PongLeague Press Release

Pongleague.net has created a social network where beer pong players are given rank determined by their performance. With 30 plus statistics tracked for individuals worldwide via referees and hand held PDA's,pongleague is making the game official.

Momentous steps are currently being made towards the organization and unification of beer pong. Currently beer pong is known as the most popular and competitive drinking game in the world. However, the status of the game has grown so much, that its competitive nature has taken precedence. There are no longer beer pong games at parties, there are parties at beer pong games. With tournaments and leagues sprouting up worldwide, beer pong is taking the collective social life by storm. As every game is being played, the perspective of the game is changed from a drinking game and into a sport. The time has come for a company to emerge and bring structure to the sport, so that it can reach its full potential. That company is Pongleague.net and they are going to do it for free!

Pongleague.net can best be described as a social network for beer pong players. Using rules first implemented by the World Series of Beer Pong, Pongleague.net is more then just a place to view personal information. It is a place where individual game stats are kept, allowing you to track your personal progression from game to game. In addition, the site functions like many social networking sites; where you can have friends, add comments and maintain photo albums. In official tournaments, all of your personal game statistics are tracked electronically on handheld PDA’s by officials and wirelessly uploaded into our database. From there, game statistics are then displayed on your personal profile. In order to create a ranking system, we run every user's statistics through a very elaborate weighted algorithm which converts them into a single "index" number. Each player's index is then compared to every other index on the network. You can then compare your rank with others in the same school, city, region or state. You can even see how you stack up against the entire nation. By tracking statistics electronically, we can track every stat you can possibly imagine. Making the game into a respectable sport is our primary objective and we have all systems in place to make that happen. Thanks to our software, you are able to locate tournaments going on nationwide, register and pay for everything online. Our site also gets the community involved by helping others establish relationships with venues and coordinate events.

Pongleague.net is currently operational and will be launching in January 09'.

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