The folks at nineCo, Inc., have a great freeplay site that is such an incredible success that the numbers of registered players continue to boggle the mind. Now they proudly note that the technology on their website is also an award winner.
Their Web site, Gamesville.com, hosted the largest real-time online game ever where two thousand eight hundred forty nine Internet users played against each other in the largest single Web game ever, competing for the coveted prize of $700 in the site's unique, free-to-play, bingo-style game Catchup Coverall(TM). The winner, James Merideth from Columbia, South Carolina, won big by being the first to completely cover his CatchUp CoverAll card.
"At first I was shocked," said Meredith, who was aware that he was competing against nearly three thousand Bingo-mad Web surfers. "Then, I felt very happy, because I didn't believe I'd ever win it, but I did."
The January 5th competition was the first time 2849 people were simultaneously participating in the same Internet real-time game at the same time. Gamesville.com's unique, proprietary game platform software and specially tuned equipment allows this level of capacity -- and considerably
greater levels -- on their Web site.
CatchUp CoverAll is the new spin-off of Gamesville.com's free bingo-style game show, The Bingo Zone(R). The high-stakes CatchUp CoverAll game takes traditional bingo to warp speed, and gives it an entirely new twist, in which players race to cover an entire bingo card in a brief period
with new balls arriving very quickly (two new balls every 26 seconds). The minimum prize is $100, and the prize payout increases if there is no winner, growing as high as $1000. A new game begins every ten minutes.
One of IGN's favorite things about our friends at Gamesville.com is the site's slogan is "Wasting your time since 1996."). Now that's a winner!