Company LG Electronics has announced the beginning of the annual festival LG MOBILE WORLDCUP 2009, which begins in Indonesia and international competitions will culminate in November in the United States. The winner will be the one who has the fastest in the world gets an SMS with your mobile phone.
During the festival participants will be able to participate in various activities such as competitions "Mobile Pop Art", photo, holiday concerts with celebrities, as well as competitions in writing SMS.
This year, LG has increased the number of countries participating in the MOBILE WORLDCUP from 4 to 16. The total prize fund of international competition will be $ 1 million (the largest for such activities). The first national championship will be held August 15 in the theater of Jakarta in Indonesia, after 4 weeks after the start of the National League. 200 of the fastest typesetters SMS in Indonesia will be competing for a prize of 100 million rupees (about 9,900 U.S. dollars). The national championship will continue from July to October in 13 countries on 5 continents. Among the participating countries Vietnam, Malaysia, South Africa, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Russia, China and South Korea.
In November, will be the finals of the championship in the United States among the 16 winners of the national rounds, including the United States and Canada, where the winners have already identified. The winner receives a prize of $ 100 thousand last event, which will determine the fastest SMS compositor in the world, will be held in several rounds of using mobile LG. The company expects that, through numerous activities to LG MOBILE WORLDCUP-2009 will be attended by around 6 million.
MOBILE WORLDCUP was first held by LG in 2008, LG, to draw attention to the mobile culture and way of life that has evolved with the help of modern wireless technology from LG. IN MOBILE WORLDCUP-2008 was attended by over 700 thousand people from South Korea, Brazil, Canada and the United States.
