This year, in conjunction with its sponsorship of the Australian Open
tennis, IBM is holding a ‘Couture on the Court’ competition to find out who
can create the best avatar tennis outfit in Second Life.
The winner will be voted by the SL residents and the first prize is
$250,000 Linden Dollars.
The top 10 eligible entrants will be awarded prizes - which will be amounts
in Linden Dollars.
Entry is open to any avatar created before Jan 8 2008 however eligibility
to recieve the Linden Dollar prizes is restricted to those who fill in the
full details of the entry form.
Entry, voting, and the full terms and conditions of the competition are on
IBM's Australian Open island in SL - which is public this year (for the
first time). SL URL is http://slurl.com/secondlife/slam1/201/239/24/.
Entries close 12am Jan 21, 2008 AEDT. Voting is open between 12am Jan 22,
2008 and 12am Jan 24, 2008. The winner will be announced on Friday Jan 25
2008 .
Those people interested in the integration of real life data into Second Life
will also probably be interested in the visualisation of real life tennis games
from centre court at the Australian Open event into the sim. You can see in
almost real-time the movement of the ball in Second Life as it just happened
in real life - see the game from the players point of view.