Awesome, awesome day - thanks for all who participated and helped in this extravaganza of a yo-yo event! We had a great time and this was exactly how we envisioned this contest to be from day 1!! Couldn’t have done it without our friends and sponsors!

New York City got a taste of what the yo-yoing scene is like…and they loved it!!

Congratulations to YoYoNation’s intern, Howie Chu, to be the NYS 1A Yo-Yo Champion!! And congrats to Andrew Bergen, NYS X-Division Champ!

Also big congrats to Paul Han and John Ando for winning the IYYO 1A and X-Divisions respectively!

More to come later. For now - here are the results:

IYYO 1A Division:
1. Paul Han
2. Mark Montgomery
3. Sebastian Brock
4. Justin Weber
5. Danilo Packer

IYYO X-Division:
1. John Ando
2. Ryusei Saito
3. Eiji Okuyama
4. Kentaro Kimura
5. Atsushi Yamada

NYS 1A Division:
1. Howie Chu (YYN’s own intern - no…we did not bribe the judges)
2. Jovanni Crespo
3. Mike Kutzler

NYS X-Division:
1. Andrew Bergen
2. Jack Lester
3. Richard Pickett

Sport Ladder
Ages 11 & Below:
1. Tyler Mollan
2. Sebastian Conybeare
3. Andrew Chavez
4. Yohji Kusakabe

Ages 12 - 28:
1. Jake Hooker
2. Solana Bethel
3. Josh Ellis
4. Josh Qian
5. Eric Veber

Ages 28 & up:
1. John Shea
2. Andy Brant
3. Peter Berlinghoff
4. Charlie Windstrom
5. Tony Basch

We are ALREADY looking forward to next year’s event!!!