2008-06-27 21:28:44 - Spartanburg, SC may soon be the home of the world's best auctioneer if Matt Holiday has anything to say about it.

Matt will be joining over 90 auctioneers from across the world in Nashville at the 59th International Auctioneers Conference and Show to compete in the 20th International Auctioneer Championship competition. The male and female winners of this competition are regarded by the auction industry as being the best in the world.

Holiday is a professional benefit auctioneer in South Carolina, North

Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Delaware and Michigan. Holiday currently serves as the President of the South Carolina Auctioneers Association. Holiday was part of the first groups of auctioneers to earn the Benefit Auctioneer Specialist designation from the NAA and is a graduate of the Certified Auctioneers Institute.

These competitors will be judged on their presentation, chant, voice quality, body language and other elements of effective auctioneering. There is also an interview segment of the competition that participants will be judged on. The finalists will compete on Friday, July 11, 2008 before over 1,000 of their peers at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel and Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, TN. The winners will receive a $10,000 cash prize, trophy and become the spokespersons for the National Auctioneers Association before the media and state auctioneer associations across the country. One of the highlights of their reign as IAC champions include auctioneering at the St. Jude Toy Auction for the patients of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The IAC Champions sell toys donated by the National Auctioneers Association to patients who use play money to bid on the toys.

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About the NAA
Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, the National Auctioneers Association represents the interests of approximately 5,000 auctioneers in the United States, Canada and across the world. Founded in 1949, the mission of the NAA is to promote the auction method of marketing and enhancing the professionalism of its members through education and technology. In 2007, over $270.7 billion in goods and services were sold at auction. To learn more about Auctioneers, auctions and the NAA visit: www.auctioneers.org.