Rules for AP Team Battle

For many years now, we’ve been trying hard to come up with ways to push our players' skills to greater heights. Back in 2008, we brought to AP the Beat it throwdown, where we chose to focus on building player's coordination with both their technical skills and performance style.

Now, for 2010, the beat it throwdown is back BUT with a twist.

This new contest promises to enhance the player’s ability as a performer and to build lasting friendships and relationships between the players from all around the Asia Pacific region.

So to put it simply....

Drop the technicality. Who cares if you can pull off an insane killer combo? Know your tricks well? Got that rhythm in you? You don’t need a mind-blowing 3 min routine to be a champ in this one.The only way to win is to integrate your skills with the groovy tunes spun live by our live guest DJs.

Cohesion, Skill , Style and Impress are what the judges are looking for!

Contest Details

-KO Style Format

-A coin toss will decide on who goes first

-Each round will consist of 6 minutes of music whereby the teams will showcase their tricks against each other, battle style.

-How teams should be made:

*Each team consists of 3 members.

*There are no restrictions as to what style either of the 3 team members can play.

*Each team MUST be made up of one player from each of the following groups.

Group 1 - Japan & Hong Kong

Group 2 - Malaysia & Singapore

Group 3 - Any other country (inclusive of any player outside of the Asia Pacific region)

For example,

Japanese player, Hong Kong player, Brunei player - WRONG!

Japanese player, Singapore player, USA player - Correct

Hong Kong player, Malaysia player, Singapore player - WRONG!

Hong Kong player, Malaysia Player, Philippines player - Correct

**The reason why we did the groupings in this way was to ensure that teams will be made up of players from different backgrounds and cultures, mixing and matching in the best possible way, enabling each player to forge new friendships and work together as a team to earn for their team and themselves, honor and glory!

- Judging panel will comprise of 4 judges.
2 Judges to be familiar with yo-yo technicalities.

2 Judges to look out for the performing aspect.

-Judges will be given score cards from 1 - 5 points. Points are given purely on how the performer impress the judges based on integration of tricks with the music played by the DJ.

-Each round will feature different genre of tunes to be spun by the DJs.

-Scores will be flashed by the judges at the end of each attempt

-Winner will be determined by the total score of adding all 3 members scores together.

The video below shows a short demo of how a set should look like. The actual set will be longer.