True, but irrelevant in a conversation comparing the actual competitors.
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Just depends on how difficult the element is. If itās behind the back, a difficult regen, a multihook, or a particularly difficult hop, then Iāll double click. On occasion Iāll triple click something really crazy.
Also double slacks and particularly difficult looking rejections.
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That sounds about tight.
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What in actuality is irrelevant; is you misguided decision to conclude there would be any relevance in paraphrasing Dale Earnhardtās view of winning/losing.
ā¦For Everything/every moment/every headache/every challenge/ every practice session/every single aspect it takes to even get good enough to be allowed to take the stage at the World Yoyo Contest.
ā¦To suggest that second place is the first loser; is like throwing a bucket of garbage directly into the face/efforts of the 2nd place finisher.
To devalue 2nd to loser status; is what is irrelevant.
I know both the 1st and 2nd place Winners.
I find it offensive to throw shade around.
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Sorry, I should have plastered these all over my quote of Earnhardt: 
It was, a joke, son. Every bit as much as quoting Ricky Bobby. Sheesh.
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There will always be controversy around who won the contest, how the judges gave it to so-and-so and not the other guy. I seem to remember one of @edhaponik 's 66 rules of yoyo being ānever blame the judges. maintain the attitude that, if you had REALLY won, it wouldnāt have been up to them at all.ā And of course ādonāt set too much store by contest results. at their MOST valid, they give an idea of who played the best for three minutes, on one given day. respect everyone who can get up there with poise and intent.ā (quoted from Just a reminder...(66 rules of yoyoing))
So, lets tip our hats to the people who came in first. However, lets also tip our hats to all 300 or so who stood in front of judges and played their hearts outā¦
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Rules to yo by
- practice more. post less.
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Exactly.
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To any competitor, 2nd place is losing. You can sugarcoat it all you want if you like, but it just is.
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Nate really had the crowd on his side and he looked like he was having a blast up there. I really enjoyed his enthusiasm and his choice of tricks. IOW, I really like his style.
I assume the main reason he didnāt score higher (than 85.9) was because for many of his tricks the yoyo spent a lot of valuable time traveling between clickable āmomentsā, limiting the number of clicks he was going to get in 3 minutes.
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Does anyone know why Nate didnāt use an ND Ultra?
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Or a BiND for that matterā¦ 
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Because itās a good yoyo and still his signature.
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He used the ND because he prefers it.
Gives a bit of insight as to how much bimetal really matters for competition.
Not much according to Nate Daileyā¦
ā¦Or Gentry Stein for that matter.
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Worlds was the best. I was so lucky to go and that so many people came from so far away too. I didnāt get to speak with everyone I wanted to but I was up till 6:30 am on Sunday throwing, so apparently not enough time lol.
If I can comment on Evanās freestyle, it was a gift to the yo-yo community, he tried (and landed) some tricks up there of his he hadnāt tried before, and Iām glad and happy he went for them and Iām sure others can say the same. Hajime melted all our faces with his 4A routine, and IMO kind of hard to talk about making soloham a division if heās the only one doing it lol. I also like the freestyles of Luke Trautwein, Nate Dailey, Patrick Canny, Keiran Cooper, Alex Curfmanās 3a Semi-Finals, Ann Connolly, Janos Karancz had some nice tricks in his 1A semis, so many more too.
The best for me though was throwing with Evan Nagao, Harrison Lee, Remy Baskin, Jakub Plader from Poland, Angelo Aguirre, Cheng (donāt sleep on Cheng, he can throw down too), Myles Gregory, Quentin Godet, Californian (Andrew?) who rips with a yo-yo, in a stairwell late after the contest showing some different tricks and doing whatever routines cleanly.
I also got to meet Mark manning the MK1 boutique booth for @MarkD and throw my green Diffraction 2 with other players that just picked theirs up. Mark visiting from the Duncan Store in Disney World was a cool guy and let us try the Diffraction 2 all we wanted and see the different colours in person.
So glad to have a Ti-Vader on hand during the event too, but I brought it to the Basecamp release party which turned out to be a big mistake for maintaining its mint condition status (video below)
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REPORTED FOR VIOLENT OR ABUSIVE ACTS!
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No, itās not Flarion, itās F-L-A-R-E-O-N
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hehe Iām such a pokenoob! >.<ā
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lol, none of our faces are showing, you have no evidence.
Yeah Walk the Flareon could be a good name for it
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