Does the Wide Angle feel as wide in play as it actually is? By that I mean the couple wider yo-yos I’ve had have felt a little chunky, but the inner cut to the profile looks like it might reduce that issue.
Also does it play as light as it weight suggests?
I thought it was gonna be Yuki 1st, Evan 2nd, and Nate 3rd, I was pulling for yuki as well.
It’s so sad how insensitive some people are
Keep my name out of your mouth please, go be a jerk to someone else
I’m out of the loop. What?
A bunch of people are mad that Gentry won and are disliking the video/trolling in the comments.
Huh. That’s lame 
To answer your questions, the Wide Angle does not feel chunky to me, and it doesn’t feel lighter than the number suggests.
I’ve found that wide yoyos don’t actually get in the way at all. Even with that grey one I made that is 57mm wide, it was still pretty easy to throw it in and out of triangles in the trick Superman.
What were the prizes for winning worlds? Is it a cash prize?
Just curious.
He didnt do a 4a freestyle he did a full soloham 
As for gentrys freestyle, i think a lot of people were upset because a lot of the players had really risky bangers, while gentry had a very consistent freestyle with less bangers.
I understand that some people played yoyo really well and someone won the best at yoyoing competition! 
Congrats @Gentry_Stein and @Evan_Nagao !!! Within the margin of error so I would say we have two first place worlds winners here
I know it’s difficult and subjective, but there should be an award for whoever does the most difficult stuff.
Maybe even a sub-category where a freestyle is judged on difficulty and missing tricks isn’t penalized as much.
I’m telling you, that would advance yoyoing a lot because I can’t imagine what some of these guys would do if they didn’t only attempt stuff that they can nail super consistently.
Congrats to Gentry!
I remember someone mentioning in a thread earlier how the yoyo community is as toxic as any other community out there. I disagreed, but now im more inclined to agree with him after seeing all the backlash regarding the results of this contest.
Not that I think Gentry’s freestyle was boring or anything (I dont), but this is not a contest of who has the coolest, hardest, most innovative routine; it is a contest based on judged parameters. Competition yoyoing being criticized for not fully embracing trick creativity while forcing players to adhere to a meta is not exactly a new idea. I have seen this conversation for years, and a lot of people here are far more interested in the A-RT guys’ next video than they are a winning contest routine. Gentry played the contest better than anyone and won as a result. If players don’t want to optimize competition routines for the highest possible scoring, then they don’t deserve to win under these rules.
@moby323 - sadly this wont happen in a contest environment. Judging needs rules. Yoyo exhibitions without awards would be the only way to pull it off. Also nobody is stopping these guys from recording videos and posted them online. I know it isnt the same because they aren’t up on a stage in front of a live audience, but any contest will need rules that will inevitably restrict creativity.
Seriously. It’s like getting mad at a tennis player winning a point because your favorite player kept hitting the ball in the doubles lane. Like if they were playing doubles those would have been great shots but they’re not.
Maybe your favorite player isn’t as good at designing a high scoring routine, which is a skill regardless of whether or not it’s the type of yoyoing you value.
I also agree with this wholeheartedly. People need to stop treating contest yoyoing like it’s a yo-yo video. They aren’t demonstrating they’re ability to innovate, they’re demonstrating how consistently they can execute a high skill routine.
There’s a reason the And One members never made it to the NBA. The skills for flashy street ball don’t necessarily translate to the professional level. Someone that makes innovative tricks that require multiple takes to nail is still impressive, but that doesn’t mean they can put together a winning routine.
At a particular Contest; on a particular day; one player bested his own Teammate by .3 of a single point.
27 theories on why the outcome should have been one way or another; can be countered by 27 more views on why the first 27 views are ‘misguided’.
…If you wanted Gentry to win; then you can easily justify why you feel he won by simply not taking risks at missing bangers.
… If you wanted Evan to win; you can simply justify his loss by the fact that he didn’t have his best game available for at least ‘several seconds of those long three minutes’.
… The Judges? The amazing guys that go out of their way to pretty much volunteer to do a thankless job to be criticized for whatever the outcomes of Contests? The Scoring system that the Judges follow; that may help or hinder either what they see or feel should or shouldn’t ‘count’?
Should ‘we’ all question the results because we really wanted the ‘other guy’ to win?
In reality; the ‘pressure’ is on everybody but us . All of us are backseat drivers. All of us supposedly feel we see things the Judges don’t see. (And in certain instances; that may be true. Our views of the videos may actually give a broader perspective than the Judges have; sitting where they sit and viewing from their particular angle).
And there are certainly no laws against playing the ‘if game’. Taking the, ‘This is what he should have done game. Second guessing the Judges about what they should have or shouldn’t have noticed or scored.
…This is what happened. At the 2019 World Yoyo Contest in August; 2 Amazing Yoyo players; from the same Team; spent a sum total of 6 minutes on final freestyles.
And one bested the other by less than half a point.
An Excellent day for both and a Great day for Team YoYoFactory.
