DAY 1:

The competition was fierce and by the end of Day 1 KUSA had 4 people moving onto the final round with Nobu of Tribe in the #1 spot.

DAY 1 RESULTS:

01. Nobuyoshi Norioka (JPN – 96)
02. Yutaro Fukushima (JPN – 96)
03. Lukas Funk (USA – 90)
04. Logan Tosta (USA – 90)
05. Jake Fischer (USA – 89)
06. Soma Kanemoto (JPN – 89)
07. Toko Mukai (JPN – 89)
08. Soma Fujita (JPN – 89)
09. So Kanada (JPN – 88)
10. Yuta Satoda (JPN – 88)
11. Yukie Yao (JPN – 88)
12. Nonoka Kyodo (JPN – 88)
13. Nicholas Stodd (USA – 88)
14. Liad Kotlarker (ISR – 87)
15. Kengo Kawamura (JPN – 87)
16. Parker Johnson (USA – 86)
17. Zack Gallagher (USA – 86)
18. Kenta Shikagawa (JPN – 86)
19. Jonney Kress (USA – 86)
20. Yoshiki Goto (JPN – 86)
21. Gavin Harvey (USA – 85)
22. Sho Hanasaki (JPN – 85)
23. Terence Kawamoto (USA – 85)
24. Taiki Tachida (JPN – 83)
25. Carter Justice (USA – 83)
26. Yuji Shimada (JPN – 83)

Wildcards :
– Lau Chun Ho (HKG – 74)
– Antonio Kyan (PER – 61)
– Rodney Ansell (CAN – 58)
– Nozomi Arita (JPN – 78)

Regional Seeds :
– Andrei Goia (ROM – 72; European Seed)
– Nick Gallagher (USA – 91; N. America Champ)
– Bryson Lee (USA – 98; KWC 2016 Champ)
– Wyatt Bray (USA – 70; KWC 2015 Champ)
– Bonz Atron (USA – 52; KWC 2014 Champ)

DAY 2:

So Kanada takes the win and is both the first Japanese and the first unsponsored player to take the championship title.

We love to see Japanese players embracing Freestyle play more and can’t wait where tricks will take us in 2018.

DAY 2 FINAL RESULTS:

KWC Final Score :

1. So Kanada – Japan ( 88 + 1212 ) = 1300
2. Bryson Lee – U. S. A. ( 98 + 1028 ) = 1126
3. Liad Kotlarker – Israel ( 87 + 979 ) = 1066
4. Lukas Funk – U. S. A. ( 90 + 910 ) = 1000
5. Nick Gallagher – U. S. A. ( 91 + 888 ) = 979
6. Jake Fischer – U. S. A. ( 89 + 856 ) = 945
7. Gavin Harvey – U. S. A. ( 85 + 846 ) = 931
8. Nonoka Kyodo – Japan ( 88 + 810 ) = 898
9. Soma Kanemoto – Japan ( 89 + 795 ) = 884
10. Logan Tosta – U. S. A. ( 90 + 791 ) = 881
11. Zack Gallagher – U. S. A. ( 86 + 665 ) = 751
12. Wyatt Bray – U. S. A. ( 70 + 657 ) = 727
13. Carter Justice – U. S. A. ( 83 + 636 ) = 719
14. Yuta Satoda – Japan ( 88 + 620 ) = 708
15. Nicholas Stodd – U. S. A. ( 88 + 598 ) = 686
16. Parker Johnson – U. S. A. ( 86 + 580 ) = 666
17. Yukie Yao – Japan ( 88 + 573 ) = 661
18. Kengo Kawamura – Japan ( 87 + 535 ) = 622
19. Nobuyoshi Norioka – Japan ( 96 + 500 ) = 596
20. Yutaro Fukushima – Japan ( 96 + 481 ) = 577
21. Soma Fujita – Japan ( 89 + 483 ) = 572
22. Sho Hanasaki – Japan ( 85 + 462 ) = 547
23. Terence Kawamoto – U. S. A. ( 85 + 460 ) = 545
24. Jonney Kress – U. S. A. ( 86 + 447 ) = 533
25. Kenta Shikagawa – Japan ( 86 + 423 ) = 509
26. Yoshiki Goto – Japan ( 86 + 394 ) = 480
27. Yuji Shimada – Japan ( 83 + 389 ) = 472
28. Bonz Atron – U. S. A. ( 52 + 388 ) = 440
29. Taiki Tachida – Japan ( 83 + 354 ) = 437
30. Andrei Goia – Romania ( 72 + 359 ) = 431
31. Toko Mukai – Japan ( 89 + 272 ) = 361
32. Rodney Ansell – Canada ( 58 + 254 ) = 312
33. Lau Chun Ho – Hong Kong ( 74 + 199 ) = 273
34. Nozomi Arita – Japan ( 78 + 149 ) = 227
35. Antonio Kyan – Peru ( 61 + 34 ) = 95

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