The Battle For Europe Intensifies
CDV organises international Sudden Strike Championship - the biggest RTS tournament ever held, to find Europe's best Sudden Strike strategist.
Britain will be taking on the might of Germany and France again when the grand final of the European Sudden Strike Championship is fought out in Paris in October 2001. This event will be culmination of Europe's biggest-ever real-time strategy tournament - a four month quest to find the very best Sudden Strike strategists.
The UK Sudden Strike Champion will have battled their way through qualifying leagues to be held online between July and September, to become one of 24 finalists fighting it out for £10,000-worth of prizes at The Playing Fields in London, on October 7, 2001, and televised by the 24-hour Europe-wide TV channel Game Network.
Whoever emerges victorious from the UK final will go on to represent the UK on the all-expenses paid trip to Paris for the ultimate European showdown in October, which will also be televised.
CDV Software Entertainment, the publisher of Sudden Strike, will be inviting entries for the UK Sudden Strike Championship from May 2001. Competitors can register online at the championship's dedicated web site, www.suddenstrike.co.uk, where full details of the tournament can also be found.
"We hope that the European Sudden Strike Championship will be a landmark event, " says Leo Zullo, UK marketing manager at CDV Software Entertainment. "We know that there are some superb Sudden Strike players out there and I'm looking forward to seeing them in action online and at the UK finals in October.
"Then there's the added edge of the 'traditional' German fixture and a battle against the French for the European title in what promises to be an enthralling three-way battle in Paris."
"The Sudden Strike Championship is set to be the biggest RTS tournament ever held and the finals in London will host the 24 best players in the country," says Simon Wigmore, communications director of Game Network. "It promises to be exactly the sort of event that Game Network is keen to cover and deliver to a wide TV audience."
All Championship games will be played using specially created Sudden Strike maps by the renowned map designer Taliesin and based on the Sudden Strike universe - the European battlefields of World War II.
Prizes on offer to finalists include hardware from the tournament's major sponsors Hercules, with the latest Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 graphics accelerator card, Fortissimo II sound card and Maxi Booster Radio speakers. These Hercules products are on offer for the top three UK finalists, with further hardware for the winner. All entrants will receive a prize memento of their participation in the UK Sudden Strike Championship.
As well as playing for prizes, money, glory and that weekend in Paris, the Championship is also being held to mark the launch of Sudden Strike Forever on June 29. This enhanced version of the RTS blockbuster adds 39 extra missions to the original title and over 30 new units as well as significantly improving elements of the gameplay.
For more on the Sudden Strike European Championships and for an online entry form, go to www.suddenstrike.co.uk.
The UK Sudden Strike Champion will have battled their way through qualifying leagues to be held online between July and September, to become one of 24 finalists fighting it out for £10,000-worth of prizes at The Playing Fields in London, on October 7, 2001, and televised by the 24-hour Europe-wide TV channel Game Network.
Whoever emerges victorious from the UK final will go on to represent the UK on the all-expenses paid trip to Paris for the ultimate European showdown in October, which will also be televised.
CDV Software Entertainment, the publisher of Sudden Strike, will be inviting entries for the UK Sudden Strike Championship from May 2001. Competitors can register online at the championship's dedicated web site, www.suddenstrike.co.uk, where full details of the tournament can also be found.
"We hope that the European Sudden Strike Championship will be a landmark event, " says Leo Zullo, UK marketing manager at CDV Software Entertainment. "We know that there are some superb Sudden Strike players out there and I'm looking forward to seeing them in action online and at the UK finals in October.
"Then there's the added edge of the 'traditional' German fixture and a battle against the French for the European title in what promises to be an enthralling three-way battle in Paris."
"The Sudden Strike Championship is set to be the biggest RTS tournament ever held and the finals in London will host the 24 best players in the country," says Simon Wigmore, communications director of Game Network. "It promises to be exactly the sort of event that Game Network is keen to cover and deliver to a wide TV audience."
All Championship games will be played using specially created Sudden Strike maps by the renowned map designer Taliesin and based on the Sudden Strike universe - the European battlefields of World War II.
Prizes on offer to finalists include hardware from the tournament's major sponsors Hercules, with the latest Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 graphics accelerator card, Fortissimo II sound card and Maxi Booster Radio speakers. These Hercules products are on offer for the top three UK finalists, with further hardware for the winner. All entrants will receive a prize memento of their participation in the UK Sudden Strike Championship.
As well as playing for prizes, money, glory and that weekend in Paris, the Championship is also being held to mark the launch of Sudden Strike Forever on June 29. This enhanced version of the RTS blockbuster adds 39 extra missions to the original title and over 30 new units as well as significantly improving elements of the gameplay.
For more on the Sudden Strike European Championships and for an online entry form, go to www.suddenstrike.co.uk.