Plenty of love for CSE Games products this holiday season

Over the past few weeks you may have seen, heard or read about one or more of CSE Games’ exciting new hockey products from media outlets across Canada. From Canada A.M. to the Waterloo Record, CSE Games products were introduced to millions of Canadians country-wide. Here’s a brief recap:

CTV’s Canada A.M. – Hot Hockey Gifts (video)

CTV’s Canada A.M. – Hot Toys (video)

Global TV (video)

CTV Montreal (video)

Citytv’s Breakfast Television (video)

Ottawa Citizen (video)

Beckett Media (video)

CBC Radio (radio)

Canada.com (print)

Edmonton Journal (print)

Montreal Gazette (print)

Ottawa Citizen (print)

Standard Freeholder – Cornwall (print)

The Waterloo Record (print)

Vancouver Sun (print)

Hockey Now magazine (print)

Update your NHL Scoreboard with the Winnipeg Jets

Click the thumbnail images below. Save and print each of the faceplates on color glossy paper, then cut them out and use them to update your NHL Scoreboard.

2011 College Colors Day

To celebrate 2011 College Colors Day, CSE Games is happy to offer a limited-time pre-order special for our up-coming super-exciting Florida Gators products.

Hand-Off: Florida Gators Edition

The first licensed college football action board game in over 20 years. Hand-Off: Florida Gators Edition combines the strategy and decision making of playing cards with the drama and tension of college football. Hand-Off is the perfect game for fans of college football and card players. A game you can really sink your teeth into. Expect to be surprised.

SPECIAL Pre-Order Price: $20.00 (SRP $29.99, ships Dec. 2011, USA only)

Gametime Scoreboard (Florida Gators)

The Gametime Scoreboard is the award-winning portable digital scoreboard, time keeper and music player. With special Florida Gators-specific sound effects, you can bring the feel of the stadium or arena right to your home. Take your Gametime Scoreboard to the gym, the field or the street for some pick-up basketball, baseball, football, volleyball, soccer – you name it. Listen your favorite tunes and keep score by remote control. Featuring state-of-the-art MP3 playback, this sleek and portable device functions as a classic Boom Box. Your games will never be the same.

SPECIAL Pre-Order Price: $175.00 (SRP $229.99, ships Nov. 2011, USA only)

NHL Ice Breaker review… from Spain

We recently found a great review of NHL Ice Breaker from gamer Jose Luis Rodriguez Mena from Spain.

We’re not sure how he got a copy of the game, but here are a few paragraphs of Jose’s review:

Aprovechando estos días veraniegos, qué mejor que reseñar un juego que se puede jugar en casi cualquier lado. Si estás en la playa como en la montaña, en la piscina o en el camping, ¿qué mejor que echar una partidita al refrescante NHL ICE BREAKER HOCKEY?

Es un juego publicado por CSE Games… en el año 2006 y que curiosamente no tiene un nombre de diseñador detrás, algo bastante poco común hoy en día.

La multitud ya está esperando impacientes y el speaker ya ha anunciado a ambos equipos. Esto está a punto de empezar…

For the full review, visit:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/683895/review-in-spanish

NHL Scoreboard makes it to the NHL Final in Boston

Pictured below are Fil and Vlad Ivanovski, inventors of the NHL Scoreboard. Huge Boston Bruins fans, the brothers made the trip to Beantown for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.

They were both very excited to see the NHL Scoreboard in the Boston Bruins team shop. “I’m in shock that the NHL Scoreboard is here,” said Fil, “a Canadian kid’s dream come true.”

To read more about the NHL Scoreboard, click here.

Pick up the NHL Scoreboard today at shop.nhl.com or these other fine retailers.

TSN Radio 1050 and CSE Games

CSE Games was proud to be a small part of the launch of TSN 1050 Radio on April 13th, 2011. Over the course of the launch week, CSE Games was happy to provide some cool prizes on TSN 1050′s afternoon drive show Cybulski and Company.

CSE Games and TSN Radio gave away units of the NHL Scoreboard and copies of NHL Ice Breaker to lucky listeners who participated in Twitter contests.

Here is some of the Twitter interaction:

“@csegames: Message @TSN1050Drive with your recipe for Tiger Blood for a chance to win an NHL Scoreboard from @csegames. Creativity is the key.”

“@TSN1050Drive: Tell us what would be the recipe for Tiger Blood!”

“@TSN1050Drive: @tsnjamesduthie on Cybulski and Company right now. Jay Triano #Raptors in studio next. #tsnradio – and keep the #TigerBlood recipes coming.”

“@MattWyler: My new MP3 player! Stoked! Huge thanks to @TSN1050Drive and @CSEgames. #JUSTWIN http://yfrog.com/kgpnmopj“

CSE’s games featured in Hockey Canada newsletter

Hockey Canada’s official online store sent out a newsletter today featuring some of their most entertaining licensed products. Included in their featured products were CSE’s Hockey Canada Ice Breaker and Rock-Paper-Scissors puzzle game.

Check out store.hockeycanada.ca

Click the image below to view the full-resolution version of the newsletter:

Mikael Granlund scores a goal for the ages

In case you missed it, 19-year-old Minnesota Wild prospect Mikael Granlund scored one of the most amazing goals you’ll ever see. Granlund pulled off a lacrosse-style behind-the-net goal on the fly versus Russia during the semi-final game of the 2011 IIHF World Championships in Slovakia. As it turned out, it was the game-winning goal in a 3-0 Finland win.

Ladies and gentlemen, here is the goal of the year:

Here’s a little more on Mikael Granlund from TSN’s telecast of the 2010 NHL Draft last June:

UPDATE: On May 27th, Granlund’s amazing goal was featured on a Finnish postage stamp:

Collectors! Start your bidding on Granlund cards and collectibles on eBay.

Related: Hockey Canada Ice Breaker board game

Gametime Scoreboard: a testimonial

I have owned Athletic Stuff since 1999 and work with thousands of schools, teams, government institutions and quality conscious consumers.  Our largest and most profitable segments for our entire company is scoreboards.  When I first discovered the Gametime Scoreboard I realized that this would be a huge success for us. 

The Gametime Scoreboard is a huge leap forward in electronic scoring.  By combining the features of a portable indoor scoreboard with an outdoor scoreboard, as well as a boom-box with microphone and remote control, the Gametime scoreboard has no equal at any price.  A lesser equipped scoreboard without the microphone, sounds effects card and other unique features starts at a minimum of $400.00 – $500.00.  The Gametime scoreboard sells for half that price with greater reliability and flexibility.

The biggest issue we have with the scoreboard is availability.  Our sales are hampered only by the fact that we run out of scoreboards too fast, and have to remove them from our line-up until they come back into stock.

In the industry, scoreboards are a necessity for every team, school and sports organization.  Whether you are playing indoor sports such as basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer or floor hockey, or playing outdoor sports such as basketball, football, soccer, baseball and more, a scoreboard is what every player, coach and fan look to when checking the score, time remaining and more. With the economy in its current state, everyone is looking for a quality product at the lowest price possible, which is why the future for the Gametime Scoreboard looks bright.

Sincerely,

Jason Hatch
Athletic Stuff
(877) 406-0607
www.athleticstuff.com

Gametime Decision

CSE Games Hits the Market with Portable Digital Scoreboard
by LicensingOutlook.com

Fabio Del Rio has always been a sports fan, not to mention an athlete. At [Brock University], Del Rio was a southpaw hurler on the school’s 1998 club, which won the Canadian national championship. He also spent three years as an editor for a sports collectible magazine and worked for an NHL trading card company. Given his background, it wasn’t quite a stretch when Del Rio and his brother decided to formulate CSE Games.

“We came up with the idea for our first product in 2006,” says Del Rio. “We called it Card Football. It was a football board game that incorporated the classic elements of playing cards.”

Card Football was very well received. It was named a Top 10 Card Game of 2006 as well as a Top 10 Football Game of All-Time by About.com. “That very same year we launched a hockey version called NHL Ice Breaker,” says Del Rio. “It was named one of the top 10 board games of 2006 by TheDiceTower.com.”

The latest offering from CSE, however, is all about keeping score in games. Last year, the company introduced the Gametime Scoreboard, a portable digital scoreboard and time-keeping device with a powerful dual-speaker audio system, with built in hockey sound effects. “The special sound effects bring the feel of the stadium or arena home.,” says Del Rio.

For the full story, visit:

http://www.licensingoutlook.com/archive/c/csegames-03-22-11.html