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AssigneeAristocrat Technologies, Inc.
InventorsStephen J. Walther, Lael Berelowitz
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Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for sweepstakes awards in a gaming environment. Certain embodiments provide a method including accumulating sweepstakes entries for a player based on at least one sweepstakes entry criterion and randomly selecting a winner from the pool of sweepstakes entries. The sweepstakes entries are associated with the player and incorporated in a pool of sweepstakes entries. In certain embodiments, the at least one sweepstakes entry criterion comprises at least one of one entry per player, accumulating points based on play, accumulating points based on machine outcome, and coin in. In certain embodiments, the method further includes determining eligibility of a player for the sweepstakes. In certain embodiments, eligibility is determined based on at least one of a player group, a machine group, a machine denomination, a machine type, a machine manufacturer, a game manufacturer, a game theme and a game title, for example.
A sweepstakes method for use with a gaming network having a plurality of gaming devices, a display device, a communication interface, a non-transitory memory storing data indicative of a promotional characteristic and a sweepstakes characteristic, a pool of virtual sweepstakes tickets, a counter providing a count of sweepstakes tickets in said pool, and a controller, the method comprising:
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