Sony Online Entertainment announces Gamers Round TABLE ONLINE TOURNAMENT HEADQUARTERS
New Website Utilizes SOE-Denver's (aka Worlds Apart Productions) Technology to Organize, Track Collectible Card Game Tournaments
GENCON, Indianapolis, IN – Aug.,10, 2006 – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), a global leader in the online games industry, announced today the launch of Gamers Round Table, an innovative organized play system for collectible games. The technology behind Gamers Round Table has been developed by SOE's newest studio, SOE-Denver, also known as Worlds Apart Productions.
"We're very excited about the launch of Gamers Round Table," says Scott Martins, director of development, SOE-Denver. "The interest and support from game publishers has been outstanding – we're pleased to be serving a real need in the hobby industry."
Gamers Round Table is a full-featured website paired with a robust standalone program – the GRT Tourney Organizer. Together, the website and program allow players, tournament organizers, and administrators access to a full suite of tools for organized play. Users can track players, create and manage events, handle pre-registration, run tournaments, and much more.
The Gamers Round Table program can be used to enter results of a finished tournament, or run in real time as an event is taking place, dynamically handling all bookkeeping such as pairings, points, and tiebreakers. It was used successfully to run large tournaments at Origins and Anime Expo, and is also perfect for local events.
Many leading collectible game publishers have already signed on to Gamers Round Table, including: Bandai (Naruto CCG), JoyRide Entertainment (Fullmetal Alchemist TCG), and Sabertooth Games (WarCry, Dark Millennium, and UFS CCGs).
The Gamers Round Table website and the GRT Tourney Organizer are currently free to use for all players and organizers of its supported game. For more information, visit http://www.gamersroundtable.com.
About Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers around the globe. SOE creates, develops and provides compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless markets. Known for its blockbuster franchises and hit titles including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, Untold Legends™, and PlanetSide®, as well as for developing Star Wars Galaxies™: An Empire Divided™, SOE continues to redefine the business of online gaming and the creation of active player communities while introducing new genres on various entertainment platforms. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, with additional development studios in Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, Denver, CO, and Taiwan, SOE has an array of cutting-edge games in development. SOE is owned by Sony Pictures Digital and Sony Computer Entertainment America.
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