Patent ID: 8636582

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising: (a) causing at least one processor to execute a plurality of instructions stored in at least one memory device to operate with at least one display device to display a play of a secondary team game, said secondary team game associated with a plurality of teams, each of said teams associated with an accumulated team rank; (b) enabling a plurality of players to make wagers on plays of primary games; and (c) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to initiate the play of the secondary team game upon a triggering event, and (d) for said play of the secondary team game: (i) enabling each of the players to join one of the plurality of teams; (ii) enabling at least one of the players to switch teams at a designated time after said play of the secondary team game begins and before said play of the secondary team game ends; (iii) for each of the teams, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to determine a team rank based on at least one team gaming activity parameter for said team; (iv) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to determine if any of the determined team ranks is a winning team rank; and (v) for each team with a winning team rank, providing at least one player on said team with an award associated with said winning team rank.