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This month heralds another landmark in the evolution of our self-maintained websites, SportzVault, with the launch of Football Federation Victoria’s new online home.

The website incorporates the streamlined ‘SportzVault Skinned’ design which enables a variety of new features, including:

• Scrolling News Rotator
• ResultsVault Football widget
• YouTube Portal

The website is also integrated with ResultsVault Football, displaying all the fixtures, results and tables from FFV competitions.

To read more about the new website and the impact it will have on the Victorian football community, click on the following news story.

The relationship between InteractSport and FFV began with a ResultsVault Football pilot in 2005, eventually leading to a full adoption of the product across all metropolitan competitions in 2006.

FFV has since expanded their operations to incorporate ResultsVault into all regional football competitions across the state, as well as the administration of the 2008-09 Victorian Summer League.

To check out all things FFV, you can visit them here:

http://www.footballfedvic.com.au

Australia's leading provider of online competition management solutions, InteractSport, has entered a three-year agreement with Vikings Futsal, to utilise the sports management system ResultsVault Football.

Vikings Futsal manages centres and competitions across Australia and New Zealand, enjoying healthy participation with 35,000 currently enrolled to play across one hundred and sixty centres and more clubs expected to open shortly. InteractSport first worked with Vikings Futsal earlier in the year to help them manage the Pacific Regional Titles held in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.

“We are delighted to have engaged InteractSport as our online service provider for the next three years, a commitment which we believe will assist in our vision to help promote and develop Futsal across Australia and New Zealand.” CEO, Vikings Futsal, Alistair Miller.

Opting for the dual solution of ResultsVault and SportzVault, Vikings Futsal will also be launching a rebranded online identity in Australia and New Zealand through a powerful integration of competition management with an online digital platform, aiming to make Vikings Futsal a leader in the Australian sporting landscape.

“InteractSport is excited about partnering with Vikings Futsal. As the largest Futsal provider in Australia and New Zealand, Vikings Futsal will benefit tremendously from the services offered in our product suite, providing a viable online presence and consistent platform for their competition framework. We look forward to working closely with Vikings Futsal in delivering a comprehensive online solution for their Australian and New Zealand market” says InteractSport Director, Andrew Walton.

A proven solution for a decade, now, ResultsVault continually works to develop an online product specific to each sport's needs. Futsal managers will gain the capability to manage all aspects of their competitions in real-time, from fixtures and results, to coordinating registration payments from participants and scheduling referees to matches. Equipped with a computer with Internet access, administration of Futsal can be done effectively, anywhere.

ResultsVault can be used for event-specific tournaments, as demonstrated with the Vikings Pacific Regional Titles and the Melbourne 2008 Homeless World Cup, but is more commonly used in administering ongoing competitions, most notably in football, with Football Federation Victoria, Football West and Football Brisbane all using ResultsVault football as their competition management platform.

ResultsVault is also utilised by many thousands of Australian sporting groups and overseas clubs involved in hockey, rugby, indoor sports, cricket and football. Nationally, Cricket Australia's partnership with InteractSport through the MyCricket system has delivered similar services to all Australian clubs and associations within the Cricket Australia jurisdiction.

InteractSport will work closely with Vikings Futsal to deliver the first phase of its online solution in winter 2009, with the launch of a new national website to confirm this great new partnership.

This week in Papua New Guinea, the 2009 Pepsi ICC EAP Under 19s cricket trophy is being contested, in Port Moresby.

Teams from Japan, Indonesia, Fiji, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea have just commenced games in the five round competition; a part of the International Cricket Council's development programme.

Finals are this Saturday, so if you've got the means - grab a flight and head over for a holiday and see the cricketers of the future do battle.

Alternatively you can check all the action on ResultsVault

The ever-growing sport of Futsal was in full view in Brisbane and Carrara on the Easter weekend, with the Vikings Pacific Regional Titles paying host to some of the finest young talent on offer.

Vikings Futsal are one of the largest Futsal providers in Australasia, and this event gathered over 1,000 players from seventeen different centres across Queensland, New South Wales and New Zealand.

The tournament was staged at four venues - Acacia Ridge, Beenleigh, Cornubia and Carrara, with a total of fourteen courts showcasing boys and girls competition from Under 8’s to Under 17’s.

If you missed out on any of the action from the Vikings Pacific Regional Titles, visit the SportzVault website for a complete summary of the results.

InteractSport welcomes Football West, the state governing body for soccer in Western Australia, who have signed up for online management of their 2009 competition.

Football West chose the ResultsVault Football package to help them deliver to their member clubs the best online competition management available, following the lead from Football Federation of Victoria and Football Brisbane.

InteractSport now delivers ResultsVault Football to more than 100,000 participants across a third of Australia.

Football West is currently hosting the night series for men and women, a pre-cursor to the main competition slated for an early April start, and have been having a bit of fun over summer with Beach Football.

Held at Scarborough and Cottesloe Beaches, the Beach Football competition has seen five teams in the action at Scarborough with Subidoo making it through to the combined finals at Cottesloe. Unfortunately they were beaten by Douth, from the eighteen team Cottesloe field, but Subiaco is still being represented in the finals by the Subi Stingers.

The Grand Final is being played at 6.30pm local time, at Cottesloe. But if you can't make it to the action, you can get the results here.

The 2009 FFA National Futsal Championships is being powered by ResultsVault Football.

Matches are kicking off today in Canberra for the event's 30th anniversary and you can keep up-to-date with all results here.

Although the competition is called national (with sides from the ACT, NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia) there is an international flavour with inclusions from the Soloman Islands and New Caledonia.

The championships is being hosted by Capital Football and CEO Heather Reid said: “The tournament is particularly important for those smaller nations within Oceania and it’s an important indication that we need to support those countries even though we’re no longer within the Oceania Football Confederation.”

“We’ve got a competition here that provides them with opportunities to compete against the highest standard of Futsal in the region and let them benchmark themselves against our best.”

Matches ranging from junior through to open competition will run until Saturday 10th January, with Grand Final games being held at the Australian Institute of Sport's main arena.

If you're in Melbourne this weekend, we urge you to head into the city for the Homeless World Cup.

Quarter Finals commence at Noon on Saturday, for the Mixed competition, and Women's Semi Finals are from 3pm.

The week long international street soccer event wraps up on Sunday, with Finals trophy matches played on the Federation Square pitch between 10:45 and 6:00pm.

Current leaders appear to be Ukraine, Scotland, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Brazil and Argentina in the mixed, with Zambia a clear leader in the Women's comp ahead of Colombia and Liberia.

But every minute of the action can be witnessed online too, with all results being entered on ResultsVault Football, check out http://homelessworldcup.org

InteractSport is proud to announce its involvement with The Melbourne 2008 Homeless World Cup, held at Federation Square and Birrarung Marr, December 1-7.

The Homeless World Cup is an annual tournament, kicking off in 2003, which has since encouraged grassroots football projects in 60 nations working with over 25,000 homeless and excluded people throughout the year.

Events are free to attend, with the street soccer format games showcased daily from lunchtime through to early evening; the competition management being powered by ResultsVault Football.

Over 400 matches will be played, in Women's and Mixed competition, between 56 international teams.

Results can be viewed as the action happens on a brand new HWC08 website soon to be launched. We will post details of the URL.

InteractSport has recently welcomed two Futsal competitions to the ResultsVault competition management system.

Futsal (known also as five-a-side indoor soccer) is fast becoming a summer sport for thousands of participants who like to see the world game played year round.

But Futsal isn’t limited to displaced soccer players, with these Victorian comps being set up by a cricketer and a referee, respectively.

FIFA is behind a world cup competition, while, nationally, an Australian competition is held annually in Canberra, the next is scheduled for this coming January.

In Victoria, Play Futsal and St Albans Strikers Futsal are gearing up for the season’s imminent start, both catering for Senior and Junior grade competition.

The Futsal comps (based at four Melbourne locations) use ResultsVault for their competition management while St Albans Strikers have also signed up for the dual package and have recently set up a brand new SportzVault website: http://www.strikersfutsal.com.

The partnership between InteractSport and Cricket Australia is now live.  The ResultsVault system has been migrated and launched as MyCricket – available to all clubs and associations Australia wide.

MyCricket gives users a fresh new look, plus an array of new features ready for season 2008/09.

To assist with the transition to MyCricket, please continue to utilise the online support and help/faq functions – these comprehensive and active services will help as the first port of call for all your queries: www.cricket.com.au/mycricketsupport.

However, a Club Support Phone Line is active, through to the commencement of the season, to assist you with some queries: 1300 852 048.

In addition, all clubs and associations are also welcome to sign up for a fully customisable premier level website – for more information about MyCricket Web features and options please go here.

This is an exciting initiative and we hope you enjoy using the new MyCricket system.

Country Aussie Rules footy is doing it tough with drought rendering many grounds unplayable, but you’ve really got to feel for Tatong, in the Benalla and District competition, who had 26 men unavailable for their round 5 clash against Bonnie Doon.

The reserves fought hard with Tatong scoring a two goal win but then all but four of the reserves players had to back up to play another four quarters in the seniors game, the result, understandably, was not so close: Bonnie Doon  43.18 (276)  def Tatong  3.4 (22).

Bonnie Doon congratulated the Tatong boys for having the courage to play on and not choose to forfeit the match; It’s great fighting spirit and sportsmanship. Despite that round’s aberration Tatong are placing third and second in the senior and reserves ladders, respectively.

To the round ball, and the wine belt of Southern Western Australia has joined the Vault. Fourteen clubs represent the South West Soccer Association and Country Women’s Soccer Association, playing around Busselton, Manjimup and Margaret River.

The SWSA switched to the ResultsVault system after their season had commenced and they have done a stellar job setting up their competition online, concurrently launching a brand new SportzVault 360° site at the same time: http://southwestsoccer.sportzvault.com/

In smaller round ball news, Queensland, where the fun never stops, is currently enraptured by the Warehouse cricket winter season.  Over 200 clubs are playing in 33 divisions in and around Brisbane and to the north at Geebung, and further still, heading up towards the Sunshine Coast, at Burpengarry and the Glasshouse Mountains. On the eastern coast games are played on Russell Island, South West towards Ipswich at Redbank and around Surfers Paradise at Helensvale. The season wraps up early August.

Everyone’s favourite winter Olympic sport, Curling, is closer to becoming a Vault friendly sport, with the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club joining the Toronto and District Cricket Association for the summer conference series, round two matches are about to get underway in the three divisions.  And over the Queen’s Birthday weekend the Aussie Touring Team is about to take on Toronto CC, in the Straggler’s league.

Also in North America, the Great Lakes Cricket Conference, based in Michigan, hosted the 2008 United States Cricket Association Central East Regional tournament over the Memorial Weekend holiday period.  Six leagues converged on the lakes district for a three day round robin tournament, with the Midwest Cricket Conference beating the defending champs International Cricket Management League.

The winter season is under way, with Aussie Rules, Football, Baseball and even Cricket happening live on the vault across Australia and overseas.

First to Australian Rules, Round 4 in the Ovens and Murray league, where the 2007 premiers met last year's wooden spooners. Wangaratta Rovers proved their premiership status over Myrtleford at the WJ Findlay Oval, final scores: The Hawks 23.22 (160) to the Saints 4.5 (29).

And the biggest margin for the weekend was in the first Round of the Central Murray Football League, in the seniors, with Leitchville Gunbower trouncing Lalbert 37.25 (247) to 1.1 (7).  If you're in the north of Victoria on Saturday, head to Cohuna for the local 'derby' (Lalbert are in the West Coast Eagles colours and Cohuna the Docker's strip) and give Lalbert some well deserved encouragment.

The Foxtel Cup, Football Federation of Victoria's premier league, is nine rounds in.  South Melbourne are having a fickle season, last weekend bagging 6-2 against Fawkner Blues at Bob Jane Stadium, their best result since Round 3, when they obliterated Western Suburbs 5-0, giving them their second win for the season.  South Melbourne are sitting 10th on the ladder, despite four games with no score, the club is hoping to notch up another victory, against Altona Magic, on Monday night.

Football Brisbane have 36 divisions, from Men's Premier League to Junior's Under 16's, currently playing. In Premier League, Brisbane Wolves scored 2-1 to Souths United; Wolves' Clulow scored an Own Goal. And in Under 15's North Pine had a blinder with 13 to Mt Gravatt's 0.

Forget the IPL, cricket is still being played in Australia. The Northern Territory season has commenced, with the Darwin and District Cricket Competition. There are eight divisions from A grade, through to a Women's league and two juniors.  Seven clubs are playing for the VB Mid Cup, plus a Twenty/20 competition will also run concurrently, from mid May.

And a little further north, at the other NT, our friends at the North Texas Cricket Association are almost half way through their United States season. Recently taking out the bowler of the week award was Bobby Martin, in B Grade, playing for Longhorns, Bobby had a haul 4 for 28 against NTCA Youth.

Cricket Australia announced today a partnership with Melbourne based online sports management company, InteractSport, to provide a national online cricket management system, to enhance administration and statistics gathering for players at all levels.

During the announcement, Australian cricketer Michael Clarke endorsed the partnership:
“It’s an exciting step for cricket and for all community players out there who, in this system, will be treated the same as international cricketers. It means that if you’re playing in your local Under 12’s team you can compare your statistics and results with not only your team mates and opponents, but every other Under 12 player in the country.”

InteractSport initially developed the ResultsVault Cricket system in 1999 for the use of a handful of Melbourne based cricket clubs. It now services more than 2200 cricket organisations world wide involving more than 190,000 players. The details and statistics from over 280,000 matches is available online covering clubs from Bunbury to North Texas, Glenorchy to Rotorua and Emu Plains to Durban.

InteractSport Director, Andrew Walton, says:
“After an extensive process it is a great honour for us to be selected by Cricket Australia to provide the online systems that will power the national cricket management solution. This will be the biggest and most comprehensive program of its kind in sport in Australia and the end result will be a world class platform that will encourage the growth of the sport at the grassroots level.”

Cricket state bodies will be strongly encouraging community clubs to register their interest for the ResultsVault system prior to next season, to utilise the online system’s features including: registrations, fixture generating, full score cards, player statistics, ladders, team communication and media reports.

Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland stated:
“Partnering with InteractSport to implement a National cricket management solution will ensure that Australian cricket continues to meet the future challenges, ease the increasing administration burden at all levels and co-ordinate our resources more effectively within the game. Online competitions, results and statistics is also an ideal medium to bring diverse communities together to celebrate cricket. We are delighted in this outcome to strengthen the relationships that exist in Australian cricket.”

To further cement InteractSport as a market leader in providing online sports management services, it has been selected to deliver the online software for the World’s Best Putter event soon to be launched to the public in Australia. 

The Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) and their members will host and manage competitions for club members and visitors to find who is their Club’s Best Putter.  These champions progress through to state finals and then onto a spectacular televised national final competing for the title of Australia’s Best Putter with prize money of A$100,000.

Australia’s Champion is invited to compete against other champions from around the world, all vying for the World’s Best Putter title and US$1 Million in prize money.

The Australian component of the worldwide competition will commence early 2008, featuring television, radio and print media coverage, alongside substantial online interactivity.

InteractSport is hosting all competitor registrations, and the publishing of results for events beginning in January, 2008. The competition is open to all golfers and non golfers - amateur and professionals, with no age or gender restrictions. No handicap is necessary.

Golf clubs can register their club now through the PGA Events Division on (03) 8320 1999 or emailing worldsbestputter@pga.org.au.

Public registrations will be accepted from December 1, 2007 either through their club or online at  http://www.worldsbestputter.com

World’s Best Putter was devised and created by Steve Dundon, President of WBP and Chief Executive of the television production company, Cornerbox Pty Ltd, which has produced shows including The Lost Tribes, Surf Patrol, The Wedge, Dirty Deeds, Search for a Supermodel and many more.

Please be advised that InteractSport has moved to new offices as per the following details:

Level 1, 33 Bank Street, South Melbourne, 3205, Vic, Australia

Tel: +61 3 9696 8010
Fax: +61 3 9696 8012

InteractSport and ProWess Sports have entered into a partnership to deliver a hi-tech, ball-by-ball scoring solution for grassroots cricket throughout Australia for the 2007/08 cricket season.
 
The partnership will result in the provision of ProWess Sports cricket scoring platform that will be modified to seamlessly integrate with InteractSport’s leading online cricket management solution,  ResultsVault.  Clubs at all levels will be able to use an electronic scorecard to score the match ball-by-ball and automatically upload results and player statistics to ResultsVault and their own websites.  Using a wireless Internet connection clubs will also be able to provide a “live scoring” facility on their website.
 
"This marks a new era in how domestic sporting clubs will record and manage their match results and statistics" said Gundy Mantinieks, CEO of ProWess Sports.  “Previously, this type of fully integrated solution was only available to professional level sports and we are excited about the prospect of rolling out similar solutions for AFL, Soccer, Hockey, Rugby and Netball.”

Once results and player statistics are uploaded to the ResultsVault online service anyone will be able to view match results, updated ladders and statistical reports.  This is the final piece in the puzzle for tracking cricket results and statistics that will empower clubs at all levels to provide a professional level of information to their members. With over 1500 cricket clubs currently using the ResultsVault online service we are seeing grass-roots players who have more detailed career records available online than what you can find for Ricky Ponting!

To register interest for your club to receive further information please contact InteractSport 

InteractSport is pleased to announce an exciting partnership with online sporting equipment retailer SportsEquip (http://www.sportsequip.com.au/) that rewards sporting clubs with rebates based on the purchases of all products by their club members.

All sporting clubs will be able to sign up to the Club@ssist package which includes:

• access to sporting equipment online at Market Best Prices, with purchases made by club members giving the club a rebate of up to 7.5% of the purchase price
• unrestricted access to the soon to be released 'ResultsVault LITE' product, including participant management and access to communications features such as bulk email and SMS
• a FREE SportzVault LITE website
• current ResultsVault Cricket and Football customers receive automatic membership

As a special introductory offer, membership of Club@ssist is FREE.

"This partnership continues our intent to provide real value for grass roots sporting clubs and associations. Given that the members of sporting clubs spend considerable amounts each year on sporting equipment, clubs that channel purchases through SportsEquip will be able to earn a significant return that contributes towards operating costs or to reduce player subscription fees." said InteractSport Director, Andrew Walton.

"Over several years, it is becoming evident that clubs and associations using ResultsVault are achieving healthier financial outcomes along with improved standards of operation and management. In addition, overall costs are being reduced, volunteer time savings are achieved and involvement from new volunteers is forthcoming.”

“This new offering makes the connection to ResultsVault an even stronger value proposition as it places economic control with the club or association." he said.

More information about Club@ssist is available at http://www.sportsequip.com.au/t-clubsignup.aspx.

The weekend saw the first full round of matches in the FFV for all senior grades.

To find details on games in the FFV, customise the site by clicking the FFV Results link in the "Red Search For" box and then click the Matches menu to either select the detailed Fixture and Results or the Round Results option.

Complete Ladders and Statistics are also available via the menu link at the top of page.

If specific club information is required, use the Search function to customise the site for the club, follow the prompts in Search or read the Help menu for further details.

Fixture information for Junior competitions will be online shortly.

The Football Federation Victoria is pleased to announce a partnership with InteractSport to provide the ResultsVault Football service to all clubs involved in the FFV Leagues for season 2006.

ResultsVault Football is an online competition management service that has been developed to service football clubs at all levels across all leagues. The many features include detailed match results and statistics, automatic ladder calculations, player performance, match reports, contact management (email and SMS), player registration, referee allocation and media reports. The FFV trialled the service in 2005 and following its success expanded the arrangement to cover all competitions in 2006.

“We are pleased that our relationship with InteractSport has resulted in a comprehensive yet simple online system that will provide value to all of our member clubs,” says FFV Information Technology Manager Tony Persoglia. “Having a quality information service that delivers a standard platform across all levels from juniors to seniors ensures our clubs are operating professionally with the best possible efficiency. The reports and data outcomes are essential for the overall management of the FFV and the fact that the service is inclusive of referees (match allocations, performance assessment and communications) means that we have a complete online service for all FFV stakeholders.”

ResultsVault Football is based on the hugely successful ResultsVault Cricket service now subscribed to by over 1500 clubs and 130,000 players in Australia, which is rapidly growing overseas in emerging cricket markets such as the USA.

“InteractSport is a leading provider of online sports management solutions, having been involved with cricket since 1999. Our philosophy is to reduce manual processing, to be simple to operate, save time, and to deliver a professional information service to grassroots sporting organisations– this has been achieved again with ResultsVault Football,” says InteractSport Director Sales & Marketing Andrew Walton.

For more information, please contact:
Andrew Walton - InteractSport
Tony Persoglia - Football Federation Victoria

Regional football leagues in Bunbury, Western Australia and Gippsland, Victoria are the latest to join up to use ResultsVault Football for 2006.  Interest in football throughout Australia has increased dramatically since Australia qualified for the World Cup in Germany later this year and it's showing in increased numbers of juniors wanting to play the game this winter.

After 18 months in development ResultsVault Football has been launched for 2006.  ResultsVault Football offers a comprehensive online administration service for clubs and associations and is set to do for football as ResultsVault Cricket did for cricket.

We'd like to thank all those involved during the pilot program conducted during 2005 and everyone who gave us feedback along the way.  We are committed to evolving the product in the coming years based on the needs of our users and are committed to offering the best competition management system for football available anywhere in the world.