Patent ID: 7934983

Claim:
A method for facilitating a distributed sporting event, the method comprising: aggregating a plurality of individual sporting activities into a distributed sporting event comprising a plurality of players that are each performing one of the individual sporting activities, that are each competing against one another by traveling over courses that are remotely located from one another, and that each have a corresponding client device, by: receiving from each of the plurality of client devices information about a current location of the corresponding player; causing each of the plurality of client devices to present indications of positions of at least some of the other players with respect to the corresponding player, the indicated positions based on the current locations of the at least some of the plurality of players; asserting a course to each of the plurality of players by causing each of the client devices to display specific instructions to the corresponding player to travel over a specified path; determining whether one of the plurality of players is within boundaries of the asserted course; and issuing at least one of a warning, penalty, or disqualification to a player who is not within boundaries of the asserted course.