It was massive, much bigger than I expected. Spread over various rooms were Gears 3, Black Ops, Street Fighter and FIFA events, as well as some old school Halo LAN play, complete with 14″ SD tvs. Beautiful Stuff.

The event is standard eSports fare, complete with banter. Everything is extremely professional and well looked after, with each game having dedicated admins to resolve any disputes. For the FIFA tournament, the format was 6 minutes, World Class, No custom sliders or formations, best of three.

The most interesting to me was one of the tactics being employed. Although no customisation was allowed, quite a few of the players, were switching to a deep 4-5-1 immediately after taking the lead. Not cheating I guess, but I was pretty amazed to see people doing that in a live tournament. I’d expect it online, but not face to face. From talking to a couple of the players, it was a sticking point.

You can see how the results panned out here, with Ty Walton from Team Dignitas pushing past the other 31 players to be crowned champion, and view the photos from the event taken by Dave Witts on Facebook.

The next event will be i44 which runs from Friday the 18th to Monday the 21st of November at The Telford International Centre, full details of which can be found over at Sweetpatch.tv.

Big thanks to Dave for looking after me, always a pleasure to see you fella.

The most important thing of course is the detail they contain so check out the two links below and we’ll sort the embedding of the videos out shortly.

There’s live gameplay going on during the FIFA 12 Q&A with David Rutter so its well worth a watch for that alone. And once Gary and Rom finished staring lovingly in to each others eyes they discussed some seriously awesome FIFA Street details.

Live FIFA 12 Q&A with David Rutter

Live FIFA Street Q&A with Gary Paterson

Thoughts?

Make sure you all download it and let us know what you think!

Below are the full details, pretty much what Chris posted yesterday…

A full playable demo of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system will be available for downloadable at the PLAYSTATION Store, and for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system on Xbox Live Marketplace, beginning April 8 worldwide. Play as Spain or Italy and discover a football experience that brings to life the passion and emotion of the actual tournament. New players to the FIFA franchise will be able to choose to play the demo utilizing new Two-Button controls designed to enable new gamers to pass, shoot and compete for the 2010 FIFA World Cup TM with an accessible control scheme that utilizes just two buttons. In addition to playing a match football fans and gamers will be able to upload their replays from the demo to EA Football World for other fans to watch.

Thanks to 7RQuaresma from the boards for the heads-up.

Microsoft have just announced they are teaming up with EA to do a ‘football weekender’ offer with FIFA 10, where everyone can play online for free this weekend.

Full details in the header, and can be found by clicking here.