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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Brian Watkins, Austin, TX (US);
Clint Owen, Austin, TX (US);
Allison Pope, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Conway, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Speer, Austin, TX (US);
Brian Watkins, Austin, TX (US);
Clint Owen, Austin, TX (US);
Allison Pope, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Conway, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Speer, Austin, TX (US);
Multimedia Games, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Gaming systems and methods provide a tournament game which selectively awards an enhanced tournament play result. The enhanced tournament play result may be of variable value which is selected for the given instance in order to place the receiving tournament player in some predetermined rank in the tournament. Such a variable enhanced tournament play result in the tournament game may be used to help keep all participants interested in the tournament, even those participants who trail the tournament leaders by a wide margin.