UK Website

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hoopsandyoyo.co.uk or the UK site, was a site specifically made for United Kingdom fans. It was released on 2007, and abandoned in late 2009, it was shut down on 2017, due to HYY's discontinuation. The site hosted events, some games, and news headlines. And meeting the hoops&yoyo mascots.

About

The site was mentioned on the US site in March 2007. The site had competition, events, news, and some games.

"Meet Us"

Competitions

Events

Alton Towers weekend breaks (August 2007)

The event.

There used to host events on the site, the first ever event, was for weekend breaks to Alton Towers which hosted on August 2007 until 14th of September 2007. [1]

Games

Swap Game

The most notable game back then, was the swap game, it's a tile-matching game, where the core gameplay is based on swapping two same characters among several on the gameboard to make a row or column of at least three matching-colored characters. it has two modes, non-registered mode which you're a guest, while your highscore will not be registered at the leaderboard. And the "register" mode which you have to register/create an account, or login to save your highscores on the leaderboard.

Downloadbles

There used to be downloadbles on the site, here's some of them:

Wallpapers

You could download wallpapers on the site, those wallpapers had the site url changed to "hoopsandyoyo.com" to "hoopsandyoyo.co.uk".

Printables

There used to be printables on the site, you could print, a coloring book, office notes, masks and more. In the description, it showed how much time it prints. Example: "Broadband: 15 seconds".

There used to be an advertisement for the UK site on TV's, it showed Hoops, and Yoyo dancing, while both were trying to show their best dance moves and correcting each other.

Trivia

  • The site was popular because of the swap game, it used to be competed for the highest score ever. The record for the highest score is 111650 points by "lacygirl" [2]

References