On Friday evening all players arrived at the meeting point.
It was a big gym, with enough space to play for everybody.
After a very short night all the players were heading to the
“modell-hobby-spiel” toy fair. At the fairground the stage
was set up in the center of a huge glass hall.
An excellent place, a lot of visitors of the fair stopped and watched
the freestyles. At that weekend the fair was visited by 98.000 people.
The first part was the compulsory show, were the players showed very
entertaining routines. This compulsory part proofs that players are
also showmen and not only boring “trick machines”. The
compulsory show is always one of the things you will remember even
years later. After that, the compulsory tricks were tested by the
judges (Joe
Greve, Markus „Jumper“ Springer, Marek Grummt, Flizzy and Markus Wagner) in the players area.
In the afternoon the newcomers showed their two minutes routine in the
“Sports Class”. The winner was Felix Rassbach.
Then the Team Space Invaders beamed up and took the first national
title in the Team freestyle back to their planet.
On Sunday the finals began with AA and presenter Eric „UFO“ Bergmann
was warming up the audience. Dave Geigle won the category without any
real challenge.
In the 5A freestyles former 1A National winner from 2003 Jan Marhauser
was nailing awesome tricks and was crowned the new 5A champion.
In 1A the finals where excellent and very intense. In the international
category Vashek Kroutil was setting a mark for the upcoming European
Yo-Yo Championship in Prague, leaving the other players from Germany,
France, Czech and Switzerland behind.
With fast and hard tricks Kojo Boison from Freiburg won the German
National title in 1A. So he stepped up from his second place last year
to the top.
Congratulations to all winners!
HUGE THANKS to the Sponsors!!! They really make this event possible.
The full results of the German Yo-Yo
Masters 2009 are up on
http://www.GYYA.de
More pictures of the event can be found here and the freestyles are up in our video section.
Report by Markus „Jumper“ Springer
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