HOMEWORLD FAN SITE HOSTING CONTEST
Win a Day with Relic to See the Homeworld Sponsored Racecar During the Molson Indy
Bellevue, WA (July 29, 1999) - Sierra Studios™ announced today that it is partnering with WON.net™ to launch a promotion allowing consumers to create their own Homeworld fan pages. In conjunction with the promotion, Sierra Studios will host a contest with the grand prize being a trip for two to Vancouver to meet the Relic team and see the Homeworld sponsored racecar during the Molson Indy.
"This contest offers our Homeworld fans a way to really get involved and at the same time, boost excitement before the release of this highly anticipated title," says Dan Amdur, product manager at Sierra Studios. "We think this is a great opportunity for our fans to test their skills designing the page, while being given the chance to meet the team behind the game."
About the Contest
Signups for the contest are taking place at http://www.won.net/hwcontest. After signing up, participants will be directed to the Players.WON.net Homeworld pages for page design and posting.
Contestants will be able to win prizes in one of two phases. Anyone who signs up on the contest webpage is automatically entered into a drawing for regular prizes. These can include 2 AnyPoint™ Home Network cards from Intel® or 3dfx's Voodoo3™ 3000 premier 3D gaming boards, as well as hats and mouse pads. There will be three drawings for regular prizes, beginning a week after the contest begins and running once a week.
Next, a grand prize drawing will take place the week after the contest closes, and will involve Relic judging their "favorite" fan site that was created during the contest period. The winner of the grand prize will be flown to Vancouver on Friday, September 3rd and will leave Sunday, September 5th. On Saturday, they will accompany the Relic team to the Molson Indy event where they will see the Homeworld car in a special tent and spend time with the developers during the race.
WON.net™, dedicated to integrating the Internet into gaming, is one of the largest aggregators of Internet enabled games, with over 40 live and playable choices, including 22 free online-only games from seven major developers. Some of the site's highlights include YOU DON'T KNOW JACK® the netshow, HOYLE® card and board games, Homeworld, Half-Life™, TRIBES™, Starsiege™, Red Baron® 3D, Wordox, The Cypher, Acrophobia and SpiritWars™.
WON.net also features daily game news from the industry leading site Imagine Games Network and strategy guides from leading publisher Prima Publishing. WON.net also develops proprietary technology tools for games including WONswap™, the easiest way to download and install user-created content; Game Detector™, offering players the easiest way to find and join a server-based game on the web; and GameSearch.net, the best, most complete internet search engine focused solely on games. WON.net is an autonomous business unit incorporated within Havas Interactive, the largest publisher of consumer PC software in the world.
Sierra On-Line, Inc. is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment
and productivity software. Sierra is comprised of a family of brands: Sierra Attractions™, SierraHome™,
Sierra Sports™, Sierra Studios™, and Dynamix™, a Sierra Company. Sierra is a division of Havas
Interactive, whose holdings also include Knowledge Adventure™, Blizzard Entertainment® and WON.net™.