TexasTerror
June 22nd, 2005, 08:52 PM
Well, we have another minor league stunt. This one is going to get things rolling with some XBox MVP baseball going for two innings and then the teams will continue as if the game had already played two innings. They're going to put it up on the big screen as the fans watch what unfolds on the XBox. Another fun minor league promotion, eh?
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Minor League Baseball to Be Played Via Video Game
The first two innings of a minor-league Baseball game in Kansas will be played not with bats and balls: but controllers.
Baseball. America’s great past time. For over a hundred years, Americans have tuned in or snuck their way into stadiums across the country to watch some of the greatest ball-players of all time step up to the plate and take the field for nine innings of stop-and-go action. Thanks to the six year-old niece of the Kansas City T-Bones’ director of community relations: baseball is going to have an added feature this year for the third game in a series against a competing team.
Instead of playing the full nine innings, minor league team, the Kansas City T-Bones, will be choosing a single Xbox gamer to represent them in a head-to-head match against another gamer, who will be representing their opponent: the Schamburg Flyers. The gamers will play a total of two full innings on the field’s 16x24 foot TV screen, and their scores at the end of the second inning will count as the score for the team they are representing. The remaining seven innings will be played in real-life by both teams.
http://www.gamesmainframe.com/?view=article&article=526
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Minor League Baseball to Be Played Via Video Game
The first two innings of a minor-league Baseball game in Kansas will be played not with bats and balls: but controllers.
Baseball. America’s great past time. For over a hundred years, Americans have tuned in or snuck their way into stadiums across the country to watch some of the greatest ball-players of all time step up to the plate and take the field for nine innings of stop-and-go action. Thanks to the six year-old niece of the Kansas City T-Bones’ director of community relations: baseball is going to have an added feature this year for the third game in a series against a competing team.
Instead of playing the full nine innings, minor league team, the Kansas City T-Bones, will be choosing a single Xbox gamer to represent them in a head-to-head match against another gamer, who will be representing their opponent: the Schamburg Flyers. The gamers will play a total of two full innings on the field’s 16x24 foot TV screen, and their scores at the end of the second inning will count as the score for the team they are representing. The remaining seven innings will be played in real-life by both teams.
http://www.gamesmainframe.com/?view=article&article=526