“No Gelt, no glory,” is the slogan amalgamated from the minds in the “Knishioner’s” kitchen, steady your best spinning hands, it’s time for the Major League Dreidel tournament!
Major League Dreidel (MLD) founded in 2007, is a surprisingly legitimate organization with pseudo-corporate sponsorship from Bed, Bath and Beyond, where they sell an official Dreidel spinning “arena” that you can bring to holiday parties and events, or to a 120 man double elimination tournament at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.
Despite what you may, or may not think, this game is serious; you must buy tickets to the event, which has over 120 participants, systematically whittled down to 64, NCAA tourney style, with referees and official judges.
Supplementing a righteous amount of pious religious observance at the event, there will be musical performances from the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus singing Hanukkah carols, Category Sixx and Gods of Fire playing ALL EIGHT songs from their Hanukkah gone Metal album.
The tournament champion will receive the crystal dreidel trophy, unlimited bragging rights in the five boroughs and a year supply of Chocolate Gelt. Register at NoGeltNoGlory, tickets start at $10.
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Knitting Factory: 361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havermeyer St.
