CSTV Networks (http://www.cstv.com/)
is teaming up with Xbox Liveâ„¢ to present the Xbox
Live and CSTV 2005 College Hoops Challenge. This competition will give U.S.
gamers an opportunity to compete against each other on Xbox Live to win prizes
like a Samsung Flat Screen TV, an Xbox® video game system, Xbox games, and
CSTV gear.

The 2005 College Hoops Challenge, which launches March 18, will have gaming
fans of all ages and competitive levels playing EA SPORTS’ NCAA®
March Madness 2005â„¢. In addition to the grand prize Samsung Flat Screen
TV for the winner, the runner-up will receive an Xbox, five Xbox games, and
CSTV gear.

CSTV will promote the 2005 College Hoops Challenge across its CSTV.com Web
site and its network of more than 170 official athletic sites for colleges,
conferences, and athletic associations, and Xbox is promoting it on Xbox.com.

This season’s basketball challenge will again consist of brackets (256
each) of match play running concurrently, followed by a final round that will
determine the winner and the runner-up. Xbox Live, the ultimate gaming arena,
will be powering the tournament.

Tournament brackets will be hosted on the Clash.cc
Web site and supported by Clash’s Neonami Tournament tracking tools, which
enable players to instantly enter into custom-made brackets for league play.
Gamers can visit http://hoopschallenge.cstv.com/
for more information. That’s also where you can register.

CSTV and Xbox Live joined forces during the 2004 college bowl season to bring
college football fans the Xbox Live and CSTV 2005 College Football Challenge.
Hundreds of gamers and sports fans alike battled it out on Xbox Live over the
holidays and into early January. One grand prize winner, Kyle Davis of Lackland,
Tex., was left standing at the end of the tournament and will be attending the
2006 Rose Bowl with a guest—all expenses paid!

About CSTV Networks
CSTV Networks is a multimedia company that consists of the first-ever 24-hour
college sports television network, College Sports TV; the leading college sports
online network, CSTV.com; and the first-ever
24-hour college sports radio network, SIRIUS College Sports Radio. Through its
numerous platforms, CSTV provides more live college sports games, events, news,
information, analysis, and broadband content and reaches more college sports
fans than any other company.

College Sports TV, voted the number-one emerging cable network among operators
in a 2003 Beta research study, televises regular season and championship event
coverage from more than 35 men’s and women’s sports across every
major collegiate athletic conference, as well as many NCAA and NAIA Championships.
College Sports TV currently has agreements with the top six national distributors—Comcast,
DirecTV, Time Warner, Charter, Cox, and Adelphia—among others.

CSTV.com, the most-trafficked college sports
Web site, and its network of 180 official athletic sites are the number-one
online source for college sports broadband content, news, information, scores,
and analysis. SIRIUS College Sports Radio broadcasts a comprehensive package
of college football and basketball games from teams representing 16 top conferences,
including the Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Pac-10, and SEC, as well as from Notre
Dame.

CSTV was co-founded by President and CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Steve Greenberg,
and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded
Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN. It is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua
is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the company’s successful
foray into the college market.

About Clash.cc & Gamertag.com
Clash Competition Company (Clash.cc) was
started in 2003 by long-time videogame industry vet, Cynn Smith. Clash is a
service to Xbox Live gamers that creates tournaments for popular games based
on classic arena rules. The Clash service has live judges moderated events,
as well as automated tournaments that are used for league play. Every facet
of Xbox Live competition is taken apart and augmented by Clash, much to the
delight of its nearly 50,000 users.

About Gamertag.com
Gamertag.com is the world’s
first and largest community of Xbox Live gamers. With a huge virtual database
of names, pictures, game lists, and more, Gamertag.com
is used by more than 47,000 gamers to connect, communicate, and clash. Gamertag.com
has been in development since 2001, as it was created while the Xbox Live service
was still in a non-public beta form.

Source: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/news/2005/0304-ncaamarchmadness2005.htm

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