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Arena
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An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine/smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome and it is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, arenas are usually designed to accommodate a large number of spectators. The term arena is used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadenas Rose Bowl. The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event, the home of the Duke University mens and womens basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but the facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium. Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces, such examples of these would be terms such as the arena of war or the arena of love or the political arena. In many fighting games, the stage that opponents are fought in is called an arena. Ice hockey arena Amphitheatre List of indoor arenas by capacity List of stadiums by capacity
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Point Arena, California
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Point Arena is a small coastal city in Mendocino County, California, United States. Point Arena is located 31 miles west of Hopland, at an elevation of 118 feet, the population was 449 at the 2010 census, down from 474 at the 2000 census, making it one of the smallest incorporated cities in the state. It is also the western most city in the continental United States Its main street comprises part of State Route 1, along with a number of other Mendocino County coastal communities, Point Arena is associated with the hippie and subsequent counterculture groups. Reportedly, the economy is geared toward servicing the summertime tourist industry. The City is near the headquarters of the lands of Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria. The City is adjacent to the recently formed Point Arena Stornetta Public Lands National Monument, hiking Trails can be accesses at the Point Arena City Hall Parking. Spectacular coastal prairie and ocean views await, of special note is Arena Cove and pier with huge ocean front bluffs showing power of the interface of the Tectonic plates. The City of Point Arena is located at 38°54′32″N 123°41′35″W and it is in USPS ZIP code 95468. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.4 square miles. This is the location of the Point Arena Lighthouse, at 115 feet the tallest lighthouse on the West coast of the United States, the lighthouse is also the closest location on the mainland to Honolulu, Hawaii at a distance of 2,353 miles. The city has three schools, Point Arena High School, South Coast Continuation High School and the Pacific Community Charter High School. The choice of the school has helped to keep in Point Arena many students who formerly commuted to Mendocino to attend its high school. A variety of fauna and flora occur in the Point Arena area, the location is also sometimes a range demarcation for occurrence of some species. For example, the Pacific giant salamander occurs at Point Arena and at points south, the Point Arena State Marine Reserve & Point Arena State Marine Conservation Area are two marine protected areas that extend offshore from Point Arena. Sea Lion Cove State Marine Conservation Area and Saunders Reef State Marine Conservation Area lie south of Point Arena, like underwater parks, these marine protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems. Sound levels in Point Arena are relatively quiet, with locations at night-time dominated by natural sounds such as those of the surf. The maximum acceptable sound level specified in that General Plan Element is 60 Leq for residential areas, Point Arena has cool, wet winters and mild, relatively dry summers. According to the Köppen climate classification system, it has warm-summer Mediterranean climate, the average January temperatures are a maximum of 56.4 °F and a minimum of 40.2 °F
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Arena, Wisconsin
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Arena is a village in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 834 at the 2010 census, the village is located within the Town of Arena. It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, Arena is located at 43°9′57″N 89°54′26″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 1.16 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 834 people,323 households, the population density was 725.2 inhabitants per square mile. There were 354 housing units at a density of 307.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 8% White,0. 2% African American,0. 1% Native American,0. 5% Asian,0. 2% Pacific Islander,0. 5% from other races, and 0. 6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 8% of the population,26. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the family size was 3.14. The median age in the village was 33.4 years. 29. 6% of residents were under the age of 18,6. 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24,33. 2% were from 25 to 44,22. 7% were from 45 to 64, and 7. 9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 50. 7% male and 49. 3% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 685 people,256 households, and 182 families residing in the village. The population density was 628.5 people per square mile, there were 269 housing units at an average density of 246.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 98. 54% White,1. 31% Asian,0. 73% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 24. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.14. In the village, the population was out with 30. 2% under the age of 18,6. 9% from 18 to 24,35. 2% from 25 to 44,18. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 106.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.4 males, the median income for a household in the village was $45,870, and the median income for a family was $49,375
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2300 Arena
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Located in South Philadelphia under an elevated stretch of Interstate 95, it is named after its address at 2300 South Swanson Street. The facility was originally a warehouse that was built in 1974. Rail tracks next to the building allowed trains to drop off freight for storage, the tracks were eventually paved over to become an extension of West Ritner Street, allowing West Ritner Street to intersect with South Swanson Street. Elias Stein and Leon Silverman of the law firm Stein & Silverman Family Partnership, the southern part of the facility was given the name Viking Hall when the South Philadelphia Viking Club, a local chapter of mummers, began utilizing it. They used the building for storage and to rehearse for the annual Mummers Parade, the Viking Club would also stage midnight bingo games at the venue to raise funds for their organization. The northern part of the building was occupied by retail space, ECW broadcast Barely Legal, their first live pay-per-view event from the venue in April 1997. The event was headlined by Terry Funk defeating Raven to become ECW World Heavyweight Champion, immediately following the broadcast, the building lost power. Paul Heyman commented in April 1998 as to whether ECW would run another pay-per-view event from the venue, the promotion gradually moved its shows away from Philadelphia, running only 6 events at the venue in 2000. The final ECW show at the venue was Holiday Hell in December 2000, headlined by Steve Corino retaining his ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Justin Credible and The Sandman. Ring of Honor opted to run their shows at Murphy Recreation Center, controversy arose when Xtreme Pro Wrestling signed an exclusive lease with the venue in December 2002 and renamed the building XPW Arena, preventing other promotions from utilizing it. Forced to relocate, CZW moved their shows to the new CZW Arena in Southwest Philadelphia, in January 2003, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission banned barbed wire and light tubes from professional wrestling matches in response to violent XPW and CZW events at the venue. The buildings ownership evicted XPW from the venue in February 2003 after the failed to make lease payments. CZW resumed running shows at the venue in March 2003, with 3PW returning in November 2003, the buildings name was officially changed to New Alhambra Sports & Entertainment Center in 2004, and was later shortened to New Alhambra Arena in 2006 and Alhambra Arena in 2008. The name was suggested by J. Russell Peltz, who began co-promoting professional boxing cards at the venue with Joe Hand Promotions in May 2004 and it paid homage to the original Alhambra Movie Theater in South Philadelphia that hosted boxing in the 1950s and 1960s. In June 2005, an unofficial ECW reunion show called Hardcore Homecoming, An Extreme Reunion drew a sell-out crowd, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission lifted their January 2003 ban on barbed wire for the main event between Sabu, Shane Douglas and Terry Funk. ROH debuted at the venue in March 2006 with Arena Warfare, the event was headlined by Samoa Joe defeating Colt Cabana and Christopher Daniels. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debuted at the venue in June 2006 with Hardcore War, the event was headlined by Americas Most Wanted, the NWA World Tag Team Champions, facing Team 3D and The James Gang in a non-title match. The ECW brand of WWE ran a show at the venue in June 2006
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HWS Arena
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Hala Arena, generally called simply Arena, is an indoor sporting arena in the Grunwald district of the city of Poznań in western Poland. It is primarily used for volleyball, other sports. The venue opened in 1974 and seats approximately 5,500 people, the arena hosted a preliminary round group of the EuroBasket 2009 competition. Hala was the site, on August 19,1990
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The Arena, Ottawa
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The Arena, also known as Deys Arena was an arena for ice hockey located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was the home of the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1908 to 1923 and it was the third in a series of ice hockey venues built by the Dey family of Ottawa. At the time of its building, it was Canadas largest arena, the arena was built in 1907 and was built because audiences for hockey matches had out-grown the previous arena, known as Deys Rink or Deys Arena. The spectator capacity was 7,000, of which 2,500 was standing room. The Arena, as it was called, was built on leased land at Laurier Avenue at the Rideau Canal, on the location of todays Confederation Park, near the current Ottawa city hall. This is very close to the location of the first Deys Rink and it is also close to the location of the Royal Rink at 28 Slater, which was where the Ottawa Hockey Club first practised in 1883. The land for The Arena was leased from landowner Esther Sherwood for the rate of $166.66 per month, the Arena opened on January 11,1908 for a game between Ottawa and the Montreal Wanderers, the top rivalry of the day. The last Senators game at the arena was held on March 10,1923, the Ottawa Auditorium was also built by the Deys, who were part owners of the Ottawa Senators. This third rink was torn down by the government at the end of the lease in 1927 to make way for the ceremonial Driveway improvement project along the Rideau Canal. The Arena hosted the 1910 and 1911 Stanley Cup challenges, the Arena was used for other sports as well as ice hockey. The 1912 Canadian Figure Skating Championships were held in February 1912 at the Arena, boxing matches were held there including Canadian heavyweight champion Tommy Burns versus Len Darcy, and Canadian lightweight champion Bobby Ebber versus Homer LeBlanc on October 16,1925. The matches drew over two thousand fans, the Arena was a large improvement internally from the previous Dey Arena. The dressing rooms, rest rooms, smoking rooms and lobby were steam-heated, the main doors were on Laurier Avenue, and a north entrance existed onto Slater Street, which at the time extended to the Canal. The exterior was simple, and did not meet Sherwoods lease criteria of an architectural feature of Ottawa. At its building, it was the largest ice arena in Canada, the Arena ice surface was unusually shaped. Both ends are curved, with no straight sections behind the net and this design was passed along to the successor Ottawa Auditorium ice surface design. Dey Brothers rinks were home to the Senators, the long road to the Palladium
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Arena (1953 film)
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Arena is a 1953 3-D film directed by Richard Fleischer. A man named Hob Danvers comes to a Tucson, Arizona rodeo with Sylvia Lorgan in tow, Hob has been separated from wife Ruth for two years, and doesnt realize she intends to be at the rodeo. He meets up old friends Lew and Meg Hutchins and learns that Lew is here looking for work. He is shocked to find that Lew is now a clown, current rodeo star Jackie Roach turns up and makes a pass at Sylvia, who rejects him. Hob competes in bareback riding and so impresses Lews young son that Lew bribes a cowboy to change places, Lew is thrown and badly injures his leg. Ruth scolds the others for encouraging Lew, saying everyone should face the truth that his rodeo career is done. Lew, angry now, enters the Brahma bull competition over Megs objections, Hob goes first and is thrown. Lew, attempting to distract the bull, cannot get away quickly due to his bad leg. Hob walks away, leaving Sylvia behind, but Ruth joins him on the way out, arena at the Internet Movie Database
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The Arena (1974 film)
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The Arena is a 1974 gladiator exploitation film, starring Margaret Markov and Pam Grier, and directed by Steve Carver and an uncredited Joe DAmato. Grier and Markov portray female gladiators in ancient Rome, who have been enslaved and this marks the second teaming of Grier and Markov, in 1972 they starred together in the women in prison film Black Mama, White Mama. The Arena, set in the ancient Roman town of Brundusium, is about a group of girls who are sold to a man named Timarchus. After a fight breaks out amongst the girls, Timarchus gets the idea of putting the women in the ring to fight to the death, the recently captured Mamawi and Bodicia realize they must stick together if they are to survive. During filming he started dating Margaret Markov, the female lead, the two of them eventually married and are still together in 2012. Martin Scorsese said that Roger Corman offered him the film to direct following Boxcar Bertha, however he elected to make Mean Streets instead. The film was shot in Italy at Romes Cincecitta studios in 1973 and it was the first feature directed by Steve Carver. A remake of film was released directly to video in 2001. It was filmed in Russia by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov with a Russian crew, the film was initially titled Gladiatrix but was deemed to be a knockoff of Gladiator. Although the film was not well received, it has turned into a lesser known cult film, list of American films of 1974 The Arena at the Internet Movie Database The Arena at AllMovie The Arena at Rotten Tomatoes
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Arena (1989 film)
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Arena is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by Peter Manoogian and starring Paul Satterfield and Claudia Christian. Set in 4038, Satterfield plays Steve Armstrong, the first human in 50 years to compete in the intergalactic boxing sport called simply The Arena, the film was produced by Irwin Yablans and features original music by Richard Band. Steve Armstrong is working as a short order cook on a station somewhere in the galaxy. Overwhelmed by the volume of orders, he repeatedly fouls up, after a fight which smashes up the diner and leaves the alien injured, Steve and his friend and co-worker Shorty are fired. As it turns out, Fang is an Arena fighter, lacking sufficient money for a ticket, Shorty attempts to raise the cash by gambling in an underground casino. The game is raided by the authorities and in the confusion, caught in the act by crime boss Rogor and his enforcer Weezil, Shorty is held for ransom. Steve promises to pay off the debt, so he returns to Quinn. Remarkably he wins his first match with an alien named Sloth in an upset and he continues fighting, determined to prove that a human has what it takes to be champion, and soon becomes a top contender. Despite Rogors multiple attempts to cheat, Steve ultimately wins the championship from Rogors top fighter, Paul Satterfield as Steve Armstrong, young human fighter who wants to break into the alien fighting arena game. Hamilton Camp as Shorty, a man from Nebulos who befriends Steve. Claudia Christian as Quinn, manager of a ring of fighters she inherited from her father. Marc Alaimo as Rogor, casino owner, manager of Horn, shari Shattuck as Jade, night club singer and Rogors woman. Armin Shimerman as Weezil, Rogors enforcer, brett Porter as Wayne Charles Tabansi as Troy Michael Deak as Horn, Rogors top fighter, an extremely violent and arrogant cyborg alien. Jack Carter as Announcer William Butler as Skull, a high strung-cybernetic alien always looking to make a quick buck. Grady Clarkson as Commissioner Dent Dave Thompson as Doctor Ken Clark as Marcus, diana Rose as Space Lady in Nightclub Lawrence Cohn of Variety called it an above-average fantasy. List of sports films Arena at the Internet Movie Database
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Arena (2011 film)
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Arena is a 2011 independent action film starring Kellan Lutz, Samuel L. Jackson, Derek Mears, and Daniel Dae Kim. The film revolves around an illegal web show pitting fighters against each other in a gladitorial combat, government authorities have been searching to shut down the operation, but to no avail. David Lord, a fireman and paramedic gets into a car accident with his pregnant wife, Lori. Grief-stricken, David contemplates suicide, but decides against it, later he drowns his sorrows at a local bar, while a mysterious woman, Milla, watches him from afar. After witnessing him easily subdue the bars bouncer, Milla seduces David before incapacitating him, Milla, it turns out, is a recruiter for The Deathgames, which is run by the confident Logan and his two sexy assistants Kaneko and Kawaii. Kaden, the executioner is doubtful of the ability of a mere doctor. David is locked in a cell and befriends a fellow fighter in the cell next to his, Taiga. David reluctantly wins his first fight, and Milla becomes more invested in his success, Logan tells David that he will set him free if he wins ten fights in a row. In order to persuade David to fight again, Kaden reveals that Taigas wife is in their hands, after David wins, it is revealed that his opponent was Taiga, who was given the same task for his wife. Remorsefully, David kills Taiga, but not before incurring serious wounds of his own and it is then, that David officially accepts Logans offer, on one the condition, the tenth and final opponent must be Kaden himself. Milla begins to feel bad for David after seeing how badly he is hurt and she becomes closer to him as he fights his next few fights and has him moved to a more comfortable room with more space and a bed. She brings him food and women, after each fight she personally addresses his wounds. Eventually she realizes her attraction to him, dyes her hair black and Milla, for the penultimate fight, Kaden arranges for the release of an international serial killer named Brutus Jackson, which leads Logan to believe that Kaden is afraid of David. Before the fight, David tells Milla to contact his brother Sam and she does so, but Sam does not seem to want to hear from David. David defeats Brutus in brutal fight, and Logan is distressed, Logan has a doctor create a serum to inject into David, which will slow him down and make him an easy victim for Kaden in their fight. Large crowds watch online as Kaden initially pummels David, but much to Logans surprise, as they fight, it is revealed through flash backs that David Lord is the assumed named of a secret government agent who was specifically sent to infiltrate The Deathgames. The phone call to Sam was in order to alert his superior and it is also revealed that Milla secretly switched Logans serum with a simple saline solution prior to the fight. A group of soldiers invade the facility and arrest Milla, Kaneko, filled with rage after defeating Kaden, David hunts down Logan and corners him in a stockroom
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Arena (2013 film)
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Arena is a 2013 Russian film, directed by Eduard Bordukov and produced by Khayrulin Ramil. It had its premiere at the 66th Cannes Film Festival as part of the non-competitive program ShortFilmCorner. One of the roles in the film played a famous young actor Azamat Nigmanov. There is a labyrinth of courtyard which is impossible to escape. There are three of them, an Uzbek guy and two policemen, nobody will help them - people are thirsting for bread and circuses
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Quake III Arena
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Quake III Arena is a multiplayer-focused first-person shooter video game released in December 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly founder, Quake III Arena is the third game in the Quake series and differs from previous games by excluding a traditional single-player element, instead focusing on multiplayer action. The single-player mode is played against computer-controlled bots, Quake III Arena is available on a number of platforms and contains mature content. The game was praised by reviewers who, for the most part, described the gameplay as fun. Many liked the graphics and focus on multiplayer. Quake III Arena has also used extensively in professional electronic sports tournaments such as QuakeCon, Cyberathlete Professional League, Dreamhack. Unlike its predecessors, Quake III Arena does not have a plot-based single-player campaign, instead, it simulates the multiplayer experience with computer-controlled players known as bots. The games story is brief - the greatest warriors of all time fight for the amusement of a race called the Vadrigar in the Arena Eternal, the introduction video shows the abduction of such a warrior, Sarge, while making a last stand. Continuity with prior games in the Quake series and even Doom is maintained by the inclusion of player models and biographical information. A familiar mixture of gothic and technological map architecture as well as equipment is included, such as the Quad Damage power-up, the infamous rocket launcher. In Quake III Arena, the player progresses through tiers of maps, combating different bot characters that increase in difficulty, as the game progresses, the fights take place in more complex arenas and against tougher opponents. While deathmatch maps are designed for up to 16 players, tournament maps are designed for duels between 2 players and in the game could be considered as boss battles. The weapons are balanced by role, with each weapon having advantages in situations, such as the railgun at long-range. Weapons appear as level items, spawning at regular intervals in set locations on the map, if a player dies, all of their weapons are lost and they receive the spawn weapons for the current map, usually the gauntlet and machine gun. Players also drop the weapon they were using when killed, which players can then pick up. Quake III Arena was specifically designed for multiplayer, the game allows players whose computers are connected by a network or to the internet, to play against each other in real time, and incorporates a handicap system. It employs a model, requiring all players clients to connect to a server. Quake III Arenas focus on multiplayer gameplay spawned a community, similar to QuakeWorld
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The Elder Scrolls: Arena
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The Elder Scrolls, Arena is an epic fantasy open world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994 for MS-DOS. It is the first game in The Elder Scrolls series, in 2004, a downloadable version of the game was made available free of charge as part of the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series. Like its sequels, Arena takes place on the continent of Tamriel, complete with wilderness, dungeons, the game is played from a first-person perspective. Melee combat is performed by using the mouse, and dragging the cursor across the screen to attack, magic is used by cycling through a menu found by clicking the appropriate button on the main game screen, then clicking the spell to be used, and its target. The game world is very large, players may explore outside cities into the wild. There they may find inns, farms, small towns, dungeons, Arena has been noted for its tendency to be unforgiving towards new players. It is easy to die in the dungeon, as powerful enemies can be encountered if the player lingers too long. This effect gradually disappears as the player more powerful. Ken Rolston, lead designer of The Elder Scrolls III, Morrowind, says he started the game at least 20 times, Emperor Uriel Septim VII has been imprisoned in another dimension, and impersonated by Imperial Battlemage Jagar Tharn. During his usurpation of the throne, Tharn is unable to corrupt his apprentice, Ria Silmane, Ria is able to hold herself together long enough to direct the players character how to escape from slow death in the dungeons. Past that point, she lacks the power to manifest physically, the central quest requires the player to obtain various artifacts. Each time such an item is found, Silmane appears the time the player rests. This culminates in the finding and assembling the pieces of the Staff of Chaos, battling Tharn in the Imperial City. Ted Peterson worked alongside Vijay Lakshman as one of the two designers of what was then simply Arena, a medieval-style gladiator game, Peterson, Lakshman and Julian LeFay were those who, in Petersons opinion, really spear-headed the initial development of the series. Game journalist Joe Blancato, however, credits company co-founder Chris Weaver with the development, If Weaver had a baby, Arena was it, and it showed. During the development of Arena, Todd Howard, later Executive Producer of Oblivion, joined Bethesda, Ted Peterson had joined the company in 1992, working assignments on Terminator 2029, Terminator Rampage, and Terminator, Future Shock, as well as other fairly forgettable titles. Peterson, Lakshman and LeFay were longtime aficionados of pencil and paper role-playing games and they were also fans of Looking Glass Studios Ultima Underworld series, which became their main inspiration for Arena. The influence of Legends of Valour, a game Ted Peterson describes as a free-form first-person perspective game that took place in a city, has also been noted
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Wing Commander Arena
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Wing Commander Arena is a space combat video game developed by independent software developer Gaia Industries for the Xbox 360s Xbox Live Arcade service. It is a spin-off of the popular Wing Commander series of games, the game was released on July 25,2007. Players engage in dogfights that take place in one of nine environments, and they are able to choose from 18 ships, half being Terran, there can be up to 16 players in a single match. The game is separated into single-player and multiplayer modes, there is also a Bearpit where one-on-one duels can be watched from the sidelines by other players who can take potshots at the duelers. Single player modes include Asteroids, Training Modes and Melees, playing through the single player modes will unlock the various ship types. Arenas gameplay differs from previous Wing Commander installments, the producer, Sean Penney, is a longtime fan of the franchise. Early in development, Electronic Arts sought input from members of the original Wing Commander development team, such as Chris Roberts, and from the Wing Commander online community
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Team Fortress 2
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Team Fortress 2 is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 mod Team Fortress for Quake and it was released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10,2007 for Windows and the Xbox 360. A PlayStation 3 version followed on December 11,2007, on April 8,2008, it was released as a standalone title for Windows. The game was updated to support OS X on June 10,2010 and it is distributed online through Valves download retailer Steam, retail distribution was handled by Electronic Arts. In Team Fortress 2, players join one of two teams comprising nine character classes, battling in a variety of modes including capture the flag. The development is led by John Cook and Robin Walker, creators of the original Team Fortress, announced in 1998, the game once had more realistic, militaristic visuals and gameplay, but this changed over the protracted nine-year development. After Valve released no information for six years, Team Fortress 2 regularly featured in Wired News annual vaporware list among other ignominies, the finished Team Fortress 2 has cartoon-like visuals influenced by the art of J. C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell and is powered by Valves Source engine, Team Fortress 2 received critical acclaim for its art direction, gameplay, humor, and use of character in a multiplayer-only game. Valve continues to release new content, including maps, items and game modes, as well as community-made updates, on June 23,2011, it became free to play, supported by microtransactions for unique in-game equipment. A drop system was added and refined in this update, allowing free-to-play users to periodically receive game equipment. Though the game has had a competitive scene for many years, support for competitive play through ranked matchmaking. Team Fortress 2 has similar gameplay as previous releases in the due to its focus around two opposing teams competing for a combat-based objective. Players can choose to play as one of nine classes in these teams, each with his own unique strengths, weaknesses. In order to accomplish objectives efficiently, a balance of these classes is required due to how these strengths, in addition, a number of community assembled maps have been released. When players join a level for the first time, a video shows how to complete its objectives. During matches, The Administrator, a woman voiced by Ellen McLain, the player limit is 16 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. On the PC, in 2008 Valve updated Team Fortress 2 to include a variable that allows up to 32 players. Team Fortress 2 is the first of Valves multiplayer games to provide detailed statistics for individual players and they include, time spent playing as each class, most points obtained, and the most captures or objectives achieved in a single life
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OpenArena
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OpenArena is a free and open-source video game, it is first-person shooter and a video game clone of Quake III Arena. The OpenArena project was established on August 19,2005, one day after the id Tech 3 source code released under GNU GPL license and its official website includes downloads for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. Thanks to third-party efforts, it is available from the default repositories of a number of open-source operating systems, including Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch. It is also in development for the Maemo mobile operating system, ports for Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS are available, too. Each match happens in an arena, a map where players try to kill each other, some arenas are designed for Capture the flag and similar gametypes, the Quake III style of play is very fast and requires skill to be played successfully online. Its an arcade-style gameplay which allows to move through maps thanks to bouncepads, accelerator pads, teleporters and advanced techniques such as strafe jumping. The game can be played online or offline, team Deathmatch is a team-based variation of Deathmatch, with two teams of players being pitted against the other. Tournament chooses two players and makes them duel, in a winner stays, loser gets out setting. Capture The Flag is a mode where each team spawns in a base which contains a flag. They must capture the teams flag while keeping their own flag from being captured. One Flag CTF is a variation of Capture The Flag where a white flag spawns in the middle of the map, harvester is another team-based mode played in some Capture The Flag scenarios. Each team spawns with a Skull Receptacle, and theres a Skull Generator at the middle of the map, by fragging enemies, skulls appear in this generator. The players must collect their enemies skulls and bring them to the base in order to score. Overload has both teams bases spawn a crystal, the players of each team must travel to the enemy base and destroy this crystal in order to win. Elimination is a team based mode where players must frag all of their enemies in a Last Man Standing match of sorts. The team with the highest amount of win the match. CTF Elimination, as its name implies, is a mix of Capture The Flag, not only the teams score by fragging all of the enemy teams players, but they also can win rounds by capturing their flags. Last Man Standing is a variation of Elimination where all of the players start with a finite amount of lives
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Arena (Duran Duran album)
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Arena is a live album by the English new wave/synthpop band Duran Duran, originally released worldwide in 1984 on LP record and compact cassette. It was reissued on disc in remastered form with two bonus tracks in 2004. To cap off the highly successful 1983/1984 Sing Blue Silver World Tour, EMI released a live album. The Wild Boys single was issued six separate covers - one featuring each individual band member. At the time of release, critics were suspicious that the mix was too polished for a live album, other criticism arose from the omission of some of the bands biggest songs like The Reflex, Girls on Film and Rio. However, Arena still managed to peak at No.6 in the UK, the album was eventually re-issued 1 June 2004 and included two bonus tracks Girls on Film and Rio. It had also reissued in 1999 in the EU as a budget release by Dutch EMI affiliate Disky. Arena would be the only full-length live Duran Duran release until the 2003 Encore Series of official recordings from shows in Japan. Capitalising on the success, EMI turned the albums release into a multimedia event. The concert film Arena, released on long form videotape and broadcast on MTV, was followed by The Making of Arena. These videos featured Duran Duran performing live in Oakland, California between 12–15 April 1984, milo OShea reprised his role as the evil Dr. Durand Durand from the movie Barbarella. The Arena video also featured the video for The Wild Boys. It was meant to be a teaser for a feature film of the same name, based on the 1971 novel The Wild Boys. Both the Sing Blue Silver documentary and Arena were reissued on DVD in 2004, a differently edited version of Arena called As The Lights Go Down, essentially just the music with the plot elements cut out, was released for broadcast only. New Religion was recorded 9 February at The Forum, Los Angeles and this is the same concert where the video for The Reflex was filmed. All tracks written by Duran Duran, all tracks written by Duran Duran. J
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Arena (An Absurd Notion)
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Arena is a concept concert video filmed during the course of Duran Durans 1984 Sing Blue Silver North American Tour in support of the album Seven and the Ragged Tiger. The films villain, the evil Dr. Durand Durand has crash landed on Earth and is surprised and confused to find teenagers chanting his name. When he discovers that they are not chanting for him, but for a pop group, he sets up shop beneath the concert arena. Of course, he and his henchmen fail at every turn and Duran Duran continue to perform, the video also included Russell Mulcahys long-form video for The Wild Boys. It was meant to be a teaser for a feature film of the same name, based on the 1971 novel The Wild Boys. However, that film was never made, the expensive sets for the conceptual portions of Arena and The Wild Boys were built in the massive 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios. Some were also filmed at the nec, Birmingham where free tickets were given to fans, young actress Jennifer Connelly appears, walking across an empty stage, in one segment of the video. A picture book of the movie, Arena, The Book, was released in 1985, a live album, also called Arena, was released in late 1984. It featured the two singles The Wild Boys and Save a Prayer, the video for Save a Prayer is included as a DVD extra on the 2004 Arena DVD release. The DVD for Arena was released in April 2004 and includes as an extra The Making of Arena behind the documentary that was originally released as a separate videotape. A 2-in-1 DVD set with both Arena and Sing Blue Silver has also released by EMI. The Oakland, California concerts that were filmed for Arena were also edited to form the one-hour As the Lights Go Down concert video, as the Lights Go Down is essentially the Arena video with only the music, although the live footage for many songs was edited differently. This version was never released on any video format and was only broadcast on television, first on Cinemax then later on MTV. The Return of Duran Duran Is There Something I Should Know
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Arena (band)
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Arena are a British neo-progressive rock musical group founded in 1995. The bands style ranges from symphonic to hard rock, arena was founded in 1995 by Clive Nolan keyboardist of Pendragon and Shadowland, and Mick Pointer, the original drummer of Marillion, his tenure lasting from 1979 until 1983. The other founding members of the band were guitarist Keith More, vocalist John Carson, Orsi was replaced by John Jowitt in the bands inaugural year, whilst Carson and More left the band in 1996 and 1997, and were replaced by Paul Wrightson and John Mitchell respectively. Both Jowitt and Wrightson left the band in 1998, to be replaced by Ian Salmon and Rob Sowden and this lineup came to an end with Paul Manzi replacing Sowden in 2010. In 2011, Jowitt rejoined the band to replace the departing Salmon, leaving again in 2014, most of the bands lyrics are written by Nolan, though Pointer contributed lyrics to Sirens and other tracks on the first two albums. Musically the bands style ranges from symphonic to hard rock, some of the bands recent albums have a similar sound to Nolans earlier band, Shadowland. Allmusic called them one of the dominant neo-prog groups of the 1990s, songs from the Lions Cage Pride The Visitor Immortal
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Arena rock
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Arena rock is a style of rock music that originated in the mid 1970s. In the mid-1970s, increased power of amplification and sound systems allowed the use of larger and larger venues, smoke, fireworks and sophisticated lighting shows became staples of arena rock performances. The use of commercial sponsorship for the tours and concerts of this era began to lead to the music being branded, usually pejoratively. The popularity of stadium rock resulted in a number of reactions, including the pub rock and punk rock movements in the 1970s. In the 1980s, arena rock became dominated by metal bands, following the lead of Aerosmith and including Mötley Crüe, Quiet Riot, W. A. S. P. Their popularity was challenged by the rock bands who began to breakthrough to the mainstream, particularly after the success of Nirvana. Boston Foreigner Peter Frampton Kiss Journey Queen REO Speedwagon Styx Cock rock Glam metal Sources Joyner, continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. This Aint the Summer of Love, Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
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Arena di Verona Festival
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The Arena di Verona Festival is a summer festival of opera, located in the city of Verona Italy. Performances traditionally begin at dusk and spectactors on the seats of the arena bring small candles which are lit as darkness falls. Their staging of Aida in the biggest open-air lyrical theatre in the world began a long tradition, in the following year Zenatello and others returned and, in the years before 1936, a variety of organizations took over the presentations. Finally, in 1936, a permanent organization was created, significant artistic achievements Many singers made their names and careers by performing at Verona. In 1929 Beniamino Gigli thrilled audiences with his appearances in Flotows Martha, between 1947 and 1954 Maria Callas was a regular after creating a sensation in Ponchiellis La Gioconda. In addition to singers, directors and designers added distinguishing elements to such as the 1953 water pool created for Aida by silent cinema director Georg Wilhelm Pabst. His aim was to conjure up the image of the Nile on which little Egyptian boats could sail, dance and classic concert performances have also been given in the Arena. Classical ballets and traditional dances from all over the world have been seen, in 1976, Maurice Béjart brought the Ballet du XXe Siècle from the La Monnaie opera house in Brussels and choreographed Beethovens 9th symphony. This première was interrupted by rain, but the continued to a cassette tape of the music. Since 1976 the organization has expanded its activities from October to May in the rebuilt Teatro Filarmonico. List of opera festivals Verona Arena website, in English
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Al Hirt
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Alois Maxwell Al Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his recordings of Java and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn. His nicknames included Jumbo and The Round Mound of Sound, Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009. Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, at the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. He would play in the Junior Police Band with the children of Alcide Nunez, during this time, he was hired to play at the local horse racing track, beginning a six-decade connection to the sport. In 1940, Hirt went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with Dr. Frank Simon. After a stint as a bugler in the United States Army during World War II, Hirt performed with various swing big bands, including those of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, in 1950, Hirt became first trumpet and featured soloist with Horace Heidts Orchestra. After spending several years on the road with Heidt, Hirt returned to New Orleans working with various Dixieland groups, Hirts virtuoso dexterity and fine tone on his instrument soon attracted the attention of major record labels and he signed with RCA Victor. Hirt posted twenty-two albums on the Billboard charts in the 1950s and 1960s, both Honey in the Horn and Java sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs. Hirt was chosen to record the theme for the 1960s TV show The Green Hornet. Thematically reminiscent of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs Flight of the Bumblebee, it showcased Hirts technical prowess, the recording again gained public attention in 2003 when it was used in the film Kill Bill. From the mid-1950s to early 1960s, Hirt and his band played nightly at Dans Pier 600 at the corner of St. Louis, the club was owned by his business manager, Dan Levy, Sr. In 1962 Hirt opened his own club on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter and he also became a minority owner in the NFL expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967. Covering an eclectic variety of popular, standard and show tunes, it featured a big-band supplemented by timpani, French horns and he also appeared opposite Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette in the 1962 motion picture, Rome Adventure. In 1965, he hosted the television variety series Fanfare, which aired on CBS as a summer replacement for Jackie Gleason. Hirt starred along with the University of Arizona marching band at the first Super Bowl halftime show in 1967, on February 8,1970, while performing in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Hirt was injured while riding on a float. It is popularly believed that he was struck in the mouth by a piece of concrete or brick. Factual documentation of the details of the incident is sparse, consisting primarily of claims made by Hirt after the incident, whatever the actual cause of his injuries, Hirt underwent surgery and made a return to the club scene
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Countdown: Arena
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Countdown, Arena is a four-issue American comic book mini-series published by DC Comics. Written by Keith Champagne with art by Scott McDaniel, that ran for four weeks in December 2007, spinning off of Countdown, the series features Monarch as he organizes battles among various characters from the 52 Earths of the Multiverse. He then adds those he deems worthy to his army, in preparation for a battle against the Monitors. Monarchs battles get underway, as Eve of Shadows, Vampire Batman, Ray the Ray Palmer, Scarab, Hal Jordan Jr. Starwoman, Johnny Quick, the Batman of Earth-19 and Apollo of Earth-50 become Monarchs backups, held in stasis. Throughout the series, tensions build between the all-American Superman of Earth-31 and his Russian Earth-30 counterpart, Superman-31 and Vampire Bat discover that a transporter miraculously designed by Earth-33s Ted Kord can travel the multiverse. After the group realizes the connection between Monarch and Captain Atom, Breach volunteers to collect the other counterparts from across the 52 earths in an attempt to overpower Monarch. In the conclusion, the Supermen fight is interrupted by a barrage of alternate Captain Atoms and this reveals Ted Kord-33 and Breach to be his accomplices. Breach betrays Monarch by giving Superman-31 the transporter to save everyone on board the ship, the last man standing after Superman-31s departure and Superman of Earth-16s sacrifice, the Red Son Superman of Earth-30 becomes Monarchs final team member. Eve of Shadows of Earth-13, a sorceress named Eve Eden can manipulate shadows and she is married to Brigadier Atom. Eve Eden, A Nightshade who appears similar to her New Earth counterpart, can manipulate, the Shade, a female who carries a cane and wears a top hat, able to control all shadows. The Shade attacks the other two Nightshades, mentioning she has not killed anyone in almost two days, Nightshades limbs are severed by Shade. Eve of Shadows manages to pull the Shade into a dimension called the Shadowlands. Despite the victory, her husband and country are destroyed due to her violation of Monarchs rule against attempting to escape, Batman of Earth-19, A Batman who started his career in the 1880s and defeated Jack the Ripper. Batman of Earth-40, The Bat, A Batman who was a government operative under the alias The Bat during World War II. Featured in JSA, The Liberty Files, Batman of Earth-43, A Batman who became a vampire after fighting Dracula. Featured in Batman & Dracula, Red Rain, the two human Batmen unite to blind the Vampire Bat with daggers, poison it with a cyanide capsule, and breaks its neck. But the creature turns into smoke and disappears before The Bat can plunge a dagger into its chest, the two remaining Batmen square off, agreeing not to use weapons or tricks, just skill. The vampire chooses this moment to rematerialize behind the Batman of Earth-19, the vampire bites the Bat in the neck and tosses him away but is blasted by Monarch before he can bite the fallen Batman
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Simon Scarrow
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Simon Scarrow is a UK-based author, born in Nigeria and now based in Norfolk. As of June 2016, there are 14 books in the series and he has also written another series, Revolution, focusing on Wellington and Napoleon, whose first title, Young Bloods, was published in 2006. The second volume, The Generals, was released on 31 May 2007, the fourth and final novel of the series was released in Jun 2010 and is called The Fields of Death. He began publishing a new series in 2011 titled Gladiator, secondly, when I was growing up in the seventies swords and sandals epics seemed to be on the TV regularly. Not to mention the brilliant I, Claudius, Scarrow cites the inspiration for his earthy characters as being from his time in the Officer Training Corps. The Eagles of the Empire series centres upon two main protagonists, Quintus Licinius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Macro, who are both Roman soldiers, Macro, a veteran with nearly 15 years service in the Roman Army, has recently been appointed to the Centurionate. Cato is in his teen years, grew up in the Imperial Palace as a slave, the first book starts in 42 AD. The books cover the experiences of the two soldiers, initially as experienced centurion and new optio, in battles in Germania and the invasion of Britain by Claudius as part of the Legio II Augusta. The 6th book The Eagles Prophecy has them serving as part of the Imperial Navy east of Italy, the 7th and 8th put them in Romes eastern provinces as agents of the Emperors secretary Tiberius Claudius Narcissus. The 9th sees them shipwrecked on the island of Crete, fighting against a full-scale uprising, the 11th is set in Rome with the leads hoping to save the emperor from the shady Liberators. The Blood Crows is set again in Britannia. The two protagonists are faced with defeating tribal rebels, in 2007 the publisher announced the intention to cease using the word Eagle in the title of books in this series, starting with Centurion. The change was apparently because the publisher wanted to more new readers to the series. The first book in the starts in 1769, and follows the two young men through their youth and onto their military careers. Young Bloods The Generals Fire and Sword The Fields of Death This series is aimed at the adult audience. Arena Barbarian Challenger First Sword Revenge Champion n. b. these novellas were available as prior to publication of the full title. Invader Death Beach Blood Enemy Invader, Dark Blade Imperial Agent Sacrifice n. b. these novellas were available as prior to publication of the full title. The following are books which are either stand-alone novels or have yet to be confirmed as parts of a series, Simon will visit the school on a regular basis to hold creative writing sessions for students as well as judge the annual Scarrow Award for Fiction
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Arena (magazine)
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Arena was a British monthly mens magazine. The magazine was created in 1986 by Nick Logan, who had started The Face in 1980, to focus on trends in fashion, British graphic designer Neville Brody, who had designed The Face, designed Arenas launch appearance. The headquarters of Arena was in London, the magazine was part of Bauer Media and featured articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, toys, and books. It was pitched at an upscale audience to GQ, attempting to offer a more adult read than lad mags like Maxim and FHM. Arena launched the careers of several prominent British media professionals, among them Dylan Jones, in July 2006, facing competition from the internet, the editorial team behind Arena launched a team blog which features regular posts from its contributors. In spite of this, magazine circulation continued to fall and in 2007, Giles Hattersley, Hattersley oversaw a revamp of the publication and in November 2007, the magazine relaunched with a new design and new palate of content, featuring David Beckham on its cover. Hattersley returned to The Sunday Times in March 2008 and was replaced in the interim by deputy editor Mat Smith, Smith left in August 2008 to take over as features director at Esquire UK. In April 2009 Arena ceased publication, as of April 2009, international editions of Arena outside the UK continued to be published. These editions included Ukraine, Turkey, Korea and Thailand, Arena Singapore, the first English language edition outside the UK, was launched on 27 October 2006 by the publishing division of Mediacorp. Mediacorp had announced on 30 April 2009 that it was closing the Singapore edition of Arena
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Arena (Swedish magazine)
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Arena is a Swedish-language bi-monthly left-leaning magazine. It publishes reports, interviews and essays on politics and culture, Arena was founded by Håkan A. Bengtsson and Per Wirtén. It was first published in 1993 under the name Politikens, kulturens & idéernas arena, in 2003 the name was shortened to Arena. It is one of the four Swedish magazine members of the European magazine-network Eurozine, Arena publishes six issues per year and has a circulation of approximately 3,600
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Arena (TV platform)
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The Arena Sport Rechte und Marketing GmbH was a German media company, which operated until August 2007 mainly the Pay television program Arena. It was a fully owned subsidiary of the cable operator Unitymedia, on 30 September 2010 it ceased operations. Arena was introduced in late 2005, when it was led by Parm Sadhu, a year later, Unitymedia company gave the license to Premiere. In order to refinance the costs, of €220 million, for the license of the first and second Bundesliga and all other costs. By mid-2007 they only had 1.1 million paying customers, in the nine months from July 2006 to March 2007 the station had a loss of €189 million, expenditures totaled €316 million where as revenues totaled only €127 million. The overall sum of the losses from the first year of coverage of the Bundesliga, because of this, the Bundesliga rights were passed on to Premiere in mid-2007. Through this, Arena received a total of €200 million and an equity stake of 17% in Premiere AG valued at €300 million, Arena gave the rights to Premiere as a sub-license, and remained contractor of Bundesliga until 2009. The pay-TV channel Arena Bundesliga broadcast all 612 games of the first, the contract with the DFL ran over three years to July 2009, the rights were sold as a sublicense, at the beginning of the 2007/2008 season to the competitor, Premiere. The Arena was receivable via satellite and cable, the monthly fee for the pay-TV offer was €15 for cable customers and €20 for satellite customers. Minimum terms were between 12 and 24 months, which meant that payments had to be made even during the off-time in winter and summer, before and after the matches, and during the half-time commercials were shown. Despite favorable subscription rates, Arena could not reach the number of subscribers. At the time of purchasing the Bundesliga rights in December 2005, Arena set six million subscribers as their goal, Arena was also broadcasting live matches of the Primera División in Spain, Premier League in England and the Serie A in Italy. In addition they showed HBO US Boxing Nights, skeleton, sailing, volleyball, Copa del Rey, and the Football League Cup
