# Who will be world champ this year?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [May 1, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609 "2023-05-01T00:09:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Yoyokid1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyokid1)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/1 "2023-05-01T00:09:49Z")
Who will be the world yoyo champion this year?
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### Author:  [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/2 "2023-05-01T00:20:02Z")
Shion Araya don’t know about the other divisions and don’t really know about 1a but I’ll call it! no risk and I don’t wanna be 1a biased
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### Author:  [@MoosaK](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoosaK)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/3 "2023-05-01T05:18:29Z")
Evan and Shion are always safe bets. I’d say Hunter and Kohei are the second most likely from US and Japan respectively. Mir Kim probably has a pretty good shot, given hes won the last 2 online worlds (but irl may be different, we’ll see)
Polo always has a chance, and some other Korean players have been doing really well in online contests (Park Jun Sang, Kim Min Joon)
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### Author:  [@PropofolPenguin](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PropofolPenguin)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/4 "2023-05-01T06:01:21Z")
I hope Junsang Park does well. Great player and I’m loving his Seiji.
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### Author:  [@SR1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SR1)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 6:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/5 "2023-05-01T06:24:50Z")
I’m admittedly not very well versed in players outside the US (besides the usual suspects)…. But we’ll see if Hunter pulls out the W at Nats, if he does, I feel like he’s got a legitimately pretty great shot at it - he’s been on fire lately. Evan will be Top 3 at least I’m sure.
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### Author:  [@Boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Boy)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/6 "2023-05-13T13:15:48Z")
how does the seiji play?
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### Author:  [@Exmime](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Exmime)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/7 "2023-05-13T13:21:06Z")
The Spotlight is on Hunter
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### Author:  [@Yoyogeek15](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyogeek15)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/8 "2023-05-13T13:38:40Z")
Honestly it’s pretty hard to say. Because there are just so many talented yoyo players now and more people are now on the competitive scene than there was a few years ago. I definitely agree with @SR1 that Evan will most likely place in the top 3. But if I had to guess who would probably win worlds this year I would say Mir Kim for sure. Mir ( and Miri) are on a whole other level and are yo-yoing machines! I think that both of the Kim’s are going all the way this year. We’ll find out soon though!
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### Author:  [@p44company](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/p44company)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/9 "2023-05-13T13:39:21Z")
my safest bet will be sunshine jimmy fr
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### Author:  [@Pox](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pox)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/10 "2023-05-13T13:56:57Z")
Chris Frasier.
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### Author:  [@Shwa](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Shwa)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/11 "2023-05-13T17:10:30Z")
When and where is the worlds this year?
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### Author:  [@tylerpan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/tylerpan)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/12 "2023-05-13T17:12:23Z")
17-20 August and in Osaka, JP
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### Author:  [@Odd](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Odd)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/13 "2023-06-17T06:46:02Z")
Kris Toledo been slinging fire.
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### Author:  [@hieuyoer123](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hieuyoer123)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/14 "2023-06-17T06:56:08Z")
Mid…
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### Author:  [@hieuyoer123](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hieuyoer123)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/15 "2023-06-17T06:56:45Z")
Kohei ig
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### Author:  [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2023, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/16 "2023-06-17T07:34:00Z")
I would say that the world champion will no doubt be the person that finishes in first place.
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### Author:  [@Benthrowsyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Benthrowsyoyo)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/17 "2023-06-17T17:57:26Z")
I think Hunter has a legitimately decent shot. That or Zhou Bowen (go team c3!)
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### Author:  [@rizki\_yoist](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rizki_yoist)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-will-be-world-champ-this-year/374609/18 "2023-06-18T13:56:03Z")
Ahmad Kharisma if he plays clean. I saw his nats freestyle, it was insane.