Gaming Methods and Apparatus Facilitating Tournament Play at Gaming Machines

Methods facilitate tournaments in which tournament players play their tournament rounds at different times rather than concurrently as in a standard tournament. These methods may include monitoring for a player who is qualified tournament play. This monitoring is conducted by a tournament controller...

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Main Authors Carpenter, John, Pope, Allison, Jacobs, Loren, Riggs, Keith, Watkins, Brian
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 14.05.2020
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CHECKING-DEVICES
COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
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Summary:Methods facilitate tournaments in which tournament players play their tournament rounds at different times rather than concurrently as in a standard tournament. These methods may include monitoring for a player who is qualified tournament play. This monitoring is conducted by a tournament controller and may involve determining if one or more qualifying parameter values associated with a communication from a gaming machine satisfy a qualifying parameter definition which may be set by a system operator via the tournament controller. Where a tournament-qualified player is detected at a gaming machine, that gaming machine is enabled for play of a tournament game. The tournament game may then be conducted through the gaming machine to produce a tournament score for the player. This score is stored in memory associated with the tournament controller along with scores similarly produced for other qualified players.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202016746886