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The French Pen Spinning Board or FPSB is a Pen Spinning Community based in France, but accommodating French speakers from other nations, including Belgium after BPSC closed in late 2011.
FPSB v1 was initially created by Radek on February 8th 2005, but closed in late 2005 after being hacked. Soon after FPSB v2 was opened, and the first FPSB Tournament was held in 2006, won by spinner A_Qui.
History
The earliest reference to pen spinning in France was a commercial from Bic for a four-color pen in 1970.
In 2004, PenDolSa 1st was shared on the Cube forum, a site for Super Smash Bros players. Most users did not believe the video to be genuine, but user Radek decided to learn the tricks in order to prove that they were wrong, and started a small community on the forum also interested as he did. With more people joining in, he decided to launch a forum of his own.
FPSB V1
On the 8th February 2005, FPSB V1 was launched with some of the earliest french spinners such as Fratleym and gollumsk8 registering. The first French pen spinning team, "SpowasH" was formed by A_Qui, Scelus, Skatox and Sorez. In late 2005 the FPSB V1 forum was hacked, and the site shut down with a temporary board being put up while Radek worked on FPSB V2.
FPSB V2
The community continued to grow after FPSB V2 opened, and spinners began to benefit from international trading becoming more popular, allowing French spinners to acquire mods such as the Comssa and the RSVP MX. The first FPSB Tournament was held in 2006 and won by A_Qui, and the board released the FPSB "Hall of Honor" collab, edited by Fratleym. Collaborations with other boards also began to emerge such as "FPSB-UKPS", "FPSB-Penzone" and "PDS-FPSB".
Collaboration Videos
FPSB has a long history of Pen Spinning CVs, both official and casual. The most well known is the community's official series starting with FPSB 1st (Originally titled FPSB the beginning)[1] in 2006. Since then, there have been 11 total official community CVs from FPSB, with the latest being FPSB 11th on December 20th, 2020[2].
Research
Competitive Spinning
FPSB has a long and titled history in competitive spinning, producing World Cup Champion teams twice as well as one World Champion.
FPSB Tournament
The community has been holding a yearly member's competition since 2006 to decide the strongest competitive spinner.
List of tournaments and winners:
World Tournament
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament
FPSB has submitted numerous spinners to compete in the World Tournament, winning in World Tournament 2011.
2007
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2007
Participants included Banz, Fratleym, Gollumsk8.
Banz and Fratleym achieved fame by making it to the finals, with Fratleym placing 3rd and Banz 4th.
2009
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2009
Participants included S777, Gollumsk8, A13x.
S777 was defeated by world champion that year, Spinnerpeem in round 3[3][4]
2011
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2011
Participants included S777, GollumSk8.
S777 won in 2011, becoming the third World Champion for a World Tournament and first from FPSB after defeating HKPSA spinner Kin at the finals.
2013
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2013
Participants included Fel2Fram, Gollumsk8.
2015
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2015
2017
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2017
2019
- See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2019
World Cup
2008
- See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2008
2010
- See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2010
2012
- See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2012
Team participants included Anikis, Fel2Fram, Futhark, Gisele8, Ivabra and Lindor.
The FPSB team won in world cup 2012, defeating UPSB at the finals.
2014
- See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2014
2018
- See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2018
2020
- See also: Pen Spinning World Cup 2020
Team participants included Ark0nix, Gunter, Ivabra, Tchus, TheBeyGeek and Leftfinger.
FPSB won a world cup for the second time in 2020, with the FPSB X team, defeating JEB at the finals.