Punti COSSY

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Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. to Address Hobby Store Owners on Plans for Organized Play, New Rankings System & Demonstrate Innovative New Barcode Scanner For Tourney Stores at 2009 GAMA Trade Show

El Segundo, CA – (April 14, 2009) –Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KDE) will unveil much anticipated Organized Play plans, their new rankings system - Konami Card Game Official Tournament Support System (COSSY) – and an innovative Barcode Scanner for use by Official Tournament Stores to enter players into events and to record their rankings.

The Barcode Scanners have been in use in Japan and will be utilized for the first time in North America this year. Registering players for your events will now be a snap – Konami’s player ID cards feature a barcode system which allows you to input your players’ data directly into the COSSY system with a single swipe through the USB-enabled barcode scanner. COSSY will also track each player’s record during the event. Once the tournament is over and final results have been submitted and confirmed, the COSSY system will update your players’ rankings online - automatically. There are an estimated 300 lucky Store owners that are Official Konami Tournament Stores who will be the first to utilize the Barcode Scanner absolutely free.

“The Games Manufacturers Association Trade Show offers the perfect environment to meet with our hobby store partners and to educate them on what our plans are for the coming year and beyond,” noted Yumi Hoashi, Vice President of Card Business, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “GAMA is also the place for us to receive first-hand accounts of how things really are in the hobby. This is why we chose this event to detail our organized play efforts and the new rankings system - Konami Card Game Official Tournament Support System.”

KDE will have a slew of new products for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG to unveil to the GAMA Trade Show audience. Upcoming releases for the the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG will be highlighted included Raging Battle, 2009 Yu-Gi-Oh! Starter Deck, Raging Battle Special Edition, Gold Series 2009.

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07/04/2009

GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association) Trade Show (GTS) is a business-to-business show where both publishers and manufacturers show their products to retailers and distributors. Industry experts also give seminars on building better business practices, and a great deal of other industry business occurs at GTS, including distributors and vendors showing their services, freelancers showing their games to publishers, and much more.

We'll be presenting COSSY in the Konami booth at GAMA Trade Show next week, April 14-17, 2009 - Bally's Las Vegas, and Official Tournament stores will be able to get their access codes to use it after that.

COSSY isn't a program, it's an online utility. Individual users cannot use the tournament features - as a tournament utility, it is currently only being offered to official tournament stores.

Individual users will access the "user" side of the system to track their rankings and update their personal information on Konami's website.

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Prendo traduzione da un altro forum:

"Praticamente si dice che la Konami presenterà il nuovo sistema COSSY (per il Ranking) al GAMA che si tiene dal 14 al 17 Aprile. Questo nuovo sistema a quanto pare si baserà su un sistema di Codice a Barre che permette il riconoscimento immediato del giocatore e verrà fornito ai Negozi. Questo è un vantaggio perchè permette anche un aggiornamento più veloce sia del Torneo, sia del Ranking vhe verrà aggiornato immediatamente appena finito e concluso il Torneo (senza aspettare i tempi infinitamente lunghi di aggiornamento che aveva la UDE). Questo sistema era già stato usato in Giappone e da quest'anno verrà usato nel Nord America, inoltre siccome questo sistema è utilizzabile solamente dai Negozianti, si eviteranno tutti quei "furbi" che si facevano i Tornei a casa una volta al giorno solo per veder aumentare i proprio Punti."