Thread: 2009 Canadian National Yoyo Championship - Montreal, Quebec - June 6th

I am very proud to announce that there will be a Canadian National Yoyo Contest in Montreal, Quebec on June 6th.

For all of the information you need on the contest, check out our humble website : http://www.cncyy.webs.com/

This will be an AYYA sanctioned event. The contest is open to out of Country yoyoers, but only Canadian yoyoers will be able to qualify as Canadian champs. As a reminder you will need a passport to enter the country by land as of June 1st, 2009.

Montreal is one of the most beautiful cities in Canada and we can't wait to go see the sites. So grab your strings, your favourite yoyo and head out to Montreal June 6th to meet up and compete with (and against) some of Canada's top talented yoyoers.

I hope to meet you all there. If you need assistance to plan your trip to Montreal, let me know ...

IMPORTANT UPDATE : Due to popular demand and since the number of contestants is exceding our first expectations, the compulsories under the Championship division will be canceled. The contestants in the Champion division will now only compete in a 2 minute freestyle routine.

I'll try to come. Wish me luck.

Go Gemo!!!!!!

I will have to send you a JYC shirt.

I cannot wait to see what Gemo will come up with for his freestyle, he's just insane.
I wish I had half his skills.


Uknowuwantto, may the luck be with you !

Quebec is still part of Canada? Whoa.

CLYW, SPYY and G-strings are the reasons why we voted No at the last referendum.

That and the fact the other Canadians threathened us to take our hockey club away.

Originally Posted by Atomic Cow

Quebec is still part of Canada? Whoa.

Surprise to me too.

Originally Posted by Bob

Surprise to me too.

Bob! Bob!!! Bob!!!!!

Originally Posted by jhb8426

Bob! Bob!!! Bob!!!!!

You called?

Regarding the Champion division compulsories, some players contacted me to let me know how they feel about them. Some want to keep them, some would want to only perform a freestyle, for various reasons. If you plan to compete in the Champion division, I would like to hear from you.
I will wait a week before I take a decision in order to let everyone voice their opinion; I wish the contest to be fair and fun for everyone.

I'm not going to the competition, but I think you shouldn't use compulsories. No other contests use them anymore, and they really aren't a good judge of someone's skill.

Compulsories do test someone's depth of skill. They're useful for weeding out the folks who can't be bothered to learn the basics.

I think trick list compulsories weed out good players on the basis of missing one old, lame trick, and generally make the contest much more tedious and boring. It's a dated system, and isn't much fun. I think 1 minute freestyle compulsories (or just go with no compulsories) will pretty much even out time wise, and be much more engaging for both participants and audience.

As a side note to my opinion, I've ran a contest, judged more than a handful, and competed in a couple of fistfuls.

Originally Posted by Atomic Cow

Compulsories do test someone's depth of skill. They're useful for weeding out the folks who can't be bothered to learn the basics.

Personally, I think it is a great idea to bring back compulsories. It helps show that a player has discipline. An "all round" champion should be an "all around" champion not just someone can do the most tricks in two minutes.

The most tricks in two minutes shouldn't win anyways, the most unique, difficult, and stylish tricks should win. If you have proper judging.

If you can do new stylish tricks well, it should be no problem for you to do the "old lame tricks". I think Ziggy Marley said it best, "If you don't know your past, you don't know your future."

I would like to thank all of our partners,
CLYW, Dazzling Dave, G-String, One Drop Design, SPYY, Vulto, Yoyoguy, Yoyonation, Yoyosam, the American Yo-Yo association, the Czech Yoyo Association, the National Yo-Yo League...

Chris, David, Lucky, Greg, Steve, Mitch, Dave, Bob, Mario, Ondra, Rajani, Paul & Pat, your support is madly appreciated.

I would also like to thank Tressley, Vince and Chris for helping me out !

I can't wait to meet everyone !

Originally Posted by Atomic Cow

Quebec is still part of Canada? Whoa.

are you guys serial? you really thought they were autonomous?

Originally Posted by CyBORG

are you guys serial?

Are you?

Thanks skip, Etienne

Jyc love,
But it's all about having fun.