EA.com(SM) today
announced the launch of EA SPORTS(TM) Football Showdown
and EA SPORTS(TM) Football Bonanza
Business
& Entertainment Editors
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2001--Prove that you are the end-all,
be-all authority on football among your friends and rub
their noses in it as you pack your bags for a trip to the
Super Bowl(TM) in New Orleans. With two days remaining
before the official kickoff of the professional football
season, EA.com(SM) today announced the launch of EA
SPORTS(TM) Football Showdown and EA SPORTS(TM) Football
Bonanza, two online football pick `em games that are fun,
free and offer the chance to win weekly prizes.
EA SPORTS Football Showdown
challenges fans to pick the winner of each professional
football season game in the coming week. The more games
picked correctly, the higher the chance of scoring some
great EA SPORTS merchandise. Each week, the top five
forecasters will be awarded prizes such as copies of the
hottest-selling sports game currently on the market,
Madden NFL(TM) 2002 or an autographed football. Weekly
winners are also entered for an end-of-season drawing for
a trip for two to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii.
Alongside EA SPORTS Football
Showdown, EA.com also launched Football Bonanza, offering
die-hard fans even more opportunities to challenge their
football know-it-all skills. EA SPORTS Football Bonanza
challenges fans to select any four different NFLPA(R)
players to achieve one of four key statistical milestones
during any given week during the season. For example, if
choosing your favorite Quarterback, milestones would be
the number of touchdown passes or number of passing yards
thrown in a single game. Users are permitted one entry
per week for a chance to win EA SPORTS t-shirts. Top
weekly winners are also entered to win a trip to the Pro
Bowl.
The stakes are even higher for
AOL subscribers who join the action in these two pick `em
games. EA.com and AOL have teamed up to offer an
exclusive season-end Touchdown Sweepstakes(TM) (AOL
Keyword: Touchdown Sweepstakes) that includes four trips
to the Super Bowl. Each Super Bowl prize package is for
two people and includes hotel, airfare, Super Bowl
tickets and VIP passes to the annual EA SPORTS Madden
Bowl, a fierce head-to-head Madden NFL 2002 video game
tournament involving professional athletes and Hollywood
celebrities.
"The football pick sheet is
a mainstay in offices and dorm rooms across the country
and Showdown and Bonanza brings this competitive pastime
to a new level by offering compelling prizes, including
trips to the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl," said Eric
Hartness, director of sports marketing for EA.com.
"Football fans of all ages and knowledge levels will
find these games easily accessible, easy to navigate and
fun to play."
EA SPORTS Football Showdown and
EA SPORTS Football Bonanza are hosted on the pogo.com(TM)
channel at EA.com (http://www.ea.com). In addition to the
weekly prizes, anyone who participates in either of these
games can accumulate pogo.com tokens for each correct
prediction. Pogo.com tokens can be redeemed for cash and
merchandise prizes valued up to $5,000. All EA SPORTS
Football Showdown players will also receive a $5 discount
coupon redeemable at the EA Games Advantage Store on
EA.com.
Contest rules can be found at: http://ea.pogo.com/help/pickem/the-basics-1.jsp?site=eaco and http://ea.pogo.com/help/quickplay/the-basics-1.jsp?site=eaco. No purchase is
necessary to play. Void where prohibited.
About EA.com
EA.com, which went live in
October of 2000, is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif.
and is a business division of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:
ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment
software company. Under an agreement with America Online,
Inc. (AOL), the world's leading interactive services
company, EA.com provides exclusive games programming for
the AOL(R) Games channel, AOL.COM, Netscape.com, ICQ,
CompuServe, in addition to the EA.com home site. The
relationship between EA.com and AOL has created a leading
online gaming community and provides several services,
including the ability to download and play games, find
online opponents, obtain game related information and
join chat rooms to discuss games. More information can be
found at http://www.info.ea.com.
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