Patent ID: 9443393
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a multi-site tournament system including: (a) receiving and storing information enrolling two or more gaming facilities into a multi-site tournament database in the multi-site tournament system; (b) establishing a set of pre-qualifying events to generate a list of qualified players at each of the enrolled gaming facilities; (c) scheduling one or more dates to conduct an in-casino championship tournament at each of the enrolled gaming facilities wherein the qualified players from the respective lists compete for one or more awards including an opportunity to advance to one or more multi-site tournaments; (d) scheduling one or more dates and locations to conduct the one or more multi-site tournaments; and (e) uploading and publishing information about the multi-site tournament, pre-qualifying events, enrolled facilities, and qualified players to one or more social media portals so that the information about the multi-site tournament, pre-qualifying events, enrolled facilities, and qualified players is available to users of the one or more social media portals, including (i) receiving and storing information from the enrolled facilities about scheduled pre-qualifying events in the multi-site tournament database; (ii) receiving and storing captured images and data from pre-qualifying events at respective of the enrolled facilities in the multi-site tournament database; (iii) publishing the schedules for the pre-qualifying events and locations; and (iv) publishing selected of the captured images and data in real time or quasi-real time.