You put that perfectly!
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And I think the judging system is somewhat at fault here. There are some people whose visual style seems more compelling to me, but they donāt get the clicksā¦
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I mean, yo-yoing is rather silly 
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No! 
Yoyo is not to be taken lightly!
Only super serious!
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Thatās interesting to think aboutā¦ About the siliness of hobbies and sport. 22 adult man kicking a ball in a field is rather silly too, if you only think about the situation, isnāt it? 
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I think silly activities suddenly become deadly serious when big money is involved. Once someone can be paid millions of dollars to play, it is no longer childās play.
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Attach a string to your finger and make a round thing twirl around and around. It does not get more serious.
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I know itās like apples to oranges at this point, but I wonder if Jennifer Baybrook feels slightly slighted?
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I donāt think the producers of this series went to great lengths to research the deeper histories of their subjects. Yet another reason why they are best labeled āhuman interest storiesā and not documentaries.
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I thought the show was fun.
I only watched the cheese roll, pepper eating and yoyo episode. They were each pretty entertaining. I made fun of cheese rolling and after watching itā¦ Iām pretty sure all my bones would break trying that.
I think I enjoyed watching Kieran the most because I didnt know anything about him beforehand. I kinda knew who Gentry was. The name is a little familiar
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Am I the only one who found the announcer a little patronizing?
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I think Wilsonās delivery of the sometimes corny script was intended to appeal to kids. It didnāt come across as patronizing to me, rather, it just had that Saturday morning cartoon feel.
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I donāt watch competitions but expected Tessa to crush the girl division. Guess Iām biased
Yeah the documentary did have a few instances of false information. They claimed Betty was the first female to ever win a national competition.
When Jennifer Baybrook has won US Nationals, Maya Nakamura has won Japan nationals, and Kahli Evans has won Australia nationals. Even if they decided to say 1A specific, Kahli was a multitime 1A Australia nats winner.
Also, they said Evan was the first worlds finalist to make his own song, but Jensen did this in 2011.
No hate to the creators, just some things that werenāt really entirely true thrown in.
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I really like the pepper eating one. I didnāt care for the frog jumping one at first, but it just got more and more ludicrous at the end. Definitely got some lolz out of me.
āEverybody goes in with the mindset of, āIām going to win this thingā, but in the back of your mind youāre like, āOh man if that actually wins, my nameās going to be embedded in the sidewalk. Like, Iām going to have to change my phone number after that!āā 
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Totally matches his style of humor
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Itās hard to have a good guy without a bad guy in a story.
And they didnāt make him out to be too bad. They made him out to be very skillful - and good looking. lol
At the end when they highlight him again they make him out to be the deserving winner.
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He was the executive producerā¦ Iām sure he wrote it himself, heās an accomplished comedian and the writing (especially the corny jokes) is very much his style.
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Like the crazy fantasy hair oneā¦ $10,000 to the winner?! insaneā¦
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After watching all of the remaining episodes in a binge watch, my wife commented that the audience participation and size of the yo-yo one was easily the largest and most engaged, although the chili pepper eating one had a very engaged audience, it did not look nearly as big. I had to remind her of Steveās comment in the beginning that the World yo-yo contest is really a contest for the players. Itās where we get together to reward our own. And for a lot of people itās the one time a year they meet up with friends - which ties in Evanās comment about how the rest of the world can see it as a simple toy, but to a few select of us itās made an impact on our lives. Really got to meā¦ lol
I had never heard of the 3 of the other contests. I knew other countries had chili eating contests and I knew fantasy hair was a thing, but I had no idea that they were at the level that the show made them out to be, which was great IMO.
I very much enjoyed it and think it really presented a fantastic view of modern yo-yo. Also, being a massive fan of The Office and Rainn Wilson - I enjoyed his commentary and presentation.
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