AP 08 Beat-it Throwdown

For many years now, we’ve been trying hard to come up with ways to push our player’s skills to greater heights. So now in 2008, we have chosen to focus on building player’s coordination with both their technical skills and performance style. This contest promises to further enhance the player’s ability as a performer though developing killer instincts when coordinating audio and visuals in their freestyles.

So to put it simply….

Drop the technicality. Who cares if you can pull off a long combo? Know your basics well? Got that rhythm in you? So listen up, you don’t need a mind-blowing 3 min routine to be a champ in this one.The only way to win is to integrate your skills with the groovy tunes spun live by guest DJs, Djan & DJ Nad-trix.

Bottom line… Skill , Style and Impress!

Contest Details

-KO Style Format

-A coin toss will decide on who goes first

-Each team will be given 4 counts of 8 beats  per attempt

-Only one throw allowed for each attempt (reason being, if we allowed unlimited throws, it will be just like 1min freestyles)
*for 2A: Unlimited reps, only one catch allowed
*re-generations are allowed

-Turn ends when given counts of beats played by DJ ends or a mess up in the tricks.
*mess up: string tangles or dead yoyos

- Amount of participants
*One team per country.
*Each team consists of 4 members.
*Each member to do one specific style of play (1A, 2A, 4A, 5A)

- Judging panel will comprise of 4 judges.
*2 Judges to be familiar with yo-yo technicalities.
*2 Judges to look out for the performing aspect.

-Judges will be given score cards from 1 - 5 points. Points are given purely on how the performer impress the judges based on integration of tricks with the music played by the DJ.

-Each round of players may feature a different genre of tunes or a different b.p.m. song to be spun by the DJs.

-Scores will be flashed by the judges at the end of each attempt

-Winner will be determined by the total score of adding all 4 members scores together.

-The layout of the way the competition elimination will work is shown below.