It Is Possible That The United States And Canadian Finalists Will Be The Ones Getting The Biggest Prize In The World Wide Web Games
After first qualifying to be among those permitted to participate in the September 9th World Wide Web games in Los Angeles, two players hailing from the website of Kiwi Skill.com may have the opportunity to become millionaires. The games have been organized by FunTech.
Kelli is from Pennsylvania and Derek is from British Columbia. They will both fly to Los Angeles where they will compete for the $1 million final prize and be awarded the championship title of “World’s Best Casual Gamer”. All of this is to take place at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood in the first-ever World Wide Web Games. Kiwi Skill.com is part of the Kiwi Gaming family. This is a group that includes such online casino sites as Kiwi Poker. Kiwi Casino, and Kiwi Bingo. The parent group Kiwi Gaming, is part of the land based casino group, Christchurch Casino Group, and is an independent off shore operation.
Kelli has commented to the media that she is very excited to have the opportunity to participate in an exciting challenge such as this one is, and says that she plays very well from her home but is afraid that she migh panic under pressure when playing live.
There are 75 finalists who will be traveling to LA to compete in the World Wide Web Games, which is more commonly referred to as W3 Games. Players compete by receiving the highest score in their tournament category in any of the three most popular games which are Zuma, Bejeweled and Solitaire. A subsidiary of FUN technologies will host the games which will be filmed for a special TV showing on GSN, the Network for Games.
Gary Jensen of Kiwi Skill mentioned that their company is thrilled that two Kiwi Skill players made it into the World Wide Web games finals. He noted how quickly the industry is growing with players now being flwn in from around the world to compete for a million dollar pot.
The games are easy to play and it is fun to be able to challenge others to a friendly game of skill by playing online, having a board running of games available. In this setup the players actually play against each other in real time and compete for cash prizes. This is evidence of how quickly the skill gaming industry is expanding. Casual games have become big business and is expected to reach $1.56 billion in revenues by 2008. A recent study published by DFC Intelligence reports that there is an estimated 124 million players who now play at skill gaming sites.
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