64 in Brasil

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Alexander Presman put some Lélio Marcos-photographs from a Brasil 64-tournament at
http://fmjd.org/bb/album_cat.php?cat_id=9<

Lélio wrote:
I will start to send to you brazilian news.
We have many 64 tournaments here. Many, many.
One of the most important is our team competition. Last year it was organized with 130 teams. Each team played in that time with 4 players. And they had to chose if they prefer to play in the group under 21 or in the free group. This year, we changed the regulament. Now, we will not get more 2 categories but the team will be with 6 players: 2 (free age and free sex), 3 (under 21, free sex) and 1 (women, free age).
So, the team now will be with 6 players, plus 6 reserves. Em 2006, the team will be 8 players, because we will include 2 boards of 100 square, free age and free sex.
Each city of Sao Paulo Province can organize one team and most of them pay for the players. the competition is organized in 2 parts.
First part in July. The Sao Paulo province is divided in 8 parts. Each part organizes one competition just like a Olimpic Games. Each part has around 26 differents sports with around 10.000 players in all sports. This competition is organized already 67 years. They included 64 brazilian draughts in 1992. After that our game started to develop very fast.
In July the correct name of the competition is JOGOS REGIONAIS DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO.
It´s all organized by Sao Paulo Province Sport Departament.
In each 8 competition the first 2 teams are qualified to play the final. This year the final will be from 11 to 18 September. The correct name of the final is: JOGOS ABERTOS DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO. That means Sao Paulo Open Games. This competition is final for all 26 sports with around 10.000 players too.
In JOGOS REGIONAIS we got last year 130 teams (130 cities). The final (JOGOS ABERTOS) is played with 24 teams.
Last year Yuriy Anikiev played for the team Sao Caetano do Sul that was the gold medal of under 21 division.
I will start to inform you details abour all tournaments we have here.
Attached I´m sending some photos about JOGOS ABERTOS of 2003.
See you...

Lélio Marcos