For those of you who do not get our newsletter, I thought I'd repost tons of exciting news.  Here you go!

Shareholders of the World Comedy League voted in July to award the 2008 ComedySportz World Championship to Portland, Oregon, where the event will be hosted by ComedySportz-Portland.

The CWC is a weeklong combination of comedy camp, convention, meetings, parties, trade deals, cash exchanging hands, consumption of local food and drink and, best of all for our fans, fantastic tournament-style matches.

We expect the best players from 20 teams to attend, including such CSz clubs as Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Jose, Los Angeles and Houston - all of whom have played in or won the championship in the last four years. Defending champs Quad Cities will be there, and we're reasonably sure ComedySportz Manchester-UK will bring their wacky style and amusing pronunciation of such words as "aluminum" along with them.

Matches will be held on July 31, 32 and 33, 2008* at the Gerding Theater at the Armory, the brand-new theatre space owned by Portland Center Stage. There are two shows each night, at 7:00pm and 9:45pm, and you'll see two matches with four total teams in each show. The theatre seats about 600 people, so there will be around 400 seats available for fans at each match - those loud guys in the balcony? Those are the players from all of the CSz cities who aren't on the field.

We last hosted in 1999, and, with the help of hometown judges, won the championship. Can we do it again? Not without your help.

We're looking for partners to sponsor portions of this tremendous event. If you are looking for positive, family-friendly exposure of your business, please call us.

We'll also be looking to sell some tickets to this thing. Look for some deals around the first of the year.

Tell your friends. Please. We won't be hosting again for another decade at least, so jump on the bandwagon now.

* Yes, we know it's July 31, August 1 and 2, but that's hard to say.