ENGLISH Information

Contest Info

2016JN – 2016.5.28-29

• Contest Name: 2016 Japan National Yo-Yo Contest (2016JN)
• Date: May 28-29, 2016
• Place: Osaka Kita-ku Civic Center

Access

3-minute walk from Ogimachi Station (Sakaisuji Line) and Temma Station (JR Kanjo Line)

Live Stream

5/28 (Sat) and 5/29 (Sun)

Ustream

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/EayYEF2Mpq5

5/29 (Sun)

http://sp.live.nicovideo.jp/i18ngate/lv262961200

Time table

(Japan Standard Time)

5/28 (Sat)

• 2A Semi-Final
• 4A Semi-Final
• 3A Semi-Final
• Lunch Break
• 1A Semi-Final
• 5A Semi-Final
• Compulsory Tricks
• OVER40 Freestyle
• WOMEN Freestyle

 5/29 (Sun)

• 2A Final
• 4A Final
• 3A Final
• Lunch Break
• 1A Final
• 5A Final
• Team Freestyle
• Award

Freestyle Order

• Semi-Final (pdf) 2016jn-fsorder-day1en
• Final (pdf) 2016jn-fsorder-day2en_v2

Contest Divisions

• 1A Freestyle
• 2A Freestyle
• 3A Freestyle
• 4A Freestyle
• 5A Freestyle
• Compulsory Trick
• Over-40 Freestyle
• Women Freestyle
• Team Freestyle

Contest Structure

• JYYF runs six Regionals and one National in 2016.
• Contestant can compete in ONLY one Regional, but wherever they want.
• The top 10 of Regionals with certain score, the finalists of 2015JN and top 5 of 2014JN can compete in 2016JN Semi-Final. There will be WildCard Round for everybody else to compete.
• Six regional champions of each division will be seeded to 2016JN Final.

Seeded Players

Regionals:	1A	2A	3A	4A	5A
EJ-A	Izuru Hasumi	Shu Takada	Mizuki Takimoto	Ryo Oishi	Tatsunori Yoshiba
CJ	Yusuke Otsuka	(Takuma Yamamoto)	Minato Furuta	(Rei Iwakura)	Sora Ishikawa
EJ-B	Ryota Ogi	Hiraku Fujii	(Tomoya Kurita)	Yuki Uchida	Naoya Takeuchi
SJ	Masahiro Terada	Tomoyuki Kaneko	Yuki Fujisawa	Shinya Muraki	Naoki Uemae
NJ	Ryuichi Nakamura	Shuhei Kanai	Kentaro Kimura	Tsubasa Onishi	Yoshihiro Abe
WJ	Yamato Murata	Arata Imai	Hajime Miura	Yuki Nishisako	Ryotaro Morimoto
2015JN	Takeshi Matsuura	Takuma Yamamoto	Tomoya Kurita	Rei Iwakura	Hideo Ishida

 

Freestyle Rule (Summary)

• Final: 3 minute freestyle
• Semi-Final: 90 second freestyle
• Wild-Card: 30 second freestyle
• Music stops between 3:00 to 3:01
• No yo-yoing on stage before the music starts. No throw-downs, no adjustments. No starts with sleeping or mounting position allowed.
• Catch yo-yo(s) immediately after the music ends. If the player cannot catch, deductions happen until the player leaves the stage.
• No getting off the stage during the performance, even for getting yo-yos the player lost from the stage. If the player steps off from the stage, the performance ends there.
• No sitting on the edge of the stage. No standing on the edge. Can be DQed.
• No props allowed. Only yo-yos, strings, counter-weights, gloves, and tray (contest provides).
• No bags, yo-yo cases, clothes, jackets, tables on the stage. For supervising belongings reason, bag, wallet, cell phone allowed on the end of the stage.

Freestyle Scoring

Same as IYYF rule (WYYC15)

Contestant/Visitor Fee

• Visitor: JPY 3000 (JPY2000 for pre-purchase) / JPY 2000 for only final day
• Contestant: JPY 5000 for each division (If JYYF member, JPY 4000)

Event Size

• Expected Number of Visitors for Japan National: 600-800 (including players and staff)
• Expected Number of Contestants for Japan National: 100-200

About Organization: JYYF

• Name: Japan Yo-Yo Federation (JYYF)
• Legal Entity: General Incorporated Association (Since 2010)
• Representative Board Director: Hironori Mii
• Holding National Contest: Since 1999

If you are considering to visit, please contact us at info (at) jyyf.org

Judges:

• Rei Iwakura (Head Judge)
• Hironori Mii
• Kazuki Okada
• Naoto Okada
• Shuhei Kanai
• Atsushi Yamada
• Jun Aramaki
• Takuma Yamamoto
• Yasushi Furukawa
• Kunihisa Kawabe
• Taiichiro Higashi
• Yasuki Tachibana
• Shinya Kido
• Naoya Takeuchi
• Akitoshi Tokubuchi
• Takao Morioka

(Last Update: 2016.5.29)