Menowa*

Masaumi 'Menowa*' Sudo^[1] is a competitive pen spinner from JEB who won the Pen Spinning World Tournament 2015 as well as the previous Pen Spinning World Cup 2014.

He is also known for his Power spinning, pioneering the Spiderspin category of tricks, and his several mods.

Competitive Spinning

World Cup 2012

See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2012

JEB was considered the most likely team to win early on in the tournament, but suffered an upset loss versus UPSB in Round 4. Menowa* in particular was considered very strong for his time and this was exploited by their opponents in order to beat JEB.

The UPSB team placed Pen Ninja in the Technical category to avoid using their best spinners in a losing battle, predicting that JEB would choose Menowa* for Technical to go up against i.suk or Eriror. They then put their strongest members in the other categories, leaving Menowa* with the only victory for JEB.

Round 1 (Technical)

Round 3 (Artistic)

Round 4 (Technical)

JEB Tournament 2012

See also: JEB Tournament 2012

Menowa*'s loss in Round 4 was unexpected and somewhat controversial. He later went on to win the third place match.

Round 1

Win versus Mind.

Round 2

Win versus halcyon.

Round 3

Win versus VAIN

Round 4

Loss versus Narita

Round 5

Win versus Chisato. Third place match.

World Cup 2014

See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2014

The JEB victory in 2014 was generally seen as crushing with little to no controversy or surprises about their wins.

Round 2 (Technical)

Versus i.suk.

Round 3 (Double)

Tag with mi, versus Blue and RPD.

Round 5 (Double)

Tag with HAL, versus cLear and EaglE.

World Tournament 2015

See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2015

Despite a solid start, Menowa*'s later battles versus MKSFT and Xound were controversial for the time. Both opponents were very high level technical spinners with strong combos, and the wins were surprising, particularly in the case of MKSFT. Menowa* had adopted a pattern of using opponent's material against them, which was praised for its creativity but criticized for producing inferior results to the originals.

Nonetheless, Menowa*'s win in 2015 cemented him as one of the strongest spinners of all time.