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Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ champions start preparations tonight
Back Circle, the defending champions of the Georgetown segment of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Tournament will commence preparations tonight when the Banks DIH-sponsored warm-up Competition opens tonight with four matches, at the Albouystown Basketball Court, starting from 20:00hrs.
(Flashback)- This is what it will look like come tonight at the Albouystown Basketball Court.
This tournament is being used to set the stage for the upcoming Guinness Caribbean Street Challenge Championships, of which Back Circle, who will be known as Team Guyana is scheduled to participate.
The winning team in this warm up tournament of which matches will be played at the East Ruimveldt and Burnham Basketball courts, before culminating, at the National Cultural Centre tarmac, will pocket $200,000, while the second, third and fourth placed finishers will take away $100,000, $50,000 and $25,000 respectively.
The teams that fail to make it to the final four after the completion of the preliminary rounds will each take home $15,000.
Tonight’s action will see Broad Street taking on Tiger Bay, Team Guyana going up against D’Urban Street, West Front Road clashing with Alexander Village and Albouystown facing Island All Stars.
Meanwhile, the Guinness Caribbean Street Championship of which Trinidad and Tobago’s Kenwayne Jones will be a part of, is set to be staged at the National Park from June 20-23 with the winners taking home US$4,000 and trophy.
Apart from the cash prize, the winning team will have a piece of land in their community receive an all-purpose five-aside hard court facility, compliments of Guinness, while the second, third and fourth placed finishers will receive US$2,000, US$1,500 and US$1,000 each.
Teams will be coming from Haiti, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia to battle Team Guyana for the top prize.
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