ESPN.com's X Games Coverage Includes Remotely Produced Webcast, Live Televised Chat Room Crawl and X Games Challenge Presented by Starburst Brand.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1999-- Online Package Includes Extensive Integration With ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , ESPN2 TV Coverage ESPN.com will debut a host of exclusive features - including a remotely produced X Games Raw Webcast powered by Intel(R) Corporation, a live, televised ESPN.com chat room crawl and the free X Games Challenge Presented By Starburst StarBurst - An active DBMS from IBM Almaden Research Center. (R) - as highlights of its coverage of the 1999 Summer X Games in San Francisco June 24 - July 3 (http://espn.go.com/xgames/summerx99/index.html). "We're always searching for innovative ways to bring the sports action closer to the ESPN.com user," said Geoff Reiss, senior vice president, programming and production, ESPN Internet Ventures. "The X Games, as an ESPN-owned and-produced event, provides an ideal opportunity for us to introduce these applications to sports fans everywhere." Highlights of ESPN.com's X Games Raw: -- ESPN is teaming with Intel Corporation to bring live, streaming video of selected X Games events. ESPN.com users access this feed through a 56k or faster connection using RealPlayer G2 with Intel(R) Streaming Web Video Software from the Intel Architecture Labs. -- The live feed will be available for at least one hour per day, June 25-July 3. It includes not only video airing within ESPN and ESPN2 X Games telecasts, but also video exclusive to ESPN.com. Some of the webcasted events include sport climbing, big-air snowboarding, skateboarding, bike stunt, street luge and inline skating. Highlights of ESPN.com's live chat room crawl: -- For selected late night ESPN.com chats with X Games athletes, a live chat room crawl will appear at the bottom of the television screen during corresponding ESPN X Games telecasts, enabling fans viewing X Games action to simultaneously follow a live chat on ESPN.com -- ESPN.com is the first sports Web site to deploy this application. Other ESPN.com highlights: -- Skateboard "Pick The Trick" Online voting -- ESPN.com users will be able to vote online for the winner of the "Pick The Trick" skateboard best vert trick contest featuring the top five ranked vert skaters in the world. Users can vote after watching the contest June 29 on ESPN. The winner will be revealed on the July 4 X Games telecast on ESPN. -- PiXture This - ESPN.com users will be encouraged to upload photos of themselves involved in X Games-related sports. On July 3, ESPN will air a music video that will include select photos sent in by fans. -- X Games Challenge Presented By Starburst - (http://games.espn.go.com/cgi/xgames/request.dll?FRONTPAGE) free game in which ESPN.com users "draft" athletes in each competition and are rewarded with points contingent on how those athletes fare in the actual X Games competition. -- Audio chats with X Games athletes and ESPN experts, news, statistics, analysis, photo gallery, video and audio clips, user polls and more. The fifth annual X Games will gather more than 400 of the world's best alternative sports athletes competing for prize money and medals in aggressive in-line skating, bicycle stunt riding, freestyle motocross, skateboarding, sky surfing, street luge, sportsclimbing, wakeboarding Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water behind a boat. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. and big air snowboarding ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Sports will televise the event domestically, while ESPN International will distribute the Games worldwide. Starburst is a registered trademark of M&M/MARS, a division of Mars, Incorporated. M&M/MARS manufactures and distributes a variety of high quality snackfood products. ESPN.com, the most popular sports site on the Web, is produced by ESPN Internet Ventures (EIV EIV Enterprise Income Verification (US HUD) EIV Elektronischen Informationsverteiler EIV Equine Influenza Virus EIV Emerson Independent Video EIV External Iliac Vein EIV Emergency Isolation Valve EIV Emplacement Installation Vehicle ), which also produces the official sites of the NFL NFL abbr. 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