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World boxing icon, Manny Pacquiao is sponsoring a record cash
prize of five (5) million pesos in partnership with the National
Darts Federation of the Philippines (NDFP) as the organizer
of the biggest dart tournament in the history of Philippine
darts the- Manny Pacquiao P5 Million International Darts
Classic on November 27-30, 2009 at the air-conditioned
Lagao Gymnasium in General Santos City. This is a historic breakthrough
for Philippine darts and an enticement for worldwide darters
to compete.
Manny believes the Filipino darters are competent players that
can make a name in the International dart scene with the proper
support, encouragement and exposure. True to his words, the
record cash prize of five million pesos is more than an encouragement
but a motivation to strive for excellence. His tournaments since
last year has been an inspiration to darters starting with the
P300,000 Pacman I and II Series of 2008 culminating in the unprecedented
Manny Pacquiao 2 Million Darts Classic in December of 2008.
This year started with the support to the USA based Filipino
darters with the $30,000 Pacmania I and the $100,000 Pacmania
II while training in the USA. These were followed by the P300,000
in Malungon, Sarangani and the P300,000 in Alabel, Sarangani
tournaments in the last few months.
The level of competition will be extraordinarily high in this
tournament with the influx of foreign players and the vastly
improved local dart players brought about by the over 20 ranking
events of the NDFP with over 2.5 M cash prizes, so far in 2009.
The 2009 year-round ranking events of the NDFP provided the
experience and the continuing preparation to meet the high standards
of a truly international tournament.
The Open Singles event has a total cash prize of 2M with the
champion winning P700,000. Up for grabs in the Fix Four-Person
Team event is P800,000 total cash prize with P300,000 going
to the champion. The Fix Doubles will carry P500,000 in total
prizes and the champions pocketing P120,000. On tap for the
Classified Draw events are the Doubles with P500,000, Triples
with 501,000 and the Four -Person with P500,000 (new event).
The Free-Registration Youth Singles P20,000 and another new
event the Non-Classified , no ranking points Seniors Singles
P29,000 and the P150,000 Ladies Singles. The cash prizes for
most of the non-singles events goes up to the top 128 players.
We invite all dart players to General Santos
City and be part of dart history.
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