Multilevel Autonomous Tournament System for Wagering Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic gaming machines (EGMs) lack a comprehensive system for managing multilevel autonomous tournaments (MATs) that can operate independently with minimal player intervention, while ensuring fairness and regulatory compliance.
Innovation Solution
A computing system that defines and generates multiple tournament entry sets, each associated with a specific tournament tier, allowing players to advance through tiers based on random selection and score modification, with graphical representations of tournament entry sets displayed to players.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a comprehensive system for managing multilevel autonomous tournaments is implemented, then tournament autonomy and operational independence are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tournament management system is segmented into multiple independent tournament entry sets, each associated with a specific tournament tier. Each entry set contains multiple tournament entries that can be independently managed, selected, and advanced through tiers. This segmentation allows the system to operate autonomously while maintaining manageable complexity through modular organization of tournament data and processes.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple tournament entry sets with multiple tiers are created, then tournament structure and player engagement are improved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tournament system employs a nested structure where tournament entries are nested within tournament entry sets, which are in turn nested within tournament tiers. Multiple tiers are organized hierarchically, with each tier containing multiple entry sets. This nested organization allows for complex multi-level tournament structures while simplifying data management through a clear hierarchical framework where each level contains and manages the level below it.
3Reliability
If random selection and score modification are used for tier advancement, then fairness and regulatory compliance are improved, but processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tournament system performs random selection and score modification operations autonomously without requiring external intervention or complex validation processes. The system self-manages the selection of tournament entries from entry sets, automatically modifies scores according to predetermined rules, and advances entries through tiers based on these modifications. This self-service approach ensures fairness and regulatory compliance while minimizing processing overhead by eliminating the need for manual oversight or complex external verification systems.
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AI summary
Systems and techniques for providing multilevel autonomous tournaments for wagering game are provided. In some implementations, players may earn entry into such a tournament by meeting one or more criteria and then be associated with a tournament entry for that tournament. Each tournament entry may be associated with a set of tournament entries and, after a requisite number of tournament entries for a given tournament entry set has been associated with players, a selection of a tournament entry, and thus at least implicitly a player, may be made. The players selected in such a selection event may then be associated with a tournament entry in a next-highest tournament tier. Such selections may occur until a single player is selected from the highest-ranked tournament tier of the tournament.