Hi Slowyojoe,
Thanks for giving all those great answers. “Fan Favorite” goes to the company who you think is the “popular favorite company” or the company that people are the most “fanatic” about right now. It’s the company that people are the most spirited about overall. The company generating the most excitement.
Thanks.
A few were left in blank as I have no vote for it.
- Best overall yo-yo performance: Onedrop (they make pretty much everyone’s yoyos)
- Smoothness: Gen Yo
- Best colorways: C3 acid washes, G2 special colorways
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less):
- Best Marketing and Promotion: YYF
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: Walter from Spencer Berry
- Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too):
- Best Customer Service:
- Best Quality Control: Gen Yo
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: One Drop
- Fan Favorite Award: CLYW
- Best Team Award: YYF
*13. Legend Award: Russell (they made/make the coca cola yoyos)
- Best overall yo-yo performance: CLYW
- Smoothness: Oxygene
- Best colorways: CLYW
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): G2
- Best Marketing and Promotion: YoyoFactory
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: CLYW
- Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too): YoyoFactory
- Best Customer Service: YoyoFactory
- Best Quality Control: One Drop
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: YoyoJam
- Fan Favorite Award: CLYW
- Best Team Award: CLYW
*13. Legend Award: SPYY
Whoops
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Nice votes coming in from some diverse points of view. Keep them coming. I’m having fun reading them. You guys are leaving no stone unturned for “Legend,” lots of good nominations. Thanks for your participation.
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Best overall yo-yo performance: CLYW/General Yo/One Drop
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Smoothness: General Yo
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Best colorways: CLYW
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Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): Haven’t tried any yet.
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Best Marketing and Promotion:YoyoFactory
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Best Packaging and Graphic Design: CLYW
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Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too): MonkeyFinger if Monkey Snot and Rhino Tool counts.
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Best Customer Service: YoyoFactory
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Best Quality Control: CLYW and Onedrop tie
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Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: ONE Drop
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Fan Favorite Award: CLYW
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Best Team Award: CLYW/YYF/C3
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Legend Award: Duncan
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Best overall yo-yo performance: Square Wheels Yoyo Company (Lol I cant say any other company :P)
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Smoothness: General Yo (No brainer)
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Best colorways: 3YO3 (Those dye jobs… Too good(
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Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): Square Wheels Yoyo Company!
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Best Marketing and Promotion: Duncan Toys (Duh)
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Best Packaging and Graphic Design: General Yo (With their wooden boxes you cant go wrong)
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Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too): Duncan Toys
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Best Customer Service: YoyoJam
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Best Quality Control: YoyoRecreation
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Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: C3 YoyoDesign
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Fan Favorite Award: One Drop YoYos
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Best Team Award: Duncan Toys
*13. Legend Award: Duncan Toys
As you can see, Duncan dominates. The reason I mainly put Duncan in there was because I was being honest with myself. Best team? Without a doubt Duncan. Their ENTIRE team is full of (#13) legends. Best accessories? Duncan. They are basically the most professional company in the industry. And I honestly have no idea how anyone WOULDNT put Duncan down for #5. That is all.
- Best overall yo-yo performance: One Drop
- Smoothness: Gonna say OXY, though really most high end companies all make yoyos that have no noticable vibe.
- Best colorways: C3
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): Deadly Spins
- Best Marketing and Promotion: Duncan
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: YYJ, purely for hex packaging
- Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too): One Drop, Side Effect system is the best thing to happen to yoyos in the past five years.
- Best Customer Service: N/A, haven’t had to contact any company for a while
- Best Quality Control: One Drop
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: One Drop
- Fan Favorite Award: CLYW
- Best Team Award: YYJ
*13. Legend Award: No Idea.
- Best overall yo-yo performance: CLYW
- Smoothness: General Yo
- Best color ways: CLYW
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): DeadlySpINS
- Best Marketing and Promotion: YYF
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: CLYW
- Best Accessories Award: YYF
- Best Customer Service: YYF
- Best Quality Control: General Yo
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: CLYW
- Fan Favorite Award: CLYW
- Best Team Award: CLYW
*13. Legend Award: SPYY
Here we go!
- Best overall yo-yo performance: General Yo(Haven’t thrown a single one I didn’t love)
- Smoothness: General Yo(easy)
- Best colorways: CLYW (The sheer volume of awesome choices)
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): Deadly SpINS(bring me my Pride dangit!)
- Best Marketing and Promotion: Yoyofactory(great vids, lots of tours)
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: CLYW(Jason’s artwork is simply the best around)
- Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too):One Drop. Side Effects changed the game
- Best Customer Service:Yoyojam.(getting yoyos together to give kids on deployment, these guys are going above and beyond to help)
- Best Quality Control: One Drop. (Dude’s put out solid products for EVERYONE)
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations:General Yo(You know what you are getting everytime.)
- Fan Favorite Award:CLYW(Most popular for a reason right now, great yoyos)
- Best Team Award:Tough one. My heart says CLYW, but my brain says Yoyofactory.
*13. Legend Award: Duncan. Without Duncan, yoyo wouldn’t be as big as it is now. period.
Answered to the best honesty:
- Best overall yo-yo performance: YoyoRecreation
- Smoothness: RecRev
- Best colorways: Square Wheels
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): Deadly SpINS although G2 is quite awesome
- Best Marketing and Promotion: YoyoFactory
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: YoyoRecreation: The box is so simple yet elegant.
- Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too): Yoyofactory
- Best Customer Service: None never had to deal with that stuff
- Best Quality Control: One Drop
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: G Squared
- Fan Favorite Award: CLYW (not my personal favorite by any means but they are the fan favorite)
- Best Team Award:YoyoJam
*13. Legend Award: SPYY
- Best overall yo-yo performance: Yoyorecreation
- Smoothness: General-Yo
- Best colorways: Madhouse
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): Sturm Panzer
- Best Marketing and Promotion: CLYW
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: YoyoJoker
- Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too): Duncan
- Best Customer Service: OneDrop
- Best Quality Control: General-Yo
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: Yoyorecreation
- Fan Favorite Award: YoyoMonster
- Best Team Award: YoyoJam
*13. Legend Award: SPYY
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Best overall yo-yo performance: One Drop!
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Smoothness: General Yo
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Best colorways: MonkeyfingeR (Honorable mention to CLYW though!)
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Best New Company Award (3 releases or less): G2 (Honorable mention to MonkeyfingeR)
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Best Marketing and Promotion: YYF
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Best Packaging and Graphic Design: Crucial (Honorable mention to CLYW, YYR, MonkeyfingeR, Tenyoyo, and Anti Yo)
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Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too): MonkeyfingeR
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Best Customer Service: One Drop (Honorable Mention to General Yo)
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Best Quality Control: General Yo
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Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations: One Drop
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Fan Favorite Award: CLYW
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Best Team Award: CLYW
*13. Legend Award: SPYY
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- Best Marketing and Production: YYF
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design: YYF (almost chose Duncan, but their packages (which look good) are so hard to open)
- Best Accessories: Duncan (new yo-tility holster is genius)
- IDK (I have only dealt with YYE customer service)
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- Fan Favorite: YYJ (passionate fans)
- Best Team: YYF
And…
*13. DUNCAN!!!(they’ve gone from Imperials and Butterflies to Barracudas, legend!)
Sorry for choosing amongst only three brands. I only own throws from Duncan, Yomega, YYF, and YYJ.
I appreciate you guys being honest. It is what we’re looking for the most. These are a really good read. I want to encourage even more people to share their experience.
- Best overall yo-yo performance:YYR
- Smoothness:General-Yo
- Best colorways:CLYW
- Best New Company Award (3 releases or less):Deadly Spins
- Best Marketing and Promotion:YYF
- Best Packaging and Graphic Design:CLYW
- Best Accessories Award (only if they make yo-yos too):YYF
- Best Customer Service:
- Best Quality Control:One Drop
- Best at Consistency, Meeting Customer Expectations:YYF
- Fan Favorite Award:CLYW
- Best Team Award:YYF
*13. Legend Award: SPYY
^ Not sure if you left #8 blank on purpose Alex…just a heads up if it was an omission. 
I was kinda surprised about the amount of people who said SPYY. I figured everyone would say Duncan even after i said Spyy.
It doesn’t surprise me too much. At awards ceremonies for music, “legend” awards are usually given to someone who has been around a long time, did a great job, and still working, someone who has retired but their name is still alive and they inspire a lot of others, or they have passed away and maybe never got the accolades that they deserved when they were alive. So, with the recent closing of Spyy as a business, it does not surprise me to see it show up so often.