Hello All,
I'm sorry to jump in this conversation so suddenly but, I have great news regarding 3d printed Beyblade formats.
First why am I here:
I am not a wbo official, but I am an official organizer for the Texas BeyBlade League. The TBBL has been doing major beyblade events since 2005 and we receive support from Universities, major companies, and independent school systems. We have helped with wbo and other beyblade groups events before. So, now post pandemic I am looking to start a pro level beyblade league initiative. This will likely be through official beyblade clubs that we recognize and at some point will involve a 3d printed format.
The Topic:
We have touched on the idea of a 3d printed beyblades before. After a 3d bey tournament took place at an event we ran, we had an article written up on it in our 2nd newsletter (Here's a link to some beyblade newsletters:
https://www.texasbeybladeleague.com/newsletters). In the future we want to have a set of full regulations for managing 3d printed and/or crafted beyblades.
The News:
We have already met with university labs and maker spaces to gauge approval for workshops where Beyblade Clubs will be allowed to use industry level equipment (design programs, 3d printers, and metal printers included) along with professional instruction to design parts to use in our pro level competitions. So far all the parties involved love the idea. However our team is small and post pandemic we do not have enough knowledgeable individuals to file out the specifics of the regulations right now.
For a format to be official and a tournament to be done the ruleset must address all aspects that can be contested and enough participating parties must abide by and participate within the regulations using said ruleset. There must be a method to its structure so that everything is fair and other parts of the written format can be referenced to address outliers. (Rough made up ex: Cannot have a denser metal disk that is less than an inch in diameter not because you are not allowed that size but because it is denser and smaller it will raise the rpms on a base level spin to be higher than regulation giving it enough force to damage the stadium or smaller parts on opposing blades)
After extensive enough review and re-review, if a format or even a wide enough set of regulations is written to a useable degree then I can make it official (Not wbo official, but I can make it official at high schools, universities, local clubs, and at some major events). After the pro level community is built up then I can host the tournament at the TexasBeyBlade League and clubs and teams can participate where they all use 3d printed/crafted beyblades.
Also we are very much open to some type of custom beyblade design service, however it must fit under our total 3d crafted beyblade regulations which we don't have right now. Please fill me in on any other ideas you have on 3d crafted bey formats and regulations. If some other documents exist on the matter already then I would like to know.
Black Dragon X