About the World YoYo Contest 2000
The 2000 World Yo-Yo Contest was held July 8-9, 2000 at Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios, Universal Orlando in Orlando, Florida, with Harvey Lowe as guest of honor. Divisions were A, AA, X and Teams plus an S (Sport) division, and the event hosted the first World Peg Top Contest. Yu Kawada (Japan) won A with a freestyle score of 93.17 ahead of Hidemasa Semba and Matthew Rose; Tomoya Kitamura won AA ahead of Koji Yokoyama and Masahiro Tanikawa; Hironori Mii won X ahead of Takahiko Hasegawa and Brian Roberts. Nickelodeon aired coverage in August 2000 and National Geographic World planned a February 2001 feature. Team, S and Top results exist on the official site but were not retrieved.