World Beer Pong Tour and BPONG.COM are proud to announce the addition of several World Series of Beer Pong™ Satellite Tournaments, set to begin Saturday November 14, 2010 in New York City.
The Satellite™ Tournaments will be open to all players who have not qualified yet for The WSOBP VI ™ in Las Vegas. The winning teams from all the tournaments will receive a 4 night stay at the Flamingo in Las Vegas as well as entry into The World Series of Beer Pong ™ from January 1-5, 2011.
‘We are excited to have BPONG.com as a new sponsor and are thrilled to be hosting these events with such a great prize,’ said WBPT Commissioner Sam Pines.
The WBPT will also be unveiling its new tournament format in New York City for the first time. The format has been designed to give players more game play and experience. The tournament will be run with pool play preliminaries followed by a single elimination bracket. Each team will play a guaranteed 4 games with approximately the top third of the field advancing to the single elimination bracket.
"We are changing our format so that all teams will get to play more games. This new format is going to give people a better experience," continued Pines.
"The World Beer Pong Tour is known for running great tournaments, so we're super stoked to have them running Satellite Tournaments in New York", said Benjamin "Skinny" Solnik of BPONG.com.
The World Series of Beer Pong ™ is the biggest beer pong tournament in the world and held once a year in Las Vegas. It is a 3 day tournament featuring a $65,000 prize pool and a whopping $50,000 first place prize. For more info on The WSOBP, visit www.bpong.com.
All WSOBP Satellites will be open to players 21+ and be capped at 64 teams. Registration is now open for the tournaments on www.worldpongtour.com.
