World Yo-Yo Contest newsletter

We thought we had it working this year, but clearly it is not. The music upload system failed us this year, so we will need you to bring your music on a CD to worlds (Bring 2 in case one is bad). We do recommend you bring an uncompressed version of your music. We had some distortion last year from over compressed music files. If you are in 2A preliminaries please get your music to our music guy on Wednesday night if possible, and by 8am on Thursday if not. You can always get your music in sooner than later. We will not start collecting finals music until the final list is determined.

We've just confirmed that the live stream of the world yo-yo contest will happen again this year. We will post the URL on Wednesday at www.WorldYoYoContest.com. We will also be updating the blog there as the event goes on, and there will be a chat room associated with the stream. Tim once again will be running the stream, and we think we have some better tech this year. The stream will happen from about 10am until about 11pm on August 4th, 5th and 6th. Yama has said he once again will be posting videos as soon as he can.

See you at Worlds.

-Gregory Cohen.

I just got e-mailed a scan of this. It's in the August 8th issue of ESPN the Magazine. This proves two things. 1. Real magazines will cover yo-yo events, and 2. Time travel might be possible. Link here

Help needed at worlds: Vehicle with Trailer Hitch.
Tony Alonso from NVision Productions has again this year generously offered to loan us his commercial lighting system for use at worlds. This year we need to move it from his warehouse to the Rosen. He will be out of town so that while his staff will help us set it up and run it, they don't have a vehicle with a 2" trailer hitch to move it.

Just a quick update.

On-line registration for worlds is closing tonight. Please register if you have not. If you are going to compete, you must at least register to PAY AT THE DOOR if you want to compete.

Not competing? Well you can register at the door.
See you in Orlando.

-GRegory Cohen.
Chairman 2011 World Yo-Yo Contest.

Here are the Finalists for AP:

Here are the AP Division finalists and the order of performance:

1. Naoto Okada

2. Takahiko Hasegawa

3. Hirinori Mii

4. Tomoya Kawasaki

5. Justin Weber

See you at worlds.

-GRegory Cohen
Chairman 2011 World Yo-Yo Contest.

We have decided to extend the registration deadline for worlds until Friday the 22nd. Remember if you want to compete, you must register on-line, even if you choose the pay at the door option. Please pass this information along if you could.

See you in Orlando

Gregory Cohen
Chairman 2011 World Yo-Yo Contest.

We are about a week away from turning on music uploading as usual, please bring two copies of your music with your on CD (not in mp3 files) just in case. Backups are good.

We are only having you upload your 1 minute music.

See you in Orlando.

-Gregory Cohen
Chairman 2011 WYYC

The cut off for our room block at the Rosen Plaza hotel is 5pm on Monday the 11th (that is GMT-5). If you want a room at the hotel, book it by then. Remember you can cancel if you decide not to go with 48 hours notice, and you won't be charged until arrival.

See you in Orlando.

-GRegory Cohen.
Chairman 2011 WYYC

The cut off for our room block at the Rosen Plaza hotel is 5pm on Monday the 11th (that is GMT-5). If you want a room at the hotel, book it by then. Remember you can cancel if you decide not to go with 48 hours notice, and you won't be charged until arrival.

See you in Orlando.

-GRegory Cohen.
Chairman 2011 WYYC