Pen Spinning World Tournament 2021

The Pen Spinning World Tournament 2021 was announced on June 15th 2021, starting with the participant deadline for the first round on the 28th of August.

History

The tournament was announced on Twitter by the Pen Spinning Board of Directors on June 15th, 2021 with community registration due by July 25th. Participant lineups were announced August 7th, and the groups for the first round were drawn the day after on August 8th. First round videos were due August 28th, with all participants successfully submitting videos on time.

For the first time in the history of the event pre-filming was formalized in the rulebook. It was retroactive, and allowed combos filmed before the ruling to be submitted to the tournament. Commentators remarked on the predictability of the tournament, as spinners with combos already filmed were considered out of reach for the other participants.

Questionable judging moments were highlighted in the later rounds, notably Taichi1082 granting Beck a controversial 10/10 in originality for a parallel world technique, claiming it had never been done before.

Saltient from MYPSC shocked spectators by revealing combos that used a cumulative 5 years of fingercross development that was largely unshared with the public. I.suk from UPSB became the first individual to win a world tournament more than once at the conclusion of the event.

Scoring System

For rounds 2-6 the combos are scored out of a maximum of 40. These points are distributed among 5 criteria, of which 2 have 3 additional sub-criteria:

• Execution (12 points)
  • Control (5 points)
  • Refinement (4 points)
  • Tempo (3 points)
• Difficulty (10 points)
• Originality (10 points)
• Effectiveness (8 points)
  • Integration (3 points)
  • Density (3 points)
  • Effect (2 points)
• Presentation (up to 2 points can be deducted)

For round 1 only the order of spinners and comments are required, and scores are optional.

Tournament Structure

The first two rounds consisted of two group phases, in which the top 4 ranked spinners by the judges would pass to the next round. In Round 1 there were 8 groups, and Round 2 there were 4 groups. Due to the amount of people signing up being a prime number, Group H in the first round had 9 participants instead of 10.

Afterwards, the remaining 16 spinners competed in a series of single elimination matches for the last four rounds, until a winner is declared. A third place match was also held for the losing participants of Round 5.

Judges

The competition had five judges, who were selected through a trial judging screening process out of a number of applicants:

• DArKT (PSB)
• kin (HKPSA)
• Taichi1082 (formerly LPSA)
• Tchus (FPSB)
• Xound (PHPS)

Participants

ESPC	FPSB	PHPS	GPC	JEB	PSB	MYPSC	SPSC
i.suk Padrace Zefia Beck Allwars Mumm3y Pall V 0 1 D Yetus	Gollumsk8 Weerman kara-t-j pops freekayz somtchai	abc altttt kres KURINTO Mond Monstrata Mordecai SepelaThons	Juzzle Joi m1ch1 Eriror	Ence TUv4 Wabi Raber Ivy TaKA Jiv Haro	Agiota Luscas Multini Reboot Rod Syno Tktron	EffecT Saltient Sweg 3ird	Criswea!! Benzz

IPSB	TWPS	PPP	VNPS	KIPS	PSH	SGPSC
Dentol Shisons Zhaint Vanilla Synne Azeru	ph u91x	Ketain MK	Hubik Tuanz Wei Miuk Lunar nachii*	Flow Fizz Plum	Haton Seiray7 17E Petuy Gurke Hector Karuna Magic*	Sanyo corsair Arthur

Results

Round 1

Top 4 participants in each group marked in bold proceed to the next round.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
Mond m1ch1 Vanilla Kara-t-j u91x Petuy Joi Fizz Synne Somtchai	Hubik Padrace Beck Altttt Flow Tuanz 3ird Weerman Raber Rod	Eriror Arthur Pall Allwars Juzzle Magic* Yetus Shisones Freekayz Syno	EffecT Luscas Ence Tktron nachii* Penguin Gurke Benzz Haro Ivy	i.suk Zefia (tie) Saltient (tie) Criswea!! Agiota Pops Reboot TaKA Azeru Sanyo	Haton Ketain abc kres Hector KURINTO Zhaint Dentol Multini Mumm3y	Seiray7 V 0 1 D Jiv Sweg 17E Monstrata Wei Karuna Lunar corsair	TUv4 MK Gollumsk8 Wabi Miuk Mordecai SepelaThons Plum ph

Round 2

Top 4 participants in each group marked in bold proceed to the next round. Seiray7 did not submit for this round.

I	J	K	L
i.suk EffecT Arthur Sweg abc Ence Kres Luscas	TUv4 Vanilla Padrace Gollumsk8 Hubik m1ch1 Tktron Altttt	Saltient Zefia Allwars Mond Eriror Kara-t-j Pall MK	Haton V 0 1 D Criswea!! Beck Jiv. Ketain Wabi Seiray7

Round 3

Participants in bold won the battles and proceed to the next round.

• Saltient vs Mond
• Vanilla vs Arthur
• i.suk vs Gollumsk8
• Padrace vs EffecT
• Haton vs Sweg
• V 0 1 D vs Criswea!!
• TUv4 vs Beck
• Zefia vs Allwars

Round 4

• Saltient vs Arthur
• i.suk vs Padrace
• Haton vs V 0 1 D
• Beck vs Zefia

Round 5

• i.suk vs Saltient
• Beck vs Haton

Round 6

• i.suk vs Beck