{"id":469,"date":"2016-03-12T23:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T23:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/?p=469"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T19:37:30","slug":"for-immediate-release-fta-official-sponsor-of-the-itdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE &#8211; FTA Official Sponsor of the ITDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/?attachment_id=471\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-471 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IDTC-Outlines-300x242.png\" alt=\"IDTC 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IDTC-Outlines-300x242.png 300w, http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IDTC-Outlines.png 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in history, The International Tongue-Darting Championship will be held in Iceland, March 18-24, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This event, which is held every four years, is the capstone of a secret worldwide network of fierce local competitions that has largely and deliberately evaded public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from all over the World will be arriving in Iceland in mid-March to represent their nations in the competition, including the 2012 World Champions, Team Brazil.\u00a0 Team USA is sending the largest contingent with 33 athletes, according to team captain, Kernal Angus.\u00a0 \u201cWe just missed capturing the \u201cFaire Feuille de Rose\u201d by a hair in 2012, and we\u2019ve been training very hard since then to bring the title back into the USA.\u201d The \u201cFaire Feuille de Rose\u201d is event\u2019s beautiful championship trophy, so-named, because it\u2019s rimmed by gold roses.<\/p>\n<p>The Championship is expected to generate over $38 Million in local economic impact, according to Iceland Chamber of Commerce\u2019s chief economist, Bj\u00f6rn Brynj\u00falfur Bj\u00f6rnsson. &#8220;There is no doubt that tourism and events like the ITDC have played a vital part in the economic recovery of Iceland, and we can see proof of that in the thousands of jobs the industry has generated,&#8221; he went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the nature of the event, details are closely guarded, and locations remain undisclosed, but the Championship has been in the planning stages for over six months, and will involve numerous multi-discipline events, taking place in multiple locations both within and outside Iceland\u2019s capital city, Reykjavik.<\/p>\n<p>ITDC Athletes can be expected to be seen in all parts of Reykjavik and surrounding areas during the course of the Championship\u2019s seven days.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact:<\/p>\n<p>Thora \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, \u00a0GoDo Iceland\u00a0 \u00a0+354 547-4636<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/feedtheartists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}