Wow, this is incredible. Brad at Variety has posted about this article which speaks of a revolution in sports consumption. The Kansas City T-Bones, a minor league baseball team (it's like cricket, for you British readers), will hand over the controls to two fans at their game against the Schaumburg Flyers on 16 July. The fans will play the first two innings of the game on MVP Baseball 2005 on the XBox, and then the team will play out the remaining 7 innings - with the results from the computer game segment still standing - in the traditional, real-world physical way.
The T-Bones are creating two Xbox teams with the statistics and even facial characteristics of T-Bones and Flyers players, Williams said. The gamers will be allowed to choose their lineups, and the play-by-play will be called by stadium announcers.
Woah.
Can you imagine the British Lawn Tennis Association agreeing to let Wimbledon attendees play through the first few sets of the final on Virtual Tennis before letting the competitors take to the grass?
Fantastic. Go team go!
