Marino wins first TourPlayers.com Ping-Pong Championship
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The first TourPlayers.com Ping-Pong Championship was won on Friday night by its host, Steve Marino. A total of 16 players vied for the title in an event broadcast live from the Tequesta (Fla.) home of Marino on TourPlayers.com in a joint venture with Vumanity Media Inc.The ping-pong tournament, played after the second round of the Honda Classic, aired for two and a half hours on TourPlayers.com, a new website featuring PGA Tour Professionals, in association with Vumanity Media Inc. (www.vumanity.com), a cutting-edge technology that produces quality video content more quickly and efficiently than before. Marino is one of the tour players who are co-owners of TourPlayers.com (www.tourplayers.com). PGA Tour players participating included Marino, Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Tringale, Will MacKenzie and Spencer Levin. Levin was an observer and joined hosts Mike Ritz and Bob Bubka for an interview, promising to "work on my game and be ready for next year."
It looked like it might be an all PGA Tour final with Marino meeting Johnson, but Johnson was eliminated in the semi-finals. Marino played Rob Luca in the final and won by two. "You know I feel pretty good," Marino said after his 21-19 victory. "It's a little solace for missing the cut this week that I hosted my own ping-pong tournament and took down the title. So, I'm very, very happy right now."I'm looking forward to future ping-pong tournaments in this garage," he added.
TourPlayers.com is a company majority-owned by PGA Tour players. The founding partners are Luke Donald, Paul Casey. Justin Rose, Camilo Villegas, Vijay Singh, Steve Marino, Ryuji Imada and Bo Van Pelt.
TourPlayers.com was launched in mid-January, and its slogan, “Where the pros hang out” defines the kind of unique premium content available free to all visitors.
TourPlayers.com was launched to bring players closer to their fans through the power of social networks. Using a unique media player/engine, the IMHO player -- an application on Facebook -- TourPlayers.com allows fans to do what they enjoy most: share unique premium content with their friends at no charge.
The live ping-pong tournament brought together players and their friends to determine the TourPlayers.com champion. It served as a preview of the dynamic content to be broadcast regularly on TourPlayers.com in partnership and association with Vumanity and IMHO.
For additional information, contact Tom Auclair, TourPlayers.com, 401.225.9926; Dustin Ashby, Vumanity 636-733-0592 (Office), 314-608-2647 (Mobile); Drew Stein, IMHO. Call Tom Auclair to arrange contact)
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A week ago, TourPlayers.com co-owner Luke Donald won the World Gold Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship 3&2 over new world No. 1 Martin Kaymer of Germany.
About Vumanity Media Inc. (www.vumanity.com)
Vumanity™ dramatically simplifies the process of content development, production and distribution. Vumanity’s patented production and edit solution removes existing barriers to video production, creating an environment where content is produced whenever and wherever and in a format consumers are familiar with – the talk show format.
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