System for facilitating participation in the outcome of competitive events

A system for participating in rewards arising from the outcome of a competitive event, including:

• receiving shares from one or more sets of shares that have respectively been created in each of a plurality of players or teams who are to compete in a competitive event;
• and, after completion of the competitive event, receiving a dividend for shares held at a defined point in time in the player or team who has won the competitive event, which dividend is in proportion to the number of shares held in the player or team.

A system for facilitating participation in rewards arising from the outcome of a competitive event, including at least one computer server carrying a share issuance website accessible via a computer network that, on request by one or more participants, issues shares to said one or more participants from a set of shares in each of a plurality of players or teams who are to compete in a competitive event, and that after completion of the competitive event, issues a dividend to each of the participants who at a defined point in time hold shares in the player or team who has won the competitive event, which dividend is in proportion to the number of shares in the player or team held by the respective participants.