METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC DRAWING OF TOURNAMENTS Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: entertainment games. SUBSTANCE: device has central processing unit and devices which are controlled by this CPU. Method involves announcement of tournament and invitation to participation using one or more electronic indication boards which are accessible for multiple possible participants, issuing personal identification data for respective participants of game up to given number of participants by means of data reading unit which is connected to indication unit, selection of groups of participants playing against one another, drawing games with respective automatic detection of winner in each game round, distribution of groups of participants for next round and so on till final game round which finishes game and final tournament results are detected. EFFECT: increased number of participants in different locations, operative information about rules of game and rapid drawing of tournaments and detection of results. 10 cl, 2 dwg