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How to play
Cumulative Contests
You find the cumulative contests at Game Station and Gladiator Games. When you play a game your relative score is added to your total score of the contest. Those who have the highest relative score at the end of the contest win a prize.
You can at any time click the "Find me" button to see your ranking.
Relative score
On the example here to the left, you see that this contests covers the prize range from L$100 to L$999. Now you play a game of L$100 and score e.g. 30,000 points. This 30,000 is divided by 1000 (the higher end of the buy in range) and then multiplied by 100, resulting in 3,000 points for the contest.
Would you have played a game that costs L$200, then the score would have been multiplied by 200 instead of 100. Thus your score for the contest is relative to your buy in, one game of 200 counts twice as much as a game of 100.
Below on the contest you see it has a fixed pot, cumulative score and is proportional to buy in.
Fixed pot:
The amount the contest pays is fixed. It is always exactly the pot shown on the contest.
Cumulative score:
For each game you play you make a score. Your score on the contest is the sum of all these scores.
Proportional to buy in:
All scores you make are divided by the maximum amount of the contest +1 and multiplied by the amount you play. Thus when you e.g. score 32000 points on a L$200 machine, the score added to your total is (32000/1000)x200 =6400. This is double what it would be when playing a L$100 game, and half of what it would be playing a L$400 game.
Click the Find me
button to inspect your ranking. Also when you are not on the top 5 list you will get a text message telling you your score up to now.
Strategy
* Play more than your competitors, higher amounts or reach better scores in order to increase your position on the contest.* Count a bit if it is still worth to compete or the difference is so big you can't make it.
* Do notice situations in which it is worth playing a few games in order to improve your rank, surely at the end of the contest.
The game of Pico Line
is a special case. The game has no score, you get paid for completing lines or a letter pattern. Thus, the contest assumes that your score is the amount you won. Since that amount is already proportional to buy in, it is simply the amount you won, without correction for the amount you played.