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ESPN
Deportes Presents
Record-Breaking
VI
World Domino Championship |
 Lino
Garcia, General Manager, ESPN Deportes with the 2008 World Domino
Champions. Fabio Baduy and Reinaldo Troconis. |
BRISTOL,
Conn. - BRISTOL, Conn., July 14 /PRNewswire/ --
ESPN Deportes and the World Domino Federation presented the VI World Domino
Championship at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. Thursday,
July 10 - Saturday, July 12. This year's championship broke the Guinness World
Record for "Most People Playing Dominoes," with
574
combined players helping surpass the previous record of 300. The three-day
event gathered over 600 domino enthusiasts, with representation from nine
countries from Latin America, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Russia and the United
States.
Freddy Vera from Puerto Rico won the individuals category and Fabio Baduy and
Reinaldo Troconis from Venezuela took home the prize in the pair's category.
Vera got his early lessons in dominoes at the age of 14 by observing people
playing the game in the streets of his native San Sebastian.
Friends since attending Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, Fabio
Baduy and Reinaldo Troconis have been playing dominoes for over a decade.
Baduy, a computer engineer and Troconis, a systems analyst, credit their
passion for the game to the university's security guards who taught them how to
master the game.
ESPN Deportes will televise all the action of the VI World Domino Championship
in September 2008.
International
Domino Federation President Lucas Guittard and National Domino Federation
President Manuel Oquendo, received the New World Record Certificates from
Guinness adjudicator
Dough Parsons,
as ESPN Deportes General Manager Lino Garcia looks on with a huge smile.
Reynaldo Troconis & Fabio Duboy (Venezuela) and Freddy Vera & Manuel Acevedo (Puerto Rico) face off in the finals. The team from Venezuela was the victor.
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New
ESPN Deportes
will be televising the 6th Domino World Championship 2008 on September 24-26 at
8:00 PM EST. Check your cable or satellite provider local listing. Check it out
!!!! Don't miss this world record breaking event now on National TV. Don't
forget to let your friends know and all Domino enthusiasts.
International
Domino Federation President Lucas Guittard, Eliseo González, President
Federación Domino República Mexicana, Manuel Oquendo, President National Domino
Federation USA, Armando Campos, Vice-President FDRM and Ricardo Arias,
Vice-President FDRM, met in Hermosillo, México at the National Tournament.
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Daniel
Bascuñana, President Federación Española de Domino, Lucas Guittard, Manuel
Oquendo and Ramón Quereda, Vice-President, Federación Española de Domino, met
in Madrid, Spain in an effort to forge a bright new future for the
International Domino Federation.
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