Asian Cup 2008

The Asian Cup 2008 or Asian Cup was an international team-based competition held on October 1st, 2008. It featured 8 participating communities, with the condition that all the spinners in a community's team had to be considered racially Asian to take part. In this way it became the first competition that chose to exclude spinners based on race, rather than the community they were in.

It was later revived in part as the Asian Tournament 2013.

History

The Asian cup was arranged in September 2008, with the initial deadline for community lineups being the 1st Oct 2008. Communities situated in Asia took part such as TWPS, JEB and PDS to name a few, but curiously UPSB was also allowed to sign up. The competition was explicitly for spinners from Asia, which resulted in UPSB only being able to choose racially Asian spinners for their lineup such as Minwoo from GPC and ChauTran, with non-asian spinners such as Eriror being excluded. However, Eriror was allowed to judge the competition regardless.

This raised a little concern over the fact that it could be considered racist. When replying to concerns that non-Asians could not join the international event that would accept spinners from the United States and Germany, Zombo stated "that's like saying humans should be able to compete in a horse race". Ultimately the concerns were dismissed and UPSB entered with an entirely Asian roster.

The competition was presumably held by the Hong Kong community given the choice of web hosting provider.

Consisting only of two rounds, the event was relatively short, with KPSA coming first place and UPSB 2nd. The first round consisted of individual videos, while the second round was collaboration videos between all the individual spinners from a given community team.

Criteria

The competition ranked spinning on 5 criteria that allocated different percentages of points towards the final score:

• Smoothness (15%)
• Style (15%)
• Overall structure/organization of the combo, difficulty and variety (25%)
• Creativity (20%)
• Appeal/beauty/impressiveness (25%)

For the second collaboration round, the previous criteria were squashed to 70% of the score and three more criteria were added:

• Synchronicity to music (10%)
• Editing (10%)
• Collab creativity(10%)

Participants

TWPS	PSH	UPSB	HKPSA	KPSA	PDS	THPSC	JEB
Darcy BaoO Rex TKspin x1213 Joey	12ve Answer 3Shine ssEno Garlic Pale Master	pholord Chautran Minwoo ellusion68 toast DaThroat	Nicky Deity mist ryan wcy Ray	Taeryong SkyDigital Saturn Caras Rafe Sound	Pink Renne Silzoo Shark Dark Angmaramyeon	GZSakuraz Tanexat Niceget Highwave Tigeroat Longhorn	RYO coco_A SEVEN RiAsON MaKiN PenSOn

Judges

The Asian Cup had publicly known judges from four of the participating communities, with Zombo serving as the main judge of the competition.

UPSB	JEB	HKPSA	PSH
Zombo Eriror	raimo Ayum	Taihio Meteor	big619 CNstar

Results

Round 1

Coco_A vs Niceget Ray vs Tigeroat RiAsON vs TKspin 12ve vs Dark Toast vs Mist x1213 vs DaThroat

Nicky vs Sound Longhorn vs Renne SEVEN vs wcy Pholord vs Silzoo Answer vs Pink 3Shine vs Minwoo

Pale Master vs Saturn Rex vs Ryan RYO vs ellusion67 Joey vs Taeryong Angmaramyeon vs Deity ssEno vs Caras

MaKiN vs HighWave Garlic vs Shark GZSakuraz vs BaoO Rafe vs Darcy SkyDigital vs Tanexat Chautran vs PenSOn

Videos:

• HKPSA, JEB, KPSA and PDS
• PSH, THPSC, TWPS and UPSB

Round 2

Final round participants ranked.

1. KPSA
2. UPSB
3. PSH
4. JEB