YourSports™ Launches Sports
Media Platform Devoted To
Recognizing
Amateur Athletes That Play ‘For
the Love of the Game’
Site launches with National
Online TV Programming and Web
Applications on Facebook®
Platform
SEATTLE,
October 24, 2007 – YourSports™,
a pioneer in sports-oriented Web
2.0 application development,
today announced the launch of
its amateur
sports media platform –
yoursports.com – featuring
internet TV and web applications
dedicated to evolving the way
amateur sports are viewed,
shared and connected. Built by
athletes for athletes,
YourSports recognizes the 93
million amateur sports
participants (athletes, families
and fans) that play
for the love of the game.
YourSports features the
first user-generated nationally
broadcasted highlight show along
with Facebook Platform
applications each designed to
recognize and connect athletes
and fans on both the national
and local levels.
“We believe the world of amateur
sports deserves to have its own
platform similar to the NFL, MLB
and NBA,” said
Chris McCoy
founder
and fan of YourSports. “As a
company we’re determined to
highlight and empower the
amateur sports world through our
own media platform that
recognizes and connects those
who play for the love of the
game.”
YourSports’ current feature set
includes
YourSports10 (YS10),
the first national online
broadcast top 10 highlight show
solely based on user-submitted
content of amateur sports. On
top of YS10 the site encourages
fans, players, parents and
coaches to create Channels
(group profiles) for their local
teams and organizations,
essentially giving them their
own Top 5 highlight show. In
addition, YourSports is
providing fans with a suite of
applications (High
School Top 10 Sports and
Brackets) built on
Facebook Platform designed to
put the power of team rankings
into the hands of the fans and
allow users to create their own
brackets for any type of
tournament or game.
“At the end of the day, my team
is creating a platform featuring
applications and products that
we wanted when playing club,
high school, and intramural
sports. We always dreamed of
being recognized on
SportsCenter’s
Top 10 Plays and
definitely wanted to track our
stats and compare them against
our friends and opponents,” said
McCoy.
News Facts:
YourSports10/Channels:
A YourSports10 is a Top 10
highlight reel of the best
amateur sports in the nation.
YourSports Channels are
customizable and interactive
sites dedicated to specific
teams featuring highlights from
the team, all submitted by fans
and players. YourSports will
create a special highlight reel
for each channel with the
ability to upload and link to
other sites. YourSports is
working with VideoEgg to make
video-sharing for athletes and
fans as easy as ‘drag and drop’.
Facebook Platform Applications:
The launch of YourSports
includes two applications on
Facebook Platform - Brackets and
High School Top 10. The Brackets
application allows users to set
up tournaments, vote for their
favorite teams and create their
own bracket polls. Users can
create and manage any kind of
head-to-head tournament they can
think of such as a 3-on-3
basketball tournament, a
Scrabble tournament or even one
for your next Madden tournament.
The High School Top 10
application allows users to rank
their favorite High School
sports teams and compare their
picks to the national ranking as
well as others in the community.
Additional applications are
scheduled to launch in the
coming weeks.
Widgets:
Users, including online news
publications, can easily place
the YourSports Media Player
Widget on their web site
featuring professionally
produced custom highlight shows
spotlighting video content of
local teams submitted by
athletes and fans. Each
YourSports Media Player features
your own Top 5 highlight show
from the videos loaded directly
into your site and also the
newest episode of YS10.
Seed Funding:
Since the company’s creation in
2006, originally based out of
local Seattle coffee shops and the Phi Gamma
Fraternity, the executive team
has raised more than $900,000 in
private funding from local angel
investors. The company spent the
last year working in Chris’s
garage and now operates from its
own office next to the University of Washington campus.
Management team:
YourSports currently has a team
of 18, plus numerous interns
from the University of Washington and several
consultants. The team includes:
-
Chris McCoy, 24, former National
DECA President and founder of
the successful baseball
instructional company
PitchSmarter.com
-
Sean Sweeney, former director at
Media Zone, Yahoo Sports, and
Youth Sports Network
-
Ben Joldersma, former lead
developer at Scout.com
-
Perkins Coie, legal counsel
Board of Advisors:
YourSports
has assembled an all-star
advisory board comprised of the
following:
-
Stu Evey, co-founder and former
Chairman ESPN, Inc.
-
Eddie Poplawski, former CEO of
ACI., Leading merchandiser for
Costco Wholesale Corp.
-
Clay Loges, current CEO and
co-founder of Yodio.com, a new
media company
-
John Castle, Entrepreneurship
lecturer, University of Washington
-
Nate Miles, current VP
Government Relations at Eli
Lilly and Company
-
Bryan Brewer, president of
Business Plans Northwest
Links:
Destination
Site:
www.yoursports.com
YourSports10:
http://www.yoursports.com/index.php?q=yoursportstv
Channels:
http://www.yoursports.com/index.php?q=channels
Channel Widget:
http://hollywoodac.org/
Facebook Platform Application:
Brackets
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6045186299
Facebook Platform Application:
High School Top 10
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5051463215
Facebook Platform Application:
YourSports Teams
http://apps.facebook.com/yoursports/
Promotional Contests &
Scholarships:
http://yoursports.com/index.php?q=contests
YourSports Blog:
http://www.yoursports.com/index.php?q=blog/11
About YourSports:
Built for athletes by athletes,
YourSports is a Web 2.0 sports
media company devoted to the
genuine nature of amateur
sports. Founded by former
National DECA President Chris
McCoy, YourSports has set out to
revolutionize how amateur sports
are viewed, shared and
connected. As a company,
YourSports is determined to
highlight and empower the
community of amateur sports
through the development of new
products and services that
promote and recognized those who
play for the love of the game.
For more information:
www.yoursports.com.
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