{"id":28642,"date":"2014-03-07T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2014-03-21T11:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T16:16:55","slug":"smith-wesson-title-sponsor-of-2014-costa-rican-idpa-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/smith-wesson-title-sponsor-of-2014-costa-rican-idpa-national-championship\/28642\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith & Wesson Title Sponsor of 2014 Costa Rican IDPA National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Smith<\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Rodrigo Carvajal, match director for the 2014 Costa Rican IDPA National Championship<\/a> announced that Smith & Wesson will be the title sponsor of this year\u2019s match.<\/p>\n

The 2014 Smith & Wesson Costa Rican IDPA National Championship takes place April 10-12 in San Jose, Costa Rica, and will be hosted by IDPA Costa Rica<\/a> at Rancho Arizona<\/a>. The championship is expected to draw top shooters from Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Austria and the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Costa Rican National Championship continues to grow in popularity among shooters from throughout the region and that is thanks to the strong support we receive from our sponsors. We are very proud to be working with our title sponsor, Smith & Wesson, to bring IDPA members the best Costa Rican Nationals ever,\u201d said Carvajal.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s championship will feature 12 stages, shot in a one-day format, and a round count of approximately 165 rounds. Safety Officers and staff will compete on Thursday, April 10. Online registration<\/a> will close March 11, 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmith & Wesson has been supporting IDPA matches since the sport started, and each year our sponsorship extends further and further across the U.S. As IDPA grows internationally, so too does our support and Smith & Wesson is very pleased to be this year\u2019s title sponsor of the Costa Rican IDPA National Championship,\u201d said Paul Pluff of Smith & Wesson.<\/p>\n

\"LOGO-Costa-Rica-Nats14\"<\/a>Shooters interested in competing in the 2014 Smith & Wesson Costa Rican IDPA National Championship should contact Carvajal or visit IDPACostaRica.com<\/a> for more information. Regular match updates will also be available on IDPA Costa Rica\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on IDPA, or to join the more than 23,000 members competing each week, visit www.IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as @OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a> and Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rodrigo Carvajal, match director for the 2014 Costa Rican IDPA National Championship announced that Smith & Wesson will be the title sponsor of this year\u2019s match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,2597],"tags":[3236,59],"class_list":["post-28642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-costa-rican-idpa-national-championship","tag-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}