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General Discussion / PenSpinning Tournament Japan 2008
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Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 11:04:14
'Japan Pen Spinning Tournament 2008'
http://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002682.000000000.html
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/ir/release/press/pdf/p080131.pdf
Competition organized by PSAJ aimed at choosing the best spinner in Japan.
It says, after preliminary rounds on the Internet in the middle of February, the final will be held in a venue in late March. -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 12:42:34
Really cool =D
I'm looking forward to seeing what spinners will compete. Is the tournament sponsored/held by Takara Tomy? -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 12:53:21
Well, it doesn't say anything about sponsorship... We haven't got much information yet.
The tournament is organized by PSAJ, of course. -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 13:45:42
lol maybe thats the tournament referred too in that guy's magazine. not international though.
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Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 14:35:40
all pen spinner in JEB will take part right??
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Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 14:51:38QUOTE (ellusion67 @ Feb 7 2008, 02:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>all pen spinner in JEB will take part right??
Not all of us, I guess.. We need cameras to film our spinning to participate in the tournament. -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 15:08:39
Wait, who won the 2007 tournament?
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Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 15:19:41QUOTE (Eso @ Feb 7 2008, 03:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Wait, who won the 2007 tournament?
The tournament 2008 is the first one... lol
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Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 15:26:57
first offline national tournament finals ever?
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Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 15:33:50QUOTE (Vall3y @ Feb 7 2008, 03:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>first offline national tournament finals ever?
good shit
Never at least in Japan. So this is a breakthrough..... -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 16:08:47QUOTE (Aphsamoth @ Feb 7 2008, 10:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The tournament 2008 is the first one... lol
There was a JEB tournament held during the summer of 2007. Who won that one? -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 17:24:25QUOTE (Eso @ Feb 7 2008, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There was a JEB tournament held during the summer of 2007. Who won that one?
that wasn't offline. -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 17:52:24QUOTE (Eso @ Feb 7 2008, 04:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There was a JEB tournament held during the summer of 2007. Who won that one?
The JEB tournament seems to have been shut down because of hacking or something.
Plus, JEB tournament isnot a real Japan Pen Spinning Tournament itself. -
Date: Thu, Feb 7 2008 19:35:36
Awesome
Someone tell them to film alot. Offline battles online rocks =D -
Date: Sat, Feb 23 2008 17:17:32
Official announcement has been made by PSAJ.
http://www.pen-spinning.org/ptj/
Date for final offline: March 30th 2008
Sponsors: Takara Tomy which released PEN'Z GEAR, Shueisha which will issue PSAJ official books, Pentel, Pony Canyon by which the tournament will be released on DVD
The preliminary rounds with about 300 participants on the Internet should start within a week because it says that the vote for 16 finalists is going to be held for around a month.
And, it also says some guests are going to attend the final from abroad!!.... Who are? -
Date: Sat, Feb 23 2008 18:16:51
CrAsH perhaps? :)
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Date: Sat, Feb 23 2008 20:15:11
Man....i hope we get to watch the vids....
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Date: Sat, Feb 23 2008 22:15:28
this is extremely cool
i assume the winner gets some kind of reward, any word on what the prizes are going to be?
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Date: Sun, Feb 24 2008 04:55:21QUOTE (Sfsr @ Feb 23 2008, 06:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>CrAsH perhaps?
Are you sure!?
QUOTE (Vall3y @ Feb 23 2008, 10:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>i assume the winner gets some kind of reward, any word on what the prizes are going to be?
Yea, 1st, 2nd and 3rd pizes, support company award, and bonkura award.
And, its name was changed into "PenSpinning Tournament Japan 2008", by the way. -
Date: Sun, Feb 24 2008 07:20:38
Ooh, CrAsH. Maybe, maybe not.
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Date: Sun, Feb 24 2008 11:52:27QUOTE (Vall3y @ Feb 7 2008, 04:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>first offline national tournament finals ever?
good shit
Stuttgart Live Tournament in BW (Germany)
It was a small, 100% offline tournament...
Also... the Korean Finals (Taeryong vs. Nory)
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Date: Sun, Feb 24 2008 13:42:35
This is the first truly "Official" tournament though. Afaik those two you mentioned were only for GPC and KPSA/PDS members, this one is not hosted through some kind of forum but through the official penspinning organization in Japan; PSAJ. In the Korean tournament, many (KTH for example) weren't able to participate, and in the Stuttgart tournament it was the same (in Stuttgart it wasn't even ment to be some kind of "National Tournament", just a regular smaller one).
This is just the first National Penspinning Tournament ever (either online or IRL), no?
@ Aphsamoth: I just guessed that it could be CrAsH, I have no idea :P -
Date: Wed, Feb 27 2008 16:53:35QUOTE (Sfsr @ Feb 24 2008, 01:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is just the first National Penspinning Tournament ever (either online or IRL), no?
Yes, I know what you mean. Actually, this tournament is organized by PSAJ itself, not exactly through forums.
http://ptj2008.pen-spinning.org/user/login/
Period for the preliminary: February 28th 2008 to March 16th 2008
Qualifying results announcement: March 23rd 2008
It says currently they only accept participants' videos and those videos are going to open to the public on about March 7th.
And, just note that you have to be a member of PSAJ to participate in the tournament, though I don't know whether or not they can accept participation from abroad. -
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 11:05:35
http://ptj2008.pen-spinning.org/contents/
The videos have now been released! Only memebers of PSAJ can vote or leave any comments though. -
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 12:43:04
Nice!
I watched some of them. Really good spinning, and I like that they are ~15 seconds long! What was the time restriction? -
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 13:02:23
I watch some of combo.
All are awesome
I have got some trouble to watch that made me cant watch all of it
Did you have plan to made dvd all spinners in all round?
If yes I 'll pay for that -
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 13:07:12QUOTE (Sfsr @ Mar 7 2008, 12:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What was the time restriction?
http://ptj2008.pen-spinning.org/user/agreement.html
It says videos accepted have to be 15 seconds long and 10 MB or less.QUOTE (longhorn @ Mar 7 2008, 01:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Did you have plan to made dvd all spinners in all round?
I guess they're just going to release the videos of the finalists or someone on DVD.
And yea, some are nice actually. I hope more and more spinners will participate in the tornament and it will grow into larger one. Besides, Crasher seems to take part in the tournament under another name.
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Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 14:55:05
Oh wow! That's a lot of videos! It'll take at least several hours to just watch them all. I hope the cameras at the venue get a good angle going.
Thanks for the link, Aphsamoth. -
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 15:19:19
Well but I want more spinners to take part in this. We have only around 60 participants yet, though PSAJ thinks we'll have about 300 participants in this tournament...
Not at all dude.
And also, Mantis has changed his name into "Crosfdatla", by the way. -
Date: Tue, Mar 11 2008 13:56:15
PEN'Z GEAR "bonkura version".
Spoiler:
PSAJ and Takara Tomy have decided to produce a special version of PEN'Z GEAR. And, they're going to give ones to the top 200 participants in the preliminary round and to 300 visitors to the venue by lot. They're also going to give RSVPs on which 日本ペン回ã—å”会, PSAJ or something is printed to the rest of the participants.
As far as I know, there are currently two kinds of PSVPs where PSAJ or something is printed; green and blue. Both of them looks like the Razzle-Dazzles in those colors. And, on the green one "第一回日本ペン回ã—å”会ç·ä¼šè¨˜å¿µ" is printed while its original pen spinning logo and "P.S.A.J." are printed on the blue one.
As you see, all the participants will aquire bonkura PEN'Z GEARs, at the current moment. The deadline for posting penspinning videos is March 16th, in 4 days, so the number of participants will increase anyway, though.
http://ptj2008.pen-spinning.org/?info_id=8...2sxo-2bxhMH-5Ro -
Date: Tue, Mar 11 2008 14:55:45
ohaei .. there are many participents....
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Date: Tue, Mar 11 2008 16:45:53
Damn, it's gonna be hard to get your hands on those pens if you're not participating. They sound really cool!
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Date: Tue, Mar 11 2008 17:28:27
NIKoo, key3 and Saizen win
ayatori disapointed me
but this is unreal
thanks for the links!! -
Date: Wed, Mar 12 2008 15:26:41
sooo many videos
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Date: Sun, Mar 23 2008 15:29:41
The 16 finalists are the following spinners.
Spoiler:
Good luck...! -
Date: Sun, Mar 23 2008 19:50:15
Wow with that line up it will be really hard to choose. I'm particularity going for Pesp or Key3
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Date: Sun, Mar 23 2008 20:39:01
those spinners aren't really a surprise
we all knew they were the best, its a shame nekuras video was all dark and such...
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Date: Mon, Mar 31 2008 10:33:40
Lol that confuse me that seven wins at the Jeb tournament
all were there: Ayatori, Kuzu, Bonito, Saizen, Key3 and ryo
1st: Seven
2nd: ryo
3rd: Saizen
omg i dont no what place ayatori had
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Date: Mon, Mar 31 2008 10:43:54
yesterday was offline final. Nukoro told me thefirst 3 places
1: Seven
2: RYO
3:Saizen
I don't know if thats true!!
some video? -
Date: Mon, Mar 31 2008 23:23:16
There was a news Article on this tournament.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnough...T28362320080331
It was the first time I've seen media attention on penspinning without me looking for it through the boards. 0.0 -
Date: Tue, Apr 1 2008 01:32:20
Whats that pen they talk about in the article that the toy company makes?
Eso: http://www.upsb.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=4447 -
Date: Thu, Apr 3 2008 15:31:31
Results Announcement
http://www.pen-spinning.org/
1st: SEVEN
2nd: key3
3rd: ZUNDA
Besides, Saizen won Pentel award, ayatori won Takara Tomy award and International judges' award, and 337 won bonkura award. -
Date: Thu, Apr 3 2008 22:17:20
I was on Yahoo when I saw this i was like woah! Since when does pen spinning get on the front page of Yahoo.com???
http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/Aiz...t=1207260862201 -
Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 01:48:19
Not sure if this is already posted...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080331/od_nm/pen_dc
A friend of mine found it...
Anyone know who is this 'pen spinning king'? -
Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 01:49:17
its Seven
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:11:37QUOTE (NoRice4U @ Apr 3 2008, 08:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>its Seven
Se7en?
Doesn't he live in Canada or something? -
Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:14:38QUOTE (Tama @ Apr 3 2008, 09:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Se7en?
Doesn't he live in Canada or something?
No, it's just Seven. He's from JEB. -
Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:25:00
Oh...i thought it was Toro
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:43:00
any one have a video of him spinning?
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:49:42QUOTE (tomohiro @ Apr 3 2008, 10:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>any one have a video of him spinning?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBipIpAPcg
Watch 1:10.
He looks pretty good =O -
Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:55:59
Obviously Yahoo news doesn't know about Eriror or Frat or ayatori. =P
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:57:59QUOTE (Jobzz @ Apr 3 2008, 10:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Obviously Yahoo news doesn't know about Eriror or Frat or ayatori. =P
Well only Japan held the tournament, and ayatori didn't win anything. -
Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:58:47
Its the Media.. hes only called the king of pen spinning because he won the JEB tournament..
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 02:59:53
Haha yea, well can't blame them for their ignorance. =)
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 03:20:19
That guy looks cool, envy his hair...
I wish we had tourneys here in Vancouver... 
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 03:22:26
anybody know what pen he's spinning?
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 08:39:58
Have the videos from the final been uploaded yet, Aphsamoth?
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Date: Fri, Apr 4 2008 18:40:12QUOTE (Aphsamoth @ Apr 3 2008, 05:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Results Announcement
http://www.pen-spinning.org/
Besides, Saizen won Pentel award, ayatori won Takara Tomy award and International judges' award, and 337 won bonkura award.
wwhat are this "awards"? whats the reason of them? the video on utube is deletet :-(
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Date: Sun, Apr 6 2008 07:42:33QUOTE (Aphsamoth @ Apr 3 2008, 08:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Results Announcement
http://www.pen-spinning.org/
1st: SEVEN
2nd: key3
3rd: ZUNDA
Besides, Saizen won Pentel award, ayatori won Takara Tomy award and International judges' award, and 337 won bonkura award.
Awww i wanted Saizen damn it -
Date: Sun, Apr 6 2008 09:23:12
I can't find Seven combo??
where is it? -
Date: Sun, Apr 6 2008 09:36:23
Where i can find videos of this tournament?
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Date: Mon, Apr 7 2008 10:53:59
Hi Guys,
Saw this post about the tournament in Japan, thought i would post in it.
Yeah i was the foreign spinner that was over there and it was an amazing experience to be there to saw the tournament love and to meet all the spinners. They were all really friendly and attempted to speak english with me which i found really cool. For a complete list of spinners there, there was:
RYO, Key3, Ayatori, Sunrise, kUzu, Nikoo, Toro, Saizen, awawa, Mizm, Pesp, Silver, 337, Scissors, SEVEN, Kentei, Haze, Aysh, Kitchee, Winter, Crasher, Kunekune, ZYAVUXA, KEN, PenSOn, IMU, Mantis, coco_A, enot, i think thats a list of all the big names, there were many other beginner spinners there who came to watch the tournament.
I read somewhere that people want videos of SEVEN spinning, i have a few videos of him spinning some of my pens over at the gathering, but im not sure if he will allow me to post them up or not, ill have to ask his permission first. Same with completel videos and photos of the gathering, we might released a Tokyo Off CV, but again i need permission about the videos and photos from the spinners that were involved.
To be honest i was a little confused at the time also about who won and who didn't, i saw the xbox 360 and i thought it was the first prize, i saw key3 won the xbox 360, but then i found out afterwards that the first prize was a pay back for their travel. SEVEN won his travel trip payed for, and key3 got second place, the 360. ZUNDA came 3rd, RYO came 4th.
I was told a few minutes before the tournament that i had to give an opening and closing speech at the opening and closing ceremonies, so if anybody sees this video footage, it was something really made up quickly before hand, i didn't have much time to think of what to say.
I was only there for 6 days, i didn't have much time to visit much around Tokyo, so i plan to go back maybe this summer or something.
Take care guys,
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Date: Mon, Apr 7 2008 11:38:01
I want Seven's combo that use in this tournament.
Because I want to know how did he be the 1st -
Date: Mon, Apr 7 2008 14:12:29QUOTE (longhorn @ Apr 7 2008, 07:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I want Seven's combo that use in this tournament.
Because I want to know how did he be the 1st
I think everyone wants to know how did he be the 1st too.
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Date: Mon, Apr 7 2008 14:14:29
i really want to see se7en combo..video plz
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Date: Mon, Apr 7 2008 14:32:14
At the moment, the only people who have close ups of his combo are the tv companies who where there filming the event, i don't think anybody else would have them. I have some videos of him doing similar combos with some of my pens at the gathering when he was teaching some other spinners there, but right now im at uni so i don't have a chance to ask his permission if i can upload it. When i have his permission i will let you know.
From my own experience after speaking with him and watching his spin, he is amazing spinning live, he pulls off some crazy tricks every time, to be honest im not really supprised he won it with the tricks he pulls off. -
Date: Mon, Apr 7 2008 14:46:57QUOTE (Sfsr @ Apr 4 2008, 08:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Have the videos from the final been uploaded yet, Aphsamoth?No, as far as I know. Unfortunately though.
By the way, this is SEVEN's blog and you can watch his videos through ブリーフケース.
http://seven7stars.blog117.fc2.com/ -
Date: Mon, Apr 7 2008 22:24:55
Here's a more accurate description of the prizes:
#1 100000yen travel voucher = ~$1000 US
#2 Xbox 360
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Date: Tue, Apr 8 2008 01:33:36
Who supplied the prizes?
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Date: Tue, Apr 8 2008 01:40:52
Wow, seven has quite creative linkages/tricks. I like. :D
What do the awards mean.? Bonkura Award? Pentel award? -
Date: Tue, Apr 8 2008 02:01:22QUOTE (Rorix @ Apr 7 2008, 09:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Who supplied the prizes?
probably TOMY -
Date: Wed, Apr 9 2008 06:39:30
Still too bad I couldn't come, really. I would've loved to see all those spinners live.
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Date: Wed, Apr 9 2008 08:13:16QUOTE (Zombo @ Apr 7 2008, 05:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Here's a more accurate description of the prizes:
#1 100000yen travel voucher = ~$1000 US
#2 Xbox 360
#3 PSP
boy does it cost 1000$ to travel from some place to some place in japan, or are japanese so modest they cant give cash prize without a reason?
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Date: Thu, Apr 10 2008 01:57:29
omg aysh is my hero. i would have loved to be there
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Date: Thu, Apr 10 2008 12:02:40QUOTE (Vall3y @ Apr 9 2008, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>boy does it cost 1000$ to travel from some place to some place in japan, or are japanese so modest they cant give cash prize without a reason?
Yeah it is really really expensive to travel in Japan, when you are over there you will find out. I took the trains quiet often over there with the spinners and on my own when i arrived and i was so supprised with the cost myself. I had researched the prices before i left so i wasn't so shocked on the spot but in general the fares are really expensive. -
Date: Fri, Apr 11 2008 08:14:44
If anyone is having trouble going through Seven's blog for some of his combos/video you may want to check out the JEB spinning party 2. He has a small combo at the end.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lurIYdn40ns
