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The U.S. Army to Partner with Ultimate Arena for America's Army Ultimate Arena E3 Tournament
Washington, DC, March 17, 2003 --The U.S. Army announced today that it has teamed with Ultimate Arena to hold an America's Army Ultimate Arena E3 Tournament. The final match between a team of four civilians and four active duty U.S. Army Soldiers will take place at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles which runs May 14-16, 2003. Qualifying tournament matches will take place from March 17th through April 25th. The championship match will occur on May 15th at the America's Army booth at E3 for a prize of $7,500 in cash and travel expenses. Players can sign up for the tournament at
www.ultimatearena.com. The first 500 people to sign up will receive a special America's Army Ultimate Arena E3 Tournament t-shirt.During the qualifying matches, players may compete as individuals or in teams of any size. The 16 civilians with the highest Ultimate Arena America's Army: Operations rating on April 25th will be named semi-finalists for the civilian team. These civilian semi-finalists will arrange themselves into 4-person teams and play a single elimination tournament. The U.S. Army will select the Soldier finalist team. The finalist civilian team and Soldier teams will be determined by April 29th.The finalist civilian team will receive a Grand Prize trip for four to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show where they will play the U.S. Army Soldier team on May 15th.
America's Army is a PC game that provides civilians with an inside perspective and a virtual role in today's premier land force: the U.S. Army. The game is designed to provide an accurate portrayal of Soldier experiences across a number of occupations. America's Army includes the Operations game, a 3D action game that portrays small unit actions, as well as Soldiers, the adventure portion to be released in 2003, which allows players to go through training exercises and navigate life's challenges to achieve life goals in the Army. America's Army: Operations has shipped as a free CD and is available at local Army Recruiting stations, ROTC Detachments and Army events listed at
www.americasarmy.com.Since its public release on July 4th, 2002, over 1.46 million players have registered to play America's Army. Of this group, over 925,000 players have completed the virtual basic training portion of the game. At an average of 6-10 minutes per mission, gamers have now played more than 90 million missions logging over 9 million hours of gameplay.
Ultimate Arena
www.ultimatearena.com is the leading platform where multiplayer online gamers can create their own tournaments for cash prizes. Ultimate Arena creates an nvironment of fun and fair play with a robust player rating system and a sophisticated reputation system based on user feedback. Ultimate Arena is hosted on a secure network of state-of-the-art game servers, the majority from HomeLAN, an official America's Army server provider. The company has created the Ultimate Rating System™ that matches players up with opponents of equal skill. The company has also developed the Ultimate Feedback System™ which is a reputation system based on user feedback that helps players determine whom they can trust in the community."Ultimate Arena is a terrific partner to help us host this exciting tournament involving civilians and Soldiers," said Col. Casey Wardynski, project originator and manager of the America's Army game. "We are extremely excited about this competition and about working with Ultimate Arena to allow our players to set up their own prize tournaments whenever they want to."Since America's Army is one of most popular games in the world today, we are very excited to be able to support this tournament," said Mike Cassidy, CEO of Ultimate Arena. "The championship match between the civilian team and Soldier team will be one of the 'must see' events at E3."
In America's Army: Operations, the teamwork concept has been implemented in a strategic and innovative way as gamers always play in a team and are bound by the laws of land warfare, Army values and realistic Rules Of Engagement. In squad versus squad operations, where up to 32 players can join in the same mission, gamers will always perceive that they are on the U.S. Army team, regardless of which team they join. All entrants for the tournament must be at least 18 years
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