Finland Wins the Largest Open nation-to-nation Golf Tournament

ESPOO, Finland, August 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

GameBook today announced that Finland won the GameBook Cup, the largest nation-to-nation (Sweden v Finland) open golf tournament in the world made possible by innovative GameBook technology bringing golf to the digital age. The countries competed head-to-head in seven different categories, of which Finland won 4, Sweden won 2, and one was tied. The total number of rounds played and counted for the final result was approximately 3,000 - We're pleased that so many golfers showed up and played for their country. GameBook wants to offer golfers something new, innovative and fun in golf! says GameBook co-founder and CEO Kalle Väinölä.

Finland won the categories for the country that makes more birdies, eagles, fairway hits, and net results below 70.  The countries were tied in the category for the country that hits more greens. Sweden won the categories for the country that makes fewer putts and that makes less triple bogies (or worse).  - We included several categories that are based on individual statistics. I believe golfers can learn more about their own game once they start following their individual statistics. GameBook makes it easy to follow your stats and compare them to your friends' stats, continues Väinölä.

-  I feel good that my home country Finland won, but in all fairness to the Swedes, the results show that Swedes are better putters than Finns, says co-founder Mikko Manerus. Anyone in Sweden and Finland could participate in the GameBook Cup by playing one or more rounds on any golf course.  - All that you had to do is to play golf and keep score with the GameBook iPhone app or enter your individual score manually after the round in the GameBook online Clubhouse profile, explains Manerus.

The GameBook Cup was sponsored by Audi Finland, Continental Tire Finland, Dormy, Nike Golf, Ilta-Sanomat, Exove, allstar.fi, and Black Mountain Golf Club of Hua Hin. Dormy and Nike Golf offer free downloads of the iPhone application in Sweden.  Audi Finland does the same in Finland. Their ads run in the application and in Finland alone, the leaderboard ad has received over 500,000 views this Summer.

GameBook is a real-time scoring system and ground breaking social technology platform for golf, intended to make golf more social, fun and enjoyable for all. The GameBook iPhone app includes an intuitive real-time score card, built-in traditional and fun game formats and well as statistics. GameBook enables the only live leaderboard in the golf industry today capable of being shared on any web site and clubhouse screen. The iPhone app connects with the GameBook Clubhouse, a free online community for golfers, taking the social and sharing aspects of golf to the next level. At the Clubhouse, you can follow and comment on your friends' games real-time from wherever you are, share photographs from the course as you play, store your scores, and compare your golf statistics with those of your friends.

More information about the GameBook Cup - and the videos explaining the game categories by European Tour players Mikko Ilonen and Johan Edfors, among others  - can be found at http://www.gamebookcup.com.

About GameBook

Welcome to the world of social golf! GameBook offers real-time scoring and live leaderboards for all types of golf events. The GameBook product family consists of the GameBook Scoring Service, leased to golf facilities and golf tournament organizers; and the GameBook iPhone app, available from the Apple iTunes App Store.  The app connects to the GameBook Clubhouse, an online golfers' community. An Android version of the smartphone application is being developed. GameBook is a registered trademark of GameBook Oy.  The GameBook web site and Clubhouse are located at http://www.golfgamebook.com.

For more information, please contact:
Kalle Vainola, co-founder and CEO, GameBook Oy
Phone: +358-400-955-955
[email protected]

http://www.golfgamebook.com

SOURCE GameBook Oy