Hired to Win

Hidemasa Senba, Duncan Crew Japan’s most creative mind won this year’s East Japan B-block Yo-yo Contest in a competition with incredibly close scores! Senba won with a final score of 71.6, followed by Keita Kido, with 71.5, and YoyoFactory’s Reiki Sekiya, with 71.3! Sekiya had the highest score, but 3 negative penalty points put him in 3rd place.

Unlike EJ-A and CJ, there were plenty of contestants in all divisions. A lot of new faces were seen but in addition to 1A, 4A also saw several contest veterans, including World Champions Naoto Okada and Tsubasa Oonishi, with Okada coming out on top.

These are the top finishers for each division:

1A

1. Hidemasa Senba
2. Keita Kido
3. Reiki Sekiya
4. Naoto Okada
5. Tarou Komari
6. Daiju Nakamura
7. Yuuto Yamaguchi
8. Masaya Takagi
9. Ryusuke Kawamura

2A

1. Tomiyuki Kaneko
2. Shunsuke Kawakami
3. Kazuki Yoshida
4. Koichiro Ueta

3A

1. Yuuki Kurimisawa
2. Yuuto Yamaguchi
3. Ryousuke Ito

4A

1. Naoto Okada
2. Yuuichi Tominaga
3. Tsubasa Oonishi
4. Kenji Eto

5A

1. Takafumi Endo
2. Arata Suzuki
3. Tatsunori Yoshiba