hockey.nl best Sport App 2011

Winner category sportnews

A lot of thing happened after Roeland Weve (developer) and I launched the hockey iPhone app over a year ago. After a guerilla-style start, we launched the app without official back-up, we soon caught the attention of enthousiastic fieldhockey players with iPhones (and iPods) and the official Dutch hockey federation (KNHB). In cooperation with the KNHB and hockey.nl (the official Dutch fieldhockeymagazine) the iPhone app became the first and only official Dutch fieldhockey app. In the following months the application got even bigger with the implementation of the additional news, video, referee-kit, livescore, indoorcomeptition and businesscompetition sections. To support the non-iPhone-users we were asked to also design and develop a mobile website.

All this has led to a widely used and appreciated mobile application service!

Sport28.nl initiated the first Dutch Sport App Awards and asked their visitors to nominate there favourite apps.
hockey.nl got nominated in the category 'sportnews' together with NUsport (general sportnews, supported by NU.nl, one of the biggest newssites of the Netherlands) and VI (aimed at the national soccerleague and news, and also know for the national tv-show).
Finally a jury of iPhone experts and athletes voted for hockey.nl! The added value of being able to easily track your competition and team at any time gave the edge over the other two nominees.

We are ofcourse exteemly happy and see this awards as a great compliment for all the hard work and fun we had during the development and making of this app!


for more information click here (in Dutch)

Keywords: hockey.nl, iphone, roeland, weve

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