Vivendi, CANAL Group, and EA SPORTS Organize the FIFA 17 Ultimate Team Championship Series Qualifier France
November 14 2016 - 12:31PM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
For the first time, Vivendi (Paris:VIV), CANAL Group and EA
SPORTS™ organize the EA SPORTS FIFA 17 Ultimate Team™ Championship
Series Qualifier France, one of the official competitions in season
of competitive gaming in EA SPORTS FIFA. Winners of this stage will
be qualified for the EA SPORTS FIFA 17 Ultimate Team Championship
Series Regional Final in Paris.
The competition is now open to everyone, playable on Xbox One
and PlayStation®4, and will determine the best French players. The
8 qualifications tournaments will be played online (4 on PS4, 4 on
XBOX One), and the winners, as well as those from other national EA
SPORTS FIFA competitions validated by Electronic Arts, will be
invited to play at a final round to take place on December 20 at
the iconic Olympia venue in Paris. Of the 32 best FIFA 17 Ultimate
Team players, only two (one on Xbox one, one on PS4) will reach the
FUT 17 Championships Series Regional Final.
The competition will be shown on Dailymotion. The final part of
the closing evening at L’Olympia, organized together with Universal
Music France, will be broadcast live on CANAL+, rebroadcast on
CSTAR and on the CANAL Group’s digital platforms (myCANAL, CANAL
ESPORT WEB, …).
CANAL ESPORT CLUB will give all the information about the
Ultimate Team Qualifier France on
http://esport.canalplus.fr/actualites/ultimate-team-qualifier-france/
and at Facebook and on Twitter.
CANAL ESPORT CLUB, a new TV show entirely devoted to the esports
phenomenon and its stars, positions itself not only as the
reference brand to follow esports news in France but also as a
pro-active player on the French esports scene.
Maxime Saada CEO of CANAL Group:
“CANAL +, partner of FIFA 17, and the CANAL ESPORT Club are
happy to partner with EA and allow all players to compete to
designate the best of them. The grand final of the Olympia will be
a high-level rendezvous for the esport fans”.
Dominique Cor, GM France/Benelux, Electronic Arts:
“Electronic Arts is pleased to partner with Vivendi for the
creation and implementation of an event of this magnitude. This
association with the CANAL Group will allow the largest number to
participate in an official competition in FIFA 17.”
Brent Koning, FIFA Competitive Gaming Commissioner at
Electronic Arts:
“Our goal with the Ultimate Team Championship Series is to find
the best players in the world on the Road to London. This
partnership will showcase the competitive nature of football, and
help us find the next FIFA 17 super star.”
More information: www.ultimateteamqualifierfrance.com
Join the EA SPORTS FIFA community at Facebook and on Instagram.
Follow us on Twitter @easportsfifa and use the hashtag #FIFA17.
*More information on the Ultimate Team Championship Series:
https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultimate-team/compete/fifa-17-championship-series
About Vivendi
Vivendi is an integrated media and content group. The company
operates businesses throughout the media value chain, from talent
discovery to the creation, production and distribution of content.
The main subsidiaries of Vivendi comprise CANAL+ Group and
Universal Music Group. CANAL+ is the leading pay-TV operator in
France, and also serves markets in Africa, Poland and Vietnam.
CANAL+ operations include STUDIOCANAL, a leading European player in
production, sales and distribution of film and TV series. Universal
Music Group is the world leader in recorded music, music publishing
and merchandising, with more than 50 labels covering all genres. A
separate division, Vivendi Village, brings together Vivendi
Ticketing (ticketing in the UK, the U.S and France), MyBestPro
(experts counseling), Watchever (subscription video-on-demand),
Radionomy (digital radio), Olympia Production, the L’Olympia and
the Theâtre de L‘Oeuvre venues in Paris and the CanalOlympia venues
in Africa. With 3.5 billion videos viewed each month, Dailymotion
is one of the biggest video content aggregation and distribution
platforms in the world. Gameloft is a worldwide leading video games
on mobile, with 2 million games downloaded per day.
www.vivendi.com, www.cultureswithvivendi.com
About Group CANAL
Group CANAL is a leading provider of premium channels – the
CANAL+ channels - and thematic channels as well as in the
distribution of pay TV offerings. It is also a key player in free
TV with three national channels, C8, C17 and CNEWS, and its ads
sales division. Internationally, CANAL has developed a presence on
high-growth territories. It is the first pay-TV operator in
French-speaking countries, especially in Africa. It is also present
in Poland and Vietnam. In total, the CANAL Group has over 15
million subscribers worldwide. With STUDIOCANAL, CANAL is also a
European leader in the production, acquisition and distribution of
feature films and TV series. Group CANAL is fully-owned by Vivendi,
a global media and content production and distribution group
About EA
Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive
entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and
online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal
computers, mobile phones and tablets. EA has more than 300 million
registered players around the world. EA is recognized for a
portfolio of critically acclaimed, high-quality blockbuster brands
such as The Sims™, Madden NFL, EA SPORTS™ FIFA, Battlefield™,
Dragon Age™ and Plants vs. Zombies™.
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