Giving Kiwis Live Text Updates on America's Cup

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Sportcheck Gives Kiwis Live Text Updates on America’s Cup

Smart Text and Web-Based Technology Keeps Kiwis Up To Date On All Key Sports

Auckland, 18 June 2007 – New Zealand’s leading online sports community website, Sportcheck (www.sportcheck.co.nz) today announced that it has launched a unique 10 minute gun text alert to allow Kiwis to keep in touch with all the action in Team New Zealand’s Challenge of the 32nd America’s Cup.

David Lewis, CEO of Sportcheck says that the online website is based on a sophisticated integrated technology platform that allows users who register with the site to easily receive and send text messages on key sporting events from the America’s Cup Challenge to their local netball, soccer or club rugby games.

“Team New Zealand’s Challenge for the 32nd America’s Cup is the sports event that the whole country has been looking forward to for several years. Only Sportcheck has created a quick and clever way to get text alerts alerting Team New Zealand fans to the 10 minute gun. Now there is no more excuse to miss the start or sit wasting time before each crucial race – you can confidently do other things (including sleep) without worrying about whether you might miss the crucial race start or not,” says Lewis.

Lewis says that Sportcheck developed the unique America’s Cup alerts to meet the demand from many of the website’s sports fan who wanted an extension of the technology that allows them to stay in touch in their own many diverse sporting communities.

“Sportcheck uses a very smart, interactive technology engine that allows all Kiwis interested in sports to effectively, cheaply and easily communicate with each other. The Sportscheck website also helps build a tree of contacts that can be quickly connected to each other by text message numbers whether the network is 2 or 20,000” says Lewis.

Last minute changes to America’s Cup race times or delayed starts are communicated immediately allowing sports fans to better use and plan their time.

“Now sports fans are in control of information and no longer have to wait for someone else at a fixed hour to provide an update,” says Lewis.

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