Hey guys,

Sorry for being away for the last few days, it's been hectic in here getting ready for the launch of this.

Anyway, tomorrow (Thursday 19th April) sees the official launch of the M&M's Challenge 2007 Pro Evolution Soccer Tournament.

This tournament is in association with A2ZSoccer.com , Reebok, screenclick.com, Spin 1038 and the Evening Herald.

We have announced the full details of prizes and the schedule of events at http://xboxlivegamingcentre.com/cup.html , but I'll put it in pretty simple terms here.

Where we stand right now
We have had a fantastic response to the tournament so far with over 250 people registering so far, and it's only officially starting now.

We have 13 qualifying events which are taking place on the following dates:

April Dates
Sunday 22nd @ 2pm - 6pm
Thursday 26th @ 6pm - 10pm
Sunday 29th @ 2pm - 6pm

May Dates
Thursday 3rd @ 6pm - 10pm
Sunday 6th @ 2pm - 6pm
Monday 7th @ 2pm - 6pm
Thursday 10th @ 6pm - 10pm
Sunday 13th @ 2pm - 6pm
Thursday 17th @ 6pm - 10pm
Sunday 20th @ 2pm - 6pm
Thursday 24th @ 6pm - 10pm
Sunday 27th @ 2pm - 6pm
Thursday 31st May @ 6pm - 10pm

Knockout Round
Sunday 3rd June 12pm - 6pm

Final
Bank Holiday Moday 4th June 12pm - 6pm

Your event day
The basic rundown of the day is as follows. 32 people participate in each event which lasts for approx 3 hours. You can play clubs, and we have set rules for all tournament matches. The 32 are split into eight groups of four players. Play everyone in your group twice, and the top two from each group progress to the last sixteen. This means you'll get decent value for money for your tenner with six games.

From the last sixteen it's knockout, extra time and penalties. Sixteen becomes eight, eight becomes four, and these four then progress to our knockout round on Sunday 3rd June. The top 64 after the knockout round go through to the final.

If you're in the final you are guaranteed a copy of Pro Evo 6 on Xbox 360 and Reebok prizes, as well as a load of XLGC spot prizes. The further you progress in the tournament, the better the prizes become.

If you get into the final, you and your local club are guaranteed prizes. The winner overall walks away as champion, gets an Xbox Home Cinema System, and they can then give a brand new Reebok kit for 15 players to their local football club or school.

This is the first time a tournament of this scale has been run in Ireland, and we have a huge amount of interest in this tournament. If we need to add in extra dates to accomodate interest, we will do so, but you can't take part unless you do two things.

1) go to xboxlivegamingcentre.com/cup.html and register on the a2zsoccer website. This will register you for the tournament as well as the pesrankings.com website (Konami's internationally ranked PES6 league).
2) pay your tenner by calling into the centre after you have registered, buying the ticket online when you registered.

You're in, Andrew Richardson who is running the administration of the tournament will contact you by phone or email to get you in on the date of your choice (if it's not full) and we'll see you on the day!

Any questions, send me a PM, pop into the centre or call us on 01 6750544.

Thanks for the interest guys, it's going to be a fantastic tournament!

Jamie

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mmmbaconroll

Best of luck with the tournament Jamie I hope it all runs smoothly for you.

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If Random plays like he did tonight I have high hopes for one of our members to reach the finals...

Good luck to all those competing but especially to our members

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God bless America

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Random... we expect no less than you winning this competition... if you don't then I'm sorry to say you will receive 1000 lashes and be banned from the site for at least a month!!!

And when you do win you can give the team kit to my club... and we'll divvy up the rest of the prizes your not going to keep... !!!

I think that sounds fair!!!

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Hi BC,

The Rovers pic isn't on the V2 interface for love and charity!!!! We all know where the kit is going to once Random sows his PES6 seeds

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NO WAY.... They don't even have a fecking stadium!!!!

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That is why we should give them the kit... Less to worry about

hmmm... personally don't agree... but I have personal feelings for my own club so that has to be taken out of the equation...

Ok well if the decision has been made then I'll go along with it!!!

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I am taking the wee out of you

Let's have a poll and see what Random should do with his new gear