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pre KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. PRNewswire It's awards season inHollywood, and there's big buzz about the parties, the clothes, thespeeches and the new online fantasy game from AwardShowFantasyLeague(A HREF"AwardFL" "_new"AwardFLA) at least that's what the game developers arehoping. TabFL, the creators of the successful Tabloid Fantasy League,launched the new site on January , . It's a fantasy game site wheremembers predict winners from the nominees in the major awards shows. Thefirst game up is called "And The Winner Is ... Academy Edition." It's basedon the current Academy Award season that culminates with the oadcast ofthe televised event on Feuary , . Award Show Fantasy League games are loosely based on the fantasy sportsmodel. Players select a "team roster" from actors, movies and screenplaysnominated in nine major categories like "Best Actor", "Best Picture", etc.They also make predictions for a few fantasy-only categories like "LongestSpeech", "Shortest Speech" and "Most Awards." This makes every award andspeech relevant to at-home players. AwardFL creators hope the site becomes the centerpiece of everyoffice pool and Oscar(R) party in the world. Members can play in a publicleague to see how they rank against all players, or they can set up privateleagues to play among smaller groups of friends or co-workers. Top-rankedplayers will be awarded prizes like iPods and DVD movie collections. "The sky's the limit! The market segment for celeity-based publishingand programming just keeps growing, and we want to provide an onlinecommunity for these enthusiasts and add a little fun for those who enjoythe thrill of fantasy sports competition," says game co-creator BrehtBurri. Burri, along with game co-creatorspartners Firooz Basri, AmandaDalsing, and Amy Reif also launched Tabloid Fantasy League(A HREF"TabFL" "_new"TabFLA) last year, and they've been delighted with thepositive response. TabFL members draft a "team roster" of celeities.They are scored and ranked weekly depending upon the number of times theirceleity team members' pictures appear in the "Big Four" tabloidmagazines "People", "Us Weekly", "Star", and "In Touch." "People are having so much fun playing Tabloid Fantasy League, we justwanted to crank it up a notch and give them a chance to catch theexcitement of big celeity events like the awards shows," says Dalsing. Company EnterHold LLC Contact Breht Burri Phone ()-! begin SiteCatalyst code version H.. ! End SiteCatalyst code version H.. pre
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