FIFA Interactive World Cup Scores Its One Millionth Player

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PlayStation has been teaming up with FIFA and EA Sports for several years to bring the world’s greatest virtual football competition, the FIFA Interactive World Cup, to our consoles. This year, the competition has reached an important milestone and our friends of FIFA have sent over this news story.

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FIFA and Presenting Partners EA Sports and PlayStation are delighted to announce that this year’s edition of the FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC) has reached a significant milestone, with one million players now registered for the tournament.

The world’s largest virtual football tournament has been part of FIFA’s event portfolio since 2004, initially beginning as live consumer events. The introduction of PS3 and its online playing mode for FIWC 09, through PlayStation Network had a huge impact on the reach of the event, resulting in exponential growth in participant figures, highlighted by the growth from 28,000 players in 2008 to one million in 2012.

Having been awarded a place in the prestigious Guinness World Records as the largest online gaming tournament in the world for FIWC 10 (775,000 players) and FIWC 11 (869,543 players), the event has broken all of its own records once more, reaching the one million mark with more than two months remaining before the qualifying for the Grand Final of the event closes.

Contestants can still participate in this year’s FIWC through an online tournament played on the PlayStation Network, by registering ‘in-game’ in FIFA ’12 on their PS3. For more information on the FIWC, go to: www.fifa.com/fiwc.

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