Calling All Ballers
Get ready to bring your street game in April, as Midway rolls out the NBA Ballers: Phenom $100K Tournament.
Published: February 16, 2006
With Jarvis Thompson of Upper Marlboro, MD walking away with a cool $100,000 this week shortly after showing up the competition in this year’s Madden Challenge, diji-jocks ‘round the nation are no doubt mumbling to themselves about how they could totally make that kind of cold, hard cash in a gaming tournament.
All we have to say is: hoops, anyone?
NBA Ballers sold in outlandish numbers in 2004, an for some folks at Midway Games with dollar bills for eyes, it's about going all out these next few months to hype the release of NBA Ballers: Phenom. By “all out,” we of course mean hosting a nationwide tournament of epic proportions in search of the best digital baller and handsomely making them $100,000 richer.
The NBA Ballers: Phenom $100K Tournament is the name of the game, and for two days in April, it will be uniting over 1,000 of the country’s finest gamers in some 1-on-1, single-elimination tourney-style street ballin’, all shaded from the L.A sun in The Music Box @ Fonda.
But what would a high-paying competition be without a host of celebrity and athlete appearance, not to mention a musical performance by Def Jam recording artist, Ne Yo. Not a real competition, that’s for dang sure.
If schooling suckas in some videogame street hoops is your kind of thing (Dave Chappelle style, of course -- we wouldn't expect anything less), we reckon you mosey on over to either nbaballers.com or NBA.com to get in on the action. Official rules and online registration await, which comes at a first-come, first-served basis.
Casual gamers, you haven’t been forgotten. NBA Ballers: Phenom comes your way in April.
All we have to say is: hoops, anyone?
NBA Ballers sold in outlandish numbers in 2004, an for some folks at Midway Games with dollar bills for eyes, it's about going all out these next few months to hype the release of NBA Ballers: Phenom. By “all out,” we of course mean hosting a nationwide tournament of epic proportions in search of the best digital baller and handsomely making them $100,000 richer.
The NBA Ballers: Phenom $100K Tournament is the name of the game, and for two days in April, it will be uniting over 1,000 of the country’s finest gamers in some 1-on-1, single-elimination tourney-style street ballin’, all shaded from the L.A sun in The Music Box @ Fonda.
But what would a high-paying competition be without a host of celebrity and athlete appearance, not to mention a musical performance by Def Jam recording artist, Ne Yo. Not a real competition, that’s for dang sure.
If schooling suckas in some videogame street hoops is your kind of thing (Dave Chappelle style, of course -- we wouldn't expect anything less), we reckon you mosey on over to either nbaballers.com or NBA.com to get in on the action. Official rules and online registration await, which comes at a first-come, first-served basis.
Casual gamers, you haven’t been forgotten. NBA Ballers: Phenom comes your way in April.