The Next Web

PLAY is back! August 29th, Musemplein Amsterdam.

PLAY info:
When: Saturday, August 29th, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Where: Museumplein, Amsterdam
Fee: € 20,- (incl. VAT) per team (or € 75,- for VIP supporters -see benefits below-) (Including drinks and food)
PLAY is played in a team of 2 persons
Hashtag: #PLAY (Tweet about PLAY!)

The Next Web PLAY Petanque tournament is about fun, drinking, trash talking, networking, pitching and stupid social sports.

Who can join?
Startups, Internet companies, twitter freaks, investors. As long as you take Petanque, having fun and networking very seriously and have an ‘internet’ heartbeat.

Are you ready to play? Then sign up here

VIP PLAYaaaaz!:
Yunoo Balls –> (@wspruijt and @schmkr)
Yunoo who’s gonna win –> (@djmenkveld and @patrickvdtuin)
Yunoo nr Uno –> (@kmvoges and @mdekuijper)
Paydro Champs –> (@arjenschat and @patrick)
The Marvians Return –> (@jonsjanssens and @stevenvanwel)
VIDDIX –> (@baswillems and @timtempel)
SEOshop –> (@koningarthur and @denniscuijpers)
SEOshop II –> (@SEOshop)
Flavour –> (@LobotomyKid and @DeJahen)
Kliqz –> (@kliqz)
The Next Web Masters –> (@boris and @zee)

Can I sponsor it?
No you can’t sponsor PLAY, you can support it though.
Benefits for PLAY Supporters:
- Your private team bottle of cheap ass champagne!
- Link in the PLAY event network and special mention on this site (favicon + link + name)
- We support you to bring company schwag to the PLAY field
- Get a special ‘Thanks’ mention by Patrick at the beginning and at the end of the tournament
- Get an automatic protected status during the draw in other words your team is seeded, a.k.a important

Its only 75 euro (including VAT) for a team, so this is a must have for each team! (order 2 VIP supporter tickets of 37,50 EUR each) Get it now!

With PLAY we want to give something back to The Next Web community, the startups and our attendees of the conferences (the 10 euro admission fee is just to make sure you’re committed to show up :) ).

Have something to announce? Play is cool to do so!
At PLAY, you’ll encounter, investors, peers and journalists. If you have something to announce, why not do that during PLAY…. if its hot, we’ll put you on thenextweb.com (if it is not that hot but just funny, I’m sure we can find some twitter following :) ).

PLAY 2008

Play 2008 was great!, check these pics on flickr by Martin Haring and read this report by Laurens Taekema
Wipido, Weekendjeweg, Sun, HVA, Blog08, CodeShop and Freshheads thanks for supporting.
Here is a slideshow of PLAY made by Anne Helmond.

PLAY 2008 teams
The fearful Wakoopians, Weekendjeweg Sirs , DJ’s Twones, Ad “the collectors” Yen, The Dutch Cowboys, Moby ‘bartender’ Picture, Super Soocials, Fast f»dforwards, IRL Rockers, Soocial Alliance, Mr Netlog & @Nextweb, the E-Team, el Placeur, The boys from Brazil, the guys without white suits, the investor, glubbleicious, the Conedzos, Team Meetial, Boeve & co, The Marvians, LunaWipido, Lemz dudes, teliasoneras, Girls from UPC, treasuremytext, Sun, T@ & @, Twonqers, Geeks on Heels, Golfers / Cohibanen, The Heats, The White Doors, The Bankers, Dynamic Duo, Pussy 2.0, fireball dodging squirrels, TND newbies, the yieldivision, bawls ‘n awl, AppAppeal
All-Stars, SoFa and the city, EduBalls and you?

We’re already in training!

Oh don’t forget to dress style Cote d’Azur (or just startup style and wear your company tees)