Here are the official results for FAF 2014. Although there weren’t very many entries - the competition was EXTREMELY tight, and we had a very hard time picking the winner.
Brace yourselves for some of the coolest yoyo videos you have ever seen:
1st place
1st prize and FAF 2014 champion of the entire world goes to Craig:
FAF2014: Pain & Gain - A Fixed Axle Tale…
2nd place
2nd place goes to Logi:
FAF 2014: DIY Yoyo Making
3rd place
3rd place goes to Van Zyl:
FAF 2014: fixdance
There you have it folks! There were also a few spot prizes:
Congrats to Joah for winning the Cutest Kids in a Video Award. He wins an all expenses powder coat job from yothrowbling.com
FAF 2014: Regenerate
Greg wins the prize for Best use of a Green Screen by a Canadian Award, and wins a $25 YYE voucher:
FAF 2014: Greg’s Green Gimmicks
Matt wins the Best Use of a Barbie Doll Award, and also gets a $25 YYE voucher:
FAF 2014-My Strange Addiction Yoyos
Jaime also wins a couple of FAF 2014 commemorative yoyos for displaying the best tricks:
Great job, everybody. If it were up to me, I would have won… just sayin’… HAHAH! Juuuust kidding, though I’d like to think I was at least in the running for 3rd.
Logi definitely has an amazing sense of filmmaking, and had good equipment to back up his vision, making for a really compelling video. I enjoyed it for sure. Too bad the sneaky plastic didn’t work out, that would’ve been awesome!
I’m super-happy to see Craig winning… the sheer effort that went into that video is astonishing. It could’ve been a TOUCH shorter IMO but it was well deserving of the win.
In the battle of gimmick videos (vs. filmmaking!), I guess mine just didn’t stack up to Vanzyl’s in the judges’ eyes. His was a fun video for sure. Mine was pretty fun, too. Learned a hard lesson about lighting up my green screen better; too many shadows fought me at every step of the way.
If I’m being totally honest… the only one of these (including my own) that I can see watching several times (I mean SEVERAL… they’re all worthy of a few more viewings!) is actually Jamie’s. I want to steal some of those tricks. And filming outdoors made for some clear, easy-to-follow video of some awesome playing.
Thanks for the contest, Frank and Waylon! And for judging, Jake!
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Wow… All of these are so good. If it were up to me Logi would have won though. His video was the most entertaining IMO.
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Greg, the sad thing is, is the plastic is now as hard as rock. I guess next year…
I AM SO HAPPY THAT I GOT SECOND. This will be the longest wait of my life…
The battle for 1st was super tight - some judges had Craig first, some Logi. When we averaged out the final scores - there was a 1 point difference (out of 100) between 1st and 2nd
I guess next year…