Wednesday, November 9, 2011

ProPundit.com shortlisted for Spider Award @armourie


ProPundit.com, the sports prediction website for the time-poor and knowledge-rich sports fan, has been shortlisted for a prestigious Eircom Spider Award. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in the Convention Centre in Dublin on 10th November 2011. The Eircom Spider Awards honour Irish individuals and organisations for their outstanding achievements online and celebrate the successes of the Irish internet and digital media.

Established last July by Armour Interactive, ProPundit.com allows players to compete against friends and colleagues in sports prediction games. Unlike other fantasy sport and prediction games ProPundit takes up no more than 5 or 10 minutes of a players time each week.

Andrew Dewdney, Director, Armour Interactive said, “We’re absolutely delighted that ProPundit.com been shortlisted for recognition by Ireland’s premier technology awards. ProPundit.com has gone from strength to strength over the past number of months. It’s formula of entertaining and rewarding games that are much less time demanding than, say fantasy football type games has proved to be a winning one.”

ProPundit.com games can be sport specific or can span a number of sports from football and hurling to golf and NFL. The designers plan on expanding the number of sports in the future to include GAA, soccer, golf, tennis and rugby to cater for all possible tastes.  Having its roots in Ireland means there are local sporting questions relating to GAA and other national sporting highlights.

Other sites shortlisted within the Sports category of the Eircom Spider Awards are: oneescape.ie, gaa.ie, gaelforceevents.com, Horse Racing Ireland, Leinster Cricket Union and Teamer.net.
Visit www.armour.ie and www.propundit.com

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