Grand Prize Winner to Receive Trip to Los Angeles and Chance to Meet the Dodgers
LOS ANGELES, April 7, 2000 – FOX Sports Latin America, the most widely distributed Spanish-language pay television sports network in the world, and STATS, Inc., a leading provider of online fantasy games, today announced the launch of ‘FOX Sports Grandes Ligas Interactivas 2000,’ the network’s Fantasy Baseball contest for the 2000 professional baseball season. Located on the FOX Sports Latin America Web site (www.foxsportsla.com), the Spanish-language Fantasy Baseball game runs through October 1, 2000, crowning weekly ‘Manager of the Week’ winners along with a Grand Prize winner for the season’s highest-scoring fantasy manager.
‘For baseball fans, nothing adds more excitement to following the ups and downs of the baseball season than charting and managing the performance of their own Fantasy Baseball team,’ said Andrew Thau, Senior Vice President of Operations and Network Development, FOX Sports International and General Manager, FOX Sports Latin America. ‘As a primary source in Latin America for Major League Baseball games, highlights and news, FOX Sports Latin America is proud to bring this thrilling opportunity to baseball fans in the region.’
‘Last year STATS produced the Official Rugby World Cup fantasy game for the European market followed by several International Soccer League fantasy games,’ said Stephen Byrd, Vice President of Fantasy Sports at STATS. ‘FOX Sports Grandes Ligas Interactivas 2000 allows us to continue our expansion by taking Fantasy Baseball, which we have been operating for 12 years, and introducing it to an entirely new audience.’
After registering online, free of charge, contestants may submit a 10-player lineup for each of the contest’s 25 weekly periods, beginning April 10. Points for each player are awarded based on the player’s actual hitting or pitching performance throughout the season. Each week, the registered user with the most fantasy points for that week will win the ‘Manager de la Semana’ prize – a deluxe FOX Sports sweatshirt.
At the season’s end, the registered user with the highest aggregate total of fantasy points from 21 of the 25 weeks will receive the ‘Manager de A±o’ Grand Prize – two roundtrip airfare tickets to Los Angeles, three nights’ hotel accommodations, two tickets to a 2001 Los Angeles Dodgers home game, $500 spending money, the opportunity to meet with Dodgers team members, and an escorted VIP tour of the 20th Century Fox movie studio. One second-place prize winner will receive $500, and the next 50 highest scorers will each receive a FOX Sports T-shirt and baseball cap. In addition, the ‘El Rey de Diamante’ prize of $750 will be awarded to the contestant whose team scores the highest point total in any single week of the season.
To enter or for a complete list of contest rules, baseball fans can visit the Fantasy Sports section of the FOX Sports Latin America Web site at www.foxsportsla.com. To access the section, simply click on the animated logo on the FOX Sports Latin America home page.
The Fantasy Baseball site was produced for FOX Sports Latin America by STATS, Inc. (www.stats.com), the nation’s leading sports information and statistical analysis provider for all major news publications and services, broadcasters, software game developers, online services, paging companies and fantasy game operators. STATS provides the most current sports information on the Internet, allowing players to make better-informed decisions and further enhance their enjoyment of Fantasy Baseball.
FOX Sports Latin America, the most widely distributed Spanish-language pay television sports network in the world, is affiliated with FOX Sports International, a venture between News Corporation Ltd. and Liberty Media Corporation/TeleCommunications International, Inc. (TCI2). Additional information about FOX Sports Latin America programming can be obtained by visiting its Web site at www.foxsportsla.com.
STATS, Inc. is owned by News Digital Media, the producer of FOXSports.com and the digital division of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS). STATS offers a virtual fantasy sports playground on the World Wide Web at www.stats.com where sports fans can play games and obtain up-to-the-minute information on their favorite team or player. STATS is the leader in real-time sports information, collecting data from thousands of sporting events annually. STATS also publishes 12 pro sports annuals and two all-inclusive baseball encyclopedias. In addition, STATS produces fantasy sports games for an extensive list of commercial clients including FOX Sports, America Online, EA Sports, Tribune Interactive, NYPost.com and SportsYa!
For further information please contact:
Ra·l de Quesada
FOX Sports Latin America
Tel: 310-286-3854
Rdquesada@foxsportsintl.com
Stephen Byrd
STATS, Inc.
Tel: 847-677-3322 x 130
byrd@stats.com
John Acunto
News Digital Media
Tel: 212-462-5022
jacunto@newsdigital.com