Spintop Photo Contest 2025

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Spintop Photo Contest 2025

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Let's start a thread for the 2025 Photo contest

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RULES:

To be eligible, the photo needs to be somehow spintop related, taken in 2025, and either taken by a member of the board or featuring a member of the forum. If the photographer is not a member the prize goes to the player in the photograph. Otherwise it goes to the photographer. The winner will be selected by a poll on the forum.

That's it as far as rules. We recommend that those proposing a picture also give them a name/title/caption. This administrator reserves the right to give it a name or caption if none is given ;D


Previous winners were:
2010: Kevinm (yocephus) with Leggy Corkscrew
2011: Takeshi with Takeshi's World
2012: Neff with Top Face
2013: Hrosik with Dizzy Giraffe
2014: Mark Hayward with Boomerang
2015: Jay with: Eli sees dots
2016/7: Segundo with: Trompos en el cielo
2018: SpinLynn with: Spin Joy
2019: Jim in Paris with: Sunset Spin
2020: Jay with: Big boy levitation
2021: DiegoTrompo with Clouds
2022: Cuper with: Filling Up
2023: Yahir with: The Eye on the Prize
2024: Jay with: Fishing with Top Bait

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First entry:


Eye on the Goal by Jun

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This was taken this weekend by Malve during the Limena festival of trottole:

Balloon with a tip by Malve:
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my 1st entry , pic taken at cyril 's

Playing dice by Jim in Paris

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Here is a failed attempt that I'm not going to nominate, but could have been a good one. I was visiting the medieval village of Gruyère (like the cheese), Switzerland, when I saw a procession with a band, priest, altar boys and children wearing monk's robes who were probably going to take their first communion. I took a lot of photos with a top in the frame, but none were good, many because other people kept getting in the way. But looking at them afterwards, I found this little boy (and his sister) paying a lot of attention to the top, who I did not notice at the time.

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I lost this dyed Giulia (my favorite bearing top), in that village (taking a risky video). At least now I can dream that by a miracle it gets into his hands . . .
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Good one ta0!
In the last of those pictures it looks as if another boy in the background and a monk are also looking for you Gulia.
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Front-Kick Whip by Mark Leithead

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This is taken from my 2025 World Spintop Online Contest, 3-Minute Freestyle, Open Division.

For your interest you can watch the entire freestyle here :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVFmLcFWYg

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Great action "photo" Mark!

On the freestyle video I cannot comment as I will be a judge.
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ta0 wrote: Thu May 29, 2025 11:44 am Great action "photo" Mark!
Thanks Jorge!! Already means a lot :D
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Spinning inside a bubble by ta0

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ta0 wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 10:09 am Spinning inside a bubble by ta0
Awesome :)
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Hypnotizing an alpaca by Ortwin

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A different kind of Twin Spin. :D

We should have a sub-contest for the funniest caption for a photo . . .
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very sweet pic Ortwin !

the man with the whispering top talks to Monsieur Alpaga :D 8)

good summer time !


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