NCAA Football 10 Season Showdown has begun

by: Nathan - posted: 9/2/2009 11:44:00 PM

EA Sports has an interesting competition called Season Showdown, which has just recently entered the regular season for the game NCAA Football 10. Lucky for me IGN.com has already compiled an excellent Q&A segment that does an excellent job of summing up what the competition is about and how to participate. Interested parties can sign up to participate on the official website.

 The following institutions are in the top ten heading into the Season Showdown regular season:

1)      Ohio State (more than 100 million credits earned during the pre-season)

2)      Florida

3)      Texas

4)      Michigan

5)      Miami

6)      Florida State

7)      USC

8)      LSU

9)      Alabama

10)   Notre Dame

NCAA FOOTBALL 10 “SEASON SHOWDOWN” REGULAR SEASON BEGINS TODAY!

August 31, 2009— Since the launch of NCAA Football 10 on July 14^th, hundreds of thousands of college football fans have experienced the excitement of the all-new Season Showdown competition.  The Season Showdown pre-season is now over and based on credits users have accumulated for their school of choice, the following institutions are in the top ten heading into the Season Showdown regular season:

1)      Ohio State (more than 100 million credits earned during the pre-season)

2)      Florida

3)      Texas

4)      Michigan

5)      Miami

6)      Florida State

7)      USC

8)      LSU

9)      Alabama

10)   Notre Dame

With the start of the Season Showdown regular season, there are now five categories in which users can earn credits.  The winning school for each week is determined by a best of five format, so in addition to playing games on the console, it is imperative that users go online to play the web based games through the Facebook application (http://apps.facebook.com/seasonshowdown

) or through the Season Showdown website (http://seasonshowdown.easports.com ).

• NEW!  ONLINE VS. SHOWDOWN OPPONENT
  Beginning today and throughout the regular season, in order to earn additional credits, Season Showdown participants will need to defeat their weekly Showdown opponent on Xbox 360 or PS3, which is determined by their school’s real world opponent for that week.  For week #1, the game of the week is Miami vs. Florida State, as this matchup pits two top 10 Season Showdown teams against one another.
• NEW!  WEB BASED GAME! ALLIES & RIVALS 
  [Play online through Facebook http://apps.facebook.com/seasonshowdown
   
  or at http://seasonshowdown.easports.com
   
  ]
  With the start of the regular Season Showdown season, the “Allies & Rivals” component is now live, as well.  This online poll allows users five votes to put towards any five schools of their choice, with no school receiving more than one vote.  By looking at who their rivals are playing each week, users could put votes towards their opponents’ team in hopes of keeping their rivals from winning that category.
• WEB BASED GAME! NCAA TRIVIA CHALLENGE
  [Play online through Facebook http://apps.facebook.com/seasonshowdown
   
  or at http://seasonshowdown.easports.com
   
  ]
  As the other web based feature, users can answer trivia questions that will be totaled and credited towards their school’s overall points.
• VS. CPU
  Users can gain credits by playing on Xbox 360 or PS3 against any school offline.
• ONLINE VS. NATION
  Users can gain credits by playing on Xbox 360 or PS3 against anyone online in the nation.

At the end of the regular season, based on credits accumulated, the top 32 Season Showdown schools will compete in a single elimination tournament to decide the ultimate Season Showdown champion.

To compete in Season Showdown or to learn more, please log on to http://seasonshowdown.easports.com

.