1st CHESSBOXING LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

German Champion Fights American for the World Championship in Chessboxing for the First Time!


On Saturday, November 3, 2007, David “DOUBLE D” Depto and “ANTI TERROR” Frank Stoldt will meet in Berlin. The fight for the world light heavyweight title will take place in the storage area of Tape, one of the most popular clubs in the city.
 
For the first time in the history of this young sport, an American will challenge Europe’s best chessboxer for the world championship on November 3.07:

Coming from San Francisco, David “DOUBLE D” Depto is 30 years old, weighs 85 kilograms (187,4 pounds) and has fought in 30 boxing matches. His chess ELO rating is 1850. Professionally, the trained economist with an IQ of 140 is a manager of a large concern in the pharmaceutical industry.

“ANTI TERROR” Frank Stoldt comes from Berlin, is 36 years old and weighs 84.5 kilograms (186,3 pounds). He has previously fought in 25 boxing matches and was the kickboxing champion of Berlin. He has been an active chessboxer since 2005 and has a chess ELO rating of 2000. He is a police officer and is currently training police forces in Kosovo on behalf of the United Nations. He completed his boxing training in the truly authentic atmosphere of an Albanian boxing club.

After former boxing heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis outed himself as a huge fan of chess boxing, the WCBO, the World Chess Boxing Organization has continued to grow in international popularity and has attracted a large number of new athletes. This new sport is finding especially strong interest in the USA and Russia. The WCBO is preparing for its first international tour in 2008.

Chessboxing is presented to the German audience in the storage area of the Tape club, Heidestrasse 14, behind the Hauptbahnhof in Berlin-Mitte.
The evening begins at 8:00pm with two undercard fights.

The first undercard fight will take place at the middle weight division: The reigning Prenzlauer Berg champion of the Berlin club CBCB, Sebastian Bauersfeld, 23 years old, 74 kg (163,1 pounds), with an ELO rating of 1750, will take on Jan Mielke, the champion of Cologne, 34 years old, 70 kg (154,3 pounds), with an ELO rating of 1600.
In the second match at the light heavyweight division, Berliner Sascha Wandkowski, 28 years old and 79 kg (174,2 pounds), with an ELO rating of 1850, will take on Marc Breuer from Cologne, 35 years old, 81 kg (178,6 pounds), with an ELO rating of 1972.

As a special highlight, a sound score especially composed for chessboxing by top producer Junkie XL from Los Angeles.


1st CHESSBOXING LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 
SATURDAY // 3.11.2007 // 20:00
TAPE // HEIDESTRASSE 14 // BERLIN


Tickets cost 15 € for standing room
30 € for a seat in the third row
40 € for the second row
60 € for the first row and 120 € for the first row and champagne.

Tickets can be ordered per email: ticket@wcbo.org

Charges to be collected additionally: 2,55€


Fighting is done in the ring, wars are waged on the board!

IdN Hongkong 15th anniversary

the 15th anniversary of IdN Hongkong (International Designers Network) is coming up, for the occasion graniph, a t-shirt company based in tokyo, is calling worldwide to any young artist, illustrator or photographer to celebrate this fantastic design magazine by creating an original design with the theme „Universe“.









the winners will be published in 5 international issues of IdN worldwide, and the 14 best designs (1x gold, 3x silver and 10x bronze) will be produced as T-shirts and distributed through graniph.










deadline for the competition is the 1st of december.
interested?
then check out this link



greetings from Tokyo
Melanie














*on the side are some of the designs from the previous competition, which is already closed by now. you´ll find more on the IdN website under "fifteen"...

movie: new.platoon.area

for all of you wondering how we managed to move our PLATOON.headquarters in such a short time,
we are now pleased to show you this short video cut about the whole action!

enjoy

schuppenclub

da geht doch was!!! macht lust auf auf mehr.
dank an den handyreporter IM Klonk für die spitzen aufnahme. lecker abend. euer fosten

PLATOON MOVED WITHIN BERLIN MITTE!

WE ARE HAPPY - it is done. PLATOON has a new area and a new address just around the corner from the old one:
ALTE SCHÖNHAUSER STR. 3
10119 BERLIN
but that´s not enough: two more containers give us more space for an upcoming project we will realize this year. within the next few weeks we´ll be finishing the setting of the area.









first we had to remove some walls and shelters on the new area and prepare the whole space for the arrival of PLATOON. we really have to say THANK YOU to our new host ID&A Immobilien GmbH! we also have thank to our old hosts klaus engelbrecht-schnür and harm müller-spreer who let us their property for the last 5 years.











we signed the contract for the new area on thursday and 7 days later we moved! it has really been a hard work for everybody. first to mention is stefan and his crew.

































the other important people on this mission were jürgen and manne from the street-construction company, who were accidentelly working in the neigbourhood on another building site and helped us with knowledge and heavy diggers.













we had to prepare fundaments in concrete in order to place a three-level container tower.

















on friday we moved in during a 7 hour heavy-duty-action. everybody got soaked wet but in the end we had some bottles of champagne to celebrate the new area.





































so everybody is now invited to come and have a look.
a new chapter begins!

where is PLATOON ?

fridaymorning -the world in weinmeisterstr.3 was allright.
all platoonies were sitting at their desks working in the containers.































but then, six hours later, the area was blank. whats happened? where is PLATOON?

a trip off site berlin

after some weeks in the town, it´s possible that you must go outside to refresh your head. now its indian summer, for few days say the weather forecast, and it´s sunday. after a stressful week -PLATOON makes preparations for the move- it was my desire to go off site.



























so you can have a really romantic trip. the enviroment of berlin is fantastic, it´s fontane land. you find all -hundred of lakes, forests a.s.o. that´s also a qualitiy of this city.



















in this year it gives many mushrooms, if you know them.
this one
is no good for eating, but you can make a drug.



























after two or three hours walking through the nature, you feel well and can go back to the best town of germany.

JAHCOOZI - BLITZ´N´ASS

Hey hey hey....
here is something
you can´t miss out!!!
our dear friends Sasha, Oren and Robert are up for some trouble again...
yes, JAHCOOZI are about to release their new wicked album BLITZ´N´ASS.

here the invitation for the release party sent to us by WMF:

YO YO people the time has come>>>>>> since their debut in 2005 JAHCOOZI have been touring just about all over the planet and now they are back with the NU SHIT!! with their sophomore LP entitled BLITZ 'N' ASS, this time they are on a mission to raise the bar on intelligent booty music and to help put BLN firmly on the map as a stronghold for innovative club music that isn't just techno … watch out LDN!!



BLITZ "N" ASS >>>> OUT ON 1ST OCTOBER >>>>




JAHCOOZI ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
thursday 20.09.07 - 23h
FESTSAAL KREUZBERG




JAHCOOZI live (a sound / bln)
KANO live (679 rec. warner / ldn)
SICK GIRLS (violent turd, rev. n°5 / bln);
FAGGATRONIX (bok bok / ldn)+ special
GRIMETIME floor:
DJ DOWNSHISFTER(skud, hyponik / ldn) &
MC NIKA D (virus syndicate, planet mu / manchester)
DJ EARGEL(rap.de / bln)


Festsaal Kreuzberg, Skalitzer Str. 130, BLN-Kreuzberg




and just from today you also have the chance to catch up with their music through the itunes pre-release page.
and here a little taste of their new tracks + the anthem BLN.


see you there....