im so proud of zach, he 10000000000000% deserved the win
everyone else did a CRAZY good job (hajime, let me catch up man! XD inspiration for DAYYYYYYZZZZZZZZZ)
shoutout to my freind lucas gremler, he made it past wildcard and into prelims out of nowhere.
i will be attending my first WYYC next year with other members of team go big 
#SEEYOUINCLEVELAND
best freestyle I have ever seen. As much as I loved Zachs and fully agree that he deserved the win, I was blown away by Anthony’s.
Anthony had great music and body tricks but not enough whips/ complex fast tricks as zach imo
I think the key to winning might be to have a great freestyle with every type(horizontal, whips, speed)
Shinji used shorter string than he used to be.
Shinji had a score of 100 at least once as well.
Scores used to be higher back before they added the judge evaluation categories and major deductions, when the T.Ex. part was the whole score. The way the scores were calculated was that whichever player got the highest score from a particular judge got a score of 100 from that judge, and everyone else’s score was the percentage of that player’s clicked points they got from that judge. So if Andre is judging and clicks Hiroyuki Suzuki the highest with 500 points, and then Yuuki next with 480 points, Mickey would get a score of 100 from Andre, and Yuuki would get a 96. A perfect score of 100 just meant that the player had the top score from each individual judge (or all but one judge, since I think they would discard the highest and lowest scores). Since every judge awards a 100 to their top-scoring player, the winning scores were usually in the 90s at least.
With the new scoring system, perfect scores in any of the evaluation categories are rare, so no one gets near 100 anymore. I assume the T.Ex. score is still done the same way, so Hajime Miura getting a perfect 60 in the T.Ex. category probably means he was the only player that got the top T.Ex. score from every judge in his division.
Takeshi being within .03 points of Jake for first reminds me of Takeshi’s first WYYC in 2007, when he and Sojun Miyamura were separated by less than .1 points for 2nd and 3rd. I forget how close exactly they were, but after they announced the results, they realized the rules said to round the scores to the nearest tenth, so they ended up officially tied for second. Kind of funny that the next time (I think?) two players are that close for a podium spot, it’s Takeshi involved again.
It’s got to be harsh on Takeshi to have a restart likely cost him a world title two years in a row, but at least it happened to someone who is already one of the most accomplished and decorated players ever and not someone still chasing their first title.
No, he was using Czech Point.
zachs horizontal earned him 2 negative points
