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Xleague.tv hosts Unreal Tournament 3 competition - News
By Sergiu Petrisor
Published: November 22, 2007
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Following last week’s announcement that Enemydown, Midway and PLAY.com
are to hold a massive £50,000 cash tournament to celebrate the launch
of the eagerly awaited Unreal Tournament 3 on PC DVD from Epic Games,
Xleague.tv today announced that it will broadcast exclusive TV coverage
of the tournament leading up to the final event.
Only gamers
pre-ordering and purchasing Unreal Tournament 3 from PLAY.com before
its scheduled launch in November and post launch through December will
receive a unique registration code allowing them to enter two massive
competitions with their new game. One is a single player tournament
with a fantastic first prize of £20,000, and the other is a team-based
tournament with an even bigger prize of £30,000.
Xleague.tv will
exclusively televise select matches from the online competitions, which
will take place following the launch of the game. The finalists will
then be invited to the grand-slam shoot out in March 2008 at the
recently announced ‘Play.com Live’ show to be held at Wembley Stadium.
Today’s
announcement further solidifies the growing relationship between
Xleague.tv and Enemydown/TNWA Group, having already had a successful
collaboration in the form of the Packard Bell EU open ‘Play Harder’
tournaments.
Ray Mia, Channel Head – Xleague.tv, said:
“XLeague.tv is continually striving to give the UK gaming community the
very best coverage of the best gaming events. I'm excited to announce
our exclusive coverage of the Enemydown Unreal Tournament 3 £50,000
competition, in conjunction with PLAY.com and Midway Games Ltd.
Since
our Channel launched in May 2007, we have employed a great deal of
broadcast know-how into producing gaming shows that would excite the
knowledgeable gamer, as well as providing compelling television to the
uninitiated. We are the first broadcaster to effectively manage and
create programming for multi-player games, and with the increasing
success of our Gears of War and Halo 3 shows, UT3 looks set to become
an important part of our gaming line-up and broadcast schedule for 2008.
I
am particularly enthusiastic and encouraged by the increasing
association between XLeague.tv and Enemydown. It makes perfect sense
that one of the leading online gaming outfits in the UK partner with
the leading games broadcaster. After we successfully co-launched three
PC Leagues sponsored by Packard Bell, the UT3 £50,000 competition is
excellent news for the gaming community, and now they can fight it out
on TV. It's an exciting time for UK gaming, and we're proud to be part
of it.”
“Having Xleague.tv onboard for this competition will add
yet another appealing facet for everyone purchasing Unreal Tournament 3
from PLAY.com,” added Paul Sulyok, CEO of The TNWA Group. “They have
demonstrated a perfect affinity with a broad gaming audience and
transposed this into a show format that conveys the non-stop action a
game like UT3 provides. This tournament will be essential viewing!”
Enemydown
hosts the largest UK community of online PC gamers. The site has hosted
some of the largest online gaming tournaments in recent years,
attracting both amateur and professional clans. The site is widely
regarded as a premier destination for Europe's competitive PC gamer
teams.
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