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Laser tag innovator Battlefield Sports has taken home the prestigious ‘Export of the Year’ award at this year’s Queensland iAwards.

The iAwards, now in its 22nd year, is the nation’s premier information and communications technology innovation awards program which recognizes exemplary outcomes and inventive application of ICT across all facets of the economy.

Queensland Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy and Minister for Small Business Leeanne Enoch “the key goal of the iAwards is to discover, recognize and reward the ICT innovations that have the potential to, or are already having a positive impact on the community – at home, in the office, and on a global scale.”

This year’s Queensland iAwards had more than 600 entries, almost double from the previous year's number, of which almost half were from non-traditional information technology companies.

36% of overall award entries were from companies with more than 1,000 employees, 31% of overall award entries came from one or more government-owned entities and of these, over 20% were joint award entries from private and public sector organisations.

The iAwards serves to acknowledge the innovation a company has demonstrated on the global stage, such as successful export companies like Battlefield Sports with its patented SATR laser tag system.

The iAwards, the elite digital awards program fostered by the Australian Information Industry Association (AiiA), honours organisations at the forefront of technology innovation.

The Export of the Year award is given to the organization that has successfully scaled to support export completion and has the essential marketing, support, and distribution components for their product.

A panel of more than 100 high profile industry professionals, including Fulvio Inserra, Managing Director of The Mastermind Group; Export Council of Australia Head of Product Development Collins Rex, and Chief Data Scientist of the NSW Data Analytics Centre, Ian Opperman, chose the winners.

Welcoming receipt of the Award, Battlefield Sports co-founder Nicole Lander stated “this award recognises our team's dedication, we work hard to manufacture laser tag equipment that enables battlefield operators in more than 45 countries to create an authentic live gaming experiences that their gamers will never forget.

“Our patented SATR laser tag system offers gamers real-time hit feedback, via light effects (through the red dot scope) and sound effects (through voice feedback) so you know when you got your opponent in just about any terrain.

“SATR uses advanced optoelectronics with lensed infrared and digital radio. It works peer-to-peer, so unlike traditional laser tag, you know the ‘pew-pew’ in a dark, foggy maze, our equipment works both indoors and outdoors.”

Battlefield Sports have helped hundreds of thousands of gamers around the world prepare to ‘lock-n-load’ with their revolutionary laser tag game, Battlefield LIVE.

State winners will now compete at National iAwards which takes place on Thursday 1st September at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. 

Click here for more information on the iAwards.

Click here to contact Battlefield Sports via their entry in the Australasian Leisure Management Supplier Directory.

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