Pen Spinning World Tournament 2007

The Pen Spinning World Tournament 2007 started on the 19th of February, 2007.

Scoring System

The initial scoring system consisted of four criteria, each scored from 0-10:

• Smoothness
• Speed
• Difficulty
• Creativity

The scores from the 8 total judges were added to give a final score out of 320.

The Speed criterion was criticized early on and was removed by the 23rd of February, 2007. However, this was after results for the first round had started coming back, so the first round combos were judged on speed. This resulted in spinners such as Bonkura getting unexpectedly low scores. Speed was replaced with Style for the remainder of the competition.

Tournament structure

The competition consisted of four rounds of single elimination to reduce the 80 participants down to 5. Then a group phase was held with the remaining spinners to split them into the top 2 and remaining 3.

The final round consisted of a battle for third place among the lower three spinners and a battle for World Champion among the top two.

Participants

Eight communities took part. From the archived original website:

FPSB	GPC	JEB	KitCat	PDS	Penzone	SweSpin	UCPSB
Fratleym Banz A_Qui Mouquette Sorez Scelus Gollumsk8 Skatox DaftSystem Val	Schwede DaZogga Nomed Emenai Maniok Samuirai Spin Sidious Moerkedal Movie Raid	Bonkura Aki-maru Hanataro_7 Mizm ps-728 Key3 Ryo Dopamine Ayatori Winter	Nicky Nervous Cw14 Vincent Leest ChuBao CYL Stephen MokYin Deity KitCat	ShaHell Taeryong Nanna Cloud Traveler Cheukii Coochun KTH Vision Nagi Uriel	Sing~ LAM Edwin Eric.C Harvey Vick X1213 Pang AJ Leo	DeFlare Swe_Empa Yiep Pe/Pdr Zaazu Eirie/Erkan Sfsr Alan Ceedgee Wlid	Eriror Donk3y Eso Ivan the terrible Toasty Blackhero Sathon Flip MAA Zblader

Rounds

Winners of rounds are in bold.

Round 1

Harvey vs Aki-maru Spin vs Ivan the terrible Banz vs Taeryong Nomed vs Nervous Vincent Leest vs Skatox Blackhero vs Pe/Pdr Val vs Nicky Vision vs ShaHell Eric.C vs Key3 Coochun vs Pang

Erie/Erkan vs AJ DaZogga vs Hanataro_7 Movie Raid vs KTH Nagi vs Samuirai Flip vs Schwede DeFlare vs Emenai LAM vs cw14 Winter vs Uriel ChuBao vs MoerKedal Cloud Traveler vs Edwin

CYL vs Sorez Fratleym vs Maniok Ayatori vs MokYin Toast vs DaftSystem Swe_Empa vs Leo A_Qui vs Sfsr zblader vs Scelus Sing~ vs Yiep Bonkura vs Nanna Sidous vs Stephen

Donk3y vs Mouquette Cheukii vs KitCat MAA vs Mizm Zaazu vs X1213 Alan vs Dopamine Sathon vs ps-728 Ceedgee vs Ryo gollumsk8 vs Eso Vick vs Wlid Eriror vs Deity

Round 2

Vision vs Ayatori Yiep vs Hanataro_7 Scelus vs Cloud Traveler Stephen vs Key3 Banz vs Aki-maru Dopamine vs KTH Ivan the Terrible vs Skatox Schwede vs X1213 DaftSystem vs Bonkura Emenai vs Leo

Uriel vs Mouquette LAM vs Val Coochun vs A_Qui Blackhero vs Mizm Cheukii vs Sorez Nagi vs Nomed ChuBao vs Fratleym AJ vs Eriror ps-728 vs Ryo gollumsk8 vs Vick