USA Curling Signs Exclusive Partnership Agreement with Compete-At for Online Sporting Event Management

USA Curling to Provide 15,000+ Members with Compete-At Passport Accounts to Facilitate Online Registration and Promote Curling in the United States

BETHESDA, MD. – June 20, 2007 – Compete-At, the leading innovator of sport event management software, today announced its exclusive partnership with USA Curling, the National Governing Body for the Winter Olympic sport of curling, to provide an end-to-end sport event management platform to its membership.

USA Curling will use Compete-At’s comprehensive Event Management platform to manage playoff and championship events, camps, and clinics. USA Curling will extend the benefits of the Compete-At Platform to over 140 clubs and 15,000 members by providing Compete-At Passport Pro Accounts at no cost to new and existing members. Compete-At Passport will provide the association’s members with a secure online solution to manage their competitive profile, maintain a history of past events, store required entry documentation, register for open bonspiels and social events at local clubs, regional, or national tournaments with a few short clicks on the www.Compete-At-Curling.com or the www.USAcurl.org websites.

“Our partnership with Compete-At is a winning combination for both USA Curling and all of our members” says Rick Patzke, USA Curling chief operating officer. “Besides helping with management of our national-level events, through this partnership Compete-at will also provide extensive event management and promotional tools and solutions to USA Curling’s 145 member clubs. The fact that Compete-At is tailoring a management solution for us is also important, as the needs and requirements for curling are not necessarily the same as for another sport.”

Brian Parsons, Director of Market Development for Compete-At explains, “We’re very excited to be associated with one of the Winter Olympics’ most popular sports and an organization the caliber of USA Curling. As a competitive curler myself, I know my fellow athletes will appreciate the point-and-click simplicity of event registration on our platform, and clubs all over the country will be able to attract more members and teams by using built in Email notification and promotion tools”.

About Compete-At Event Management Platform

Compete-At Event Manager is a secure online platform tailored to meet the unique planning needs of competitive sports. Unlike “league based” or one-size-fits-all solutions, Event Manager is specifically designed and tailored to alleviate the headaches of event management while handling all sport specific disciplines at local, regional and international levels.

Compete-At functionality addresses the following areas of running a successful event:

  • Pre-event planning and promotion: Event staff roles and responsibilities, access rights and privileges, scheduled notifications and tasks
  • Administrative tools: Registration set-up, registrations requirements, open and close dates, fee structure, discipline and class structure
  • E-commerce store with customizable categories and reporting to sell event apparel, social or event tickets, T-shirts, etc.
  • Event cloning for rapid deployment and increased efficiency
  • Bonspiel Draw Library
  • Game Timing Clock
  • Social Event planning
  • Secure credit card processing
  • Multi-lingual and multi-currency
  • Financial budgeting and reporting

 

About the Compete-At Passport Product

The Compete-At Passport product is a secure user account used to manage profile information, maintain a history of past events, store required entry documentation to allow for quick and simple online registration. Once an athlete has created a Passport Account, registering for any event is a simple process by which the stored profile information is ported over to the event registration forms making sure to only the pass the information necessary for that event. A history of all past events is stored as well as past payment and billing information.

ABOUT USA CURLING
USA Curling is the national governing body of the Olympic sport of curling. The organization boasts around 16,000 members nationwide and more than 140 clubs and has seen significant growth (12 percent) in membership since the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The growing need for on-demand line scoring and competition results has led USA Curling to partner with Compete-At in order to better serve its membership.

ABOUT COMPETE-AT.COM
Compete-At.com is the sport event management expert providing tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of individual sport disciplines. The Compete-At product suite is based on the robust and widely adopted Regatta Manager platform and helps National Governing Bodies, sport event organizers and athletes, coordinate, promote, and manage events through a robust, yet easy to use online system. For more information visit http://www.Compete-At.com