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Twin Galaxies Crowns Champions of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2

Fairfield, IA - March 27th, 2001 - After four months of skating, scoring and soaring, over 20 different video gaming competitors are taking home cash prizes for high score accomplishments on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and a chance to win high score laurels in the forthcoming commemorative edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, the electronic gaming industry's official book of records.

With 23 cash prizes awarded to players achieving high scores and best-combos, Twin Galaxies' Official Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 World Championship and Best-Combo tournament attracted the best virtual skaters the world had to offer on three gaming platforms: the Dreamcast and Playstation home consoles and the PC.

The THPS 2 World Championship - which was conducted solely on the Playstation platform - issued five cash prizes: 1st $1,000; 2nd $750; 3rd $500; 4th $500 and 5th $250. The THPS 2 Best Combo World Championship issued twelve cash prizes of $150 each for the highest-scoring combos on each of the three major platforms for the following four tracks: Hangar, Philadelphia, Marseille and Skatestreet.

Nearly 1,000 players worldwide submitted scores online with the top 53 finalists submitting their best scores on videotape for final judging. The winner of the $1,000 prize was Zabed Mahmood, 14, from Long Island City, NY. To see the standings, go to http://www.twingalaxies.com.

"Since the Best-Combo contest accepted scores achieved on all three platforms, we were able to attract, without exception, the biggest names in THPS playing, making this a true world championship," explains Walter Day, Chief Scorekeeper at the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard, the video game industry's official scorekeeper. "And, with two different contests to choose between: the World Championship on the Hangar track and a Best-Combo Championship on four different tracks for each platform, our contest site had nearly 150,000 unique visitors in the course of the four-months of contest activities."

The now-completed THPS 2 World Championship and THPS 2 Best-Combo Contest are just the first two whistle-stops in a 10-month schedule offering seven contests that focus on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater family of games. "The contests are scheduled to coincide with the publication of the next edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, which deadlines on August 31st," says Chief Scorekeeper Day. "Before this tournament series is over," continues Day, "Twin Galaxies will have identified the best players in the world on both THPS 1 and THPS 2, and will have given additional honors to the winners on each of the individual tracks that are found in these games.

To facilitate these contests, Twin Galaxies is creating a special THPS Contest Center, which can be found on the Internet at http://www.twingalaxies.com

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