Women’s Freestyle (WYYC2026)

Yo-Yo is a sport which is not affected by the contestant’s gender or physical strength. There are former National and World Champions who are women. Today, there are increasingly more women yo-yo players all over the world.

However, the number of women yo-yo players are still comparatively few. This Freestyle event is designed as an opportunity 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.

Competition Format

• Only women can compete in this event
• 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 Round

If we have more than 10 contestants, we may hold a Prelim round on Thursday, August 13, 2026. The number of finalists will be determined after registration closes.

• Scoring rules are the same as WildCard for 1A-5A
• 30 second freestyle
• You must choose music from the WildCard music library
• Player must choose one style among 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, 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