Over-40 Freestyle (WYYC2025)

Yo-Yo is one of the few sports which is not affected by the contestant’s age or physical strength. There are many former National and World Champions who were over 40-50 when they won their title. Today, more and more parents, as well as people of older generations, are playing yo-yo all over the world.

However, the number of older yo-yo players are still very few compared to the number of 10-30 year old yo-yo players. This Freestyle event is designed to spotlight and showcase the talent of those who may be a minority in the community for now, but definitely deserve to be seen and amaze the audience on stage.

This year, there is no Class split for Over-40 like Open Class and Master Class in 2023 and 2024. All Over-40 contestants will be in the same class/division regardless of their level, or style.

Competition Format

• Only players 40 years old or older can compete in this event (Born on August 9, 1985 or earlier)
• 2 minute freestyle
• Player may choose their own music
• Player must choose one style among 1A-5A
• Scoring rules are the same as 1A-5A
• Evaluation categories will be the same as the Semi-Final Round of 1A-5A
• We will adjust/normalize the clicker score difference among styles with a coefficient

Prelim

If we have more contestants than we planned to have in the final, we may hold a Prelim round.

• Same rules as Prelim for 1A-5A
• 1 minute freestyle
• Evaluation categories will be the same as the Semi-Final Round of 1A-5A
• Player must choose one style among 1A-5A
• Scoring rules are the same as 1A-5A
• We will adjust/normalize the clicker score difference among styles with a coefficient

* Winning this freestyle event does not make the winner a “World Yo-Yo Champion.” Therefore, the contestants in this event are also welcome to compete in 1A-5A and AP to aim for a World Title.

Normalization Among Different Styles

To eliminate the difference in raw clicker numbers among different styles, we will multiply the sum of positive and negative clickers of each judge with the following values.

We will apply this adjustment before normalizing, so the highest score for TE will still stay 60.0 pts.

1A – 1.00
2A – 1.28
3A – 1.35
4A – 1.19
5A – 1.27