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NEW PRESS RELEASE : The Orleans Hotel Welcomed Its Guest Bowlers with Southern Nevada Hospitality
Las Vegas, Nevada - Another great TAT tournament is in the books and once again the bowlers loved the bowling center and the casino action at our host center. The Orleans Hotel and Casino really knows how to take care of the bowlers needs. TAT had a successful tournament despite the countries economic decline. With high gas prices along with the increase in airfare, TAT had over 3000 total entries in all the events for this tournament. There were 1322 qualifying entries and 111 bowlers made it to the finals with 5 no shows counting all the marathon entries as .5 or ½ each. The final match was exciting and in the end, Rick Mousouleas (Allen Park Michigan) from the Senior division was our big $25,000 winner, 2nd place went to Frank Defilippo (Las Vegas Nv. Senior Division) for $15,000 from, 3rd place was Raleigh Gilchrist for $10,000 ( Pueblo Co. Under Division) 4th place Louis Manzella (Mt. Olive AL.Senior Division) for $5000. TAT paid out in full all 10 prize funds despite the bad economy and fewer entries.
Amateur Bowlers from all over the world once again ascended on Las Vegas to participate in the TAT Amateur Tournament. They received as always, real value for their entry fee. All Bowlers received FREE, Ebonite’s performance bowling ball, the Complete/NV from Ebonite with their first entry. (TAT gave away just under 500 high performance Ebonite balls to bowlers). TAT paid out $20,000 in the 4 Chance Tournaments. The sweepers were mostly free entries and paid out in 3 separate divisions a total cash payout of $21,038.00 (Sweeper #1 had $5,000 added money by TAT).The Ebonite Challenge paid out all it’s guarantees of $5,000 1st and the next 4 $1,000 each with the last casher paid $100, this event had a 1 in 6 cash payout. TAT paid out all guarantees of the main Tournament prize fund with $55,000 being paid to the Top 4 all bowlers were paid $100 or more for every finals round they advanced with Guaranteed minimum’s of $500 for making the finals. Along with all the payout there were extra bonus prizes in all the 9 events.
It was an exciting week as two different tournament players bowled perfect games with an Ebonite ball, each bowler received $1000. The Buddies Mystery Score paid out over $15,000 to dozens of different bowlers. The Ebonite Challenge paid 18 cash spots. The winner was Warren Crawford for $5000. The other top four were paid $1000 each and included, (2) Greg Corbin, (3) Jeff Lindenmuth (4) Raleigh Gilchrist (5) Darryl McDuffie. This event has a $10 entry fee all Qualifiers received a second Performance Ball by Ebonite (Gamebreaker). Last cash was $108. Where else can you bowl for $5,000 for a $10 entry fee?
The 4 Chance Tournaments had 152 winners. The 4 free events paid out over $20,000 with last cash of $100. Winners were, #1 Alejandro Macias (Mexico), #2 was Rick Mousouleas (Michigan), #3 Curt Guinn (So. Carolina), and #4 was Nick Powell (Nevada).
The Ebonite Demo Days ran from the June 30 - July 5 and many bowlers who did well used the Demo Days and the Ebonite staff to help them get the right ball reaction. Dino Castilllo, Paul Enright and Mike Calderon all deserve special thanks from all of us at TAT and from the hundreds of bowlers who utilized their services. Etonic gave away 32 high performance pairs of shoes to the bowlers in the 4 Chance Tournaments.) They increased our prize fund by adding 32 spots for the shoe giveaway.
We also had a successful run of our finals with all all entrants guaranteed at least $500. In the end over 1 out of every 4 amateur bowlers that bowled our tournament made our finals and received at least $500. These entrants included a 205 and under bowler named Edwin Hinlo who qualified for our finals by shooting 552 and made it to the 4th round of our finals bowling some of the best games of his career and received a check for $1200.
We at TAT would like to thank the bowlers and our sponsors, especially Ebonite, Buddies Pro Shop.com, Etonic, Continental airlines, Enterprise rent-a-car and The Orleans whom without their support, we could not have these multiple prize funds with so many ways to cash. We hope to see you again the Feb. 2009. Exact dates will be announced soon. Any questions please call 1 888 828 2695 or for more information, please visit our web site at www.trueamateurtournaments.com Check out the results for the July 2008 on our website.
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