2025 Online Contest

[ta0]

We have over 50 competitors registered so far. Generally there are several last minute registrations, so I'm hoping to reach 70.

We finally have enough women for that division to happen.
In the artistic division we have teams of 1, 2 and 3 members.

Aperino, the spinning top graphics artist, has agreed to be a judge in the artistic division. The judges of that division are Jun, Jim and Aperino. You can send me other suggestions. I'm looking for people with an artistic background, specially in performance arts.

[ta0]

We reached 70 players and a dozen countries!

We have extended the registration until Friday.

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The final count of registered players was 75. The 12 countries represented are:
Mexico, USA, Japan, Canada, Colombia, Spain, Costa Rica, France, Colombia, Italy, Venezuela and Chile

The deadline to submit the videos is this Sunday at midnight. We have received about 50% of the videos so far.
They will be all available for public viewing on Monday.

[ta0]

The videos are up for watching!
Go to the list of competitors and click on the names. If there is no link, we didn't receive the video.
Whoever, we are trying to confirm that we didn't miss any videos that people tried to send to us, so there could be some additions today.

https://spintops.org/world-contest/2025 ... mpetitors/

There are many great freestyles, enjoy!

[ta0]

The judges are:

Open/Women/Youth divisions:
Guillem Vizcaíno, Carlos Solis, Jon Gates, Kanta Tani, Jakub Konecny, Eli Hickerson, Takahiko Hasegawa, Tomohiro Tokunaga, Gustavo Castro and Jorge Alcoz

Artistic division:
Jun Shimamura, Jim Bohem, Silvia Nava, Takahiko Hasegawa, Guillem Vizcaíno, Mark Hayward, and Attila Oláh

All the technical division judges are former world champions.
All the artistic showcase division judges have an artistic background or are professional performers, except for Attila who represents the non artistic public.

PS: There were 4 videos that had been uploaded in time but I had not received the link. I suggest refreshing the page to make sure you see them.

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The 7 videos that entered the artistic division:

Los Lobos (Teo and Hector)


You & Night & Whisky (Ichi Nagano)


Aborigen (Sky and Xisco)


EKOMA-ZU (Rentaro, Tadanao and Sigeyuki)


SASUMU (Kumiko, Momotaro and Yoshinori)


Maestros del Trompo (Jader and Esteban)


Trottolaio (Rocco)

[ortwin]

Of those seven great videos, two are clearly my favorites. But between those I find it hard to decide whom I want to win. I think it is really good to have this division!

[jim in paris]

Hi all
I have watched the videos in the Young Players category
the level is amazing compared with other years

that is Great News for the future of top playing

waiting for the results.......

Jim

[ta0]

Collage of all the videos participating in the contest, in orden of registration (except artistic that are at the end):



Check the routines if you haven't already. There are many incredible performances.
Enjoy!

[ta0]

I re-uploaded the video (and replaced it above) as by mistake I erased the Maestros del Trompo routine on one of my last edits. I took advantage to correct a couple of other things.

PS: The video is blocked in Russia and Belarus due to restrictions put by the owners of the music in some of the clips.

[ta0]

Award Ceremony Zoom Meeting:

Topic: 2025 Award Ceremony ITSA Spintop World Online Contest
Time: Jun 15, 2025 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/2209364011?pw ... 1825228852

Meeting ID: 220 936 4011
Passcode: giro

That's this Sunday June 15th at 14:00 UTC (7:00 Los Angeles, 8:00 Mexico City, 9:00 Bogota, 16:00 Paris, 23:00 Tokyo).
Join if you can! Interact live with players from all around the world!

[jim in paris]

Hello Jorge
thanks very much for this collage
the level is incredible .....
I can't wait for the results

talk to you tomorrow...

Jim

[ta0]

We just finished a wonderful 2-hour Award Ceremony.
These were the results:

Open:
1 Jun Shimamura 91.24
2 Yahir Ortega 88.64
3 Takumi Kakizakai 86.62

Youth:
1 Kazuha Sakamoto 93.16
2 Yuto Yoshino 80.01
3 Teonanacatl Lopez 77.03

Women:
1 Ayaka Fujimoto 95.00
2 Ayame Saitoh 56.79
3 Kumiko Suzuta 53.43

Artistic:
1 Aborígen 10
2 You & Night & Whisky 14
3 Maestros del Trompo 22

The complete scoring sheets (including raw scores by every judge) are here:
Google sheets: 2025 ITSA World Online Contest

Thanks to all the judges that reviewed 57 videos, some many times. And special thanks to the players who participated.
See you next year online and hopefully some of you this year in Mexico!

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The results page is ready on the ITSA site: https://spintops.org/2025-world-online-results/

The 3 best Open freestyles

Jun:


Yahir:


Takumi:


Jun's freestyle was more relaxed than in the past, but still full of tricks perfectly synchronized to the music. Very nice to watch.
Yahir's freestyle was his usual style, 3 minutes of tricks without stop, some quite difficult and no errors.
Takumi's freestyle had a ton of original tricks, not afraid of pushing the envelope even if he misses some.

It was a very competitive year: the three players were selected first by more than one of the 8 judges: Jun 2 times, Yahir 3 times and Takumi 3 times.
(of the original 10 freestyle judges, Guillem and Gus couldn't score the routines for personal or work related reasons.)

Takumi was one of the few players to use both koma and spintop in his routine. Quiz: who else did?

[jim in paris]

Answer to the quiz : it could be Hector from los lobos
now a few comments about the artistic performances
it was very tight between Aborigen ( why this name ?) and you&night&whisky(cool title matching the soundtrack)
What I liked in the Aborigine performance was the fact that they do very difficult tricks and use all the props present in the frame it's like a building work based on spinning tops I would have called this routine marinellos working on the shore
as for Nagano it is technically masterd but also poetic :there is an atmosphere ....
it maybe lacks a bit of content compared to a straight freestyle routine
Maestos del trompo filmed from too far , but we understand the "intention" the concept behind the routine (circus mood,costumes ,big suspenders etc )

Rocco could (should) have competed in the normal open division
Los lobos fun and inspired
I give them a special award, considering the young age and the" eye if the tiger " intro

chonkake : with all respect to the gentlemen,
they miss the point...we should explain more the objective of this division


2025 Mexico
2026 Japan
2027 France ?


jim