PSP Chicago Open Paintball Tournament Coming to Bolingbrook in June

Posted on 05/19/08

Oak Brook, IL – DuPage County is hosting Paintball Sports Promotions’ Chicago Open for its fourth consecutive year at the Bolingbrook Recreation and Aquatic Center in Bolingbrook, IL. The event will be held June 25-29. The Chicago Open is their second largest event of the year, with over 2400 players in attendance last year. Registration for this event opens on their web site this Wednesday, May 14th. Registrants are urged to place their reservations early as the event sells out quickly. A game for some, a sport for others, and a lifestyle for many, paintball is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Since its inception in the early 1980s, paintball has grown to become the third most popular extreme sport in the world. It is a multi-billion dollar industry enjoyed by over 12 million people around the globe. Many paintball players have taken their love for the sport to a competitive level. Over 5,500 competitive teams compete in more than 220 league or series events every year in the United States. Paintball Sports Promotions (PSP) is the largest and most prominent event series for this sport in the world with six of these national events which include the Chicago Open in Bolingbrook. “We are very pleased to have this exciting event back in DuPage,” states Skip Strittmatter, Executive Director of the DuPage Convention and Visitors Bureau. “DuPage has much to offer both the players and spectators, and we look forward to helping make their time here memorable and fun.” The event will also host a large tradeshow which attracts numerous vendors from around the world. Hotels in Lisle and Bolingbrook will be hosting players and other visitors from around the around the nation and overseas. For more information and to register, visit Paintball Sports Promotions’ web site at www.pspevents.com. About DuPage County and the DuPage Convention & Visitors Bureau

DuPage County is the second most populous county in Illinois after Cook County, which borders it to the north and east. Together, the two counties account for half of the state’s population. One of the nation’s wealthiest counties, DuPage is rich in many types of commerce and is second only to Cook in tourism revenue. With its well-developed highway and mass transit system, DuPage is easily accessible from both O’Hare and Midway Airports as well as the City of Chicago, a small portion of which and primarily a part of O’Hare Airport, is located within DuPage County limits.

The DuPage Convention & Visitors Bureau’s mission is to actively market DuPage County to individual travelers and meeting/event planners as an enticing destination for both business and leisure travel in order to enhance the economic fiber of the county. Established through the efforts of a coalition of DuPage area hotel executives and business representatives in 1987, the DuPage Convention & Visitors Bureau was formally certified in 1989 by the State of Illinois as the official agency to promote the county’s multi-billion dollar tourism industry and market DuPage County as a destination for visitors, conventions and economic development.

Contact:

Keely Watson Phone: 858.536.5183 Email: keely@pspevents.com

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