Multimedia Games is hosting the National TournEvent of Champions in collaboration with casinos around the country to crown the nation’s best slot tournament player. In the course of the first weekend of August, 78 finalists, representing 69 casinos have qualified to compete for the national title on the Wynn’s XS Nightclub in Las Vegas on October 1.
Qualifying rounds will continue through September with a complete of 123 slot players competing for the National Championship and a grand prize of $200,000.
“It’s been a thrilling summer of qualifying so far,” said Patrick Ramsey, CEO for Multimedia Games in a prepared statement. “The National Championship is solely across the corner, and now we have an ideal group of players who've earned their trip to the finals in Las Vegas."
According to company press materials, the National TournEvent of Champions takes slot tournaments to a complete new level. Two TournEvent of Champions buses are crisscrossing the rustic from April?September, through 22 states with greater than 250,000 players competing for the danger to symbolize their casino in Las Vegas. Casinos are hosting slot leagues, semi?finals after which in?casino finals to seek out the highest player to symbolize them on the National Championship.
Of the 78 qualifiers thus far, there are 44 women and 34 men. They vary in age from 22?92 and canopy a large spectrum of backgrounds — from real estate agents to entrepreneurs, and army veterans to government workers. The various qualifiers are enjoying the golden years of retirement, and two even hail from the good White North, Canada.
National TournEvent of Champions began in 2012 with regional competitions in California and Washington. The development crowned its first national champion in 2013 after 88 players from 77 casinos competed within the finals at Lagasse’s Stadium on the Palazzo in Las Vegas. The 2014 event is even bigger with 123 players from 103 casinos and a complete purse of $500,000—double the 2013 purse.
The National TournEvent of Champions tour buses are sponsored by Strictly Slots, APSM Systems, Effinet, Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, e?gads!, Andover Audio, Quixant, Sequel Data Systems, Unistar?Sparco Computers, Sunkist Graphics and VSR Industries.
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