More than 75 budding bowlers from the Singapore ad industry and
client field participated in the ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) Grand Slam Media
Bowling Competition 2000 held at the Cathay Bowl on January 14.
Jointly organised and sponsored by ESS and MEDIA, the competition saw
teams compete for individual, team and "special" prizes.
All this while downing as much beer and food as humanly possible.
The result, a mix of ridiculously high scores, a low number of injuries
(mostly bruised egos) and four hours of non-stop fun!
Taking top honours in the team category were Ericsson Consumer Products
Asia Pacific, narrowly beating Wunderman Cato Johnson and third-place
Euro RSCG.
In the Individual category, Francis Chua of Ericsson clinched the top
spot, followed by Alvin Lee of WCJ and Kevin Santa Maria of
Newsweek.
pecial awards were also given to Anthony Pounds (141) for the "Best"
Bowling Form, to the team from Time Warner for Best Group
Spirit-In-Action (thank you Foster's!), to Wati Baba from Newsweek
International for the Most Excitable Bowler (hmmm ...), while Luenne
Choa of Star TV and Gary Tang of Optimedia International were crowned
Gutter Queen and Gutter King, respectively.
The Singapore Grand Slam was the third in a series of ad trade fringe
events surrounding the ESPN Asian Bowling Tour '99.
Other markets included Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Watch out for more action in the 2000 season!