NASHVILLE |DATE: JULY 1, 2010
$11,000 RAISED FOR CANCER RESEARCH AND MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
WALKS AWAY WITH THE 1ST PLACE TROPHY
AT THE 3RD ANNUAL VANS WARPED TOUR / T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION BOWLING TOURNAMENT
(Members of Motion City Soundtrack, The Summer Set and Pierce The Veil along with fans)
Phoenix, AZ – Monday night in Phoenix was the scene of the 3rd Annual Vans Warped Tour / T.J. Martell Foundation Bowling Tournament where eighteen bands from the tour along with their fans competed for the heavily coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophies. This year the Motion City Soundtrack team was victorious with over 2,200 combined pins knocked down in the tournaments three rounds. The Summer Set walked away with second place while Pierce The Veil took third. Over 400 people packed the Brunswick Tri-City bowl and stayed to the final frame to see who came out victorious.
(Andrew W.K.)
“We’re just really happy and honored to be a part of this great event for such a great cause. To tell you the truth, I don’t get around humans too often so to do something like this and bowl next to our heroes in Face To Face, it really doesn’t get much better.” – Justin Pierre, Motion City Soundtrack
(Justin Pierre & Motion City Soundtrack proudly display their 1st Place trophy onstage in Phoenix)
In addition to the tournament, fans via eBay were able to bid for a chance to bowl on the same team as their favorite band. Winners came as far as Florida, Illinois and Michigan. The event was hosted by local radio station The X 103.9 and their on-air staff. All attendees received a limited edition hologram pass courtesy of i6 Tix and one-of-a-kind event shirts donated by Tsurt.
Event Sponsors: Vans, Unite The United Foundation, Skatera, Kleege Staging, Star Business Management, i6 Tix, CAA, Live Nation, Tsurt, GNW- Evergreen LLC, Pearl Vodka, Monster Energy, MSO PR, The X 103.9
Bowling Bands: AM Taxi, Andrew WK, Alesana, Motion City Soundtrack, Face To Face, Whitechapel, After Midnight Project, Riverboat Gamblers, Hey Monday, Pierce The Veil, Four Year Strong, The Cab, The Summer Set, Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band, Bring Me the Horizon, You Me at Six, Set Your Goals and Polar Bear Club
About The Vans Warped Tour: Vans Warped Tour®–North America's longest-running touring festival. Now in its 16th year, the 43-date tour commences June 25 in Carson, CA and finishes August 15 in Hillsboro, OR. Festival organizers made this traveling punk rock circus the summer's best bang for your buck. Appealing to everyone from traditional punk fans to backpacking hip hop kids to metal heads, VANS Warped Tour has its finger on the pulse of the most fiery acts in absolutely each and every genre.
About The T.J. Martell Foundation: The T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research was founded in 1975. In its 35 years, the Foundation has provided over $240 million to support innovative medical research in fighting these diseases. We encourage our scientists to leverage our funds with other larger funding sources, such as the National Institute of Health and the National Cancer Institute. This has been done successfully by many of our researchers and we can conservatively estimate that our funding has resulted in more than $1 billion in additional research funding. The foundation has contributed to many major research breakthroughs, such as funding the research which helped design and create the “chemo-therapeutic cocktail” which is now the worldwide standard for treating breast cancer; the “Gold Standard” of care for treating refractory prostate cancer was developed by a T.J. Martell Foundation funded researcher. In addition, neuroblastoma, a deadly form of cancer attacking young children, had a survival rate of less than 20%. For 10 years, the T.J. Martell Foundation has supported research in this field and now the cure rate is 80%.
For more information regarding the “3rd Annual Vans Warped Tour / T.J. Martell Bowling Tournament,” contact: Greg Gura at 818-508-1243/greggura@aol.com or Julie Grant at 626-799-7188/Julie@4fini.com
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