Interactive tournament contest
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1. A method comprising:
- a) providing a game;
b) allowing at least one participant in said game to invite at least one additional participant to said game; and
c) providing an incentive to the winner of said game, wherein a value of said incentive increases dependent upon a total number of the participants in said game.
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Abstract
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth a system, method and computer program product which may include providing an interactive tournament contest; allowing at least one participant participating in the tournament contest to invite at least one additional participant to participate in the tournament contest; and providing a prize to the winner of the interactive tournament contest, wherein a value of the prize increases dependent upon a total number of the participants participating in the tournament contest.
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1. A method comprising:
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a) providing a game;
b) allowing at least one participant in said game to invite at least one additional participant to said game; and
c) providing an incentive to the winner of said game, wherein a value of said incentive increases dependent upon a total number of the participants in said game. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A system comprising:
an game, adapted to allow at least one participant to invite at least one additional participant to participate in said game, and adapted to provide an incentive to the winner of said game, wherein a value of said incentive increases dependent upon a total number of the participants participating in said game.
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35. A system comprising:
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means for providing a game;
means for allowing at least one participant participating in said game to invite at least one additional participant to participate in said game; and
means for providing an incentive to the winner of said game, wherein a value of said incentive increases dependent upon a total number of the participants participating in said game.
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36. A computer-readable medium embodying logic which when executed on a computer performs a method comprising:
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providing game;
allowing at least one participant participating in said game to invite at least one additional participant to participate in said game; and
providing an incentive to the winner of said game, wherein a value of said incentive increases dependent upon a total number of the participants participating in said game. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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37. A method of providing a scaleable massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, comprising:
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a) upon determining a total number of participants for a game, merging participants into a minimal number of segments having up to a predetermined capacity of participants per segment; and
b) populating any unfilled of said minimal number of segments with at least one of a ghost and/or a bye, to completely fill each of said minimal number of segments to said predetermined capacity.
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43. The method of 41, wherein x is equal to a number of rounds to be played in the game.
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