Monday, February 7th, 2011
Trophy for the 2011 Ultimate Battletop Championship: Wisconsin
The Ultimate Battletop Championship is a contest that Alan Gray, Eric Wolff and I designed to see if upper lever top-spinners could break each other’s tops. So far no one has managed it, but we’ve realized that we would need crappier tops. In order to get the best players to participate I decided that we [...]
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
2009 Ultimate Battletop Championship: Wisconsin Trophy
Yup. That’s right. I made a new trophy for this year’s contest at MadFest:
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Getting ready to work on the next Battletop trophy
Yup. I think I finally have all the parts I need. This photo actually has quite a few projects in it, including the machinery for the pumpkin laser vortex… but that’s another story. And yes, that is a Barbie hair dryer. This trophy will be for the 2009 Ultimate Battletop Championship: Wisconsin, and it’s gonna [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
2008 National Yo-yo Contest
I spent this last weekend in Chico California at the National Yo-yo Contest, and it was a lot of fun. The official Duncan Crew photo for Nationals 2008. No one else was around but Mark McBride and me. The trip out was more than a little brutal. First of all, any voyage with three different [...]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
2007 Ultimate Battletop Championship of the Universe
Last weekend we held the 2007 Ultimate Battletop Championship of the Universe, in Chico California at the National Yo-yo Contest. It was a blast. In order to keep the game interesting we leveled the playing field by making everyone use the same tops. Alan Gray made 25 battletops, and he sold out right before the [...]
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Battle Top Planning
The Ultimate Battle Top Championship of the Universe will take place for the first time at the National Yo-yo Contest in Chico California this year, and I spent the weekend figuring out some of the details with my friends in Chicago. I was lucky enough to have a gig in Mount Prospect IL the same [...]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
A New Version of Battle Top
I love hanging out with spin-top people. It’s always a ton of fun, and at MadFest this year we had a ridiculously good time. Eric Wolff with his 11″ diameter top. The largest he’s ever made… so far. For the average person, the phrase “spin-top people” is not one that is heard very often. Of [...]
