Beyblade News

Hey World Bladers! We apologize for the delayed upload, though, future CoroCoro issues will be uploaded sooner. 

Enjoy!

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Duo αeclipse Released!
This issue focuses on this new mail order Beyblade; Duo αeclipse 7Star Unite! It is based off the design of from the two winners of CoroCoro’s God Design Beyblade contest. The Beyblade can be purchased from this issue with the included post card and 1400 yen. Recommended combos are provided for each Layer combination include;

• Duo αrtemis 8Bump Wedge

• Duo αpollo 0Under Ultimate Reboot

• Duo αeclipse Bumper Bite

Super Z Sneak Preview
A special preview of Super Z, showing liquid metal being poured on the now-confirmed Winning Valkyrie! 



Beyblade Shoes Partnership
TAKARA-TOMY has partnered up with Moonstar to release Beyblade themed shoes! Each pair includes 3000 BeyPoints, which can be redeemed Japanese Beyblade Burst App.




Chocolate Burst Beys
To advertise the CoroCoro channel, they give a preview of a Screw Trident made entirely out of chocolate! The full video can be viewed here.



CoroCoro Base Tournament, Random Booster Volume 9  
Beyblade Burst tournaments were held at the CoroCoro Base store, with the Burst event having been on February 18th. Also shown is B-101 Random Booster Volume 9, featuring Beat Kukulkan 7Under Hunter as the main prize Beyblade as well as Dranzer F Yell Zeta (Burst version) as the second prize Beyblade. Also released was Spriggan Requiem 0 Zeta as well as Twin Nemesis 3Hit Ultimate Reboot.

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to the WBO Organized Play Burst Format rulebook and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the changes below:

Rule Updates Overview

• Burst Format: Spriggan Requiem Layer - Trial Ban
  
• Burst Format: Hasbro’s Garuda G3 Energy Layer Banned in all Formats
  
• Burst Format: Maximum Garuda Layer Banned
  
• Burst Format: Level Chips Banned
  
• Organizer’s Guide: Tournament Formats – Double Elimination Finals Seeding Clarification
  
• Organizer’s Guide: Event Equipment – New Suggestions Added
  
• Organizer’s Guide: Tournament Management : Registration – New Suggestions Added
  

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Burst Format Updates


Burst Format: Spriggan Requiem Layer - Trial Ban
Spriggan Requiem’s dominance and omnipresence among the winning combos of WBO tournament winners since its release at the end of 2017 has been well-documented. Sr is an immensely powerful Layer strong in all types; it works on practically any competitive Driver available as an attack type, a stamina type, or a defense type.

As a result, we have decided to proceed with a trial ban for Spriggan Requiem. This trial ban will be re-evaluated shortly after the conclusion of our BeyDays festivities on June 4th, 2018 (announcement for that coming soon!) and will remain banned until further notice.

Despite the promising presence (based on early testing) of new parts such as Bloody Longinus, we hope that in doing this, the metagame will have a chance to evolve in this short period without Sr as a overly centralizing force.

We encourage everyone to continue posting test results within the Spriggan Requiem testing thread in the meantime.


Burst Format: Hasbro’s Garuda G3 Energy Layer Banned in all Formats
Hasbro’s recently released Garuda G3 Layer has proven to fit tighter and be harder to burst than TAKARA-TOMY’s Maximum Garuda Layer, making its design unbalanced for competitive play. We have therefore decided to ban Hasbro’s Garuda G3 Energy Layer from both Burst Format and Hasbro Only Burst Format. This ban will be reviewed as new products are released.


Burst Format: Maximum Garuda Layer Banned
While we did proceed with an unban of mG back in February, it was due in large part to Spriggan Requiem’s ability to counter it. With Sr now banned, focus would inevitably shift back to mG if it were left untouched so we have decided to ban the Maximum Garuda Layer once again.

mG does have counters and is better balanced than Hasbro’s Garuda G3, but even so, on the relatively tight Orbit Driver in particular we believe that it remains a nuisance if allowed to remain. The benefits of banning mG (increased viability of mobile Attack types in particular) far outweigh any potential disadvantages (increased viability of Destroy-based stamina types, although these can be handled with mobile Attack types more reliably than mG Orbit can be).

We believe that this change in combination with the removal of Sr and G3 will nudge the metagame into a direction where mobile combinations become more attractive than stationary, a change which is positive particularly after such a long period of the latter.

In the mean time, please also feel free to continue posting your thoughts on Maximum Garuda and any tests you might conduct in the Maximum Garuda Testing/Discussion thread! This ban will be reviewed as new products are released.


Burst Format: Level Chips Banned
The Level Chip Layer accessory recently released has proven to be incredibly expensive and difficult to obtain currently. As a result, we have decided to ban Level Chip usage in WBO Organized Play Events until further notice to avoid any unfair competitive advantages gained by players who are able to obtain one.

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Organizer’s Guide Updates

Organizer’s Guide: Tournament Formats – Double Elimination Finals Seeding Clarification
An additional clarification for how to order participants in Double Elimination Finals has been added:

Organizer’s Guide: Running Your Tournament - Conducting the Finals Wrote:

• Double Elimination: With the finalists determined, click “End the Group Stage” to proceed to the Final Stage. The Single Elimination bracket will be automatically generated. The top four players (winners bracket finalists) and fifth to eighth place players (losers bracket finalists) who earned a spot in the finals  should be seeded separately based on their initial tournament seed. For instance, if Player A (Seed 5) is one of the four winners bracket finalists, they cannot be seeded lower than number four in the finals despite their initial seed being 5. Conversely, if Player B (Seed 2) is one of the losers bracket finalists, they cannot be ranked higher in the finals than number five despite their initial seed being 2. This will determine the order of the finalists from number one through eight and ultimately what the matchups will be.
  

Organizer’s Guide: Event Equipment – New Suggestions Added
Given the recent increase in attendance at our events around the world, we’ve added in a few more suggestions to the “Event Equipment” section of the Organizer’s Guide that we feel help to improve the organization of large events. You can find the new additions quoted below:

Organizer’s Guide: Event Equipment[/quote Wrote:BeyStadium
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Additional stadiums for participants to use for free play while not participating in tournament matches is also extremely beneficial. Especially during larger events when the wait time between matches for each player might be longer than normal.

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Pylons & Barriers
If you anticipate a large turnout, having pylons and barriers available to cordon off a specific area where tournament matches will be played is helpful in controlling large crowds. If you can do this, allow only judges or players who have been called for a tournament match to enter the designated area.

Personal Amplifier, Megaphone, or Microphone
If you anticipate a large turnout, having something to amplify your voice to announce rules, matches, and tournament updates is useful to ensure you are heard.

Organizer’s Guide: Tournament Management – Registration – New Suggestions Added
As an additional response to the increased attendance globally at WBO events, we’ve evaluated the “Registration” section of the Tournament Management section in the Organizer’s Guide and added in a few new suggestions to help improve efficiency and lower the potential for mistakes. See below:

Organizer’s Guide: Tournament Management - Registration Wrote:

• If possible, tag team the registration process with someone else helping you out. One person can handle adding participants to the Challonge bracket as they register, and another can handle creating a separate list of participants noting whether they have a Passport, are paying the one-time entry fee, or are purchasing a Passport.
  
• Ask participants at the beginning of registration to login to their accounts on their phone if possible and to visit their Account page (https://worldbeyblade.org/usercp.php?action=profile) in order to prove they are they account owner and to ensure their username is accurately transcribed. Alternatively, include a note on your event page to have people print this page for presentation during registration.
  

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

Outlined below is one important new ruling addition to the WBO Organized Play Burst Format rulebook. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the change below:

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Burst Format Updates


Burst Format: 12 Core Disk must be used with a Frame
With recent reports indicating that the new 12 Core Disk from Beyblade Burst Super Z can cause damage to other parts, we have decided to introduce a restriction on its usage. Effective immediately, the 12 Core Disk must be used with a Frame at WBO Organized Play tournaments.

While it has not yet been determined for certain, the primary issue appears to be pairing the uncovered 12 Core Disk with Drivers that are taller than normal, such as the new Volcanic Driver. By forcing a Frame to be used with it, any issues with it damaging other parts will be avoided.

If evidence suggesting otherwise appears in the future, or if TAKARA-TOMY releases another version of the 12 Core Disk which is less aggressive, this decision may be reconsidered.

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

Our worldwide ranking system for pariticipants of WBO Organized Play Beyblade tournaments has regrettably been out of commission for some time now due to problems which occurred after the launch of our new site design on our eighth anniversary. But we’re happy to announce that the ranking system is now working again!

Ranking System Updates Overview

• New Ranking System Features – Winner/Loser Text Fields, Organizer Pre-Processing, Event Page Winners Display
  
• Working Through the Queue – Prioritization, Credits, Pacing
  

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New Ranking System Features
We have more features coming in the near future relating to our ranking system (battle profiles and notifications for tournaments near you, to name a couple), but with this latest update some key new features have now been added which will make processing events much easier and quicker for everybody.

Previously, each battle for each tournament required the winner and the loser to be manually input on the back-end of the site, accessible only to administrators. This has made for an enormous amount of work for the WBO Committee over the years. It was inefficient.

Winner/Loser Text Fields
With this new system, winners can be pasted into one column and losers into another column, allowing for all matches to be added essentially instantly for review before approval.

Organizer Pre-Processing
A “Winners” button will now appear for Organizers on their event page (not other event pages created by someone else) below its main description after their event has passed.


This will allow them to pre-process their results directly to our system after completing and posting their results spreadsheet. The results will not be added to the rankings immediately as we still need to do a final review to ensure everything is correct, but Organizers who choose to do this will help speed up the process for everyone immensely. And it will only take an extra couple minutes to do.


Once a Committee Member has reviewed and approved the results, they will be added to the rankings. Organizers, please check the Organizers’ Circle forum for a video tutorial and more details on how to do this.

Event Page Winners Display
Organizers can also submit the top three players when submitting their results using the above method.

Once the accompanying results have been approved, these three winners will be displayed on the thread itself showing that they won the tournament!


In the future, we also plan to have the ability to review the specific results for any given tournament on the event pages themselves so that it will be easy to identify how everyone did in the event you attended.

Working Through the Queue
However, since we haven’t been able to process tournament results into the rankings for some time now, there is a large queue of events that we will have to work through. You can view them in our WBO Organized Play Tournament Data Archive:


This archive will be updated gradually as the tournaments are processed. Once a tournament is fully processed (results, Bits, and Credits), it will be moved to the corresponding sheet for the format it belongs to (ex. a Burst Format event will be moved to the BST Archive sheet from the Unprocessed Tournaments sheet).

Ranked and Burst Events Will Be Prioritized
We will be prioritizing ranked and Burst  tournaments first so that we can finally get the rankings up to date again.

Credits Usage Will be Announced Later On
Credits will be added, but cannot be spent until we get closer to completing the queue. We will announce when Credits may be used again.

Tournaments Will Be Processed Gradually
Rather than going on a blitz and trying to complete everything as quickly as possible, we will be taking our time with the processing of the results in order to provide the opportunity for the players involved to review the results after they have been processed. We don’t want to process 10 tournaments and then have someone say “a battle was missing” or “this result was wrong”!

Doing it slowly will also give us the opportunity to more easily assess who needs to be awarded the Platinum Bit (for reaching the Top 5 in the Burst or Metal Fight Rankings) and to capture a list of what the Top 15 or so looked like over the past year or so at any given time.

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Thank You For Your Patience!
We’d like to thank everyone for their immense patience over the past year plus since the rankings went down and for their patience moving forward as we start to move through the queue of past events.

We’ve been committed to getting the system back up and running since it went down, but it’s become incredibly complex, especially given the eight years worth of results currently processed within it and the additional features we wanted to add.

It took longer than we would have liked to get the new features added, but we feel that with the features described here (and even more improvements we are planning  in the future), it will be the best thing for us in the long run in terms of being able to efficiently process events and reduce our workload, which will in turn allow us to spend more time working on other improvements to the site.

Hey World Bladers! We know we’re a little bit late on this, but we wanted to start getting back into the habit of providing a Beyblade and CoroCoro news summary every month for you guys, complete with high resolution scans. Moving forward, we will aim to get the scans for the latest issues posted sooner.

Enjoy!

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Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt – Black Version
Not only was Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt the 100th Beyblade Burst release, but it also turns out that each copy of it comes with a chance of pulling a recoloured version! Black recolours of the Bey were randomly inserted into the packages, with a 1 in 72 chance of pulling one from a regular box. It is currently only available in this random insert method, so good luck getting one!


Gold Strike God Chip & Silver Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt Lottery
Also shown is the Ultimate God Guidebook, which retails for ¥750 and includes a gold version of the Strike God Chip. Also in this guide is an exclusive lottery for a silver recolour of Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt



Dragoon F.G.V – WBBA Store Version is Releasing on March 3rd
Dragoon F.G.V is a mail order Beyblade which was available for purchase in January’s CoroCoro and costs ¥1200. It was the only method of obtaining Dragoon F Burst version up until the very recent announcement of the white Dragoon F being released as a booster, available at WBBA Certified Stores starting March 3rd.



CoroCoro Beyblade Burst Design Contest Winner: Duo Eclipse
The Beyblade from the CoroCoro Design Contest has been confirmed to be Duo Eclipse! The God Ability of this Beyblade is the ability to combine halves of the Layer into one new one! This unique ability currently only works with the layers included (Duo Artemis and Duo Apollon). The parts included are 7Star and Unite.

The Beyblade will be available for its exclusive mail order in CoroCoro’s March issue for ¥1400, which makes it the most expensive mail order Beyblade in the Beyblade Burst series. This is also different than other releases as all purchases qualify as an entry for a special lottery! Two lucky winners will receive 10 of the CoroCoro lottery recolours.




Winter World Hobby Fair 2018: Jashin Legend Spriggan Layer, Gold Spriggan Requiem, and G1 Tournaments
The Winter World Hobby Fair 2018 has been happening across Japan for the past few months! There were many exciting Beyblade festivities, including a chance at obtain a Jashin Legend Spriggan Layer! To win this, players faced off against Legend Spriggan Infinite in the Mugen BeyStadium and required to beat Legend Spriggan with two points. Available for purchase is a gold recolour of B-100 Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt, which is exclusive to World Hobby Fair venues.

It didn’t stop there as G1 tournaments were held at each stop (?), with the prizes including:
- Gold God Valkyrie (1st place)
- Silver God Valkyrie (2nd place)
- Bronze God Valkyrie (3rd place)




B-102 Booster Twin Nemesis.3H.Ul – New Disk and Frame, and a Re-release of tN and Ultimate Reboot!
Other news for this month includes the release of B-102 Twin Nemesis.3H.Ul, which includes the prize Layer from Random Layer Collection 7, as well the Ultimate Reboot Driver, which was previously exclusive to CoroCoro. Included as well are two new parts, the 3 core disk and Hit frame.


Strike God Valkyrie.6V.Rb. – Flame Knight Version Lottery Announced
A new lottery for CoroCoro has also been announced which is for the Flame Knight version of Strike God Valkyrie.6V.Rb.

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to the WBO Organized Play Burst Format rulebook and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the changes below:

Rule Updates Overview

• Burst Format: duo αeclipse, duo αpollos, and duo αrtemis Layer Configuration Clarifications
  
• Organizer’s Guide: Tournament Formats – Double Elimination Added as Option for 33+ Participants
  
• All Rulebooks: Photography Policy
  

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Burst Format Updates


Burst Format: duo αpollos, duo αrtemis, and duo αeclipse Layer Configuration Clarifications
With the release of the CoroCoro-exclusive duo αeclipse Layer recently and its unique Layer-splitting gimmick, some additional clarification for its usage in the first stage of our events and Deck Format in the finals–where only one copy of a Layer is permitted in your Deck–of WBO Organized Play Events is needed.

We have decided to consider each configuration of dα as a separate Layer. What this means for each stage of our events is outlined below:

Final Stage – Deck Format
You are permitted to construct a Deck containing any number of the configurations: duo αpollos, duo αrtemis, or duo αeclipse as all or part of the three Layers in your Deck Format combos. If you do not have three copies of dα, you are permitted to disassemble the Layer as is necessary throughout the Deck Format battle in order to switch to the other Layer configurations.

First Stage
During the first stage of events in regular matches, our regular mode changing rules for Layers that require disassembly and have mode changes (like Alter Chronos or Legend Spriggan) do not apply to dα because the different configurations are considered as separate Layers and not “modes”. Therefore, you cannot switch your configuration of dα during a regular first stage match.

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Organizer’s Guide Updates

Organizer’s Guide: Tournament Formats – Double Elimination Added as Option for 33+ Participants
Double Elimination is now available as a Tournament Format option for events with 33 or more participants as an alternative to Swiss Format.

In Double Elimination, there are two brackets: the Winners Bracket and Losers Bracket. After losing once, Bladers are sent to the Losers Bracket. If they lose for a second time, they are eliminated from the event. Once both brackets have been completed, the top eight Bladers (top four from the Winners Bracket, top four from the Losers Bracket) move on to the Final Stage using our standard Single Elimination Deck Format.

Challonge Instructions
In addition to the standard instructions in our Organizer’s Guide, when creating your Double Elimination event in Challonge, use these options:

• Type: Two Stage
  
• Group Stage: Double Elimination
  
• Participants compete in each group: Total Number of Participants
  
• Participants advance from each group: 8
  

Using the total number of participants for the last option ensures there will only be a single Double Elimination bracket to run. For example, if you tournament has 36 participants, your bracket will have 36 participants. Not two 18-player brackets.

Our introduction of Double Elimination is in an effort to provide an option for tournament hosts that may not have access to the amount of dedicated judges needed to efficiently run Swiss Format with six or more rounds (as becomes necessary with 33 or more participants according to our Organizer’s Guide) in a reasonable amount of time. We have often found that in larger Swiss Format events, participants/parents often don’t understand how long the event is going to take, which leads to some players dropping out, and causes disruptions for hosts. It’s important to note that hosts should make an effort to provide an estimate of how long an event will take to complete before it starts, but nevertheless, adding Double Elimination as an option will be beneficial in some circumstances.

Double Elimination is lenient and fair enough in the sense that you get two chances before being eliminated, but it nevertheless is slightly more demanding than Swiss Format where sometimes players with two losses can make it to the finals. However, this is a fair price to pay given the length of time Swiss Format can often take.

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All Rulebooks

Photography Policy
While this has almost never been an issue at our events, we have made the addition of a photography policy to each of our rulebooks:

All Rulebooks – Photography Policy Wrote:By attending any World Beyblade Organization Organized Play Event, you agree as either an organizer, participant, or spectator to potentially be photographed or included by video shot by staff members, organizers, or other participants/spectators.

If you would prefer to not be included in any photographs or videos, please notify the host of the event and they can make an effort to notify the person taking photos and video to minimize your appearance in them as much as possible. However, guarantees of complete exclusion cannot be made given the nature of shooting photos and video at our events (you may still appear in the background depending on the circumstances, for example). We thank you for your understanding in this matter.

If you are attending an event and plan on taking photographs or video, please ensure to do so respectfully and if you are asked to refrain from shooting someone, please make every effort to do so.

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

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Physical Prize & Bit Booster Winners
9 lucky winners have earned themselves a sweet physical prize as well as a Bit Booster from the list below!

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Bit Booster Winners
These 21 additional randomly-picked winners will receive their choice of the following huge list of Bit Boosters:

• 10th - @[ultra destinus]
  
• 11th - @[spitfirexi]
  
• 12th - @[Ayane_2355]
  
• 13th - @[Beyexpert_hamza]
  
• 14th - @[Dynamite Blader]
  
• 15th - @[DrainFafnirGuy]
  
• 16th - @[BeybladeFanOff]
  
• 17th - @[Cam77]
  
• 18th - @[mj9]
  
• 19th - @[Tahoor]
  
• 20th - @[CloudMaan]
  
• 21st - @[Mage]
  
• 22nd - @[DECEPTICON]
  
• 23rd - @[BAWB18]
  
• 24th - @[Angry Face]
  
• 25th - @[FIREFIRE CPB]
  
• 26th - @[TL14]
  
• 27th - @[APerson]
  
• 28th - @[EmphaticYogi]
  
• 29th - @[AZNpro]
  
• 30th - @[Manicben]
  

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#WBOMemories Instagram Contest Winners
After deliberating, our panel of judges from the WBO Committee has determined the winner for our #WBOMemories Instagram Contest! As thanks for the many great entries, we’ve also decided to give a Bit Booster to the three members who tied for second place!

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Bit Boosters Available for Winners

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER[Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  
• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  

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Anniversary Bit 2017
And finally, all winners, tournament participants, social media, and video contributors during the BeyLotto period will receive the commemorative Anniversary Bit 2017! This will be distributed within the next week or two.

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Winner Instructions

• All Winners: Post your Bit Booster selection in this thread. Bit Boosters will be awarded after many or most of the winners have all posted here so that we can do most of them all at once.
  
• Physical Prize Winners (Top 9 for BeyLotto, and #WBOMemories 1st Place): PM Kei your full name, address, and phone number and we will have the prize ordered and shipped to you as soon as possible.
  

Thank you so much to everyone who entered!

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to the WBO Organized Play Burst Format rulebook and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the changes below:

Rule Updates Overview

• Burst Format: Spriggan Requiem Layer – Mode Changing Between Rounds is Now Banned
  
• Burst Format: Maximum Garuda – Now Unbanned
  
• All Rulebooks: Gameplay Appendix – Clarification of “Spinning” Definition
  
• Organizer’s Guide: Tiebreaking Clarifications
  

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Burst Format Updates

Spriggan Requiem Layer – Mode Changing Between Rounds is Now Banned
As has been recently demonstrated, Spriggan Requiem has proven it is immensely competitive. However, it has been made even more powerful due to the mode changing for parts which require disassembly ruling we introduced in October of 2017.


After seeing Spriggan Requiem in action with mode switching in between rounds permitted, we’ve decided to ban such mode changes for Sr specifically. Having a Layer with good spin stealing abilities that can switch spin directions has produced an unhealthy scenario where counters to one spin direction are immediately made irrelevant by swapping direction. You may of course change the mode of Sr in between matches, but effective immediately you may no longer switch modes within a single match between rounds.

Other Layers such as Alter Chronos and Legend Spriggan which also have mode changes which require disassembly are unaffected by this ruling; you may still switch the mode of those Layers between rounds up to once per match.



Maximum Garuda Layer – Now Unbanned
The previously announced trial ban of Maximum Garuda for ten tournaments has now been completed. After evaluating its performance against newer parts and combinations in testing posted here, we have decided to unban Maximum Garuda as it now has several more reliable counters than it did previously when it was first banned. However, we will continue to monitor its performance moving forward.

See the winning combinations lists from the ten events hosted during the trial period:

• Blade Parade - 10/28/2017 [Roanoke, Virginia, USA]
  
• Hold the Line - 11/18/2017 [Roanoke, Virginia, USA]
  
• It's Beyxercise Time! II - 11/25/2017 [London, UK]
  
• WELCOME TO A&C GAMES V - 11/25/2017 [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
  
• That's No Dragoon! - 12/16/2017 [Roanoke, Virginia, USA]
  
• WELCOME TO A&C GAMES VI - 12/17/2017 [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
  
• Final Showdown 2 - 12/25/2017 [Mumbai, India]
  
• Burstin’ With the Best - 12/30/2017 [Los Angeles, California, USA]
  
• The Beat Goes On - 1/13/2018 [Roanoke, Virginia, USA]
  
• Down The Drain - 01/20/2018 [Austin, Texas, USA]
  

Please feel free to continue posting your thoughts on Maximum Garuda and any tests you might conduct in the Maximum Garuda Testing/Discussion thread or in commentary related to a specific tournament in the Winning Combinations thread!

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Updates to All Rulebooks

Gameplay Appendix – Clarification of “Spinning” Definition
With the recent introduction of parts like Bearing into Beyblade Burst, the classic debate over what the definition of ‘spinning’ is has continued recently. As such, we felt it would be prudent to take some of what we’ve learned from discussions like this to revise and clarify what the intention of our definition of ‘spinning’ means.

The definition now reads:

Gameplay Appendix – Spinning Wrote:A Beyblade is still considered to be spinning as long as it is visibly rotating to any degree along the axis running directly through the center of the Beyblade faster than the rotation along the stadium floor. A complete full rotation around this axis is not needed to be considered spinning. Rotation along the stadium floor alone is considered ‘rolling’ and is therefore no longer considered to be spinning.

Some Beyblades have parts that allow the upper half to continue rotating after the bottom half has stopped; these are still considered to be spinning. Once a Beyblade stops spinning, the round ends. If a Beyblade starts spinning again after it has stopped, the round does not resume.

Bold denotes new additions. The key takeaway here is that Beyblades are only considered to be spinning when they are visibly rotating along the axis of their tip; if they aren’t doing this, it doesn’t matter if they are moving or rolling in any other fashion, they are not considered to be spinning by our definition.

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Organizer’s Guide Updates

Tiebreaking Clarifications
We have made some clarifications to the tiebreaking procedures for both Swiss and Round Robin-based events regarding the proper application of the TB column value, the application of seeding as a tiebreaking factor in some specific situations, and the rare occurrence of a necessary tiebreak match for Swiss Format when determining who moves on to the Final Stage of WBO Organized Play Events.

The easiest way to understand these changes is to review this updated list of tiebreaking factors which is organized from the first which should be applied, all the way down to the final tiebreak factor only if necessary to break the tie. Bolded text denotes new additions or clarifications:

Round Robin/Block Round Robin
1. Overall score/win record
2. TB column (Only if the players in question have match history)
3. Tiebreaker match

Swiss Format
1. Overall score/win record
2. TB column (Only if the players in question have match history)
3. Buchholz
4. Seeding: Higher seed retains higher spot if above factors are all tied (Only if determining the order of two participants already guaranteed a spot in the finals).
5. Tiebreaker match (Only if there is a tiebreak which involves two or more players on the edge of making the finals or not)

For more background on this change, please see both Wombat’s and my post here.

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

With all of the changes the WBO has undergone since our eighth anniversary–both in terms of the site itself and our team–and the fact that there is still much work to be done and many areas in which we know we can be better, over the past several months we came to the realization that in order to continue making progress, we would need more help.

Expanding the WBO Contributor Team
Our solution to this has been to expand the WBO Contributor team. This team’s primary focus will be the critical role of maintaining our vast number of existing practices from Youtube videos, to social media posts, Beyblade news, reviewing Organizer’s Quiz submissions, approving event proposals, and more.

Quite simply, without these people, the WBO Committee wouldn’t have the time to continue making progress on further improvements to the site, such as the long awaited new theme and all of the functionality that is going to be bringing (more on that soon in a future announcement!) or think about bigger picture projects to improve the community.

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Existing Contributors
The existing WBO Contributor team consists of the following:

• @[TrainiacJ] - Youtube Contributor
  
• @[juncction] - Social Media Contributor
  
• @[Wombat] - Organized Play Contributor
  

New Contributors
And we are pleased to announce that the following members will now be joining the team!:

• @[OldSchool™] - Organized Play Contributor
  
• @[ThaKingTai] - Organized Play Contributor
  
• @[Alta] - Organized Play Contributor
  
• @[Hato] - Social Media & Beyblade News Contributor
  
• @[Jinbee] - Forum Moderation Contributor (Global Moderator)
  
• @[Mage] - Forum Moderation Contributor (Global Moderator)
  
• Jojo [Jp0t] - Youtube Contributor
  
• @[MonoDragon] - Beyblade Wiki Contributor
  

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What do they do?
The Organized Play Contributors will be focusing their efforts on reviewing Organizer’s Quiz submissions, event proposals, assisting new players on the forums looking to host tournaments, providing feedback to the Committee on rule changes (of course, we will still discuss big changes with the community as well!), and helping to keep our tournament data archive up to date. In short, they are experts in everything WBO Organized Play. If you have any questions about tournament rules or hosting your own event, don’t hesitate to ask them.

Social Media Contributors are focused on producing new content for our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). Some might specialize in photography like juncction, and others might be focused on writing posts regarding Beyblade News, like Hato will be. That being said, as always we still accept submissions of photos and video from our official events!

Youtube Contributors dedicate themselves to helping manage and produce new content for our Youtube Channel, Beyblade Channel. TrainiacJ will continue producing Beyblade Review videos as he has been for a while, and will also work on new video ideas as well. Additionally, Jojo [Jp0t] will bring her expertise from her own Youtube channel and helping with videos as well.

And finally, Jinbee and Mage will be joining as a pair of Global Moderators to ensure our Community Rules are enforced fairly and the forums stay organized.

With this expanded version of the WBO team for 2018, we will continue striving to be the best Beyblade community in the world. You can count on better organization, efficiency, responsiveness, activity, and improvements as the new team members get acclimated to their new roles.

We will also continue looking at ways in which we can improve even further and bring more Contributors onto the team. We are open to ideas for areas in which improvements could be made, but please understand that we do not take applications for becoming a Contributor officially. We will contact you! That being said, helping out members around the forums and promoting the WBO in your local community are all things you can absolutely do nevertheless.

Thank you everyone!

Hey there World Bladers!

As we come to the end of another year of Beyblade, we look back at everything that has happened in the world of Beyblade this year. Takara-Tomy and Hasbro both launched their God Layer System series, mixing up the metagame immensely. The WBO has continued to grow, with activity staying strong and discussions ongoing! You guys have also made 95 WBO sanctioned events possible so far this year, which is a number that continues to astound us! 

But now, the time has come to celebrate our 9th Anniversary! This year, we've prepared a number of festivities to celebrate:

First, creator of Metal Fight Beyblade–Adachi Takafumi–has drawn up the fantastic new character art of Taka & Fumi–the WBO mascots we unveiled last year–that you see in our Anniversary logo! You'll see this used more across the site this coming year, and will also be featured on brand new shirts in our store very soon! And we're also bringing our beloved BeyLotto out again for the third time this year and opening it up to all Bladers! Be sure to enter, we've got some fantastic prizes this year!

Our Instagram contests have been a hit this year, so we're bringing out another one: the #WBOMemories contest! We're finally publishing HMS & Plastics Remembrance BeyLotto Results (sorry for the delay!), and providing a few of rule updates to our Competitive Play rulebooks. There's something for everyone this year!

We had also planned to launch our rewrite of the current site theme today as well, but circumstances mean that this isn't possible today. However, when we do launch this later this month, you can look forward to a number of old features returning to the site, as well as a number of new ones, such as Battle Histories on profiles, tournament invitations, and what we feel will have the largest impact: Organizer tournament processing! We'll have more information on this when it launches, so stay tuned for the full details!

And as usual, let's not forget that we're waiving the fees for all WBO tournaments between December 4th and January 4th! Make the most of this time to host a few tournaments and bring new Bladers to each of our communities!

The past year hasn't been smooth. We've had a number of site issues to fix (and still do!), but you've all been understanding and helped to make the process as smooth as possible. As our dedicated community, thank you for sticking with us; joining in discussions, writing Wiki articles, participating in events worldwide, and making the WBO the place to be for Beyblade fans for the ninth year in a row!

Here's to another year! (Oh god, we're 10 next year...better plan something big...)

Check out this year's content!

• Entry Fees Waived for WBO Tournaments: December 4th, 2017 – January 4th, 2018
  
• 9th Anniversary BeyLotto: Win a God Customize Set, Spriggan Requiem, and More!
  
• Favourite WBO Memory Instagram Contest: Start!
  
• WBO Organized Play Rule Updates December 2017 – Mode Change Launcher Restrictions
  
• HMS/Plastics Remembrance Day BeyLotto Results
  

To celebrate the WBO's 9th anniversary, enter this awesome giveaway for a chance to win prizes such as the God Customize Set, Spriggan Requiem, Nightmare Longinus, and more!

BeyLotto Rules

• This BeyLotto is open to all WBO members.
  
• You are automatically entered by posting once in this thread (multiple posts will not add multiple entries).
  
• 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Prizes are limited to Blader Passport Holders.
  
• The entry period will end on January 4th, 2018 at 11:59PM EST.
  

Earn Extra Entries

• Earn 1 extra entry for participating in an official WBO Organized Play event during the anniversary period. (Limit of 1)
  
• Earn 2 extra entries for approved social media contributions. (Limit of 2)
  
• Earn 3 extra entries for submitting tournament video edited for Beyblade Channel that is approved. (No Limit)
  

Prizes
9 lucky winners will earn themselves some sweet physical prizes!










The top 9, and 21 additional randomly-picked winners will receive their choice of the following huge list of Bit Boosters:

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER[Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  
• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  

And finally, all winners, tournament participants, social media, and video contributors during the BeyLotto period will receive the commemorative Anniversary Bit 2017!


Good luck, everyone!

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to the WBO Organized Play Burst Format rulebook and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the changes below:

Rule Updates Overview

• Burst Format: Mode Changes For Parts Which Require Disassembly – Launcher Switching Restrictions
  
• Burst Format: Status Report - Trial Ban: Maximum Garuda Layer
  

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Burst Format Updates

Burst Format: Mode Changes For Parts Which Require Disassembly – Launcher Switching Restrictions



As was announced in our rule updates in October, parts which require disassembly to change their mode–like Alter Chronos, Legend Spriggan, or the upcoming Spriggan Requiem–may now be changed once per match at any time.

As an added clarification to this update, we wanted to be clear how launcher switching works in the case of Beyblades like Legend Spriggan which can change spin directions.

First Stage Matches
In any first stage match, if you are using a Beyblade that has a spin direction switching gimmick, you may change your launcher to one of the opposite spin direction when you make the mode switch. However, the launcher switched to must be of the same type/power as the one you previously used. To be precise, here is an outline of the legal launcher switches possible:

✓ Switching Permitted

• BeyLauncher LR (from one spin direction to another on the same launcher)
  
• Digital Sword Launcher (from one spin direction to another on the same launcher)
  
• Light Launcher LR (from one spin direction to another on the same launcher)
  
• Light Launcher to Light Launcher L + Standard Winder
  
• Light Launcher to Light Launcher L + Long Winder
  
• BeyLauncher to BeyLauncher L
  
• Proto/Entry Launcher R to Proto/Entry Launcher L
  
• Regular Launcher + Short Winder (Hasbro) to Regular Launcher L + Short Winder (Hasbro)
  
• Regular Launcher + Long Winder (Hasbro) to Regular Launcher L + Long Winder (Hasbro)
  
• Switchstrike Launcher (Hasbro, from one spin direction to another on the same launcher)
  

✗ Switching Not Permitted

• BeyLauncher Speed Ver.
  
• BeyLauncher Heavy Ver.
  
• Sword Launcher
  
• String Launcher (Hasbro)
  
• Supergrip Launcher + Short Winder (Hasbro)
  
• Supergrip Launcher + Long Winder (Hasbro)
  

If you plan on using a Beyblade with a spin direction switching gimmick and plan to change modes, do not choose one of the above launchers under "Switching Not Permitted" as you will not be permitted to switch as you will not have a launcher to use.

Final Stage Matches (Deck Format)
In the final stage Deck Format matches, switching between the two launchers of different spin directions initially selected for the match is permitted. You cannot pick another, third launcher.

Status Report - Trial Ban: Maximum Garuda Layer
As previously announced, we are currently in the midst of a trial ban of the Maximum Garuda Layer. Since our announcement, the results have been rather promising. See the winning combinations lists from the four events hosted thus far:

• Blade Parade - 10/28/2017 [Roanoke, Virginia, USA]
  
• Hold the Line - 11/18/2017 [Roanoke, Virginia, USA]
  
• It's Beyxercise Time! II - 11/25/2017 [London, UK]
  
• WELCOME TO A&C GAMES V - 11/25/2017 [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
  

However, as announced we will be continuing with this trial until 10 Burst Format tournaments have been successfully completed. So in the mean time, please feel free to continue posting your thoughts on Maximum Garuda and any tests you might conduct in the Maximum Garuda Testing/Discussion thread or in commentary related to a specific tournament in the Winning Combinations thread!

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Organizers’ Guide Updates

New Launchers Added to Rotation Chart
We have added in the proper number of launcher rotations for the Light Launcher LR to the chart in the Organizers’ Guide. We would also like to add the Hasbro String and Switchstrike Launchers; and if anyone knows the number of rotations on those, please let us know!

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

Happy 9th anniversary, everyone! Over the many years we've shared at the WBO, we've made tons of memories both online and in person. Fellow Bladers who met at tournaments have, in some cases, become lifelong friends, and many of our Beyblades have led us to exciting victories! To celebrate the memories we've made as a community, it's time for the Favourite WBO Memory instagram contest:

Post Your Favourite WBO Memory on Instagram
From today until January 4th, 2018 @ 11:59pm EST, we want to hear about your favourite WBO memory! We encourage you to be creative with your interpretation of this theme: make it fit your own unique experience in the community! Not sure what to post about? Here are just a few ideas:

• A silly photo of you and your Beyblade friends at a WBO tournament
  
• A picture of a Beyblade you took home a special prize with
  
• An image that reminds you of a fun moment you had browsing the WBO forum
  
• A video of your most epic tournament victory
  

Contest Rules
One grand prize winner will be picked randomly at the end of the contest, and a committee panel of judges will determine two other winners who will earn a Bit Booster, B-100 Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt, and have their memory reposted on the @worldbeyblade Instagram account. Here are the few rules you have to follow to enter this contest:

• Your entry must be posted on your Instagram account (so yes, you do need Instagram to participate!)
  
• If your Instagram is private, you can still enter! Post a screenshot of your private Instagram entry in the comments of this thread, and we will count it as your entry
  
• You must be following @worldbeyblade to enter
  
• Make sure the photo and description are appropriate for all ages
  
• Only one entry will count per person
  
• Make sure to tag your photo with these two hashtags: #WBOMemories #WorldBeyblade
  
• It's not required to enter, but you can also tag @worldbeyblade in your post and photo!
  
• Not required, but please include your WBO username in the description of your entry, if you can! That way we know who on the forum to credit with prizes
  

Win a Bit Booster & B-100 Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt!
The winner will receive a brand new B-100 Starter Spriggan Requiem.0.Zt and one of the following Bit Boosters for their user profile!:

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER[Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  
• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  

Comment in this thread with any questions, and best of luck to everyone! We can't wait for your entries, and for all the new, great memories we'll make in the WBO's 9th year.

Hey World Bladers!

This has been long overdue, but we're finally here to announce the results of our Remembrance BeyLotto and Generations contest! So, without further ado...

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Remembrance 2017 BeyLotto Results!


It's here! It's finally here! We know how hyped some of you Bakuten lovers were for this giveaway, so let's get this underway!

Our 8 winners are...

8th Place: Driger MS, Flash Leopard
...@[Ashmit Mohanty]!

7th Place: Dranzer F, Master Dranzer, Death Driger
...@[Basedsamuraij]!

6th Place: CLASSIC Set
Bakushin-Oh! (Black and Bronze), Salamalyon, Sparkling Attacker, Ultimate Dragoon
...@[Syphon]!

5th Place: DEFENSE Set
Sea Drake, Advance Guardian, Draciel V, Draciel V2
...@[Hunter08]!

4th Place: ULTIMATE UPPER Set
Driger V2, Dark Effigy MS, Kids Dragoon, and Dranzer GT
...@[Sayantan sen]!

3rd Place: ENDURANCE Set
Galeon, Vortex Ape, Guardian Driger, and Bearing Stinger, Zeus (Hasbro)
...@[Tushar Verma]!

2nd Place: ATTACK Set
Dragoon MS, Trygle, Dragoon G, Griffolyon, and Strata Dragoon G
...@[SayakNath]!

And our main prize winner...

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1st Place: SCARlet’s Custom 3D Printed Black Dranzer + Case

...it's @[DSiks]!

Congratulations to all our winners! As a reminder, in addition to your prizes, all 8 of you can also choose a Bit Booster from below!

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER[Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  
• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  

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Beyblade Photography Contest 5: Generations Results!

We had many stunning entries, and it was difficult to choose a Top 3 for this contest! So much that we've decided on a Top 4 for this contest instead! But the question remains; who wins that elusive Venusian G..?


Congratulations! Make sure to pop us a message with your full name, shipping address, and phone number and we'll get that Venusian G out to you!

As for our runners-up...



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Congratulations to you all! Be sure to pick a Bit Booster from the ones listed in the BeyLotto section above for your prize!

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Thank you to everyone who took part in this year's Remembrance festivities! We hope you enjoyed reliving the glory days of the past with us!

Tune in next year for MFB Remembrance 2018! :djdisappointed:

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to all WBO Organized Play rulebooks and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the changes below:

Rule Updates Overview

• IMPORTANT: Trial Ban – Maximum Garuda Layer
  
• IMPORTANT: The Ωuter Disk is Now Banned
  
• IMPORTANT: Burst Format: Mode Changes For Parts Which Require Disassembly – 1 Allowed Per Match
  
• IMPORTANT: Beyblade Selection: Parts Borrowed at Any Point Must be Announced
  
• IMPORTANT: Burst Deck Format: Non-Contact Bursts = 1 Point
  
• Burst Format: God Chip Use in Mandatory
  
• Burst Deck Format: Regular God Chips May Be Repeated
  
• Organizers’ Guide: New Launchers Added to Rotation Chart
  

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Burst Format Updates

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IMPORTANT: Trial Ban – Maximum Garuda Layer
Given Maximum Garuda's immense dominance in WBO Organized Play events since being introduced this past July, the decision has been made to proceed with a trial ban of mG so that we can observe what the metagame would look like without it in play. This trial ban will last for approximately 10 Burst Format tournaments (in at least 3 separate regions). After the 10 tournaments have been completed, we will re-evaluate the status of the ban with the following being determining factors:

• The Winning Combinations from each event
  
• Take into consideration the impressions of any players who played in each event (please post your thoughts if you play in an event during this trial ban! The WBO Tournament Reports forum is a good place to do so)
  
• Discussion in the community
  
• Any new parts released since the beginning of the ban which might make mG less dominant
  

In the mean time, please also feel free to continue posting your thoughts on Maximum Garuda and any tests you might conduct in the Maximum Garuda Testing/Discussion thread!

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IMPORTANT: The Ωuter Disk is Now Banned
Until further notice, the Ωuter Disk is now banned from all WBO Organized Play events. We will re-evaluate this ban when Ωuter becomes more easily obtainable.

In addition to dominating G2 and G3 tournaments in Japan, the Ωuter Disk has been proven to be a dominating force in the few WBO events it has been present at; it is undeniably the best Disk for Stamina in the game currently. However, because it is only available through Ωrichalcum Ωuter Ωcta in the RARE BEY GET BATTLE on the TAKARA-TOMY Beyblade Burst website/app, and because it has been proven to be much more difficult to win than αmaterios or βaldur, we have decided that for the sake of fairness to all players that the Disk will be banned until it becomes more readily available.

IMPORTANT: Burst Format: Mode Changes For Parts Which Require Disassembly – 1 Allowed Per Match
Parts which require disassembly to change their mode–like Alter Chronos or Legend Spriggan–may now be changed once per match at any time. This means that for example, you can change Legend Spriggan from left- to right-spin once per match. If two players wish to change modes at the same time, they must turn around and do so in secret before continuing the match.

We welcome feedback on this rule change once you've had a chance to try it in a WBO Organized Play event and will be evaluating how effective or fair it is moving forward. Our hope however is that it will make Attack types like Legend Spriggan slightly more viable, which is important for Burst Format.

This change currently only applies to Burst Format.



God Chip Use in Mandatory
We have clarified that the use of a God Chip in all Layers that accept them is mandatory.

Deck Format: Regular God Chips May Be Repeated
We have clarified that the repetition of regular God Chips in your Deck is permitted. Metal God Chips may not be repeated.

Deck Format: Non-Contact Bursts = 1 Point
Burst Finishes that occur without any contact with the opposing Beyblade are now worth 1 Point instead of 2.

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Updates to All Rulebooks & Organizers’ Guide



IMPORTANT: Beyblade Selection: Parts Borrowed at Any Point Must be Announced
If a player does not own a part that they are using in a tournament battle and are borrowing it from someone else, it must be announced who they are borrowing from during the Beyblade Selection phase before the match begins regardless of when the part was borrowed.

Judges: When the Beyblade Selection phase begins, ask each player if they are borrowing parts or receiving help from another person. If one or both players are, you must inform them who is helping or lending parts to their opponent.

Players: If you are borrowing part(s) or receiving advice from someone, you must tell the judge who the person is when he or she asks you. Parts borrowed at any point during the event for future use must be announced as well. The exact part(s) do not need to be announced, just the person they are being borrowed from.

This update has been made to further clarify the new rule from our August 2017 update regarding receiving help before a match begins. There is no longer any ambiguity regarding whether or not parts borrowed before the Beyblade Selection phase begins need to be announced or not: they do.

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Organizers’ Guide Updates

New Launchers Added to Rotation Chart
We have added in the proper number of launcher rotations for the BeyLauncher LR (7.5) and the Digital Sword launcher (TBD) to the chart in the Organizers’ Guide.

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to all WBO Organized Play rulebooks and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the changes below:

Rule Updates Overview

• IMPORTANT: Deathscyther & Dark Deathscyther Layers Unbanned
  
• IMPORTANT: Burst Format KO Ruling Changes
  
• Painting/Decorating Launchers, Grips, and Accessories Clarification
  

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Burst Format Updates


IMPORTANT: Deathscyther & Dark Deathscyther Layers Unbanned
Effective immediately, the Deathscyther and Dark Deathscyther Layers are now unbanned and legal for use in Burst Format tournaments.

After banning Deathscyther and Dark Deathscyther back in May, Beyblade Burst has underwent some of the most dramatic changes in its history to date with the newest releases in the God Layer System finally overtaking parts that had been dominant for well over a year. The ban of Deathscyther and Dark Deathscyther served to help make this progression faster by forcing players to look forward and find new strategies, but now with the new and powerful parts of the God Layer System running rampant throughout our tournaments, the time now seems right to unban Deathscyther and Dark Deathscyther.

We believe that both parts no longer pose the same threat that they once did, but look forward to seeing how you all utilize them (if at all)! Please feel free to post tests in the Burst Customizations forum as well.

IMPORTANT: Burst Format KO Ruling Changes

Burst Format Rulebook - Gameplay Appendix: Knocked-Out Wrote:A Beyblade is now considered knocked-out when it exits the play area. Beyblades that bounce back into the stadium after exiting the play area are still considered knocked-out.

However, if a Beyblade exits the play area and bounces back in before touching the opposing Beyblade in any fashion, the round will continue.

This means that if a Beyblade hits the back wall of the stadium cover in one of the three exits of the TAKARA-TOMY BeyStadium Standard Type and immediately bounces back in, it will have already been considered knocked-out unless it did so before touching the opposing Beyblade.

Previously, our rules stated that a Beyblade is considered knocked-out when "it exists the play area and cannot return". The key here is essentially the removal of the phrase "cannot return"; if a Beyblade exits the stadium after touching the opposing Beyblade in any fashion, it is considered knocked-out.

This particular update in reality will likely not have a dramatic effect on most tournaments, as was demonstrated to us in the two most recent Toronto tournaments where we gave it a trial run; it only happened a handful of times. However, even if only slight, what it does do it make Attack types in Burst Format just a little bit more viable competitively.

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Updates to All Rulebooks

Painting/Decorating Launchers, Grips, and Accessories Clarification

All Rulebooks Wrote:Launchers, Grips, and Accessories may be painted or decorated for aesthetic purposes only. Any paint or decoration added must not affect the performance or originally intended functions or gimmicks of the part and should not obstruct your opponent’s ability to launch properly in any way. If a judge determines your launcher, grip, or accessory has been modified to the point of illegality due to such modifications, they may tell you to you switch to a new version of that same part.

We realized that some of the current verbiage in our rulebooks was slightly vague as it only mentioned "parts", so we have now added the above ruling to each rulebook in order to clarify that painting/decorating of launcher, grips, and accessories is permitted to the above degree.

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

Hello there Bladers!

This has been long overdue, and we apologise for the delay! Naturally, we wanted to wait until we had all the spreadsheets in from the BeyDays events to ensure that everyone who participated in our festivities was entered into our BeyLotto! We'll be starting with our #BeybladeInAction results first!

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#BeybladeInAction Results!

We had many action-packed entries, and it was great to see everyone's creativity! In particular, we were looking for images that stood out without needing to be edited, but some of our edited submissions were fantastic as well. But who will our prestigious Thief Phoenix go to...?


Congratulations! Make sure to pop us a message with your full name, shipping address, and phone number and we'll get your Phoenix out to you!

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Yes, we've finally drawn the winners for our BeyLotto! We had an incredible 164 entries in this year's BeyLotto, with most coming from our 12 BeyDays events as well! Thank you all our participants this year!

As a reminder, we have 30 winners of Bit Boosters, and 10 of these will also win physical prizes! As a reminder of the Bit Boosters available...

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER[Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  
• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  

And our 30 lucky winners are...!

Congratulations! Make sure to leave a comment with your Bit Booster choice!

But who are our 10 physical prize winners? Without further ado...




















Congratulations to all our winners! Make sure to pop us a message with your full name, shipping address, and phone number and we'll get these out to you!

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And once again, thank you to everyone who participated in our BeyDays festivities! Here's to next year!

We have some exciting news to announce today! In collaboration with @[TrainiacJ], the WBO will now be producing Beyblade Reviews for our Youtube Channel, Beyblade Channel!

Check out our first review below for B-86 Starter Legend Spriggan.7.Mr:


Our goal here is to provide succinct and informative (in terms of competitive relevancy) reviews for Beyblades, a type of video which we felt–generally speaking–is currently underrepresented on Youtube. And at the same time, we feel that this type of video is reflective of our goals in promoting Beyblade on a competitive level worldwide.

For the time being, we will be focusing on producing reviews for the newest releases in the Beyblade Burst series. We hope you all look forward to more reviews in the coming months. If you liked the video, please be sure to leave a like it and Subscribe to Beyblade Channel to be sure you don’t miss any of our future videos!

Finally, huge thank you to TrainiacJ for donating his time and making this possible in the first place! And also to @[juncction] for the above photo of Legend Spriggan (and your help with our social media)! We are working on a new approach to our idea of the "Contributors" user group and will be adding both of you soon to recognize your contributions to the team.

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to all WBO Organized Play rulebooks and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, a summary of the changes below:

Rule Updates Overview

• IMPORTANT: Maximum Garuda God Chip Restrictions
  
• Disassembling or Swapping Layer Components is Illegal
  
• Receiving Help Before a Match: Must be Announced
  
• Judge Neutrality: Advice Restrictions
  
• Incorrect Seeding Issues & ‘Random’ Seeding Clarification
  
• Dropped Participants Clarification
  
• Event Proposals: Required Interest Now 4 Players Minimum
  

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Burst Format Updates


IMPORTANT: Maximum Garuda God Chip Restrictions
Effective immediately, the Maximum Garuda Layer in Beyblade Burst cannot be used with any other God Chip except for the default God Chip that comes with stock mG–Maximum Garuda.8F.Fl from B-87–or the soon to be released B-91 Metal God Chip.

It was recently announced by TAKARA-TOMY that they would be implementing this same change after the discovery of a particular mold of God Chip fitting much, much tighter with other parts than other molds. You can read more about the different molds of God Chips here.

Disassembling or Swapping Layer Components is Illegal
It is now officially illegal to disassemble all Beyblade Burst Layers or swap components between them. This means that you may not, for example, take the clear ‘over Layer’ from one Layer such as Victory Valkyrie and swap it with one from another Layer.

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Updates to All Rulebooks

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Receiving Help Before a Match: Must be Announced
To allow for an even playing field where both players have a fair chance of knowing what they are up against, it is now mandatory for players to announce to the judge and their opponent if they are receiving advice or parts from someone else during the Beyblade Selection phase of a match.

We don’t want to discourage communication between players at our events, but the disadvantage created for Bladers  playing someone who they don’t know are receiving advice or parts from someone else is apparent. If your opponent is receiving help, you can’t make an informed Beyblade selection if you’re making that decision based on what you know solely about your opponent, and not based on what you know about the person helping them.

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Beyblade & Launcher Presentation
Like Deck Format, players are now required to present both their Beyblade and Launcher to their opponent before the first round of every match.

Beyblades (with mode changes that do not require disassembly) and Launchers with multiple spin directions available may be changed after the presentation phase.

Players do not need to present their Beyblade or launcher prior to subsequent rounds in the same match.

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Organizers' Guide Updates


Judge Neutrality: Advice Restrictions
This almost goes without saying, but we have added additional clarification to the Organizers’ Guide for judges regarding neutrality. All WBO Organized Play judges are expected to exert a neutral, unbiased stance for everything that may occur during any given match.

✗ Judges May Not
Give any advice to either player as it pertains to the battle itself. Some examples of this include combo selection advice or telling one player to “weak launch” to have a better chance of winning.

✓ Judges May
Give technical equipment-related advice to players. Some examples of this include an observation that something may be broken with their launcher, if their Beyblade is not properly attached prior to the beginning of a round, and so forth.

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Incorrect Seeding Issues & ‘Random’ Seeding Clarification
After a recent event in which the seeding was handled incorrectly by accident, we have revised our Organizers’ Guide to specify precisely what is meant by “random seeding” and expanded slightly upon why seeding is incredibly important. You can read the full update in the section below, but here is a quote from the tournament report I wrote outlining why proper seeding is paramount:


While there is unfortunately some room for interpretation currently as the BeyPoint System Queue is not up to date yet, we expect Organizers to make smart decisions about where certain players are seeded; the most obvious and clear cut being that returning players should not be given the bottom seed in an event ahead of new players.

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Dropped Participants Clarification
One thing which has never really been clear in our rules is how Organizers should deal with players who–for one reason or another–drop from tournaments and have to leave before their matches have been completed. We have now addressed this in the Organizers’ Guide with specific rulings

For all formats, if a player drops before the conclusion of the event their battles played will be ultimately processed into the rankings as normal. However, for the following formats:

Round Robin & Block Round Robin
If a player drops from an event before completing all of their matches in a Round Robin-based event, they will be given "losses" for every match both played and unplayed.

What this means is that the matches the dropped player has played will be counted for the WBO Rankings, but will all be considered "losses" within the context of the event. If someone wins four matches in an eight-player round robin and drops, they'll get the four wins (for the matches played) and three losses (for the matches missed) within the WBO Rankings, but will receive seven losses within the context of the tournament. This will ensure that the flow of the tournament is not disrupted in any way; players who lost to the player that dropped won't be at a disadvantage compared to the players who didn't and get free wins as a result.

Swiss Format
If a player drops from a Swiss tournament, they will retain their wins but receive match losses for the remainder of the tournament. Players who drop from a Swiss event will not be eligible for additional Credits beyond the +1 Participation Credit due to the greater inconvenience it places on the tournament organizer and all participants in comparison to other formats.

However for all formats, if a player stays to complete their round robin/swiss round matches and makes the finals, they will only be given losses for their battles in the finals.

To help avoid the possibility of participants dropping from your event, we encourage all Organziers to announce the estimated length of the tournament before it begins.

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Event Proposals: Required Interest Now 4 Players Minimum
The minimum required number of confirmed participants for members planning to schedule an event and become an Organizer is now 4. However, anybody proposing an event with less than 8 participants (the threshold where your event becomes eligible for ranked status, prize reimbursement, etc), must be doing so with the intention of trying to gather more participants and to grow their community.


Submit Social Media Content, Help Your Community Grow!
We understand that the best way to get your event noticed is to have it posted in our official WBO Beyblade Tournaments forum, and hope that this change will allow for more communities to host events and grow.

To allow us to help you do this, remember that all Club Format events are required to submit a group photo. This photo, along with any other photos or video you can submit to us to post on our social media are one way we can help promote your community after each of your events. This also applies to all Organizers in general, regardless of the size of your event!

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Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts below or in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here.

Flash! HMS & Plastics Remembrance 2017 is here, and we're shaking it up!

Breaking with the tradition of past years, our celebration of the series that started it all will go on for not just one weekend or even two: this year's HMS and Plastics Remembrance will span four weekends lasting from July 15 to August 6!

Some things never change, though, such as the extra +1 credit for participants of HMS and Plastic events during the celebratory period. For anyone planning to attend multiple old school events, this will be a great chance to rack up those credits!

As of now, these areas will be holding events as part of HMS & PLA Remembrance:



It's time for another BeyLotto! Every member who participates in a HMS or Plastic Format event between July 15th and August 6th will be entered. Unlike that of BeyDays, though, this one is stacked (literally) with Beyblades from the first generation...




And of course, all 8 randomly-picked winners of the above prizes will receive their choice of the following huge list of Bit Boosters:

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER[Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  
• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  
• Bit Booster RISING
  

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Beyblade Photography Contest 5: Generations

On top of this all, we're swinging another Bit contest your way! With the continuation of the Bakuten Shoot: RISING manga, this year's theme is aptly "generations." The three best entries will each receive their choice of a Bit Booster from the same list as the winners of the BeyLotto above.

And for the top prize? Why, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet...

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Organized Play Rule Changes

• The Burst Standard Type BeyStadium is now legal for HMS and PLA Formats!
  
  
• Deck Rotation Finals is no longer mandatory for HMS and PLA Formats!
  

These changes are effective immediately, so hopefully they will make HMS and PLA Formats easier to put together for everyone!

<div class="text-center"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15b3nO9q9qq_gkCCqxURAf7-In92NdHrbV4HRl3esCag/edit?usp=sharing" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-external-link"></i> Read Updated Rulebooks</a></div>

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New Promo Cards Featuring Taka and Fumi!



As some of you may have seen at Anime North in Toronto back in May, the much-needed redesign of our WBO Promo Cards is now complete! We're excited to start sending these out to potential representatives from around the globe to help grow their local communities!

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Plastics & HMS on Social Media!

Lastly, keep an eye on the WBO's social media pages for plenty of Plastics & HMS related content over these next few weeks!

And don't forget to share your favorite Beyblade memories and celebration plans with the hashtag:



HMS and Plastic Format tournament participants who do that and tag us @worldbeyblade on Twitter or Instagram get 1 extra entry in the BeyLotto!


Best of luck to everyone, and happy HMS & Plastics Remembrance!



P.S. Stay tuned for the winners of the BeyDays BeyLotto to be announced very soon...!!

Outlined below are several important new ruling additions, updates, and clarifications to all WBO Organized Play rulebooks and the Organizers' Guide. View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here, and a summary of the changes below:

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• Following in TAKARA-TOMY’s footsteps, we have decided that effective May 15th, the Dark Deathscyther and Deathscyther Layers are now banned from Burst Format in WBO Organized Play Events. Both Layers have been banned due to their extreme overall power, versatility, and unhealthy influence on the diversity of Burst Format. These bans will be reviewed as new products are released. To help our continued review of these parts easier, we encourage everyone to continue testing with them and posting results in the Burst Customizations forum. However, for the time being we are optimistic that their absence from the game will allow for new parts and strategies to shine that may not have been viable before. Note: this ban does not include Hasbro’s Dark Doomscizor or Doomscizor Energy Layers.
  
• Foreign Substance - Nail Polish Clarification: We have added clarification stating that it is legal to apply a thin coat of nail polish to the stickers of your Beyblades for aesthetic purposes to protect them.
  
• Foreign Substance - Marking Parts Clarification: We have added clarification stating that making small marks on parts with pen/marker for the purpose of identification and being able to maintain parts orientation in the event of your Beyblade bursting/disassembling during a round is legal.
  
• Homemade/Unofficial Stickers: We have added clarification that only stickers included with officially released or licensed by Hasbro or TAKARA-TOMY (and SONO KONG in the case of Plastics/HMS/MFB) may be used on your Beyblade.
  
• Sticker Placement: We have added clarification regarding where stickers may be placed on your Beyblades. Generally speaking, you must follow the positioning as is outlined with the instructions included in each product. For more precise details, see the rulebooks or description below.
  
• Brand Incompatibility (Burst Format): We have added clarification regarding the usage of parts that have been previously mixed with other brands. This means you cannot use a Hasbro Energy Layer in WBO Organized Play if it has been previously used with a TAKARA-TOMY Driver in testing or free-play and vice-versa with TAKARA-TOMY Layers and Hasbro Performance Tips. Particularly in the case of using a Hasbro Energy Layer that has been forced to fit on a TT Driver with a Hasbro Driver again, a higher burst resistance is created as a result of the damage that is inevitably created by forcing it onto a TT Driver previously.
  
• Hasbro Burst Format: This was made official a while back, but we have now added a section to the Burst Format Rulebook outlining the rules.
  
• Organizers’ Guide - Beyblade Inspection: We have made some significant structural updates and additions to the “Judging a Match” section. It is now split into two major sections: “Before the Match” and “During the Match”. There are clearer and more detailed instructions and expectations for judges regarding Beyblade selection and inspection contained within the “Before the Match” section. All organizers, judges, and players should read the detailed description below or in the Organizers’ Guide before their next event.
  
  

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You can find the exact wording included in the rulebooks below. There may be slight variations in these descriptions depending on the format. Please reference the full rulebooks for each format.

’Burst Format Rulebook - Legal Equipment Section’ Wrote:Banned Layers: Deathscyther & Dark Deathscyther
The Layers Deathscyther & Dark Deathscyther are currently banned from use in World Beyblade Organization events due to their extreme overall power, versatility, and unhealthy influence on the diversity of Burst Format.

These bans will be reviewed as new products are released. Note: this ban does not include Hasbro’s Dark Doomscizor or Doomscizor Energy Layers.

’All Rulebooks - Legal Equipment Red Illegal Section’ Wrote:Foreign Substances: Beyblade parts cannot be painted, coated, or physically modified in any way except in the methods explicitly outlined in the green section below. Bladers who intentionally modify the performance illegally of their equipment will be disqualified and potentially banned from future WBO events.

Burst Format Rulebook - Legal Equipment Red Illegal Section’ Wrote:Sticker Placement: Stickers cannot be placed anywhere where two parts of the Beyblade come into contact with each other. You must respect the legal sticker positioning as instructed by TAKARA-TOMY in each Beyblade Starter and Booster product. In other words, these are the only placements accepted: for Layers, follow the sticker guide of that specific Layer; for the Disk, apply star stickers only on the bottom, outward ring, not inner, and ideally just on the embossed stars; for the Driver, only on the small center with the embossed letter.

As the only exception to this rule, you may place one star sticker on the top of a Layer near the center and on the outward perimeter on the bottom of a Driver for identification purposes.

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Burst Format Rulebook - Legal Equipment Red Illegal Section Wrote:Brand Incompatibility: Hasbro Energy Layers cannot be used with Takara-Tomy Drivers, and Takara-Tomy Layers cannot be used with Hasbro Performance Tips.

This applies to official battles in WBO events, and parts previously used in testing in a mixed brand combination. The slopes on Hasbro Energy Layers that have played with TAKARA-TOMY Drivers inevitably are damaged, increasing their burst resistance illegally.

Burst Format Rulebook - Legal Equipment Red Illegal Section Wrote:Homemade/Unofficial Stickers: Only stickers included with officially released Hasbro or TAKARA-TOMY products (or products licensed by these companies such as stickers by ensky for Beyblade Burst, or stickers included in Coro Coro magazines) may be used on your Beyblade. If a judge determines you have used homemade/unofficial stickers, you will be obligated to switch out the part for another version of the same part with no homemade/unofficial stickers applied. If you cannot, you will be given a match loss.

Burst Format Rulebook - Legal Equipment Green Permitted Section Wrote:Applying Nail Polish to Stickers: Applying a thin coat of nail polish to protect the stickers of your Beyblade for aesthetic purposes is permitted. However, if a judge determines you have applied a copious amount of nail polish to the point where it might significantly impact the weight of your Beyblade, you will be obligated to switch out the part for another version of the same part with no nail polish applied. If you cannot, you will be given a match loss.

Burst Format Rulebook - Legal Equipment Green Permitted Section Wrote:Marking Parts: Parts may be marked in order to differentiate parts from your opponent’s in the event of a double Burst Finish, or to maintain the orientation of your combination’s parts should it burst and need to be re-assembled. Stickers may be used to do this, but must follow the rules outlined under “Sticker Placement” above.

Alternatively, you may apply minor markings (single lines or dots) to them with a pen or marker. Marking parts in this manner is permitted, but you may not draw on your parts for aesthetic purposes. Other methods of marking not explicitly outlined here are not permitted and will be considered a “foreign substance” as defined by the section above.

Burst Format Rulebook - Hasbro Only Format Wrote:Hasbro Only Format
In this variant of Burst Format, the following equipment is legal for use:

✓ Legal:
Hasbro Energy Layers & Performance Tips
Both TAKARA-TOMY & Hasbro Launchers/Grips
Both TAKARA-TOMY Disks (that have been released by Hasbro) & Hasbro Forge Disks
TAKARA-TOMY Standard Type BeyStadium

✗ Illegal:
TAKARA-TOMY Layers & Drivers

Organizers’ Guide - Judging a Match Section Wrote:Judging a Match
You may also appoint other judges to assist you, which will be necessary if you are participating in your tournament. Appointed judges must fully understand the rules of play outlined in the format’s rulebook and the judging guidelines listed below:

Before the Match

1. Beyblade Selection
During this phase, ensure that players are positioned across from each other at the designated BeyStadium, with their backs turned. Bladers have 3 minutes to complete their selection.

2. Beyblade & Launcher Inspection
After a blader has announced they are set, judges must perform a Beyblade and Launcher inspection to ensure all parts are legal and have not been tampered with. First, disassemble the Beyblade if it is not already. Then, proceed with the inspection using the following guidelines:

• Verify that parts are not fake. Parts must be produced by Hasbro or TAKARA-TOMY (or SONOKONG in the case of Plastics, HMS, and Metal Fight Beyblade).
  
• Verify that parts have not been tampered with. Any foreign substance applied to a Beyblade part other than those explicitly outlined in our rulebooks (for Burst Format specifically, minimal nail polish for stickers, minimal pen/marker for marking parts, or official stickers in their proper spots as defined by TAKARA-TOMY are permitted. See other rulebooks for additional format-specific rulings) are considered illegal.
  
• In Burst Format, Verify TAKARA-TOMY Layers & Drivers and Hasbro Energy Layers and Performance Tips are not and have not ever been mixed. TAKARA-TOMY Layers have teeth on their underside, while Hasbro’s have slopes. TAKARA-TOMY Drivers have slightly taller teeth on top of them than their Hasbro counterparts and will produce a tighter fit with Hasbro Energy Layers. And vice-versa with Hasbro Performance Tips; because of their shorter teeth, the fit with TAKARA-TOMY Layers will be looser. Even if the combination presented by a player does not mix brands, inspect the parts to ensure that they have not previously done so in other matches or testing. The slopes on Hasbro Energy Layers that have played with TAKARA-TOMY Drivers inevitably are damaged, increasing their burst resistance illegally.
  
• After completing the inspection of the Beyblade Parts, give them back to the player, unassembled.
  
• Test the number of rotations on their selected launcher (30+ Participants: Mandatory, 29 or less participants: Optional). If there is any more or less than the amount specified below, the player must change their launcher to one that has a legal number of rotations.
  

[VIEW CHART IN THE ORGANIZERS’ GUIDE]

During the Match

• Once you have inspected the selected Beyblades and launchers of both players, have them turn around to face each other at the BeyStadium.
  
• Ensure that neither blader takes up more than half of the play area while positioning their launcher.
  
• Quickly ask bladers if they are ready before calling down “3–2–1 go shoot.” Bladers must launch as the word shoot is called.
  
• Always keep your eyes on the battle. Battles can end suddenly or be decided by a fraction of a second difference.
  
• During and after each round, ensure that players do not touch the BeyStadium.
  
• After each round, ensure that the orientation of the BeyStadium as it was when the players arrived and positioned themselves before the match. The BeyStadium–especially in Zero-G Format–can shift dramatically from round to round depending on the battle in play.
  
• After each round, players may not touch their Beyblades until the judge has announced the winner.
  
• In the case of Burst Format, a judge must inspect the winning Beyblade to ensure that it did not skip all of its teeth and remain intact. If this is the case the result of the round is reversed and the “losing” Beyblade is then considered the winner for the round. If it is found that a Layer has skipped all of its teeth and did not burst after the conclusion of a round, the player using that Layer must then replace it with another version of the same Layer. If the player cannot do this, they are given a match loss instead of a round loss.
  

View all WBO Organized Play Rules & Resources here

Thank you to everyone for your continued support of WBO Organized Play! We appreciate any and all feedback and are always looking to improve and clarify things where possible.

Feedback?
If you have any feedback on these particular changes, or any questions or suggestions for further adjustments or additions, please post your thoughts in the WBO Organized Play Rules thread.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's BeyDays, and it's soaring into regions near you!

With last year's double weekend being so popular, we're back again for more! BeyDays will again be active across two weekends, so you have no excuses for being too busy to attend an event! We're doing it for you guys!

As with last year, each region may only organise BeyDays events during one of the two weekends. Events held on the other weekend will not be counted towards any of our BeyDays festivities! Sorry!

But which regions are running BeyDays events? Well, feast your eyes on this selection!


As always, participants at any of these BeyDays events will grab you a shiny new Bit of Days VIII! Oooo!


If you're in the area and free to join one of these events, be sure to hit the "Join Tournament" button on that tournament's thread! BeyDays events are always a blast, so don't pass up this opportunity!

Don't see your region up there? You still have time! Gather some Bladers and submit an Event proposal! And don't forget...

Waived Credit Limit

As usual, all BeyDays events are exempt from the limit of Credits of 8 per weekend. That way, there's no limit to your dedication to Beyblade!

Waived Entry Fee for Emerging Areas

Any region that has been unable to host a tournament in the last 6 months will see the entry fee waived for its Bladers on this occasion!

Extra Prize Reimbursement for Raffles!

That's right, we're doubling the prize reimbursement for BeyDays events! 

As part of this promotion, we expect Organisers to use some of this to run a BeyRaffle at their events, with one random participant winning the prize chosen by the Organiser!

This only applies to one event in each region, so make sure you're making the most of this! Get that raffle going!

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Ruling Updates: Rule Clarifications & Deathscyther/Dark Deathscyther Ban

You all gave your opinions, and we wholeheartedly agree. As of today, Deathscyther & Dark Deathscyther are now banned in WBO Competitive Play! This was long overdue, but we feel this is the best choice to return to a healthy metagame.

Alongside this, we've also taken the opportunity to clarify a number of rules in both our Organiser's Guide and our format-specific rulebooks, including more information of foreign substances, regulations on launcher checking and more!

Hop on over to Kei's update post for more information on all of these new rulings! Organisers, make sure you're aware of these changes as they'll be effective as of Monday 15th May!

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Instagram Campaign: Beyblade in Action!

Following the success of our previous Instagram campaigns, we're back again with another one: Beyblade in Action!

It's simple! Until June 4th, post a picture of a Beyblade in action to your Instagram account! It could be a perspective shot of an intense battle, or even a mid-air shot of a Beyblade in motion! As long as it's in action, use your imagination and go for it!

Of course, we're setting a few rules for this event:

• Keep the photograph appropriate for all ages
  
• Incorporate something clearly Beyblade-related
  
• Only one entry per person. Your first entry will be the only one we'll accept, but think carefully before your submit your entry!
  
• You must be following the official worldbeyblade Instagram account
  
• Make sure you're including the following hashtags in your post: #BeybladeInAction #WorldBeyblade
  

One lucky winner will get their hands on a Thief Phoenix E230GCF, courtesy of ashton pinto! What a guy! 


 And to sweeten the deal even more, why not have a Bit Booster with that! 

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  

Good luck to all Bladers! We're looking forward to seeing what action-packed entries you'll submit!

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BeyLotto — Win Huge Prizes!

It wouldn't be BeyDays without a BeyLotto after all!


All participants in a BeyDays tournaments are automatically going to be entered in this crazy giveaway. Therefore, the more events you participate in, the more chances you have at winning a prize! 

On top of that, a participation in the aformentioned "Beyblade in Action!" campaign will grant you one entry in the BeyLotto as well! No matter where you are, you can have a shot at the prizes!


As usual, Passport Holders are given the priority for the top prize, as thanks for their continued support!


All 30 randomly-picked winners will receive their choice of the following huge list of Bit Boosters: 

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER[Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  
• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  

And 10 lucky winners will also earn themselves some awesome physical prizes!































Submit tournament footage, gain extra BeyLotto entries!

On top of that, this year once again, if you film scenes at the BeyDays tournament you attend and put the footage together for the BeyChannel, you'll get an extra entry in the BeyLotto! Show us the fierce competition in your community!

If you have footage please follow the guidelines outlined here and send it to Kei. If you do not have enough footage to put together for a 2-4 minute video as is described in that thread, send the raw footage to Kei through a file sharing website instead.

We've recently been reviewing the site and looking for ways that we can improve the overall quality-of-life for you guys when browsing through. At the moment, we feel that our existing "Ask a question, get an answer" thread is an area that could do with an overhaul; asking question after question in the same thread isn't efficient and, as much as we encourage looking back through the thread to see if a question has already been asked, it's not easy. There's 1260 pages after all!

So, as of today, we're closing our existing "Ask a question, get an answer" thread and opening a new Forum specifically for Questions & Answers!


Within this Forum, each question is fully deserving of it's own thread, so don't feel that your question isn't worth asking! Questions will no longer overlap in the same thread, and no question will be lost or unseen! We've also created tags for the thread creators to set on threads to show whether they are answered or unanswered, making it easier to see at a glance whether threads still need attention.

And naturally, the search bar and sort feature will wholeheartedly complement this. The search bar will now check thread titles, allowing you to easily find a previously asked question (much better than crawling through a 1260 page thread!), and the sort feature also allows you to filter out results based on whether a question has been answered or not! In the future, we'll also be looking into allowing thread creators to tag their questions with the type of topic being asked (anime, toyline, competitive play etc), allowing for even deeper question filtering!

We hope that you'll all make full use of this new Forum, and we'll be keeping a close eye on it to ensure that things are going smoothly!

Thanks everyone! Please look forward to our next update, coming this week! BeyDays season is almost upon us after all...

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Beyblade Burst God's first left-spin Beyblade–one with rubber on its Layer too!–B-79 Starter Drain Fafnir.8.Nt–will be released on April 29th! To celebrate its release, we're giving away one exclusively to a lucky Blader Passport holder. If you're a Passport Holder, please post once in this thread to be entered in the April 2017 Beyblade Burst giveaway for a chance to win this new Beyblade!

Remember, this giveaway is only open to Passport Holders. If you hold one of these, simply post in this thread once for a chance to win! If not, your post will unfortunately be deleted.

But that's not all! We'll even give the winner a Bit Booster of their choosing!

• Bit Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
  
• Bit Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
  
• Bit Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
  
• Bit Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
  
• Bit Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
  
• Bit Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
  
• Bit Booster CRIMSON [Image: faceboostercrimson.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURE [Image: faceboosterazure.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMBER [Image: faceboosteramber.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIOLET [Image: faceboosterviolet.png]
  
• Bit Booster JADE [Image: faceboosterjade.png]
  
• Bit Booster JET [Image: faceboosterjet.png]
  
• Bit Booster VIVID [Image: faceboostervivid.png]
  
• Bit Booster AMETHYST [Image: Face_Booster_AMETHYST.png]
  
• Bit Booster SAPPHIRE [Image: Face_Booster_SAPPHIRE.png]
  
• Bit Booster EMERALD [Image: Face_Booster_EMERALD.png]
  
• Bit Booster RUBY [Image: Face_Booster_RUBY.png]
  
• Bit Booster ONYX [Image: Face_Booster_ONYX.png]
  
• Bit Booster DRIVER [Image: h9jFJhE.png]
  

.. or try one of our newer Bit Boosters!:

• Bit Booster GARNET [Image: TPWnL0l.png]
  
• Bit Booster AZURITE [Image: btnxiVU.png]
  

This Beyblade giveaway will run until April 30, 2017, 23:59:59 EST. Entries after that date/time will not be entered. The winners will be announced shortly after the closing date and will have their prize shipped to them free of charge!

Good luck everyone!

When we launched the new version of the WBO last year on our 8th anniversary, included in that massive update were a few changes to the structure of the forums.

However, with this change we’ve realized now that there is no clear place for Organizers and members to share their experiences at WBO Organized Play events with the entire community in the forum of tournament reports! Posting in event threads doesn’t work so well because most people outside of those communities don’t necessarily look at those threads. So, the solution was simple: a Tournament Reports sub-forum! We have moved all existing tournament reports from the “Discuss worldbeyblade.org” forum to this new sub-forum contained within the main WBO Beyblade Tournaments category.

View the Tournament Reports Sub-Forum Now

Also, please take a look at the Tournament Report Forum Guidelines.

To celebrate the addition of this forum, @[Mitsu] prepared a brand new tournament report for a recent event in Toronto just on time! Check his report for WELCOME TO A&C GAMES IV!

In the future we plan to take a look at other ways to promote tournament reports (or specific threads in general) in different ways like in a box along the side of the index, so please look forward to that!

Tournament reports don’t necessarily have to be extremely long and complex: even just a summary, a stream of photos, or some battle clips compiled into a thread is great! If you write a report, make sure you encourage everyone else who participated to post their thoughts as well.

We hope that with this update all Organizers and tournament players will feel more encouraged to dive into and discuss what’s happening at WBO events around the world and that it’ll ultimately bring us all just a little bit closer together.