Football Fans!

The Madden Challenge, traditionally an offline event held in various cities around the country that sends winners to Hawaii during the NFL Pro Bowl game, is finally going online, and it is only available on Arena. Players who can't attend one of the live events (or did go and didn't win) can try their hand in the Madden Challenge Online at scoring the coveted ticket to the live Finals in Hawaii, where the top 32 Madden players in the US will compete for the Madden Challenge championship.

Sign up on the ladder and hop into the Madden Challenge Online lobby within Madden NFL 07 - Xbox to find a game - results get automatically reported to the ladder, so all you have to do is check your rank! Good luck!

~n|teStar

Basketball Fans!

To keep with the spirit of the upcoming holidays (and annual HR company policy check-ups), GameSpy Arena would like to remind everyone that it is an equal opportunity competition provider. That's why we're also launching the NBA Live Challenge Online, so you can kick even more digital hiney around the virtual space!

Sign up on the NBA Live Challenge ladder and hop into the NBA Live Challenge Online lobby inside your version of NBA Live 07 on the Xbox console. Playing another registered player in that lobby means your results get automatically reported to the NBA Live Challenge Online Ladder so you can see yourself climb to the top of the pack - winner gets to take SIX friends with them to the NBA All-Star game in Las Vegas in 2007!