{"id":492,"date":"2008-11-05T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=492"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:21:46","slug":"melbourne-scores-with-fifa-interactive-world-cup-live-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Scores with FIFA Interactive World Cup Live Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">Sydney<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">, Australia<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\"> \u2013 <strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5<sup>th<\/sup> November 2008 &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> FIFA, EA SPORTS\u2122 and PlayStation are inviting Australia\u2019s best virtual football players to take part in the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2009, the world\u2019s largest football gaming tournament.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">Taking place at the eGames expo in Melbourne, the FIWC 09 Live Qualifier Event will see gamers from across the nation battle it out to win an all expenses paid trip to the FIWC 09 Grand Final, and the chance to compete against the world\u2019s top virtual players with the hope of being crowned FIFA Interactive World Player of the Year.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">Mini-Tournaments will be played from 1pm on Friday<sup> <\/sup>14<sup>th<\/sup> November and from 10am on Saturday 15<sup>th<\/sup> November with winners of these events having the chance to score a <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">PlayStation\u00aePortable<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">, EA SPORTS game packs and great adidas merchandise.\u00a0 The official FIWC 09 Australian Live Qualifier Event will take place from 12pm sharp on Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> November with a special guest appearance by singer <strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brian McFadden<\/span><\/strong> to present the National Final.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">Catch some professional players, and you might even get the chance to play against them in one of the special tournaments.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">Competitors wishing to take part in the Live Qualifier can register online at <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000179\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.au.playstation.com\/FIWC\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.au.playstation.com\/FIWC<\/span><\/a> or at the dedicated FIFA FIWC 09 Area at the eGames event. Those not playing in the competition can test the strength of their left foot in the interactive Speed Ball area, sit back relax and play the new sports titles from EA Games on the PLAYSTATION\u00ae3 and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">PlayStation Portable<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\"> or show everyone their ball skills in the Freestyle Football display.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">This year\u2019s global winner will be rewarded with an exclusive invite to the FIFA World Player Gala, USD $20,000 in cash and a brand new KIA \u2018Soul\u2019, with 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place gamers winning USD $5,000 and $1,000 respectively.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Century Gothic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Century Gothic';\">The new EA SPORTS FIFA 09 game is out now on all three PlayStation formats and to find out more about the FIFA Interactive World Cup Australian Live Qualifier Event please visit <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000179\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/FIWC\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.FIFA.com\/FIWC<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, Australia \u2013 5th November 2008 &#8211; FIFA, EA SPORTS\u2122 and PlayStation are inviting Australia\u2019s best virtual football players to take part in the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2009, the world\u2019s largest football gaming tournament.\u00a0 Taking place at the eGames expo in Melbourne, the FIWC 09 Live Qualifier Event will see gamers from across the<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=492\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}