UK Website
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.
Events/Competitions
Alton Towers weekend breaks (August 2007)
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]
"Meet Us"
"Meet us" was a event hosted on some places around November 3th, 2007 until December 1st, 2007, which you could meet the Hoops, and Yoyo's mascots and take photos [2] Here are the lists of events back then:
| Events that took place |
|---|
| Leeds - November 3th, 2007 |
| Leeds - November 10th, 2007 |
| Leicester - November 17th, 2007 |
| Leicester - December 1st, 2007. |
E-Cards
The site had an e-card page, which had tons of E-Cards.
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[3], 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".
Advertisement
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.
Shop
There existed a shop, which you could buy merchandise, exclusively at the Clintox Cards. It has soft toys,
Show And Tell
Show And Tell was a section on the UK site, it was the animations page. It featured manners and littlelife animations, and Hoops and Yoyo's biographies.
News
News was announcement boards, which would tell events, newly released e-cards and more. [4]
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" [5]
- For some reason, in 2009, the site was abandoned, and still has the 2008 copyright below of the site.
- The store Flash file still works to this day.
References
- ↑ https://www.towerstimes.co.uk/history/events-archive/2007-events/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101226022320/http://www.hoopsandyoyo.co.uk/pages/meet_us.php?location=Leeds0311&npp=15&page=1
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070503044116/http://www.hoopsandyoyo.co.uk:80/pages/downloads.php
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071020043639/http://www.hoopsandyoyo.co.uk:80/pages/news.php
- ↑ https://youtube.com/watch?si=tsDOPSu7_aSFNEE4&v=Rzk89OhBVkw