Mannnn I forgot about all the terrible yoyos Takeshi carried to victory holy
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3A
2008 - YYR Stargazer V1
2010 - YYR Stargazer V2
2007 - YYJ Speeder
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Ty, I suspected 2010 was stargazer v2 but had no clue on 08.
If you wanna share earlier years you know thatād be dope
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4Š°?)
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2006 3a would have been Paul with buzzon bushidos. Also I want to say the YYJ sigma blade zwei for 2005 but Iām not positive. Iām also thinking the original YYJ sigma blade was used in 2004 to win 3a as well.
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If someone else wants to do it Iāll add it but too lazy to do it, and Iād prob only know like 10 years anyway
Jensenās win with the Northstar in 2010 was the only one I was dead certain about.
The real question is whether he could have won in 2010 with a Tigershark, and the real answer is probably not.
(But the scrolls speak of the day that one will come who will.)
If someone wins worlds with a Tigershark Iām quitting
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Yomega Raider is easily the most dominant yoyo to ever exist lol
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Yeah, but you had to mod it within an inch of its life to make it competition worthy, right? I wonder at what point yoyos started being made specifically to play at a high performance level without modification.
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I think around 2007.
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somebody did though LOL - 2000 Yu Kowanda
I would agree, that was the Year the Great Yuuki Spencer used the 888 to win the 1A World Championships! - which was the HOLY GRAIL of yo-yos back then as well haha - It was the first premium high performance yo-yo you could just use right out of the box without doing anything to it! - I even bought one secretly while I was sponsored by another yo-yo company 
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I was sad to see all the yuuki 888s with the world winning string in the response end up as b grades.
Thought it was a cool idea that each of his signature 888 would have a piece of string in the response from his world winning freestyle.
Wonder if anyone out there still has one with the original response.
Woahh what do you mean a piece of string in the response? like there were Yuuki Edition 888ās with string response?? LOL
The only yo-yo I remember with the string response was the Original Loop 720ās
They had cut up the string he used to win worlda and had a piece in the sili groove that they then siliconed over
Ben had them at nationals 07 along with an unreleased yuuki 07 888.
The ones with the string in the response were unengraved.
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what the heck, I didnāt even know about these hahaha - Need picss LOL!
This is the unreleased yuuki 888 from that year. Can tell because itās not matte finish and doesnāt have the 2x engraving
I donāt have pics of the string in the response b grade though
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ohhh yeahh!! - I donāt remember the string being in the response for those lol (very fun idea) - but now I remember LOL - these are FIREEE - Thanks for digging up the pics! Much appreciated! 
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can you please edit so that the 5a maintains the order?
here, you can copy paste:
2003 - Rafael Matsunaga - Night Moves 1 (YoYoJam)
2004 - Makoto Numagami - Hitman (YoYoJam)
2005 - Maya Nakamura - Freehand Zero (Duncan)
2006 - Dana Bennett - Element X Pro (Buzz-on)
2007 - Tyler Severance - Freehand Zero (Duncan)
2008 - Takeshi Matsuura - Lyn Fury (YoYoJam)
2009 - Takuma Inoue - Leviathan 1 (Turning Point)
2010 - Takeshi Matsuura - Ai (YoYoJam)
2011 - Takeshi Matsuura - Destiny (YoYoJam)
2012 - Takeshi Matsuura - Quest (YoYoJam)
2013 - Takeshi Matsuura - Ai (YoYoJam)
2014 - Takeshi Matsuura - Leviathan 6 (Turning Point)
2015 - Jake Elliott - Atlas (YYF&YoTricks)
2016 - Takeshi Matsuura - Palpitation (Turning Point)
2017 - Takuma Inoue - Anubis (Turning Point)
2018 - Sora Ishikawa - ReMaster Galaxy (C3yoyodesign)
2019 - Hideo Ishida - Laurus (Hydrangea)
*OWYYC 2021 - Sora Ishikawa - IX (C3yoyodesign)
*OWYYC 2022 - Sora Ishikawa - Stellar IX (C3yoyodesign)
2023 - Sora Ishikawa - Stellar IX (C3yoyodesign)