Daniel's News | May 4th, 2026 [MAY THE 4TH EDITION]

Daniel Hooper
May 4
3 min read

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Sydney Regional 2026 Recap

This year's Sydney Regional was an fantastic experience for me! (last weekend)

Like the usual, I compete it both 1A and X division and honestly, I much prefer the performances I've done for this year's regional better than last year's

Also I bought great yoyos from OFFSET because not only everything in that OFFSET stall was 10% OFF compared to their online prices and I'll say I will be covering all the yoyos I've bought to review on my channel.

One of the exciting things about the Regional is how I won 3rd place in the X divison for like the fourth time in my history of yoyo competitions I've entered, with this time being an medal to wear on my neck and two more yoyos on my prize bag, one of each I already got and also covered on my channel in the past, but now in different color (MagicYoyo V11). In this OFFSET bag (ignoring the fact taht there is no OFFSET yoyos being on the prize bag).

And this medal here looks pretty shiny and also shoutout/kudos to Brandon Vu for signing on the back of the medal too!

Sadly I didn't win in the 1A division, and I just perform what is possibly the first time I've landed an neck stole in an yoyo competition (not counting the first neck stole performance I've done being the Spicy Brain one this year) and landed it successfully because I've practiced this trick everyday.

I'm actually on 9th place this year, so that means I'm on the top 10 here, and somehow I didn't get an single stop on the X division one, when I got one stop for the other divison, I didn't even get an discard this time too!

Here are the scoreboards for this year's Sydney Regional. All thanks and shoutout to Allon Chen for the photo on Facebook.

Congrats to everyone from the Sydney Regional 2026. Including the ones who performed in the yoyo competition last saturday

NEW YOYO REVIEW ANNOUNCEMENT From May 2026

Since I bought many yoyos at the Sydney Regionals + the prizes from the X Diversion. I'm here to announce new yoyo reviews coming from May this year! All the following yoyos will be reviewed from May to July this year...

OFFSET Outlier Mini

Expect Date - Mid or Late May 2026

Progress on this review might start soon this week.

OFFSET Logic 2

Expect Date - Early June 2026

OFFSET Galactus

Expect Date - Late June 2026

YoyoFactory Turbo Grind Machine

Expect Date - July 2026

(NOTE: These dates could be final depending on how much time and work I need to get done, doesn't mean it isn't for the most part)

An Shoutout Segment for Allambi Care

Before I conclude this news blog, I just like to give an shoutout to Allambi Care for the Spicy Brain photos from last month, and including the photos of Me + the yoyo man in this year's event

Honestly the first one is the best one they took for me! Better than last years in my subject opinion, as I look very cool with it with that serious face and the angle.

What an perfect photo for me!

Also with their recent video/post on Facebook about the Spicy Brain this year!

Where not only I appear in it, but so does the yoyo man.

That concludes the news blog!

See ya in the next news blog!