BAKBAKAN ’09 AGAIN AT MAKATI COLISEUM TODAY

BAKBAKAN ’09 AGAIN AT
MAKATI COLISEUM TODAY

With last year’s 2,207-entry field already broken, the supposedly last national eliminations for the 2009 Bakbakan 10-Stag National Derby takes center stage at the Makati Coliseum today with 100 entries vying to get into the winners circle and advance to the semis. An extra elimination derby had to be done on Nov. 18 at Makati Coliseum to accommodate 70 more entries who wanted to catch up.

Bakbakan 2009 is hosted by the National Federation of Gamefowl Breeders and co-presented by Thunderbird Ganador Max. A total of 150 exciting fights are lined-up which will start at 10:00 ten in the morning.

After this, the action shifts to Araneta Coliseum for the first two separate eliminations on Nov. 17 & 19.

The third national semis gets going at the Pasay Cockpit on Nov. 20, after which the hostilities enter the home stretch with seven-tiered finals, leading up to the grand finals on December 3 at the Big Dome wherein all the undefeated entries will lock horns for the highest honor a gamefowl breeder could have – a Bakbakan trophy.

Meanwhile, Samar-Leyte’s popular cocker and Thunderbird Winning Team member Bernie Tacoy, with his Ormoc Gold fighters, was added to the list of undefeated entries after scoring 3 wins out of 3 matches in the last Bakbakan elims in Cebu. His first two entries both posted 2 wins and 1 loss each.

P30M Bakbakan 2009 National 10-Stag Derby Opens Today

The biggest sabong event of the year, the P30M Bakbakan 2009 National 10-Stag Derby hosted by the National Federation of Gamefowl Breeders and co-presented by Thunderbird Ganador Max opens today as the La Union Gamefowl Breeders Association officially raise the curtain with their 3-stag eliminations set at the province’s San Juan Gymnasium.

Today’s event features more than 40 top La Union sabungeros fielding their finest young roosters against each other for the right to advance to the semis and keep their hopes alive to win the P15 million champion’s take from the P30 million total guaranteed cash prize.

With 52 separate provincial and regional eliminations to be stage nationwide, Bakbakan 2009 continues on Oct. 16 at Lipa Games Cockpit (Batangas Breeders Club); Oct. 17 at the Gallera de Dapitan (Zamboanga del Norte Gamefowl Breeders Association); Oct. 17 at the New Narvacan Cockpit (United Ilocandia Gamefowl Breeders Association); Oct. 20 at the Daang-Hari Cockpit (United Cavite Breeders Ass’n); Oct. 23 again at the Lipa Games Cockpit (Batangas Breeders Club); Oct. 24 at Gallera de Legazpi (Bicol Gamefowl Breeders Ass’n) and also on Oct. 24 at San Nicolas Cockpit (United Ilocandia GBA)

National eliminations in which members of all NFGB-affiliated association may compete, are set in Makati Coliseum on Oct. 26 and on Oct. 30; in Pasay Cockpit on Nov. 3; then back in Makati Col. on Nov. 9 & 12.