What to know
- Announced March 22, 2011 via a Wall Street Journal report
- Selection methods varied wildly by country: formal qualifier brackets, random online draws via BeybladeBattles.com, or informal store events
- 4D System and Metal System parts were banned; red string launchers were lent to non-Asian competitors to level the field
- Competitors chose only three Beyblades each, inspected and disassembled by Takara Tomy staff before play
- Structure: round-robin pool play, a 16-player 'Elite 16' pool round, then single-elimination bracket play
- Matches were best-of-three with no tie replays
- First two rounds used Hasbro's Striker Stadium; the final used Takara Tomy's Tornado Beystadium, unfamiliar to non-Asian players
- The livestream suffered major technical failures, showing only about 90 minutes of the roughly 6-7 hour event
Participants
- Cían (Ireland)
- Zakiah (USA)
- Mauricio (Mexico)
- Dennis (Sweden)
- Phillip (Norway)
- Kristofers (Latvia)
- Jack (UK)
- Hamza (Denmark)
- Robbe Geerts (Belgium)
- Aleksandar (Germany)
- Yassin (France)
- Gal (Slovenia)
- Eric (Portugal)
- Simón (Spain)
- Marco (Italy)
- Onuralp (Turkey)
- Vladislav (Russia)
- Ryo (Japan)
- Peter (Hong Kong)
- Pattara (Thailand)
- Neil (Philippines)
- Rueben (Singapore)
- Muhammad (Indonesia)
- Dheeran (Australia)
- Finlay (New Zealand)
Results
- Ryo (Takahashi Ryou, Japan) won the championship, crowned No. 1 Blader in the World
- Zakiah Garcia (USA) finished 2nd
- Neil Anpol Arcangeal Beley (Philippines) finished 3rd
Named elsewhere on this site
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- 2012 Beyblade World Championship news item · 2012-03-25
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Claims We Could Not Check
Attributed, not verified by us
- The finals were originally slated for New York Comic Con on the same date before moving to Toronto two days later
- Only 22 countries were originally meant to participate
- Italy's promotion was huge: over 4,000 attendees across 100+ cities and 30 million media contacts
- Portugal's rep Eric appears to have started Beyblading in 2002 at age 9, per the bio's own math