Cardistry: This is Incredible and Mesmerising to Watch! Eliot Slevin in Motion

Eliot Slevin, creator of the viral hit "Run Rabbit", winner of the inaugural International Cardistry Open (ICO) and Season 3 ICO judge, show his mastery in this INCREDIBLE video for his interview with Shivraj Morzaria's Cardestroy blog.

His flexible fingers, and his mastery of cardistry turns a regular deck of cards into a beautifully choreographed motion that seems to tweak gravity. Enjoy!

Cardistry: Assembly 2021 by Eliot Slevin

Assembly is a small-scale playing card company run by Eliot Slevin (ICO Season 1 winner), focusing on non-traditional designs, produced in small batches. The inaugural launch of the brand features 3 deck designs, Graphic 303 - Dark, Graphic 303 - Light, and Logos in grey. 

Graphic 303 Dark edition deck features a one-way back design combining shape and color. Each card back is unique and order Graphic 303 produces 504 different potential unique sequences of cards. The face cards are pretty much standard classic American faces. The contrasting dark blue background of the card backs makes the shapes pop! 

The Graphic 303 Light edition is a lighter colorway of 303 dark. Instead of dark blue, the card backs feature a grey colorway with the same shapes featured on the 303 Dark edition. The deck is packaged in a teal accented tuck box.



The final Logos deck is probably our favorite of the 3. Every assembly deck gets a unique version of the logo. This deck is a deep dive into the system, looking at some of our favorite permutations. The deck feature a minimalistic design with a one-way unique card back showcasing a permutation on each of the cards.



All decks printed by Cartamundi, B9 finish on Slimline stock. Only 400 of each design was produced. The decks are available for $15 on https://assembly.cards/.

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Cardistry: Season 3 of the International Cardistry Open is Back!

Introduction

Welcome to Season 3 of the International Cardistry Open (#ICO)! The highly anticipated tournament is back, bigger and better featuring cardists from around the globe showcasing their talents and skills.

This tournament is jointly organised by theflush, Kardify, supported by The New Deck Order (NDO) and Lance T. Miller.  The ultimate goal is to determine the cardist who excel in all aspects of cardistry. The tournament will begin in 18th September. Registrations open on the 5th September.

Rules and Terms & Conditions

Please head over to the ICO page to read the full term and conditions of the tournament.

Tournament Format

#ICO Season 3 is a knockout tournament. Each will compete in 5 rounds (preliminary, round 2, round 3, semi-finals and finals). Unsuccessful cardists will be eliminated from the tournament while winning cardists advance to the next round.

Head-to-head elimination (1v1) will be the new format for the semi-finals and finals. The winner of the final round will be the #ICO Season 3 Champion! Cardists will be asked to produce a 60sec video for each round. The format or content of the video will be announced on the first day of each round.

September 18: Preliminary
October 1: Round 2
October 14: Round 3
October 26: Semi-Finals
November 6: Finals

ICO 2014 Champion Eliot Slevin's video

Judges 

The judging panel for the 2016 tournament consists of:
+ Jaspas Deck, World Kardistry Champion 13/14 and founder of NDO.
+ Eliot Slevin, Creator of viral hit Run Rabbit and winner of the inaugural International Cardistry Open, 2014.
+ Nguyen Hoang Duy, Spingod and Inagural Cardistry-Con Champion, 2016.
+ Andrew Avila, Assorted Works and World Kardistry Runner-Up 13/14

Contestants will be judged on best demonstrated overall mastery of all aspects of cardistry, which includes Smoothness & Control (Execution), Difficulty, Originality and Presentation.

Sponsors

We have the biggest prize pool of any cardistry tournament to date and this does not happen without our very generous sponsors.

+ Expert Playing Card Co.
+ Thirdway Industries
+ Cardvolution
+ Joker and the Thief
+ Jetsetter Playing Cards
+ JP Playing Cards
+ Metropol Cards
+ theflush.com.au
+ New Deck Order
+ Kardify

ICO 2015 Champion Matt Beaudouin's video

Prizes

Champion: Half gross (72 decks) of the Limited Edition ICO deck from Expert Playing Card Co., 1 Brick (12 decks) of J&T Playing Cards from Joker and the Thief and 1 Brick (12 mixed decks) from Cardvolution.
1st Runner-up: 1 Brick (12 decks) of from JP Playing Cards and 1 Brick (12 decks) of from Jetsetter Playing Cards.

+ Most Voted Cardist (Sponsored by Thirdway Industries)
1 mixed Brick (12 decks) of Thirdway Industries Playing Cards and a chance to be Thirdway Ambassador.

+ Viewer Giveaway
1 mixed Brick (12 decks) of Metropol Playing Cards.

Prizes will be delivered to the nominated address of the respective winners directly from the sponsors. Join us and cardists from around the world over to compete, share ideas, and become the Season 3 ICO champion.

Can't do cardistry? Head on over to the ICO group page and enjoy: leave comments and feedbacks on videos to support your favourite cardists. Participate in the giveaways! So, don't miss out!

Kickstarter: Clouded Paper Playing Cards by Eliot Slevin

A long time coming, a deck of playing cards created by Elion Slevin, is currently seeking funds on Kickstarter. Eliot is a New Zealand-based cardist well known for the viral cardistry video, "Run Rabbit" and was the inaugural International Cardsitry Open champion.

The deck, Clouded Paper is a rather unusual deck of cards -  no two backs are the same. Every card is unique, yet tied together as a deck with a marbled paper aesthetic. On creating his own custom deck, Eliot told Kardify,

I never wanted to make a standard deck of cards. After lots of experimentation and inspiration, I really started to love the idea of a deck with unique backs. However, all the cards have to 'feel' as if they're from one deck - there needs to be a central theme. I realized texture could provide this - allowing a uniform aesthetic with variations and imperfections between the cards.

With such strong variation coming from the backs, Eliot felt the faces needed to be neutral and expected to balance the deck. With that, the face cards are standard American, with a few surprises. The deck is packaged in a neutral, minimal design tuck box.

Clouded Paper Playing Cards will be printed by the USPCC and pledge will start at $15 on Kickstarter.

Cardistry: Cardistry-Con, New York Day 1

Twitter: @cardistrycon

The inaugural Cardistry-Con is underway in Brooklyn, New York. Organised by Dan and Dave, Zach Mueller of Fontaine Cards, The Virts and Dealersgrip, Cardistry-Con is a three-day conference devoted to the blossoming art of cardistry. Thanks to Simon Bruno, designer of the upcoming Glassback Playing Cards on Kickstarter, April 14th, we are able to share some images of the Cardistry-Con with you.

On April 10, cardists from all over the world gathered to share, inspire, learn and collaborate, and have an absolute blast together. The event includes talks, panel discussions, live performances, exclusive video screenings, Q&As, workshops, contests and giveaways.

Art of Play Pop-Up Shop

Headliners for Day 1 includes Dimitri, Aviv, Andrew, Alejandro, Spencer, Chase, Franky Morales, Kevin Ho, Zach Mueller, Tobias, Oliver, Nikolaj, Birger Karlsson, Eliot Slevin, Huron, Daren, Noel Heath.

Cardistry Con-versations such as Two-Handed Cuts (image above) and Practice and workshop for the popular flourish Curly Cue were covered on Day 1.

Live streaming (or on demand) is available for cardists who are not able to make it to the event. In addition, anyone with the online pass will be able to engage with everyone attending the event in Brooklyn. There is a comments stream below the video for questions, requests, or have a discussion. These comments are projected onto a wall at the event for everyone present to see and interact with. Available on Indiegogo.


Images of the Cardistry-Con was provided by Simon Bruno designer of the upcoming Glassback Playing Cards on Kickstarter, April 14th. No part of this article or images can be reproduced without written permission from the Simon and Kardify.

Cardistry: Who won Season 3 of the International Cardistry Open?

161 contestants, 8 weeks, 5 rounds and 1 champion. In a close-run finals of the International Cardistry Open (ICO), Italian cardist Alessandro Ricci has become the Season 3 Champion after narrowly defeating Vietnamese cardist Tran Tien Thanh.

Alex takes home the top prize of, Half gross (72 decks) of the Limited Edition ICO deck from Expert Playing Card Co. One Brick (12 decks) of J&T Playing Cards from Joker and the Thief and one Brick (12 mixed decks) from Cardvolution, while his opponent also pockets one Brick (12 decks) of from JP Playing Cards and one Brick (12 decks) from Jetsetter Playing Cards.

Here are the two final videos:

We want to thank the amazing judges who have spent hours going through and scoring each and every video. Please visit and like their respective pages to show your support. Jaspas Deck, Eliot Slevin, Nguyen Hoang Duy, and Andrew Avila.