Pen Spinning Board of Directors

The Pen Spinning Board of Directors is a private invite-only discord server that organizes the Pen Spinning World Tournament, Pen Spinning Olympics and Pen Spinning World Cup events, starting from 2019 onwards.

It was originally formed by active UPSB users and their contacts in 2018 to organize the Pen Spinning World Tournament 2019.

Controversies

PSO 2020 Mumm3y Penalties

PBoD 2021 leaks revealing Mumm3y's scores fixed by Ketain on behalf of coffeelucky

Background

In the Pen Spinning Olympics 2020 "Power" category, American spinner Mumm3y submitted an under-time combo. It was to receive high points from judges and would have been second place before time penalties added.

There were discussions on how high the penalty should be. Initially the penalty was agreed between Mumm3y and judges as -2 points for 0.5s under-time. Coffeelucky, a PBoD member who wasn't judging, argued it should be -4 points instead due to personal spats with Mumm3y. Afterwards Coffeelucky made a video claiming it was 8.5s measured by taking the latest first frame and earliest last frame possible and rounding down the half second to equal -6 points. Later, the judge sheet came out with Mumm3y nearly at the bottom of the rankings after the severe -6 penalties suspiciously placed by every single judge.

The event was controversial because the process was both uncharitably harsh and only performed on Mumm3y's combo and not on other short combos, with the process involved likely to dramatically change results in other categories if it was applied, showing the process was targeted and unfair.

PBoD leaks reveal

The 2021 PBoD leaks revealed that the penalties were fixed on every judge's result by Ketain, one of the judges, and not each individually. The leaks also showed that Ketain was unaware of the actual time of the combo, incorrectly claiming it was -3s under-time, revealing that he was acting on the suggestion of coffeelucky for the process and claiming it was an "objective fact" for him to do so.

Members

The total amount of members is unknown as the server is private, but leaks in early 2021 revealed the members in the server at the time.

Known members in 2021 leak:

• Arteq
• Chobi
• Juzzle
• Dustfall
• AiMo
• Beige
• coffeelucky
• DArkT
• Dentol
• eg9099
• Herenz
• HUI
• Huwng
• i.suk
• Ketain
• kin
• Patchwork
• Rotation87
• San
• Tidus
• Tigres

Known former members:

• Allwars
• RPD