Pen Spinning Olympics 2020

The Pen Spinning Olympics 2020, more commonly known as PSO20, were the second Pen Spinning Olympics. They were organized by Ketain, assisted by RPD and Patchwork for the rulebook, and brought together 110 pen spinners from 17 pen spinning communities.

Category

These category represents the aspect in which participants were judged, each category acts as it's own tournament.

The categorys were :

Aestheticism

See also: Aesthetic

Power

See also: Power

2 hands

See also: 2 Hands

Multi-pen

See also: Multipen

Stand-up

See also: Standup

Counters

This theme revolve around the usage of change of direction.

Wipers

In this category, spinners were judged on their wiper trick, this include how they're executed and how creative these are.

Structure of the tournament

Each category acted like an independent tournament, and 2 formats were set up.

One round categories

Multi-mod and Stand-up categories used this format.

The winner is determined directly by the judges's rankings.

Three round categories

The Aesthetics, 2 Hands, Power, Wipers and Counters categories used this format.

1^st round

Participants are placed in a single pool. The 8 best placed move on to the next round if the category had at least 12 participants, the 5 best placed otherwise, the others are eliminated.

2^nd round

Participants who have qualified are again in a single pool. The best-placed 2 advance to the next round, the others are eliminated.

3^rd round

Final between the two qualified participants.

Participants

Each participant could enter a maximum of 2 categories. A community did not need to have a participant for each category, and could send no more than 5 participants for each category for JEB, PSH and FPSB, no more than 4 for UPSB, and no more than 3 for the other communities.

Community	Participants	Category
		Aestheticism	2 Hands	Power	Wipers	Counters	Multi-pen	Stand-up
FPSB	5TY-4						✓	✓
	Ann	✓			✓
	Dustfall					✓
	Frost	✓
	Gollumsk8						✓
	Kara-T-J	✓
	Kimshy							✓
	Lailai			✓
	Neir'da			✓
	Pops				✓
	TheBeyGeek			✓			✓
GPC	BaumGru			✓
	Hiato					✓
	Noishi	✓
HKPSA	LaYe	✓
	Anion	✓
	Kin	✓			✓
	Boboboy					✓
IPSB	Ai.R			✓
	Groz56					✓
	Linerz			✓
	Rotation87			✓
	Synne				✓
	Vanilla		✓
JEB	atene256							✓
	C17H27NO3				✓
	carbonara	✓
	Ence						✓
	Iteza					✓
	Jiv.		✓
	KoVi	✓
	Laku						✓
	MEL				✓
	mint	✓
	N1716				✓	✓
	Nearu			✓
	O							✓
	Ponkotu							✓
	RAIJING					✓
	Sy0u					✓
	tetora			✓				✓
	TaKA	✓
	VAIN	✓
	ZUMI				✓
KIPS	FLow			✓
	Plum	✓
	Soyo	✓
MYPSC	Aiman				✓			✓
	3ird				✓
	Xelphire					✓
	Pearl			✓		✓
	Fung			✓
	Sweg	✓
	Domin1c*		✓
	Cynithor					✓		✓
PHPS	abc	✓					✓
	ch					✓
	eys	✓
	Gravy			✓
	Hanako				✓
	JV2	✓
	Kres					✓
	KURINTO				✓
	Monstrata					✓
	Mordecai*				✓
	PSAkkey							✓
	Regis			✓
PPP	Bronek							✓
	Ketain						✓
PSB	Agiota				✓
	DArKT					✓
	Illuzyris	✓
	Junki					✓
	Luscas					✓
	Multini							✓
PSH	HUI				✓
	kaza	✓
	Nemo	✓
	rock	✓
	vwgg		✓
	YaYa	✓
	zmichelle			✓
SPSB	minky			✓
SPSC	Allwars			✓
	Geronimoste					✓
	RPD						✓
THPSC	Coffy	✓
	FGsix				✓
	Nive					✓
	ZEZARU				✓
TWPS	a gong			✓
	chEnYu					✓
	Cowabunga					✓
	Dove	✓
	Kamisa				✓
	seiji	✓
	yu	✓
UPSB	Afro					✓
	DioBrando				✓
	Mango					✓
	Mumm3y			✓
	Padrace							✓
	Pohng	✓
	Varoza	✓
	Xeran					✓
	Yetus					✓
	Zefia		✓	✓
VNPS	DrakeS						✓
	Huwng							✓
	Tuanz		✓		✓
Community	Participants	Aestheticism	2 Hands	Power	Wipers	Counters	Multi-mod	Stand-up
		Category

Judges

The identity of the judges was revealed before the competition.

Aesthetic

DArKT

Tigres

Eban

2 Hands

i.suk

OhYeaH!

oZone

Power

i.suk

Gollumsk8

Ketain

Wipers

Ketain

Beige

Padrace

Counters

vampire

Patchwork

zefia

Multi-mod

OhYeaH!

Afro

Padrace

Stand-up

Bula

kay

Peem

1st Round

Aestheticism	Qualified
abc	✓
Anion
Ann
carbonara
coffeelucky
Dove	✓
eys
Frost}
Illuzyris
JV2
Kara-T-J
kaza
Kin	✓
KoVi	✓
LaYe	✓
mint
Nemo
Noishi
Plum
Pohng
rock
seiji	✓
Soyo
Sweg	✓
TaKA
VAIN	✓
Varoza
YaYa
yu

2 Hands	Qualified
Domin1c*
Jiv.	✓
Tuanz	✓
Vanilla	✓
vwgg	✓
Zefia	✓

Power	Qualified
Ai.R
a gong
Allwars	✓
BaumGru
FLow
Fung (has not submitted)
Gravy	✓
Lailai
Linerz
minky	✓
Mumm3y
Nearu
Neir'da	✓
Pearl	✓
Regis (has not submitted)
Rotation87	✓
tetora	✓
TheBeyGeek	✓
Zefia
zmichelleM

Wipers	Qualified
3ird
Agiota
Aiman
Ann
C17H27NO3
DioBrando	✓
FGsix
Hanako
HUI
Kamisa
Kin	✓
KURINTO
MEL	✓
Mordecai*	✓
N1716	✓
Pops
Synne
Tuanz	✓
ZEZARU	✓
ZUMI	✓

Counters	Qualified
Afro
Boboboy(has not submitted)
ch
chEnYu
Cowabunga	✓
Cynithor(has not submitted)
DArKT	✓
Dustfall
Geronimoste
Groz56
Hiato	✓
Iteza	✓
Junki
Kres
Luscas	✓
Mango	✓
Monstrata (has not submitted)
N1716
Nive
Pearl	✓
RAIJING	✓
Sy0u
Xelphire
Xeran
Yetus

Multi-pen	Ranking
5TY-4
abc
DrakeS
Ence
Gollumsk8	✓ 2nd
Ketain	✓ 3rd
Laku
RPD	✓ 1st
TheBeyGeek

Stand-up	Ranking
5TY-4
Aiman
atene256
Bronek
Cynithor
Huwng
Kimshy
Multini
O
Padrace
Ponkotu
PSAkkey
tetora

2nd round

Aestheticism	Qualified
abc
Dove	✓
kin
KoVi
LaYe
seiji
Sweg
VAIN	✓

2 Hands	Qualified
Jiv.	✓
Tuanz
Vanilla
vwgg
Zefia	✓

Power	Qualified
Allwars	✓
Gravy
minky
Neir'da	✓
Pearl
Rotation87
tetora
TheBeyGeek

Wipers	Qualified
DioBrando
Kin	✓
MEL	✓
Mordecai*
N1716
Tuanz
ZEZARU
ZUMI (has not submitted)

Counters	Qualified
Cowabunga	✓
DArKT	✓
Hiato
Iteza
Luscas
Mango
Pearl
RAIJING

3rd round

Aestheticism	Ranking
Dove
VAIN	✓

2 Hands	Ranking
Jiv.
Zefia	✓

Power	Ranking
Allwars
Neir'da	✓

Wipers	Ranking
Kin
MEL	✓

Counters	Ranking
Cowabunga
DArKT	✓