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Montego Bay Convention

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More than 20 countries and over 650 players are expected to contest the 10th Domino World Championship at the Montego Bay Convention Centre from June 3 to 10 this year. Plans for this ambitious project were outlined by members of the International Domino Federation and the organizing committee of the National Association of Domino Bodies, during a courtesy call on the minister without portfolio for sports in the office of the Prime Minister, Natalie Neita-Headley, at Jamaica House yesterday. The minister, who met the delegation of top domino officials worldwide, said the government will make every effort to ensure the team delivers a world-class ...

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INTERNATIONAL DOMINO FEDERATION AT THE B

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International Domino Federation President Lucas Guittard of Venezuela (right) says delegates came under intense pressure from Georgia not to hold the tournament in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. (Photo: Jacob Resneck) There’s a $ 100,000 prize at stake in this Geo Quiz – sorry, not for coming up with the correct answer. That’s the top prize at this year’s world domino championship. We want you to name the city near the eastern coast of the Black Sea where the competition just took place. It’s the capital of Abkhazia. Abkhazia’s status is not clear cut. It declared its independence from the Republic of Georgia. Russia recognizes it as an independent state ...

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In Hosting Domino Championship, Abkhazia

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The opening ceremonies of the World Domino Championship in SukhumiOctober 19, 2011By RFE/RL Dominoes is more than just a game in Georgia 's breakaway region of Abkhazia . It's a welcome diversion in a place that still bears the scars of war and where unemployment is rampant .But this week, the pastime is taking on a whole new meaning with the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi , hosting the 8th World Domino Championship . It's far from a major sporting event, but is nevertheless being viewed as a major achievement in the tiny region, which declared independence from Georgia following a war in the early 1990s and further distanced itself from Tbilisi after ...

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Jamaica's dream of Olympic dominoes

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By Nicholas Davis Kingston, Jamaica In recent years Jamaica has become a superpower in sprinting - it boasts the world's fastest man and woman in Olympic Champions Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser - but the nation wants to make a much slower game its new national sport. Athletics, cricket and football are all extremely popular but dominoes are the one that nearly everyone knows how to play. It may be a quiet pastime in many countries but in Jamaica it is more than a game. Underneath the shade of a tree, taxi drivers wait in a shop that doubles as a restaurant. The sound of the World Cup highlights are ...

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Senadora Norma Burgos “Puerto Rico” con

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La Senadora agradeció la cordial presencia de los dirigentes de la FID y de la FEDERACIÓN NACIONAL, destacando que ninguna Federación es la rectora del Deporte del Dominó en Puerto Rico, por consiguiente, los Proyectos en favor del Deporte, sean Nacional o Internacional, y que provengan de cualquiera Federación acreditada ante la Secretaría de Recreación y Deportes, serán siempre bienvenidos y ampliamente ...

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DOMINOUSA IN WASHINGTON

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On January 4, 2011 Dominousa was invited for the swearing of Senator Marco Rubio in Washington DC ; at the same time the Federation is working on a legislature change that describe the sport of domino as a “Game of Chance”. In the same visit Manuel Oquendo was received by Senator Bill Nelson accompanied by Mr. Jorge Friguls. This is an effort of the entire Domino Federation that will take some time but with positive results for the benefit of ev...

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PRESENCIA de la FID en JAMAICA

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Con el fin de anunciar ante los medios de comunicación, prensa, radio y TV jamaiquina, la puesta en escena del 10° CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE DOMINÓ de la FID 2012, el presidente de la FEDERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE DOMINÓ (FID), Lucas Guittard, fue cordialmente invitado por la NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DOMINO BODIES (NADB), presidida por Rey Smith, acompañado por Ruddy Schaaffe de la FID, y en presencia de la Honorable Ministra Olivia Grange del Ministry of Youth, Sports & Culture, así como de su director Granville Newell. El acto se inició con sendos discursos por las personalidades mencionadas, donde se concretaron la fecha a principios de junio 2012 en la hermosa ciudad de Mo...

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PRESENCIA de la FID ante la MISIÓN DIPLO

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En la Asamblea General de la FID celebrada en mayo 2010, en la ciudad de Las Vegas, USA, se aprobó la sede solicitada por el presidente de la FEDERATION DOMINO REPUBLIC OF ABKHAZIA, Artur Gabuniya, del VIII MUNDIAL DE DOMINÓ  POR EQUIPOS (2011) de la FID, en la ciudad de Sujum, capital de Abjasia (Frente al Mar Negro). Por consiguiente, Lucas Guittard, presidente FID, contactó a través del Prof. Elvis Sánchez del MINISTERIO DEL PODER POPULAR PARA EL DEPORTE, la Misión Diplomática de Abjasia en Caracas, Zaur Gvadzhava, Jefe de la Misión, con el fin de concretar la cordial invitación en Sujum del 5 al 11 de septiembre de este año, mencionada por el...

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FT. BUCHANON TEAM WINS US ARMY DOMINO TO

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Finally after two months of Domino competition at US Army bases a Grand Prize winners has emerged from Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico. Karen Matos and Edward Matos will travel to Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend to compete with over 400 players from 15 countries to win the coveted Gold Medals and cash prize. STANDINGS PER BASE AND INDIVIDUAL BASE WINNERS BASE                                       BASE WINNERS 1) FORT BUCHANAN, PR       KAREN MATOS / EDWARD MATOS 2) FORT HOOD, TX              TONY AZALO / HECTOR DELGADO 3) HAWAII                          JUAN VIDOT / LEONARD BERETON 4) FORT POLK, LA                DONALD / GEORGE 5) YUMA, AZ                       R. WILLOUGHBY / JAMES TURNER 6) FORT CARSON, CO           NICHOLAS MOSES...

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