Top 40 Jugglers

Lauge Benjaminsen, first place in the Top 40 Jugglers of 2011.

Wes Peden, first place in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Thomas Dietz, first place in 2006.

Anthony Gatto, first place in 2003 and 2005.

Jason Garfield, first place in 2004.

The Top 40 Jugglers is a yearly chart maintained on YouTube by Luke Burrage. Each December, jugglers vote on their favorite ten jugglers of the year, and Luke posts the results (the top 40 most popular jugglers of the year) early in following year.

This poll originated in 2003, when David Mallpress posted a survey on rec.juggling, asking participants to list their top 10 favorite jugglers in any order. Luke Burrage counted up the 308 votes, made a rough list of the top 40 jugglers, and posted the results as an imaginary TV show transcript.

The next year Luke reposted David's survey on rec.juggling, and posted the new top 40 results there and in the IJDb Compendium. Luke continued to post the survey and results (as TV show transcripts) on rec.juggling each year until 2006, when he presented the results as the first episode of his Juggling Podcast. The 2007 results were also presented in a podcast, and after that Luke started posting the results as videos on YouTube.

In 2009, Luke posted a voting video on YouTube, where 2407 votes were cast in the comments, and processed by a python script written by Luke. After that Luke has continued to use voting videos, python scripts, and results videos each year. 5151 votes were cast in the 2011 poll.

In total, 130 jugglers have been featured on the chart. Only the following jugglers have been on the chart every year so far:

• Anthony Gatto
• Thomas Dietz
• Vova Galchenko
• Jason Garfield
• Jay Gilligan
• Luke Burrage
• Toby Walker

The results for each year since the chart began are listed below.

2003

Results

1. Anthony Gatto (22 votes)
2. Jason Garfield
3. Vova and Olga Galchenko (listed together because most of the voters listed them together)
4. Jay Gilligan
5. Luke Burrage
6. Viktor Kee
7. Ben Beever
8. Bill Berry
9. Enrico Rastelli
10. Michael Karas
11. Francis Brunn
12. Sergei Ignatov
13. Toby Walker
14. Françoise Rochais
15. Jonathan Root
16. Maksim Komaro
17. Dennis Paumier
18. Kris Kremo
19. Thomas Dietz
20. Adam Kariotis
21. Scotty Cavanaugh
22. Paul Ponce
23. Jon Brady
24. Evgeni Biljauer
25. Cindy Marvel
26. Ben Jennings
27. Ville Valo
28. Bobby May
29. Sean Gandini
30. Ivan Pecel
31. Chris Chiappini
32. Scott Seltzer
33. Bruce Sarafian
34. Peter Bone
35. Steve Ragatz
36. Pat McGuire
37. Matt Hall
38. Barak Reuben
39. C.J. Smith
40. Bruce Tiemann (2 votes)

2004

Results

1. Jason Garfield (35 votes)
2. Thomas Dietz
3. Vova and Olga Galchenko
4. Luke Burrage
5. Toby Walker
6. Anthony Gatto
7. Jay Gilligan
8. Ben Beever
9. Bill Berry
10. Malte Steinmetz
11. Matt Hall
12. Manu Laude
13. Viktor Kee
14. Stephan Sing
15. Maksim Komaro
16. Francis Brunn
17. Sean McKinney
18. Luke Wilson
19. Ben Jennings
20. Sergei Ignatov
21. Jonathon Root
22. Niels Duinker
23. Ville Walo
24. Dave Nager
25. Sean Gandini
26. Ivan Pecel
27. Scotty Cavanaugh
28. Michael Karas
29. Michael Menes
30. Peter Bone
31. Albert Lucas
32. Denis Paumier
33. Jochen Pfeiffer and Florien Müller-Reißmann (Get the Shoe)
34. Philip Meyhoefer
35. Chris Fowler
36. Flying Kamaratzov Brothers
37. Rhys Thomas
38. Jason Perry
39. Josiah Jones
40. Ofek Shilton (2 votes)

2005

Results

1. Anthony Gatto (his 2nd win, 49 votes)
2. Thomas Dietz
3. Toby Walker
4. Vova Galchenko
5. Jay Gilligan
6. Luke Burrage
7. Francis Brunn
8. Stephan Sing
9. Peter Bone
10. Jason Garfield
11. Matt Hall
12. Malte Steinmetz
13. Olga Galchenko
14. Eden Zak
15. Sean McKinney
16. Norbi Whitney
17. Ben Beever
18. Barak Reuben
19. Kristian Wanvik
20. Ori Roth
21. Maksim Komaro
22. Sean Gandini
23. Kris Kremo
24. Mihn Tam Kaplan
25. Marco Paoletti
26. Bill Berry
27. Luis Niño Villesca
28. Viktor Kee
29. Dave Nager
30. Matthew Tiffany
31. Paul Taylor
32. Bobby May
33. Kazuhiro Shindo
34. Manu Laude
35. Peter Gerber
36. Ivan Pecel
37. Sergei Ignatov
38. Ryo Yabe
39. Luke Wilson
40. Komei Aoki (3 votes)

2006

Results

1. Thomas Dietz (55 votes)
2. Vova Galchenko
3. Anthony Gatto
4. Wes Peden
5. Jay Gilligan
6. Toby Walker
7. Peter Bone
8. Jason Garfield
9. Luke Burrage
10. Ben Beever
11. Kristian Wanvik
12. Olga Galchenko
13. Marco Paoletti
14. Matt Hall
15. Ivan Pecel
16. Kris Kremo
17. Michael Karas
18. Ori Roth
19. Maksim Komaro
20. Malte Steinmetz
21. Stefan Sing
22. Komei Aoki
23. Norbi Whitney
24. Bill Berry
25. Elias Hedlund
26. Viktor Kee
27. Erik Åberg
28. Ryo Yabe
29. Eden Zak
30. Owen Morse and Jon Wee (The Passing Zone)
31. Erin Stephens
32. Dave Kelly
33. Barak Reuven
34. Sean Blue
35. Francis Brunn
36. Sean McKinney
37. Little Paul
38. Chris Fowler
39. Joe Showers
40. Tom Derrick (5 votes)

2007

Results

1. Wes Peden (99 votes)
2. Thomas Dietz
3. Vova Galchenko
4. Anthony Gatto
5. Jason Garfield
6. Jay Gilligan
7. Toby Walker
8. Elias Hedlund
9. Luke Burrage
10. Peter Bone
11. Michael Karas
12. Maksim Komaro
13. Matt Hall
14. Stefan Sing
15. Ori Roth
16. Matthew Tiffany
17. Morgan Cosquer
18. Viktor Gyllenberg
19. Olga Galchenko
20. Komei Aoki
21. Erik Åberg
22. Sean Blue
23. Jochen Pfeiffer and Florien Müller-Reißmann
24. Aaron Gregg
25. Luke Wilson
26. Adrian Pole
27. Freddy Sheed (#26 and #27 were both listed as #26.5)
28. Marco Paoletti
29. Kris Kremo
30. Chris Fowler
31. Markus Furtner
32. Rodney Mullen (the only non-juggler ever to make it onto the chart)
33. Ben Beever
34. Sergei Ignatov
35. Sean Gandini
36. Francis Brunn
37. Sean McKinney
38. Greg Kennedy
39. Sakari Männistö
40. Joëlle Huguenin (9 votes)

2008

Top 40 Jugglers of 2008 - Part 1

2008 results video - part 1

Top 40 Jugglers of 2008 - Part 2

2008 results video - part 2

1. Wes Peden (73 votes)
2. Thomas Dietz
3. Anthony Gatto
4. Vova Galchenko
5. Jay Gilligan
6. Toby Walker
7. Michael Karas
8. Peter Aberg
9. Alexander Kulakov
10. Jason Garfield
11. Komei Aoki
12. Richard Kohut
13. Peter Bone
14. Maksim Komaro
15. Ori Roth
16. Sakari Männistö
17. Luke Burrage
18. Eric Aberg
19. Elias Hedlund
20. Viktor Guillaume
21. Sean Blue
22. Luke Wilson
23. Kris Kremo
24. Francis Brunn
25. Sergei Ignatov
26. Patrik Elmnert
27. Stefan Sing
28. Ben Beever
29. Freddy Sheed
30. Adrian Pole
31. Marco Paoletti
32. Sean Gandini
33. Falco Scheffler
34. Doug Sayers
35. Matthew Tiffany
36. Sean McKinney
37. Sondre Ribe Øverby
38. Olga Galchenko
39. Joëlle Huguenin
40. Enrico Rastelli (7 votes)

2009

Top 40 Jugglers of 2009 Results Video

2009 results video

1. Wes Peden (171 votes)
2. Anthony Gatto
3. Vova Galchenko
4. Thomas Dietz
5. Patrik Elmnert
6. Pavel Evsukevich
7. Ori Roth
8. Komei Aoki
9. Lauge Benjaminsen
10. Doug Sayers
11. Toby Walker
12. Jay Gilligan
13. Yuri Yamamura
14. Stefan Sing
15. Luke Burrage
16. Lorenzo Mastropietro didn't actually get enough votes to get on the chart, but due to people voting for him using only his first name, Luke's python script counted most of the votes for Sid Lorenzo (who should have been around #30) as votes for Lorenzo Mastropietro.
17. Sakari Mannisto
18. Alexander Kulakov
19. Jason Garfield
20. Michael Karas
21. Eric Bates
22. Ivan Pecel
23. Jacob Sharpe
24. Daniel Eaker
25. Noah Malone
26. Pawel Witczak
27. Sondre Ribe Øverby
28. William Gilbert
29. Sean Gandini
30. Kristian Wanvik
31. Joëlle Huguenin
32. Christof Buch
33. Eric Aberg
34. Josh Horton
35. Falco Scheffler
36. Arjan Groenendijk
37. Marco Paoletti
38. Sean Blue
39. Peter Aberg
40. Etienne Chauzy (13 votes)

2010

Top 40 Jugglers of 2010 Results

2010 results video

1. Wes Peden (his 4th win in a row, 214 votes)
2. Lauge Benjaminsen
3. Doug Sayers
4. Pavel Evsukevich
5. Anthony Gatto
6. Vova Galchenko
7. Thomas Dietz
8. David Ferman
9. Luke Burrage
10. Stefan Sing
11. Jason Garfield
12. Kyle Johnson
13. Alexander Koblikov
14. Noah Malone
15. Patrik Elmnert
16. Christof Buch
17. Komei Aoki
18. Jay Gilligan
19. Jack Denger
20. Josh Horton
21. Michael Karas
22. Ori Roth
23. Jon Brady
24. Thom Wall
25. Etienne Chauzy
26. Joona Muistola
27. Eljas Aalto
28. Guillaume Karpowicz
29. Sean Gandini
30. Alex Barron
31. Toby Walker
32. Marco Paoletti
33. Ivan Pecel
34. Joëlle Huguenin
35. Steve Hoggan
36. Chris Hodge
37. Riky Riccardo Tanca
38. Yuri Yamamura
39. Eric Bates
40. Falco Scheffler (25 votes - 40th place in 2010 got more votes than 1st place in 2003)

2011

Top 40 Jugglers of 2011 results video

2011 results video (watch the slowed-down version here)

1. Lauge Benjaminsen (254 votes)
2. Wes Peden (244 votes)
3. Doug Sayers
4. Anthony Gatto
5. Pavel Evsukevich
6. Vova Galchenko
7. Patrik Elmnert
8. Tony Pezzo
9. David Ferman
10. Alex Barron
11. Luke Burrage
12. Chris Hodge
13. Alexander Koblikov
14. Stefan Sing
15. Jack Denger
16. Jay Gilligan
17. Thomas Dietz
18. Ori Roth
19. Christof Buch
20. Josh Turner
21. Jacob Sharpe
22. Etienne Chauzy
23. Haavard Hvidsten
24. Yuri Yamamura
25. Jason Garfield
26. Dan Wood
27. Kyle Johnson
28. Eric Longequel
29. Eljas Aalto
30. Komei Aoki
31. Thom Wall
32. Riky Riccardo Tanca
33. Joona Muistola
34. Toby Walker
35. Chris Noonan
36. Kristian Wanvik
37. Neta Oren
38. Ben Hestness
39. Joëlle Huguenin
40. David Leahy (28 votes)

Early in 2012, a few other jugglers released videos showing the results from similar polls for specific countries.

Japanese Juggler TOP 11 Result

Top 11 Japanese Jugglers of 2011

Top 20 Czech Slovak Jugglers

Top 20 Czech+Slovak Jugglers of 2011

Top 20° Los malabaristas más populares de Chile 2011

Top 20 Chilean Jugglers of 2011