WPSC15

Results of WPSC15:

FINAL:

Decision of the judges on final:

Baruzdin:

In terms of complexity and overall impression, I liked Vedant more than David. So my final choice is:
1. PashaFF
2. Vedant
3. David
4. Diego H

Marki:

Daga – 4th place

Nice level and improvement from the previous rounds man! I liked how you managed to find some new ways to combine some tricks in the soles position. There were many good tricks and combos to push further and I definitely think that you should push them and make them your own signature. However, I think that you still were too much in the same position and using the same patterns for some combos. I think that if you want to reach a higher rank in the competition, you should work on more variety in stalls or in the way you’re moving your body. It’s not only the ball that directs your body, but also your body that can direct the ball. Also the control and both foot combos can be improved!

But nice difficulty and nice ideas in this video. Congratulations!!

Diego H. – 3rd place

Cool final video Diego! What I liked the most in this video is the control and the style with the tricks. You have a truly amazing style and way of executing the combos. I feel like you have so much potential to reacher higher levels in sitdowns. But I missed a bit of madness/craziness in some combos. For me, the combos were quite mainstream and classic. I think you should definitely explore more in some areas and try to find some fresh stuffs. But I loved the ideas with Yosuke and the shin/leg rolls. That was dope. And I said, the style is amazing.

Vedant – 2nd place

Such a very good final video Vedant. I can see that your body is made for doing stalls. The ease with which you can move your body to make certain stalls is impressive. You’re definitely made for this kind of freestyle. And you do it with great style and execution. However, I still feel there’s a fair amount of repetition compared to the last few rounds. And I think Miguel already mentioned it in the top 8, but you’re still missing your signature in these combos. I can easily see who your inspirations are here, but I’d especially like to see the real “Vedant style”. And I’m convinced you’ll succeed in developing your freestyle in your own way if you explore more. Your sitdown potential is enormous and this video was great to watch.

Pasha – WINNER

Beautiful difficulty, execution and control as usual from you. I really enjoy the way of moving to different stalls. It’s crazy and it shows how much control you have as well. Nevertheless, in this video, I feel like I was missing some more mad combos. Most of the combos were quite linear in terms of rhythm and I wish I was seeing more unexpected things like for the clip at 03:02 where you’re changing directions and speed out of nowhere with difficulty variations with the pops and the pixy. That’s where I can see more improvements in this video at least. Last clip is definitely the best of the whole clips from everyone in this final. Mental!

Congrats, you’re my winner!

Yiannos:

Pasha 1st place The highest level out of all competitors. The originality and difficulty of your combos is just incredible. But i think what stands out more out of your freestyle is how you always suprise me with a new combination which no one has done yet. So in terms of control.execution,originality.difficulty and variety as in general you were stronger than your competitors and for me you clearly deserve 1st place

Vedant 2nd place Your video was very strong man and some of the combination you did are so hard that very few freestylers are able to repeat. You have your own style and your variety in soles tricks is awesome. Your improvement is also remarkable not to mention. Lastly your control and execution of tricks, difficulty level is amazing and this is why i think you deserve the 2nd place!

David 3rd place For me you were the suprise of the tournament! Incredible level and i really enjoyed your combos. You have your style and some original tricks which were a joy to watch like the one in 2:19 for example. In general your variety was really impressive and you show many cool tricks using different parts of your body. Lastly your control and execution of tricks was very nice but in few clips it could have been better Despite that it was a very strong video and this is why i gave you 3rd place.

Diego H 4th place

Your video was beautiful and i really liked your ideas for example 2:29 it was a very good idea executed nicely. The variety of your clips was also one of your strongest areas. Some clips could have been executed better from you but in general i think it was a strong final and you have tried to show lot of new ideas which were very cool.

JORDY:

Also here is my feedback for each player 🙂 Sorry, there will be alot of messages coming from me now HAHAHA

🥇 1st Place [Pasha FF]

Pasha FF and Vedant both focused on stalls and went deep into their respective strengths and niches during the final.

In comparison, David and Diego exhibited more diversity within the sitting category, whereas Pasha focused mainly on his niche but showcased a remarkable variety of moves, combinations, and concepts within this niche. Despite not having as much diversity between tricks as David and Diego, I still marked Pasha highly on variety, as his ability to showcase a large amount of variations within his style was an impressive showcase of variety.

Pasha exhibited the best execution and style among the four finalists. His precise and controlled execution of almost all his moves reflected his dedication to focusing on his own original niche in sitting tricks.

While the other finalists showcased originality in individual moves and shorter combos, Pasha took a more innovative approach by exploring a less common concept in sitting, which involved a combination of freezes and stalls. This demonstrated a high level of originality and development as he offered a fresh perspective on the sitting category, rather than relying solely on originality in individual moves – although he still did showcase originality in individual moves as well.

Looking beyond Pasha’s smooth control, we are able to assess on the difficulty of his moves. All the combinations he performed were well-planned and included challenging elements that were on par with or even better than those of the other finalists. For instance, while all finalists demonstrated some level of difficulty in their shin/leg rolling moves and stalls, I believe Pasha achieved a higher level of difficulty with a greater amount of variations.

🥈 2nd Place [David]

David and Diego took a similar approach in this final, emphasizing a wide variety of sitting moves.

David’s approach variety-centred approach was a a great idea in my opinion, and because of his ability to showcase such a diverse range of moves, I marked him highly in the variety category. Among the four finalists, David stood out for presenting the most extensive variety of moves.

One aspect David could improve is the execution and control of specific moves. Some of his combos and moves appeared a bit messy, at times requiring extra touches or unnecessary actions to salvage the combo. This is somewhat expected given his emphasis on quantity and variety of moves, rather than perfecting a specific niche within sitting moves. It was evident that David was more comfortable with certain moves, especially early in his video, as they appeared cleaner and better controlled than some of the moves shown later in the video.

David introduced many impressive and innovative ideas. There was some overlap in these original ideas between David and Diego, such as the head touches and rolling moves, particularly in the raised sole stall category. This overlap provided an opportunity for Pasha to shine in the originality criterion. Nonetheless, I did award points to both players for their ability to generate and execute fresh and exciting moves in the final.

In my evaluation, I ranked David second, ahead of his direct rival Diego, due to his demonstration of a higher level of difficulty, slightly more variety, and his ability to maintain good execution in certain segments, despite some flaws in execution in other parts.

🥉 3rd Place [Diego]

David and Diego both focused on a wide variety of moves covering various aspects of sitting in this final.

Diego’s main area for improvement is the difficulty of his performance. Although he demonstrated a good level of difficulty, it was slightly less challenging compared to the other three finalists. This is somewhat expected since his approach emphasized quantity and variety over pushing the difficulty of each move to its maximum.

Despite some of Diego’s combinations and ideas being less challenging than those of other finalists, his execution and control were consistently excellent throughout the video. The somewhat less challenging combinations allowed Diego to showcase his strong control, earning him high marks in the control and execution category.

Diego also introduced some fresh and exciting ideas. However, there was overlap in original ideas between Diego and David, especially in categories like head touches and rolling moves in the raised sole stall, giving more room for Pasha to excel in the originality criterion.

In my assessment, I placed Diego in 3rd place, primarily due to the relative difficulty of his performance compared to the other finalists.

4th Place [Vedant]

Pasha FF and Vedant both took a similar approach in this final, emphasizing stalls and highlighting their strengths and unique styles.

Vedant possesses some solid foundational original signature moves, but many of his other moves lack complete originality. Although he introduced a decent number of fresh combinations, the level of creativity and originality in crafting unexpected sequences didn’t stand out as prominently as it did for the other three finalists.

Regarding Vedant’s foundational signature moves, they are certainly difficult and original. However, compared to Pasha, who pursued a similar stall-based and niche-focused approach in the final, Vedant didn’t explore his signature moves to the same extent as Pasha did by demonstrating numerous, detailed variations of those moves.

In my opinion, Vedant’s strength lies in his difficulty. He presented many challenging flows, threads, and combinations, and it’s impressive to witness how his stalls and threads unfolded throughout his combos.

The feedback was already a little bit long, so I just commented on the main parts of how I voted for each player. But If the players have any specific questions, or if they want any examples, please let me know and I can give more specific examples!

MIGUEL:

Diego: I would really like to put you in a higher place, because I really like some of your tricks, your flow and style. I am sure that you can make something amazing with that kind of leg side rolls. I think that you need to think more about how to start and give and end to your combinations and tricks, some ideas were really good, but there was a lack of cleanness at the end of the tricks/combos, it is easy to see how you “fixed” the end instead of losing the ball, work more on that, it is a video tournament so try as many times as you need to get the combo in a perfect way, also make more complex combinations rather than adding “filling tricks” (or make very unique and hard “filling tricks”).

David: Some of your ideas were interesting, and with some of them you were about to get very hard tricks, but the fact of ending the tricks/combinations in a unclean way was the thing that made you get this place. Think more about structured combinations, add your “new” tricks to some combinations using just those kind of tricks mixed in a hard way and without cutting the combo (I know that determining what a “cut sitting combo” is, is very hard; but it is very easy to see which tricks were planned to be into the combination and which were a way of saving the combo or merely luck of not losing the ball). I put you in this place just because of a slightly difference in difficulty between you and Diego.

Vedant: I put you in this place because of the difficulty of the tricks you made in this video, the fact that you need some kind of “medium level basics” for reaching those tricks in combinations made your game harder than the past to contenders, however, I think that you need to go back to the main beginning to clean up some stuff and stablish a good foundation, there was an specific sole combo that made your level incoherent for me, that combo must have been extremely easy because you can make much harder tricks, but it didn’t looked like that. Your combinations were structured and that made your freestyle a little bit more interesting overall. I think that you need to explore much more and get some new stuff to your freestyle.

Overall, I want to say congratulations to you three, because you made a good effort to reach this video, I encourage you to keep training your sitting, analyse as much as you can every single video of this tournament, and develop your style in a very hard and unique way.

Pasha: I was wondering If there was a way for you to make this final interesting, and you did it. Now I am curious on which combinations and tricks you can get with that level in your “wf”. Congratulations you are the clear winner of this year.

Pasha: winner

Vedant: 2nd

David: 3rd

Diego: 4^th

Results:

1. PashaFF (20)
2. Vedant (13)
3. David (10)
4. Diego H (7)

1/4 finals:

The winners of each battle will advance to the final of the tournament

Decision of the judges on 1/4 finals:

Baruzdin:

Pasha FF
Vedant
Olga
Diego H

Marki:

Here are my winners :
Pasha
Vedant
David
Diego

Yiannos:

Pasha FF
Vedant
David
Diego H

JORDY:

Hey bro! Here are my results for this round 🙂

I just also want to say that almost everyone uploaded their video over the time limit hahaha

I;m not sure if that matters too much though? Otherwise only JAVI and Olga will be in the competition hahaha

I put ** next to the people who wont the battle, but were over the time limit

MIGUEL:

Pasha FF vs JAVI

Pasha FF: I really like how you use both feet, sometimes knowing, which is the strong one, is difficult; also, I like that you have added more cleanness to your sole game (not bending your sole).
I think that with your level you can focus on some more specific details, such as not letting the ball bounce once you catch it after high tricks.
Apart from that, I know that you still chilling in some combinations, I´m looking forward to seeing what you have for the final, your real level…

Javi: Overall I like calf stall, I think it is an unexplored stall; but those “atw” tricks that you made at this stall are just unclean, your foot makes circles under the ball, that’s not a revolution.
I don’t like the catch tricks, I think they may be the easiest way to fill a combo, ofc, if you explore more, you could find something interesting and hard with them.
The last combination looked more as an all-round transition than a sitting combo.
I think that you can focus more on the basics of the tricks you like and find an interesting new style.

Winner: Pasha FF

Vedant vs Samuel Ángel Pérez

Vedant: Overall your sole game is in a considerable level, I think that you can put some more effort, on the cleanness of the tricks and body movements.
Think more about the structure of your combinations: if you are looking to show a structure, make yourself sure that it is clear which is the start and which is the end, and more important, what is between those lines.
I think that going back to the basics and master them could help you a lot to have a better style, make unique interesting tricks, and evolve your combinations.
Vedant, if you are training a sitting style that has been done by others, its fine; but you may ask yourself some questions such as: what is my added value to this style?
Think of it like this: If I want to succeed, I need to be more _____, than what others have been on the past.
Btw, talking about the video, I liked this little transition between scenarios.

Samuel Ángel Pérez: I love that you don’t stop doing your style despite the rejection on the past, that is something to admire. Nevertheless, I think that you need to work much more on it, make this bounce style something extremely hard, make combinations that people could do just after several months of training.
Also, I think that mastering the basics could help you a lot to improve the cleanness of your own tricks.
Something that I think could be cool is making the ball bounce in a straight vertical line, as if it were your way of juggling, but in a mastered level; adding your tricks with that little but very hard detail, could evolve your style a lot. (But this is just my opinion, you can think about something else with this premise of taking your style to the next level whit some hard detail).

Winner: Vedant

Olga vs David:

Olga: I really, like your sole control and the fact that you show it on both feet.
With that level I think that you could explore a little bit more the variety of your style, creating more complex and dynamic combinations.
Also, I think that with some hard work you can do something very interesting with the last “signature” trick you showed (new harder variations or combinations).

David: I really like breakdance moves and ofc the mixture between those and freestyle football, but imo, doing a breakdance move with the ball between your leg does not show a football freestyle ability.
I like that you showed some both feet control at sole stall and knee stall, keep it up, explore it more, and develop something interesting.
Be careful with the revolutions you make, some of them still being a little unclean.
Overall if you do a new trick or combination, try to finish it In a clean way: juggling, stall, catch, whatever; but make it look clean, if not, refilm the trick or combination until you get it.

Winner: Olga

Diego H. vs Brian:

Diego H: I like your rolling tricks; I think that you can develop them much more and combine them in a hard clean way and make something interesting.
The flow combinations look good, but don’t show much level, try to make more flow stuff with higher level, if not, omit them.
This is a video tournament, re film combinations until you make them perfect and without cuts.

Brian: Sole control is there and very good, nevertheless, you need to explore much more; some of the variations of baby freeze stall could be easily done in just one combo.
Try to use more your weak foot, it just took part in easy combinations.

Winner: Diego H.

Results of the 1/4 finals:

Pasha FF (5) vs JAVI (0)
Vedant (4) vs Samuel Angel Perez (1)
Olga (2) vs David (3)
Diego H (4) vs Brian (1)

TOP-13:

The winners of each battle will advance to the 1/4 finals of the tournament

1st and 2nd place in this battle will advance to the next stage

Among the losing freestylers, 1 will be selected who will receive a wild card and will advance to the next stage

Decision of the judges on TOP-13:

Baruzdin:

Pasha FF
Vedant
Olga
BRUVIL
Brian
David – 1st place, Samuel Angel Perez – 2nd place, JAVI – 3rd place
Wild card – JAVI

Marki:

Pasha
Vedant
Olga
Diego H.
Brian
Last battle:
1. David 2. Sam 3. Javi

Yiannos:

Winner PashaFF
Winner Vedant
Winner Olga
Winner DiegoH
Winner Brian
Winner David and Sam
Wildcard Javi

JORDY:

MIGUEL:

PashaFF vs Cam.Davis_Freestyle
Winner: Pasha

Vedant vs JonaFS
Winner: Vedant

Olga vs Alfredo
Winner: Olga

Diego H vs BRUVIL
Winner: Diego H

Brian vs DENIS POPOVICHENKO
Winner: Brian

Samuel Angel Perez vs David vs JAVI
Places:
1. David
2. Javi
3. Samuel

Diego vs Bruvil was a hard desicion

TOP-13 results:

Pasha FF (5) vs Cam.Davis_Freestyle (0)
Vedant (5) vs JonaFS (0)
Olga (5) vs Alfredo (0)
Diego H (4) vs BRUVIL (1)
Brian (5) vs DENIS POPOVICHENKO (0)
Samuel Angel Perez – 2nd place (10) vs David – 1st place (15) vs JAVI (6)
Wild card: JAVI (3)

Decision of the judges on qualification round:

Baruzdin:

1. Pasha FF
2. Vedant
3. Olga
4. Brian
5. David
6. Diego H
7. JAVI
8. JonaFS
9. BRUVIL
10. Samuel Angel Perez
11. Alfredo
12. DENIS POPOVICHENKO
13. Cam.Davis_Freestyle

Marki:

1. Pasha
2. Vedant
3. Olga
4. Diego
5. Brian Orduña
6. Samuel
7. David
8. Denis Popovichenko
9. Alfredo
10. Javi
11. Bruvil
12. Jona
13. Cam Davis

Yiannos:

1. Pasha
2. Diego H
3. Olga
4. Vedant
5. Brian
6. Samuel
7. Denis
8. Javi
9. Bruvil
10. Alfredo
11. Jonas
12. David
13. Cam

Results of the qualification round:

1. Pasha FF – 39
2. Vedant – 34
3. Olga – 33
4. Diego H – 30
5. Brian – 28
6. Samuel Angel Perez – 20
7. David – 18
8. JAVI – 17
9. DENIS POPOVICHENKO – 15
10. BRUVIL – 13
11. Alfredo – 12
12. JonaFS – 11
13. Cam.Davis_Freestyle – 3

Prizes:

1st place – Cup for 1st place
2nd place – Cup for 2nd place
3rd place – Cup for 3rd place