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National Spin Top Contest Website
« on: September 21, 2010, 04:56:54 PM »

Here is a link to the National Spin Top Contest Website.

http://spintop.nationalyoyo.org/

We have access to change it however we wish. I just provided the rules for the contest there. Not too many changes. They only have an allowance for 4 championship medals. Only first and second place will be awarded in the fixed and bearing freestyles. The sport will have 3 medals for 11 and below, 12-16, and 17 and above.

Will try to get the battle top rules up as well.
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 05:20:35 PM »

Nice looking site. 

On the sport ladder, it says there are 4 divisions, but only 3 are listed. Not that I'll be there   :(
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2010, 05:56:47 PM »

Thanks for catching that Rick. It is fixed now.
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2010, 06:09:56 PM »

It is great that we have a site that we can control. Thank you for all the work Alan!

I haven't look at rules yet. But, we need a big picture of the nats spintop logo. Also it took me a while to find the link on the upper bar: we should repeat them where they are more visible. Ask Chad for a link from the main yo-yo page as most people going to Chico will land there. And we need some excitement: that gray (no pun intended) computer-geek professional look doesn't say "playing with toys" to me. A couple of pictures would do it.
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 06:33:59 PM »

Been playing with it a little bit. Need a good image of the spin top contest logo. Anyone have one?

The image must be 940 × 198 pixels to be the banner at the top.
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2010, 07:02:08 PM »

unfortunate that there will only be a first and second place medal :'( Guess it's better than nothing
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2010, 08:20:57 PM »

Thanks for your work on this Alan it looks great!! I can't wait to spin with everybody.
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2010, 10:55:17 PM »

Here is the nats logo:



and a possible banner of the size requested   ;) :



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or if the logos are a problem:

« Last Edit: September 21, 2010, 11:15:13 PM by ta0 »
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2010, 11:08:55 PM »

Looks perfect. Thanks for creating it.
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2010, 12:37:04 AM »

Awesome Alan, thank you.  ta0 - can you re-crop that picture so it shows the top (maybe the original doesn't show the top)?
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2010, 01:37:55 AM »

Here is with the top:



Unfortunately the string is invisible (I got this from a video using the Topaz Moment software that averages several frames).

And here is the original before compensating for perspective and cropping:

http://www.ta0.com/photos/images/contests/nats08_JorgeAlcoz_freestyle1.jpg
« Last Edit: September 22, 2010, 07:39:50 AM by ta0 »
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2010, 10:27:08 PM »

Alan, I just now took a look at the rules (I noticed you posted the battle top rules but I haven't looked at those yet). I see you did not use the sport rules we updated for worlds  :( Anyway, there is only one real difference: we had swapped upside-down crazy 8's for barrel rolls. Considering that trick 31 is UD MGR, which is almost identical in difficulty and technique to UD crazy's, and Barrel Rolls have had a renaissance with the regen version, I think the change makes sense. Here is the description:

32 - Barrel Rolls (5 reps)- 4 Pt
Throw a Trapeze. Hold the string with your throwing hand to form a loop and insert the index finger of the non-throwing hand inside the loop (do not let the string wrap the tip). Do alternating passes of the right and left hands under the top. Return to hand.

I think there were very few minor changes I made to the wording of other tricks, but were not important, except that it seems the correct spelling is hacky top, not hackey.




« Last Edit: September 26, 2010, 12:09:15 PM by ta0 »
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2010, 11:41:29 AM »

Hey Alan,
The content of the Bearing Tip Freestyle Judging paragraph is in there twice.
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Re: National Spin Top Contest Website
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2010, 12:54:27 PM »

Thanks for the updates. Changes have been made to the website.
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« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2010, 10:06:05 PM »

There was one trick about which the judges disagreed at Worlds: arm walker. Dick and Dale wanted to require a fixed tip to do it while I didn't. In the end, because we had taken the requirement out of the rules, I prevailed. But I have been thinking about it. Personally, it never made a difference to me: if you raise the arm enough either top moves down to the elbow. Their point was that with a bearing tip it is not really a walk but a slide. My thought was that with fixed tip is also mostly a slide. But it is true that a fixed tip has much less tendency to get stuck. And if you do it the right way you may even get the top walk with the arm almost horizontally, a true walk. But I don't think most players do that.

What do you all think?
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