2012 - Midwest Regional

The 2012 Midwest Regional event was held on Saturday, June 23, at the Mall of America. In total, we had 67 competitors playing in all divisions. There is a lot of new players entering the 1A division and the Jr 1A was highly sought after, the region is really growing fast.

The 1 minute freestyles were needed to bring the pool of players down from 39 to 14. We had 1 player seeded from the Minnesota state contest. In the end we used 14 players to freestyle.

4A was exciting this year, especially if you liked flying yo-yos. High throws, and bouncing yo-yos all around the rotunda!

The Jr 1A was a new division for the 2012 MWR contest. It consisted of players 14 years and younger who chose the more beginner aspect of freestyle. No seeds to the National yo-yo contest are awarded for this division.

Sport Ladder: We continued the method of giving players a bit more opportunity to show what they could do. They were given TWO tries at each trick, scoring either 5 or 3 points. they were retired from the ladder if they had two zeros.

Since we opened the door to a Jr 1A freestyle division, it took many of the beginner players who would normally play in the ladder division up to the freestyle. So we had less players in the ladder.

2012 Midwest Regional Results

Division	Place	Name	1 Min	2 Min
A	1	Alex Berenguel	89.86	86.88
A	2	Adam Brewster	85.98	85.62
A	3	John Narum	MN Seed	82.89
A	4	Eric TranTon	75.45	79.63
A	5	Michael Stecz	83.91	78.12
A	6	Nehemiah Peterson	66.92	76.95
A	7	Ian Johnson	78.70	72.26
A	8	Connor Seals	73.75	70.27
A	9	Shane Lubecker	77.41	68.12
A	10	Derek Britson	63.57	65.38
A	11	Gavin Lent	74.70	63.25
A	12	Cole Tindal	61.21	62.35
A	13	Robbie Graham	61.43	62.23
A	14	Philips Nguyen	65.80	54.38
A	15	Kevin Yetter	55.51
A	16	Yu Tsumura	55.09
A	17	Chase Baxter	52.88
A	18	Adam Blomgren	51.78
A	19	Rhylan Morgan	51.43
A	20	Ryan Dembiec	51.38
A	21	Erick Phommavongxay	48.29
A	22	Kyle Blomgren	47.48
A	23	Alex Lee	47.15
A	24	John Russeth	46.28
A	25	Brad Meyer	45.58
A	26	Stephanie Haight	44.87
A	27	Sam Irwin	44.63
A	28	Noah Bachofen	39.70
A	29	Adam Hits	37.56
A	30	Gabe Windnagel	35.40
A	31	Sitthy Heng	35.25
A	32	Matthew Getzfred	32.28
A	33	Kieran Hanson	27.06
A	34	Cole Oehlers	25.22
A	35	Graham Bull	23.62
A	36	Tyler Lipsky	22.89
A	37	Michael Cummings	16.06
A	38	Glenn Godsey	0.00
A	39	Slade Riggs	0.00

Division	Place	Name	2 Min
3A	1	Eric TranTon	90.66
3A	2	Yu Tsumura	77.72
3A	3	John Narum	30.97
3A	4	Ian Johnson	0.00

Division	Place	Name	2 Min
4A	1	Ben Conde	65.42
4A	2	John Narum	63.96
4A	3	Ian Johnson	63.17
4A	4	Ryne Hanson	25.83
4A	5	Alex Lee	19.71
4A	6	Chase Baxter	11.25
4A	7	Noah Bachofen	11.13
4A	8	Yu Tsumura	10.71
4A	9	Joshua Kanoff	2.75

Division	Place	Name	2 Min
5A	1	AJ Kirk	72.00
5A	2	Ian Johnson	52.88
5A	3	Adam Brewster	49.51
5A	4	John Narum	49.46
5A	5	Robbie Graham	48.51
5A	6	Chase Baxter	44.21
5A	7	Eric TranTon	32.58
5A	8	Shane Lubecker	29.71
5A	9	Noah Conkling	26.02
5A	10	Michael Cummings	24.56
5A	11	Adam Hitz	24.40
5A	12	Joshua Kanoff	0.75

Division	Place	Name	1Min
Jr 1A	1	Adam Park	90.79
Jr 1A	2	Shakeem Anderson	84.35
Jr 1A	3	Seth Friedenberger	82.25
Jr 1A	4	Cade Herrera	64.71
Jr 1A	5	Noah Staupe	59.75
Jr 1A	6	Josiah Tuohimaa Robinson	55.47
Jr 1A	7	Noah Conkling	55.45
Jr 1A	8	Kody McCain	54.99
Jr 1A	9	John Kasner	47.42
Jr 1A	10	Joseph Stevenson	46.88
Jr 1A	11	Yousef Elbassal	46.40
Jr 1A	12	Daniel Peterson	38.50
Jr 1A	13	Braden Metz	37.21
Jr 1A	14	Brady Henges	37.15
Jr 1A	15	Josh Kanoff	34.04
Jr 1A	16	Anders Vaage	23.93
Jr 1A	17	Jakob Addis	14.17

Division	Place	Name	Score
Ladder 0-16	1	Peter Kasner	118
Ladder 0-16	2	William Halvorson	89
Ladder 0-16	3	Ben Roth	88
Ladder 0-16	4	Devon Reihe	76
Ladder 0-16	5	Jake Schroeder	41
Ladder 0-16	6	Dawson Devany	34

Ladder 17-up	1	James Buffington	146
Ladder 17-up	2	Jonathon Burd	113