2017 JAPAN NATIONAL YO-YO CONTEST

NEWS!

CONTEST RESULTS

Day 2

Day 1

2017JN will have “International Open Freestyle (IOF)”

Yes, you can compete and perform at the 2017JN stage!

IOF is a place all visitors from outside of Japan can compete. You can perform any style (choose one). Yet, score is still judged same way as A divisions.

Detail for International Open Freestyle

Contest Info

2017JN – 2017.6.17-18

Contest Name: 2017 Japan National Yo-Yo Contest (2017JN)
Date: June 17-18, 2017
Place: Tokyo Shibuya Sakura Hall

Access

5-minute walk from Shibuya Station (JR, Metro, and many other lines)

Live Stream

Facebook LIVE and NicoNico Live (Plan)

Time table

(Japan Standard Time)

6/16 (Fri)

17:30 Staff meeting time
18:00 Venue opens for set up
21:00 End
21:15 Staff dismissed
Only set up staff and vendor booth staff can enter the venue.

6/17 (Sat)

09:20 Ticket counter opens
09:20 WildCard Round starts (Practice Room 3)
09:30 Main venue open to contestants
10:00 Main venue open to general admission
10:30 1A Semi-Final
12:30 2A Semi-Final
13:20 3A Semi-Final
13:40 Lunch Break
14:40 4A Semi-Final
15:20 5A Semi-Final
15:50 International Open Freestyle Prelim
16:20 Compulsory Trick Advanced Division
17:00 Over-40 Freestyle
17:20 Women Freestyle
17:30 Sponsor Stage Time
18:30 Result announcement for Semi & Prelim
19:00 Ends and venue closes

6/18 (Sun)

09:00 Ticket counter opens
09:10 Main venue open to contestants
09:40 Main venue open to general admission
10:30 4A Final
11:30 2A Final
12:30 3A Final
13:10 Lunch Break
14:00 1A Final
15:20 5A Final
16:10 International Open Freestyle Final
16:40 Team Freestyle
16:50 Sponsor Stage Time
17:30 Lucky draw
17:50 Awards Ceremony
18:40 Closing Ceremony
19:00 Ends and venue closes

The above schedule is subject to change at any time. Please check the schedule carefully and prepare ahead of time.

Freestyle Order

Contest Divisions

1A Division
2A Division
3A Division
4A Division
5A Division
Compulsory Trick: Advanced Division
Over-40 Freestyle
Women Freestyle
Team Freestyle
International Open Freestyle

Contest Structure

JYYF runs six Regionals and one National in 2017.
Contestant can compete in ONLY one Regional, but wherever they want (per division).
The top 10 of Regionals with certain score, the finalists of 2016JN and top 5 of 2015JN can compete in 2017JN Semi-Final. There will be WildCard Round for everybody else to compete.
Six regional champions of each division will be seeded to 2017JN Final.

Seeded Players

Regionals:	1A	2A	3A	4A	5A
EJ-A	Shion Araya	Kiwamu Ebata	Hajime Miura	Hajime Miura	Hideo Ishida
CJ	(Yusuke Otsuka)	Shuhei Kanai	Minato Furuta	(Rei Iwakura)	Hiroyasu Ishihara
EJ-B	Ayumu Harada	(Takuma Yamamoto)	Yuto Yamaguchi	Yohei Kagawa	Yuwa Sakai
WJ	Izuru Hasumi	Arata Imai	Yuki Fujisawa	Takumi Hakamata	Ryotaro Morimoto
SJ	Tsukasa Ryu	Hiraku Fujii	Ryosuke Ito	Tsubasa Onishi	Naoya Takeuchi
NJ	Hirotaka Akiba	Kenta Kawaharada	Taiichiro Higashi	Koyo Hashimoto	Yoshihiro Abe
2016JN	Yusuke Otsuka	Takuma Yamamoto	Tomoya Kurita	Rei Iwakura	Takeshi Matsuura

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 (WYYC16)

JYYF Supports Flights for Winners (Important Change)

Since 2012, JYYF has been supporting all five JN winners travel fees to WYYC.

Starting this year, there will be an important change pertaining to sponsorship and yo-yos used by players.

We are able to provide this thanks to the generous support of all of our sponsors.

JYYF has decided to support flights only for champions who use yo-yos from JN sponsors (and will use yo-yos from JN sponsors at WYYC).

If the champion is not qualified, the runner-up will receive the benefit. If the runner-up is not qualified, the contestant in third place will receive it. 4th place or lower do not qualify.

We made this change in hopes that it will help to promote sponsors who support our activities regularly.

Sponsoring Yo-Yo Brands

YOYOFACTORY
C3YOYODESIGN
CLYW
BASECAMP (YOYOFACTORY x CLYW)
DIF-E-YO
JAPAN TECHNOLOGY
YOYOFFICER
AULDEY
IYOYO
SENGOKU/ELEMENTAL
DUNCAN
THROW REVOLUTION
TURNING POINT
B.W.W.
YOMEGA
TOP-YO
MAGICYOYO
AHAY
RECESS
ONEDROP
JPLSOLUTIONS

Contestant/Visitor Fee

Visitor: JPY 3000 (JPY2000 for pre-purchase) / JPY 2000 for only final day
Contestant: JPY 5000 for each division (You must be a JYYF member to compete. Membership comes with injury insurance.)