Stay Tranquilo - Felipe Sixto on the First-Ever Columbus Domino Tournament in Miami | Stay Tranquilo

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

Miami culture at its finest 🇨🇺☕🎲 On this episode of Stay Tranquilo, we sit down with Felipe Sixto to talk about the first annual Christopher Columbus High School Domino Tournament happening in Miami. From dominoes and cafecito competitions to croqueta eating contests, open bars, cigar rollers, and community giving back—this event is pure South Florida culture. Felipe also shares insights on Christopher Columbus High School alumni involvement, Sixto Packaging, and the growth of Castaway Coffee, the official coffee of the Florida Panthers. If you love Miami, dominoes, croquetas, cafecito, and local community events—this one’s for you. 🎟 Columbus Domino Tournament 📍 Christopher Columbus High School 📅 Saturday, April 25 ⏰ 1:00 PM Make sure to like, comment, and subscribe for more South Florida culture, sports, and conversations. #StayTranquilo #Miami #DominoTournament #ChristopherColumbus #FelipeSixto #CastawayCoffee #FloridaPanthers #MiamiCulture #Croquetas #Cafecito #Podcast #SouthFlorida Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

All right, all right. Welcome back to Stay Tranquilo. We are here with Felipe Sisto. Big, big event going on here in Miami at Columbus. Tell us a little bit about what we got going on this weekend. Absolutely. So we have the first annual Christopher Columbus Dominole tournament at the high school. It's the first event put on by the Alumni Association directly. So we're really excited about that. Oh, yeah. Obviously, Columbus is known for putting together some pretty. epic events, right? I got the pig roast, food and wine, right? It's a variety of different events. But what is it that makes this one unique, right? You said it's the inaugural event.

Obviously, dominoes in Miami are iconic, right? We grew up playing dominoes our whole life. So why now, right? I feel like a domino tournament probably should have been a long time ago. Well, I think we've tried a couple times in the past and just so many events, you know, the school does a great job together,

the larger events, Domino tournament, you know, It's a little bit more of a niche market. And I think it's the perfect event to be spearheaded by alumni. So it's being sponsored by mostly alumni companies. Sixto packaging, we're the presenting sponsor. We have Ben Acasa, Johnny Cuba, Tide Ashes, Cow Bakery, many, many sponsors. So we're real glad that they're helping us out.

Yeah, no, absolutely. It's great, right? Everything kind of stays in the family, but everyone's supporting each other in the process, right? And when you talk about Columbus, I think that's something that is, it's exactly what it is, right? And you're seeing it firsthand in something like this. So tell us kind of layout of the tournament, right? What's going on throughout the day? I know we were talking offline.

There's some different activities also going on in other contests outside of the Domino Tournament. So the Domino Tournament's going to be a Swiss round. Everyone's going to be able to play five or six rounds narrowing down the teams to the top four, where then we'll have a championship game, you know, first and second prize. And then, of course, runner-ups in the third and fourth teams. During the Domino tournament, we're going to have, obviously, open bars. We're going to have some cigar rollers provided by tight ashes and other of our great sponsors. Then we have a couple unique activations going on.

One of our sponsors, Benacasa and the other one castaway coffee are doing a little activation to see who makes the best cafetto. So, you know, you'll be there at the sugar making your meat. And, you know, we'll have somebody judging that. And there's going to be prizes, whether it's cafeteras or cups or. or free coffee, all types of things. And then later on in the afternoon, you know, around 3, 34 o'clock, cow bakeries sponsoring croquetta eating contest. So we're not going to be doing the real, real big croquetas, but not the little ones either.

We have a medium-sized house croquetta. So they're going to be tasting. We're going to see how many can the people eat in two minutes. So, you know, we'll have them lined up there. So that should be exciting. Like Joey Chestnut style, see how many you can chow down. And that's going to be interesting. What do you think the winning number is going to be there in two minutes?

I think maybe, you know, 30, 32. Really? I think someone can get to 50. Yeah. But no, it's exciting, right? I think so many of us want to be part of something like this, right? And you add a little bit of a competitive element to it. So talk to us.

What do the people win if they do win the don't? So the championship teams, they win custom wood tables. Then we also have this beautiful championship ring. It says championship. championship domino tournament with the little Columbus logo there. All the players are going to be getting tables and dominoes, thanks to one of our sponsors, Benacasa. We're going to have, again, cigar rollers, food, plenty of giveaways.

So it's going to be a fun time. Awesome. So tell us the details. What is it? Where is it? And where can people get their tickets? So Saturday, April 25th, at 1 o'clock at Columbus High School on campus, you could find the event bright link right in the bio.

And most importantly, part of the proceeds are going to go to the castaways against cancer. So helping them out in their mission. They launch off in June. So we're really excited about that. And yeah, we're looking forward to the event. And we hope to see you all there. Absolutely. And one last thing.

Tell us a little bit about 6-0 packaging, Castaway coffee, a little bit about you and what you kind of do that. So 6-0 packaging, we're a flexible packaging manufacturer. So we're making mostly bags for the food industry, potato chips, coffee, snack foods, you name pressure sensitive labels, cannabis, you name it, we're doing packaging for. At the same time, I'm also the one of the co-founders and kind of spokesperson for Castaway Coffee, it's still the official coffee of the Florida Panthers and really, you know, giving back to environmental causes with all the sales of those coffees. Absolutely, yeah. I mean, seeing Castaway Coffee all over the place.

Panthers actually, obviously Columbus events, all that. So it's great to see the growth of the brand. And we're excited for this weekend. I think it's going to be a great domino tournament. If you're neat plans this weekend, I don't think you have any other decision now, but to go to the Columbus Domino tournament, it's going to be great time, great food,

great drinks, great people, as always. So we definitely hope to see you out there. And any final last words? Well, thanks for having me. And stay tranquil. Always stay tranquil. We'll see you. Take care, brother.