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Guinness excitement returns to Banks Car Park tonight
In every community that the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition has ventured into since its birth, there has been overwhelming excitement and massive crowd support and when the national playoffs starts this evening, at the Banks DIH Car Park, the same two characteristics are expected to feature predominantly.
Flashback! Part of the action in the East Coast Demerara segment earlier this year.
The competition organised by Banks DIH under the Guinness brand is to select the team that will represent Guyana at the second annual Guinness Street Challenge scheduled for June 21-23 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Eight teams have survived from competitions played in Georgetown, Linden, East Coast of Demerara and Bartica and in addition to earning the right to be Guyana’s representative at the prestigious regional tournament they also have the opportunity to win lucrative prize monies and impressive trophies.
The eight survivors are: Silver Bullets and Silent Assassins of Linden, Leopold Street and Back Circle of Georgetown, Plaisance and Victoria Church Yard from East Coast Demerara and Millennium and Hard Core of Bartica.
Leopold Street won the Georgetown Zone with Back Circle, who was Guyana’s representative at the inaugural Caribbean Championship ending as runner-up, while Plaisance emerged at the top of the pack in the East Coast Demerara segment with Victoria Church Yard beaten finalists.
In the Linden competition, Silver Bullets marched to the top of the podium with Silent Assassins finishing second best, while Millennium copped the top prize in Bartica followed by Hard Core.
The fixtures in the opening round are as follows: Silver Bullets up against Hard Core followed by the Leopold Street versus Victoria Church Yard encounter, before Silent Assassins battle Plaisance and Back Circle takes on Millennium.
The second round which will be played on the night brings together Silver Bullets against Victoria Church Yard, Silent Assassins versus Millennium, Leopold Street battles Hard Core and Back Circleplays Plaisance.
The third round will be played on Saturday (tomorrow), while the semi-finals and final will be played on Monday evening, a public holiday. The winners will receive $400,000, runner-up $250,000, third place $150,000 and fourth $75,000.
Guyana hosted the inaugural Caribbean Guinness Challenge last year at the National Park.
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