Sorry, I don't make it over here too often!
I really enjoyed seeing the tops as usual. However as usual I felt a good bit of anxiety watching them. So many missed tricks, and so frantic!
That rushed pace to get in as many elements as possible in 3 minutes, seems so contrary to the nature of top play. I wish the format could be changed.
Didn't someone suggest a taking turns type of format? Each player could get X amount of time to complete one trick or combo, and then the next player would get a turn for x number of rounds. IDK, just seems like top competition should be handled differently than yo-yo competition.
I agree with that, I'm sure we could find a more tops suitable format for contests, for this we should maybe re-considers the ideas posted last few months about separating from yoyo contests, yes there's many things to take care of and the contest would obviously be smaller (in term of infrastructure) than it is at the moment, but aren't we also a smaller community after all?
In my opinion, a more complete contest, I mean with at least the 3 main top styles of play (tricks but also precision and fight), should be considered...
I know that all this has already been discussed and that we chose not to change but this contest let me with a bitter taste in mouth... Too fast, too small, too limited for what tops could be...
Sorry for being so negative, but I wanted to say it at least once, even if, of course, I enjoyed the videos...
PS: Looking at the videos again, I'm not sure about first and second place...