Archive for February, 2006

New Tennis Tournaments Available

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

The existing tournaments all filled up, so I added one new tournament per week to spread the players around.
I guess lots of new people are playing!

New Training Mechanism

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

For the team sports (Except football and hoops 2) the daily training has been changed, removing some of the crazy Javascript that was going on there and making it more straightforward. Hopefully it’s compatible with everyone’s browser now.
Please let me know if you have any trouble.
Good luck!

Playasport Popularity Campaign

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Traffic on the site is up about 33% in the last few weeks. Not surprisingly this is mostly because of the Figure Skating game and the winter Olympics. But can someone explain to me why the Alexa traffic ranking is DOWN 150,000 spots in the last 3 months?
I guess it’s just that nobody who […]

New Tennis League Management

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

If you are a tennis manager and you want to track certain players or your friends, you can now create a private league of your own to track the information.
Just go to your player detail page and there’s a bright green link to create the league.
As you browse players you can add them to your […]

Review: Virtua Tennis World Tour

Monday, February 13th, 2006

This is a game from Sega. It’s their latest addition to the series from Virtua Tennis.
There are a few updates they made in the series such as the new ball mode which include four skill-testing minigames different from the minigames you can see in the World Tour mode.
You can play with famous players such as […]

New Sports Icons

Friday, February 10th, 2006

I added new icons for each of the sports areas since the old ones were getting stale.
I also made some changes to the site template, so let me know if you have any trouble.
Lastly, I’ll be experimenting with the ads on the site. If something is overly annoying, comment here too.

  
  

Tip: New Player Tennis Schedules

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

New players often run into the problem of not qualifying for the draws of events. The best way to get into a tournament is to look on the schedule page and see what tournaments still have slots remaining. The figure below shows the Schedule screen. Look for the ones highlighted in blue because these have […]

Review: Smash Court Tennis 2

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Smash Court tennis 2 is easily one of the best tennis games going around. I have the playstation 2 version and the 1 only BIG downside to the game is, no Roger Federer, I dont know what the makers were thinking of to not put the worlds best tennis player on the game. Apart from […]

Sim Sport Website Review: SmallBall

Monday, February 6th, 2006

The game is called Smallball Baseball (Smallball Soccer is also out, but save that for later on). Smallball baseball is an amazing mix of 2d graphics, and an awesome community. The basic concept is that you download a small 8mb client for your computer. On this client is everything you need to […]

Game Review: Virtua Tennis World Tour for PSP

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

One of the most memorable tennis games of all time is undoubtedly Virtua Tennis. With simple button mashing mechanics, players could perform on the court with exceptional grace and success.
Virtua Tennis World Tour is one such game. Developed by Sumo Digital and SEGA, World Tour stands as one of the best reasons to own a […]