What changes in competition rules would you like to see?

[Isaac]

To the main point of the thread, I actually agree, I think the scoring is good as is. I really enjoy this short video essay by Jamie of Spiral

A Beautiful Game - In Defense of the Modern Yoyo Meta

That said, I’ve also really enjoyed how Scales has been iterating their scoring system each contest they hold, and each contest they hold seems to get better as they learn and adapt from it.

Also, this is third-hand information from what I’ve read on the forum (link below) but Takeshi reportedly stopped competing after 2018 because he didn’t like how the current scoring system worked w.r.t. hard technical tricks. I’d be really interested to see what his ideal ruleset would be or see how more contests run like his “Chain Reaction” event would turn out.

Takeshi matsuura?

I actually asked about this recently to some friends in Japan. From what I understand Takeshi has decided to stop competing as he has not been happy with how the judging system rewards technical difficulty, etc. Instead he is focusing his efforts in other directions that he feels will help promote technical play. He recently ran an event called Chain Reaction in Tokyo which from what I understand was more of an ‘exhibition’ rather than a formal yoyo contest in an effort to reward tech.