Since many of our users are educators and students, I just wanted to post a cool opportunity I received from a friend. You can win $2500 in a cash prize for writing an essay! Below is the press release.
NCAI Joins Reconnecting The Circle™ in a National Prize Essay Contest
10 students will each win a $2,500 cash prize.
A big shout out to Joe Blancato of Escapist Magazine, an online publication dedicated to the world of gaming. Not only is this a fun publication, but they recently ran a story on us about Fantasy Congress and why we are so committed to our vision.
Here’s the link to the article: Fantasy Congress: Gaming the System
Thanks for the interview Joe!
So, we’re working on a number of cool things. In terms of FC, we’re responding to user comments and focusing on providing a better gameplay experience and making sure that Fantasy Congress is understandable for both our educational users and our fabulous political users. On the list is changing the trading system, improving our messaging system, and making our coverage more comprehensive (yes, RSS feeds for the Top 10, hopefully). We always believed that you can learn about what’s going on in Congress and also have fun. Hopefully, we’re accomplishing that.
Wait though, true believers (a comic-book reference for all of you fans of Marvel Comics, including Senator Patrick Leahy), but we’re working on a sweet election game. Hopefully it will as cool as I dream it to be (it also doubles as an espresso machine… that feature may not occur until version 2). We’re working with a great media partner who we will announce our election game with, but stay tuned for more updates!
On a separate note, we want to give every league the power to extend their season. Arjun and I earlier this year guessed based on the House and Senate target adjournment dates that the Congress would be adjourned by this Friday, but it seems that… yeah, they’re gonna keep on going. More playing of the politics! Send us an e-mail at support@fantasycongress.com and let us know what you think.