Szymo or Andrew? Who is the worldchampion now?

[Royal Freakiness]

Easy!, we have 4 world champions,,,, like Boxing, there are 3 or 4 organizations,  with  a world champion in each one.
Azun.
Petike.
Szymo.
Andrew.
For me the 4 are  the real world champions!

I agree too
let's see who'll take all 4 next time 

[Max]

Imo opinion it is szymo since this competition has the most credible jury and everbody was able to participate. Lmao if you compare rbss to prague and kuala kumpur.

[tbc]

LOL, why is everyone agreeing with Ricky. the divisions in boxing came after boxing's golden age. (1970's) when Muhammad Ali's career finished and boxing's downfall started. plus the boxing divisions formed over 3 decades and we already have so many. do you think this will stop?
I agree more with TF's answer. for freestylers by freestylers.

[Miran Pirner]

RBSS is also an open competition Max. Prague did have the most credible jury, but it also wasn't a real world championship. It was basically only Europe (almost the same like last year), without any notable freestylers from outside of Europe, so you can't compare Prague to RBSS in that regard.

Each of the competitions is specific and hard to win, so it's pointless to compare them and argue which is the "real" world championship. The closest to a real world championship is still RBSS, whether you like it or not.

Each has their own title, there's no "real" world champion.

Hmmm, it's an interesting question. For me personally, Szymo is the one who has the strongest case at claiming to be 'the best'. Prague was run by freestylers, for freestylers so for me, it is the most credible competition freestyle has got. However, Andrew also has every reason to call himself the world champion seeing as he has now won the first 'official' world championship.

1. How was this one "official"?
2. It was only the first stop, he didn't win the overall title yet.

[Max]

i know we cant call anyone the official world champion i just wanted to hear your opinion who is for you the world champion. and for me rbss is nowhere near to a real competition. jury is shit and the whole event has a shitty spirit for a competition.

[Brizze]

Azun of course.
Almost everyone had a chance to compete here.
And yea, the finals might not have been the best level, if you compare to the one in Kuala Lumpur and Prague, but Skora, Michryc, Szymo and all the others were beat by Luki, so you cant complain about the level.. everyone had a chance.

This one i Kuala Lumpur is imo not at world championship, since they just picked 16 and we all know, that there are some of them who really shouldnt be considered top 16 in the world.
Those competitions is a lot about contacts and fame.

For me Azun is the WC!

[alexfs]

Azun of course.
Almost everyone had a chance to compete here.
And yea, the finals might not have been the best level, if you compare to the one in Kuala Lumpur and Prague, but Skora, Michryc, Szymo and all the others were beat by Luki, so you cant complain about the level.. everyone had a chance.

This one i Kuala Lumpur is imo not at world championship, since they just picked 16 and we all know, that there are some of them who really shouldnt be considered top 16 in the world.
Those competitions is a lot about contacts and fame.

For me Azun is the WC!

brilliant post
speaking of kuala lumpur - no doubt some of those 16 who were picked - are by far not the top freestylers
for example - with all respect to gautier what achievement gave him a trip to kuala lumpur - what title does he hold and what comp did he win before?

freestyle football becomes more money oriented - f3 does a good job with promoting freestyle, but what they do even better is making money on freestylers themselves

[Miran Pirner]

i know we cant call anyone the official world champion i just wanted to hear your opinion who is for you the world champion. and for me rbss is nowhere near to a real competition. jury is shit and the whole event has a shitty spirit for a competition.

That's the best argument you've got? That the jury is shit? lol

[Adi]

Would be nice to put a point system in place between these 4 competitions.  Since all are so close in competitiveness, I'd give the same amount of points for each.

The only problem is if someone didn't participate in all of them.  Maybe you can do an average point system and see who's at the top overall.

[VLOFreestyle]

Hmm intresting topic.... Can we call Andrew the world champion? Maybe you can say like this: Before was Sean the best (rbss) then (azun) (rbss) then szymo (praug) And now Andrew cause he won the latest big competition. Cause I mean it's a big diffrent from the level 2010 in South Africa and the competition in Praug. The level get higher and higher... But yeah it's an intresting topic..

[CalleAhldénFS]

I would say like this, everyone of Andrew, Szymo, Azun and Petike are worldchampions.
But they don't have the same "worldchampion title". Szymo won prague this year, and then got the title for the next years prague competition. Azun have the RBSS world champion title and will have it to the next RBSS..
Etc... Hope you understand me, no offence to anyone, sorry for bad english!
peace!

[Brizze]

i know we cant call anyone the official world champion i just wanted to hear your opinion who is for you the world champion. and for me rbss is nowhere near to a real competition. jury is shit and the whole event has a shitty spirit for a competition.

nowhere near?
jury is shit?
In SA we got freestylers as judges in the qualification, because we wanted that... Shit jury?
Having 3 different persons to judge the finals is a good thing, otherwise it all might be judged on friendship between freestylers.
I dont really get why you are complaining about rbss.. everyone is running almost the same system with the battles. only different is the shitty ball, but hey, its the same for everyone and everyone got time to practice with it.

I love the work Lucaso puts into all this stuff and Prague is a cool competition, but I dont think you really can call it the World Championship, since not everyone is having the chance.. I mean make a competition in Argentina and see how many Europeans will show up.
No offence to Lucaso.. I love this guy and love the work he puts into all these things.