A winner was found, but one apparent runner up claims the event was the “most badly run event in the history of this country”, reports Cian Ginty.
On Monday the 6th, the bank holiday, David Cooney, from Glanmire, Co Cork, fought it out in the finals of the Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland’s GT4 Champion of Ireland competition to come out as the all-Ireland winner.
Sony tells us over 1000 people entered the competition by summiting their times on a specific track in the game to a website, the top 16 entries were gathered at the Nissan Ireland Head Office in Dublin for the knock out based finals. With a top prize of a Nissan 350z Gran Turismo Edition sports car worth over 60,000 euro, and not 55,000 euro as we were told before.
Cooney walked away as the only owner of a GT edition Nissan 350z in Ireland, and an invite to Le Mans as the Ireland representative in the European Final of Sony’s worldwide GT4 competition.
However, for at least one competitor, “Gaid1n”, a user on the Irish discussion site boards.ie, says the event wasn’t so good. Although he says he “Had fun”, the poster claims the event was marred with what he saw as technical inaccuracies such as starting with gaming pods with two TVs, but each TV, he says, screened a split screen displaying both drivers’ cars. 'Gaid1n' also claimed on his assigned pod “Player 2 had to listen to the other persons TV”, citing the problem that they were “both driving the same car which is hard enough to distinguish your engine from the other guy, never mind having to listen to the one beside you”, he states Sony “insisted” that sound was coming from both TVs, although he admits “After the first races, they moved over to the 2 main pods which had its sound hooked up to the PA system which wasn't too bad”.
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