19.09.2008
funworld‘s unique tournament system PHOTO PLAY MASTERS celebrates its first decade success!
10 years of PHOTO PLAY MASTERS!
19.09.2008
The touchscreen pioneer funworld celebrates an impressive anniversary in October. The unique PHOTO PLAY MASTERS tournament system is marking its first decade success. The leisure industry’s first tournament system has brought ten years of thrills and competition excitement for its enthusiastic players.
“PHOTO PLAY MASTERS is a supplementary feature bringing an enormous bonus for players, making PHOTO PLAY superbly attractive. The tournament system offers a spectacular virtual world of experience while generating unique game playing pleasure. It activates the players’ motivation and makes it possible to emphasize the players’ top performance with the sophisticated rewarding system. Apart from anything else it is a truly effective instrument for player binding; assuring that the community is networked integratively with a powerful long-term binding link to PHOTO PLAY. Anyone who sets this up is sure to benefit from loyal customers and rising profits”, Josef Öhlinger, CEO of funworld ag said.
Global MASTERS links 23 countries through long term tournaments worldwide!
The tournament pioneer and market leader
With PHOTO PLAY MASTERS funworld has made its mark miles ahead of the competition as the tournaments power innovator and market leader. No matter whether local or global, tournament fans have got the key to success in their hands with this true mega-trend in the games sector — a fact the European market leader for touchscreen game terminals saw early, pushing ahead to develop it effectively.
So today funworld has the worldwide greatest touchscreen network and the highest number of online linked terminals, on which the huge player community measures their skills in countless tournaments. This underlines the clear market leadership roll of the company and its ambitious efforts in developing a tournament system that is a class of its own.
Over the past ten years 15,000 PHOTO PLAY MASTERS tournaments have been held. In the course of these five million players of 46 different countries put themselves through the paces in some 450 million games. Fun Towers, Diamond 11 and Shanghai have crystallised out as the most popular of all tournament games, with Fun Towers achieving record-breaking game statistics in all the tournaments.
Tournaments ─ the PHOTO PLAY core competence
PHOTO PLAY MASTERS combines the long funworld tournament experience with outstanding technological competence at the highest standard of quality. The well-developed tournament system that started in 1998 has been continuously further developed and perfected. Öhlinger commented:
“In the course of the decade PHOTO PLAY MASTERS has pushed ahead growing from a local, then national and international and finally to a spectacular global tournament network. The thorough development of networking was always a part of the process, which is why funworld today has the world’s biggest touchscreen network at its disposal, one in which even international online tournaments are possible in real time.”
Innovative developments
PHOTO PLAY has been revolutionised by major sustained developments within the tournament sector: the Operator Cup, the Global MASTERS, the live tournaments and the Multiplayer Cup.
In the Operator Cup the people who set it up organise their own tournaments with the help of the web based administration tool www.funservice.com with great success and the best player of an area is honoured with the “Local Heroes” function.
Global MASTERS comprises longer term, international tournaments, linking 23 different countries worldwide. Some 50 global tournament games are on the extensive tournament schedule each year.
What is more the “Live Tournaments” have provided the thrills of a fast-paced international short tournament series since the introduction of online networking in 2004. These events with their 24 hour duration, provide players with the opportunity for a great sense of success and achievement fast.
Playing online tournaments against each other LIVE
Further to this players can measure their skills against each other in the 28 day long Multiplayer Cup and do so LIVE and online. The Multiplayer Cup involves a sophisticated ranking list and status system by which players can display their international success.
Players can play live against each other in the Multiplayer Cup!
Multiplayer is a head-to-head player function, with which players can play live either after one another or parallel against each other. The Multiplayer function was already launched in the year 2005 and has been continually advanced since then. Up to four players can play now simultaneously and for credits, which is a major challenge for them. Great technical refinements such as the communication function or video transmission in real time round off the unique game playing experience of the Multiplayer Cup.
“The Operator Cup, the Global MASTERS, the live tournaments and the Multiplayer Cup are the most important characteristics of PHOTO PLAY MASTERS. They reflect the enormous tournament competence of funworld and are a huge boost to the attractiveness of PHOTO PLAY. A further dimension is added to the tournament system by the new tournament series MASTERS PRO, that is being launched shortly to mark the MASTERS 10 year anniversary. MASTERS PRO is the next tournament generation comprising a further optimisation of the existing tournament system that will again strengthen funworld’s market leadership-roll in the development of tournaments”, Öhlinger said.
For further inquiries contact:
funworld ag
Public Relations
Christina Hinterleitner
Photo Play Strasse 1, A-4860 Lenzing
Phone: +43/(0)7662 6785 450; Mobile: +43 (0)699 16785 450
E-mail: christina.hinterleitner@funworld.com