MWR 2007
This weekend was the ninth annual Midwest Regional Yo-yo contest at the Mall of America.
This year was one of the best contests in years with lots of players coming from all over the nation. The Ramen tour starting from Delaware made their way up to Minnesota and that brought with them Danny and Tyler Severance, Sebastian Brock, Joey Fleshman and Ky Zizan. Sebastian Brock ended up winning the 1A division with Alex Berenguel coming in a close second and winning the seed to nationals. 
Earlier this year I blogged about the changes to the seeding rules at Nationals. Now if a yo-yoer wants to compete at Nationals they will have to place top five at a regional contest. And a regional contest gives the seed to the top five yo-yoers from the region plus the top from overall. So they have a potential ten seeds they could give out. AND the top placing player from the region gets a seed directly to the finals at Nationals, so that’s what Alex won. I’ve said it before but it’s worth saying again, I think Alex Berenguel could/will win Nationals. Best of luck to him the first weekend of October.
Other news fro the weekend included John Narum breaking his junior division world records for Whip Catches and Eli Hops. John is a little bit like the Tiger Woods of yo-yoing and I wonder that when he is no longer a junior division contestant if anyone will be able to break the records he set.
Boyd Seth was at the contest, I like this kid, the picture above features him sporting his new grillz trick.
On Saturday night the Ramen Tour and a bunch of other people came over to my house and we hung out. It’s worth mentioning that their car broke down and so they spent the night after the contest worrying about how they were going to get home. They ended up buying bus tickets. Life is what happens when your plans don’t work out. I hope they make it home okay, this trip will give them stories to talk about the for the rest of their life.
All of my photos are up at floor42online.com plus Chris Larson was walking around with his Nikon D80 and his pictures are online at his photobucket account. It’s nice not to be the only photographer covering a contest.
-Josh
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants
Nice pics. To compete in the UK nationals, you turn up :-s