Announcing the NoChinDeluxe Extreme Challenge!
Labor Day – Monday, September 6th, 2010
Tired of finding the game too easy? Ready to really test your skills? Welcome to the NCD Extreme Challenge! Get ready for 24 hours of grueling competition in the most difficult online tournament offered since the launch of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11.
For my first extreme challenge, I am sending you to Bay Hill. That’s all you need to know for now. 
But! I am going to make it worth your efforts. First, I have increased the prize pool to $50 Million, instead of the usual $32 Million. So the top spots will earn a handsome chunk of change to help you advance on the leaderboards. In addition to this, I am offering a free copy of Madden 2011 for the Wii to the winner, furnished by our good friends at EA Sports!
Think you have what it takes? The NCD Extreme Challenge awaits you! You’ll find it in-game as a Daily Pro selection within the Live Tournaments section online. The tournament will open on Labor Day, September 6th, and will run for 24 hours. Good luck, and I’ll see you out there!
Tags: news, online tournaments, TW11
The good folks at BadChicken.com recently sent me their new Wii peripheral called The Chicken Stick. Essentially, it’s a real golf grip and a real golf shaft with a Wii remote holder at the end. The aim of their product is to provide a more realistic golfing experience by allowing the player to hold a real golf shaft with a more weighted (and thus more realistic) feel than the Wii remote provides by itself. I took a short video just to show you the basics of how it’s put together and how it works. You can check that out below, and then I’ll tell you a bit about my in-game experience with the Chicken Stick. Continue Reading »
For those of you who don’t know this yet, I’ve recently started streaming my online matches live on the internet. It gives other players a chance to see how I play online and how I make shots and what kinds of decisions I make. I’m almost always playing against the best TourPro players I can find, and so the matches are always close and exciting! Feel free to check in on my ustream channel to find out when I’ll be broadcasting next. There is a live chat there where you can discuss the match with other viewers or just get to know some other TW players. When NCD-TV is off the air, I’ll have a recording of my most recent match streaming so you can watch even if you missed the live show. Please feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think! Here’s the link to the NCD-TV broadcast channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ncdtv
Tags: general discussion, live streaming, TW11
Some of you may have heard that I was able to get my hands on a copy of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2011 earlier this week, and so I’ve been busily building up the stats on my profile golfer and getting to know the new swing systems. Since the game doesn’t officially launch in North America until Tuesday, June 8th, I’ve tried to offer the community some previews of what they can expect in the new game based on what I’ve played so far. I successfully got my profile golfer up to max stats, and you can read about how I did that in the previous article I posted, Profile Building Tips for TW11. Other than that, I put together these two short videos to showcase the new TourPro swing mode, and the new TrueView camera mode. Continue Reading »
Tags: general discussion, news, TW11
For the past few days I’ve been building up my profile golfer in TW11. I’ve gotten quite a few requests to offer tips for the best path to take when building a new profile golfer. My system worked out pretty well for me, and I was able to max out my stats in about 5 hours. Read below to find out how I did it! Continue Reading »
Tags: club selection, club tuning, max stats, TW11
In my latest interview with the TW Wii dev team, we discuss some new features and options concerning gameplay difficulty, including new options for online custom games, and the new “a la carte” difficulty settings. Enjoy!
http://tigerwoodspgatour.easports.com/blog.action?blogId=ncd3
Tags: general discussion, news, TW11
I have a new interview up on the EA TW site, if you’d like to take a look. This one explores the new Focus System in TW11, which allows you to apply boosts to certain attributes before every match! Click the link to check it out:
http://tigerwoodspgatour.easports.com/blog.action?blogId=FocusSystem
Tags: general discussion, news, TW11
Last week I had the opportunity to interview the EASports Wii Dev Team to ask them some questions about new features coming in TW11. If you missed that article on the EASports main Tiger Woods PGA Tour website, you can find the link below. In this article we talked about some new features regarding the experience and attributes systems. Here’s the link:
http://tigerwoodspgatour.easports.com/blog.action?blogId=ExperienceAndAttributes
Tags: general discussion, news, TW11
Thanks to Milo for finding this video. This video demonstrates the new swing types I mentioned in this article. Jay also demonstrates TrueView mode. Enjoy!
Tags: general discussion, news, TW11
Today, ESPN released an article revealing some of the new features coming for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2011. While most of the article focuses on the Xbox version of the game, the last paragraph talks about some features specific to the Wii system. As I mentioned two weeks ago, I had the privilege of play-testing the new TW11 game for the Wii, and I thought I’d give you some reactions to some of the things mentioned in that last paragraph. Continue Reading »
Tags: general discussion, news, TW11