The winner of Last Man Standing Spain and the runner-up traveled to NYC last Thursday and spent the weekend traveling around New York and seeing all the ball sites.  "Nacho" Martin, Last Man Standing Spain Champ and runner-up Carlos Rios flew into town on Thursday and were escorted around by Game Over President Eric Hicks.

They saw such sites as tournaments at 145th Street (Kareem Reid wowed them), West 4th Street, Rucker Park, Dyckman, and a performance by the Harlem Wizards.  Interviews and videos will be posted shortly of all the excitement.  The success of Last Man Standing Spain is spreading to other parts of Europe, news to come shortly.

Wow What a trip!  This summer Game Over was invited to participate in the European version of  Last Man Standing, the One-on-One basketball tournament that Game Over helped create here in the United States.

European Professional basketball star Darryl Middleton (Queens, NY) made us an offer we could not refuse.

Game Over was asked to lend the NY street flavor to Platja D'Aro Spain, a nice size beach town 90 miles from Barcelona.  D Middleton and Sports4You Inc. felt there were enough quality ballers in the Barcelona area to show us back here in the states how it's done.  The competition started 9 AM June 28th and lasted all day long, concluding with a Slam Dunk contest and the Finals all in front of a standing room only audience.  The early rounds were no different then here in the US, pretenders mix with contenders. By mid afternoon the place was packed and the battles were in full swing.  Can't even continue this story til I give props to the DJ!  It was non-stop Hip-Hop and R&B.  This kid was off the hook, for a place that speaks 99% Spanish all the music was American, from old school to new, this kid had the place jumpin' for 12 straight hours.  We shot hours of video and what you see on this page is only the beginning.  The Final round and the Slam Dunk highlights will be posted soon.  Big props to D Middleton who will go down as one of the greatest ballplayers to hit the European scene.  (Knick's could have used him)  DM rolled out the red carpet and I had the time of my life.  Props also goes to the entire Middleton family who fed me and fed me and fed me.  (You get the picture).  And props to Sports4you, the company who took the lead on this project and made it a huge sucess.

Can't wait til next year.  And next stop Greece!!

It started with a huge upset.  Corey "Homicide" Williams didn't know what hit him.  But all the fans of Al Callajas will tell you it was no upset.  Al hit from outside and put the defending champ out from the free throw line when Corey went over the limit.  LaQuan Castro came out strong and put away Brian Kortovich.  Jack Ryan, the oldest participant, came out firing from outside but was unable to holdoff Nygel Roach.  Speedy Williams put away Steven Mims to advance to the second round.

On the other side of the bracket, "Snoop" Toppin won against the play-in winner Idris Sherrad.  Wilner Joseph advanced against Willie "Slick" Samuels.  Neville Storer began his move by beating PJ Meija and Lee Church outlasted Robert Schroeder.

The Quarterfinals saw LaQuan Castro beat Al Callajas in a close game.  Speedy Williams continued his tough play against Nygel Roach.  Snoop Toppin grinded out a win against Wilmer Joseph.  And Nevile Storer completed the Final Four by beating Lee Church.

The Semifinals saw two friends go for the 'chip.  In the end Speedy Williams was too much for LaQuan Castro.  Neville Storer wore out Snoop Toppin to advance to the final.

Snoop won third place by beating LaQuan Castro.  In the final, Speedy continued his dominance of taking the ball to his opponents weakness and it showed as "speed kills" or in this case, was the Last Man Standing.

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