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