News > Ultimate Baseball Online Hosts Summer Tournament
June 27, 2007
Ultimate Baseball Online is not your average baseball game. It's not really for casual gamers, and not really for hardcore gamers. This is a game for baseball fans, who happen to play video games. UBO is a massively multiplayer online sports game (MMOSG), where users take individual ballplayers into league and tournament competition, playing a set position on a field of other, human-controlled players, and batting only at a designated spot in the lineup. UBO takes the idea of real-life league play into the online world.
This July, UBO will host the "Firecracker Invitational" Tournament, where the best teams will compete for a chance to be included in the year-end "Best of UBO" Tournament. There, winning teams split cash prizes of $4,500 for first place, $2,250 for second place, and $1,125 for third place.
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Ultimate Baseball Online 2007 Hosts "Firecracker Invitational" Tournament
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Diamond Bar, California -- Jun 26, 2007 -- Ultimate Baseball Online 2007 (UBO), the world's only massively multiplayer online sports game (MMOSG) for baseball, today announced it is hosting its first Firecracker Invitational Tournament, pitting the best UBO teams from the East and the Western parts of the United States. The Firecracker Invitational will start on Monday, July 2, 2007 and continue till Wednesday, July 13, 2007. The three teams finishing first in the Major, All-Star, and Elite divisions will receive automatic bids to the Best of UBO 2007 Tournament.
The Best of UBO 2007 is a global event open to UBO players worldwide. 64 teams consisting of five to nine players will qualify during the year to compete in the tournament, which will run from November 26 to December 21, 2007. Each round will be a best-of-three series, and the championship round will be a best-of-five series. Members of the winning team in the Best of UBO 2007 Tournament will split a $4,500 cash prize. The second place team will take home $2,250, and third place will receive $1,125. Additional cash prizes will be paid to teams finishing through eighth place.
I've personally had the chance to play Ultimate Baseball Online, and I think it is a great idea that more developers should definitely pick up on.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
