This book was conceived during conversations with Maria Berrios and Paola Santoscoy in the context of the exhibition Arriba como ramas que un mismo viento meuve (Up Above Like Branches Moved by a Common Wind), at the Museo Experimental El Eco in Mexico City. It both pays homage to Manuel Casanueva and all the people who contributed to the creation and development of the tournaments, and introduces his work to an international public by providing an English translation of Casanueva;s descriptions of the tournaments. It is difficult to fully grasp a history that is so local and so specific, narrated and remembered from such a personal perspective. This book wishes to finally diffuse knowledge of the tournaments outside of Chile - to send them leaping over the cordillera and the ocean, so high and vast.