The 2019 World Yo-Yo Contest Thread

Anyone know how much the bear traps cost?

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If anyone here wants to try to a TiWalker/compare to a TiVayder I have one out with me behind the BYC table!

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Does anyone have the updated semi-final order?

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The ones that come with the Duncan Tourney and Al Butterfly.

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Just some cool yoyoers practicing on stage

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I was just watching the live feed. There is a video running on stage with some ads. One of them had text that was foreign so I couldn’t read but had a short video of a blue spin top that the person was able to “squeeze” like it was some type of rubber material. Are these at the contest? Anyone know anything about it?

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omg his semifinal performance was SO good

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Sweet! TONS of videos up here:

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Has anyone managed to get a pic of Ayumu’s throw? (the AC2 successor)

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YYF - 5(including Evan)
SF - 4
UNPRLD - 3
CLYW - 2
Good Life - 2
YYR - 1
C3 - 1
God Tricks - 1
Unsponsored - 1

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I’ll be happy to get you one, but the WYYC engraved XT is only available with the wooden worlds box that includes either the new AL butterfly, tourney, barracuda, or flying squirrel. Happy to send you pics of some stuff and some prices tomorrow id you’d like. My recommendation after playing all of them would be the tourney/XT box which is 75$.

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We just set a new world record! There must have been 50 people shooting the moon simultaneously! Duncan just gave away like 300+ yoyos!

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What yo-yos did they give away? :smiley: It’s so fun when you go to big events and get cool free swag!

I wish I could take you up on the offer of picking up a tourney/xt for me…thanks for making it! But my wallet is having some issues this month! lol :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, I’d love to see photos of any new yos and booths that you might have!!

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They gave away several hundred of the new butterfly XT.


It’s got a cool Cleveland logo on the other side.

Here’s some pics of today’s epic haul! Try not to let your wallet get jelly! The autographs were part of a trade I worked out with @edhaponik. He kept insisting that he’d ruin yo-yos by autographing them, while I kept insisting they’d be more valuable! Thanks Ed!

What a first day at my first contest! :grin:

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Nice haul!
One of my favorite things about taking trips is picking up souvenirs!!

I may have to hunt down one of those freebie butterfly xt’s via BST…it’s green! lol :smiley:

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Same here! I used to tell myself “I don’t need that event T-shirt”. Now I seem to value the memories these items evoke more than any $.

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These scores really confused me. Some participants that did really well placed so low (mainly looking at janos, but there were others as well) while.others that messed up a bunch of their routine somehow made it to finals.

Edit: mir kim too shouldve made it. Dude hit a perfect freesryle and everyone was stoked the entire FS. I remmeber watching it thinking he would win semis.

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Notice that the difference between Janos’ place vs 19th is 5 points in total score and 3 points in technical evals. It was really tight

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I agree. But these scores just made me so upset. You have someone like kacper who missed half his freestyle score higher than mir kim who completely killed it in all senses of the word.

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Kacpers freestyle was completely designed to score high.

You can see that Mir Kim’s freestyle was not as meta with as many clear clicking elements. He has a style that can be more judge dependent

But I would agree he is more skilled than Kacper and expected him to make finals going into today

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