 54/55mm. Not sure about the width. Has a nice relaxed feel to it for a bimetal.

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Yeah, I didn’t realize there was the cool boxed set until later today and I decided I wanted it.

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