Multilevel online tournament

One or more computer readable storage media storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, perform a method for administering a game tournament over a computer network, said method comprising:

• (a) initially placing a group of participants in a single bracket of a first tournament round, wherein a size of the group of participants requires at least three complete tournament rounds to determine a winner;
• (b) grouping the participants in each bracket of a current tournament round for game match-ups, each of which result in one or more winners and one or more losers, wherein any two or more participants in a same bracket of the tournament round are allowed to match-up;
• (c) for each match-up, placing the winner into a next tournament round winners bracket corresponding to the bracket for the current round in which the match-up occurred, and placing the loser into a next tournament round losers bracket corresponding to the bracket for the current round in which the match-up occurred;
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• (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) until each current tournament round bracket has only one participant.

One or more computer readable storage media storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, perform a method for administering an online game tournament, comprising steps of:

• (a) initially placing a group of participants in a single bracket of a first tournament round, wherein a size of the group of participants requires at least three complete tournament rounds to determine a winner;
• (b) allowing the group of participants each to play a game against a score or a deadline, the result of the game being measured by a score or time value;
• (c) upon completion of the games advancing participants based on the score or time value into a next tournament round winners bracket corresponding to the bracket for the current round in which the match-up occurred, and advancing the losers into a next tournament round losers bracket corresponding to the bracket for the current round in which the match-up occurred, and
• (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) until each current tournament round bracket has only one participant.