Patent ID: 7758426

Claim:
A method for an on-line game tournament which determines participant's competition by tournament and prize money by a winning number, the method comprising the steps of: (a) an available tournament participation step of allowing a user connected through a communication network who selects a game to participate in a tournament for the game, recording availability for the tournament for the game in respect of the user and bestowing an initial level and an initial credit on the user for the tournament for the game, if a participation fee for the tournament for the game is paid in connection with the user; (b) a challenging competitor decision step for deciding challenging competitors who compete with the participant for the game from the other available participants on a same level who are not processing the game, the user and a decided competitor becoming competitors for the game; (c) a winner and loser treatment step for increasing the level of a winner by one and transferring a predetermined rate of credit from a loser to the winner, and deciding prize money of the loser according to the loser's present credit remaining after transferring the predetermined rate of credit from the loser to the winner and recording unavailability for the game tournament in respect of the loser, which terminates the participation, if the game processes and concludes between the competitors; (d) a winner participation decision step for checking whether the winner wants further participation for the tournament for the game; (e) a continuous participation step for processing procedures including the steps from (b) to (d) if the winner wants the further participation when checked in the winner participation decision step; and (f) a winner's prize money decision step for deciding prize money of the winner according to the present credit and recording unavailability for the game tournament in respect of the winner, which terminates the participation, if the winner does not want the further participation when checked in the winner participation decision step.