Organization, management, and execution of tournament competition with geographically diverse participants

Abstract

A distributed online billiards tournament allows players to compete individually in a one against many format at geographically diverse remote locations.

1 . A distributed online tournament system and method as shown and described. 
     
     
         2 . A computer-implemented method to organize, to manage, and to put on a tournament competition with geographically diverse participants as shown and described. 
     
     
         3 . A system for implementing a network tournament competition, the system comprising:
 a server in network communication with at least one approved location terminal, each terminal having a display and an interface, the server including:   a memory upon which is resident the following:
 a players table having at least one player; 
 a tournament table having at least one tournament, each tournament having at least one tournament location associated with the at least one approved location terminal and a link to any participating players in the players table; and 
 an administration table including handicap and division definitions based on location equipment information associated with the at least one approved location terminal; and 
   a processor for calculating handicaps and division rankings based in part on information collected from the players table, the tournament table, and the administrative table generating in memory at least one relation between the participating players to determine a tournament outcome;   a network interface for communicating a player page, a tournament page, a location page, and/or a results page for display at each terminal, the player page, the tournament page, the location page, and/or the results page configured to allow a player selected from the player table to direct the processor to create a relation between the player page and the tournament page the location page, and/or the results page.