Daveid - please speak.
i was avoiding this thread, i am not currently interested in this subject, this feels like paperwork, this feels like paying bills, this feels like dealing with a car accident, with the insurance and calling the insurance and signing papers and too much reading and thinking... ick.
If we do stick with two divisions, I think that 1wb should be limited to the bearing division. I think that using them in the fixed division defeats the purpose as part of the level of skill in the fixed division is being able to keep regenerating a top. Just my two cents.
i did agree with the thought about 1wb being only in bearing, since you have to say the word "bearing" to say "one-way-bearing" and the object is very much not "fixed tip," it just seems obvious that it wouldn't be allowed in fixed tip competition, and i really didn't understand the argument until i got to alan's post, and then i thought "oh yeah if it's in bearing play then that's unfair if others don't have one" right now i'm really sort of confused as to how it was allowed at all the year that only a prototype was availlable (actually i'm pretty sure i remember someone saying something about it being allowed to promote the idea/possibility of a 1wb top or something)...
it'd make more sense to me if you just renamed the divisions, and had them based on trick type as opposed to top type.... 1a is string tricks, and 2a is regenerations... don't do wirewalker in 2a, do it in 1a with a fixed tip top (in yoyos are people allowed to do 3a tricks in 1a?)... i really think if you're going to have two divisions that's how they should be split... but still, even in that thought, a 1wb would seem like cheating to do regenerations with... maybe fixed tip regens should just get more points than 1wb regens.
seriously, if two people pull off the exact same regen freestyle move by move, step by step, if one of them used a fixed tip and one of them used a 1wb, then why would you ever give them the same score? don't tell me it's not obvious that one is more impressive than the other.
with yoyos in 1a would the players be allowed to use an imperial shaped yoyo? or is it restricted to butterfly shape in the rules? (i'm seriously asking i don't know answer).
one division makes more sense to me, but i totally understand the arguments about the allure that two divisions brings...
crap it's past my bedtime so i'm done rereading this and editing wording that doesn't make sense...