Mumbai to battle it out at grand finale of Paddle Pop Gaming League

~Twenty Wiz Kids from across the country will compete for the National Finals of the Paddle Pop Gaming League 2010 on Children’s Day~

Kwality Walls & Zapak have successfully created a unique Children’s Gaming Property that draws on the excitement & thrills of Online Gaming to build a competitive platform for the technology savvy children of today – Paddle Pop Gaming League.

In its 3rd edition in 2010, Paddle Pop Gaming League has scaled greater heights by establishing itself as ‘India’s Largest Online Gaming Championship for Children’. Over 7,00,000 children in the age group 8-14 yrs from across 22 cities & towns of India participated in a 3 stage tournament.

14th November’10 will witness the culmination of the Paddle Pop Gaming League (PPGL) at the Imax Big Cinemas at Wadala, Mumbai that will see top 20 finalists battle it out to win the tournament.

Kombatei was the theme for the 2010 edition of PPGL, which saw the Paddlepop Lion take on Shadow Master and his new allies by undergoing Shaolin Kung Fu training to learn new combat skills. Children played 3 Paddlepop Kombatei based games – Punch Out, Ninja Secrets and Fast Faster Fastest in the first phase of Online Preliminaries hosted on www.paddlepop.in

Participating children played through 4 zones – Northern Ninjas, Southern Samurais, Eastern Emperors, and Western Warriors to qualify for the second phase of Intra Zonal Finals.

1,100 children played the Intra Zonal Finals on the 30th & 31st of October on the popular online racing game – Crazy Kart.

Vinayak Sengupta , Aditya Sharma , Karan Agrawal , Aryan Bansal and Kevin Vyas came out victorious in the West Zone finals of the Paddle Pop Gaming League 2010.

After having received an over-whelming response for the past 2 years, Paddle Pop Gaming League has established itself as the premier gaming tournament that children from across India look forward to.

Winning Participants and Teams will stand a chance to win the title of the National Winners for PPGL 2010 and would additionally get a chance to be on National Television and receive Sony PSPs, I Pod Shuffles, Gaming Consoles from Mitashi & Gaming Hampers from Zapak Games.

About Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd:

Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. is India’s largest gaming company that addresses the complete value chain of Digital Gaming. With currently 8 million registered gamers, Zapak.com is not only the largest casual gaming sites in the country but amongst the top gaming sites in the world.

Zapak owns the largest chain of dedicated gaming cafes in the country – Zapak GamePlex. These are first of its kind, high speed gaming cafes that offer world class gaming content to the Indian user. Presently there are over 100 cafes in more than 40 cities in India. Zapak Games, the Licensing & merchandising arm of Zapak has created one of India’s largest retail distribution network with presence in over 5000 retail outlets across 135 cities all across India.

Zapak is also the biggest publisher of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) in India. It has launched some of the world’s most popular MMOG titles such as “Crazy Kart” (in partnership with Shanda, China’s largest Gaming company worth $ 3 Billion) and “Runescape” (world’s second largest MMO with over 8 million subscribers, in partnership with Jagex Games Studio).

Zapak has a division, Jump Games, which is the leading Global publisher and developer of Online and Mobile Entertainment with global distribution across North America, South America, EMEA and APAC on 80 networks across 40 countries. Jump also publishes leading entertainment applications on the ITunes App store, Blackberry App world, Nokia Ovi amongst others and have had top selling applications/games around the world. Our leading games can be accessed through 80 leading networks across 40 countries worldwide like Verizon Wireless, ATT Wireless, Vodafone, Orange.

Zapak works closely with most of the leading global gaming and entertainment players such as EA, Microsoft, Valve, Popcap, Boonty, Payfirst, Disney, Universal Studios, Shanda, Jagex, Cartoon Network, THQ, iPlay, Hands-On etc.