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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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