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Abstract

A specialized slot machine for conducting a wagering tournament game using real time or live action event content are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: prompting a plurality of users at a plurality of geographically distributed user platforms to each submit a wager for entry as players into a real time live action wagering tournament game; dividing a plurality of players of the real time live action wagering tournament game into player groups, the player groups each having a pre-determined quantity of players, the players in each player group competing with other players of a same player group to advance through a pre-determined number of rounds to a main tournament, the players in each player group only playing against other members of the same player group during a given round; obtaining a set of real time or live event content via the data network while the plurality of players are playing the real time live action wagering tournament game; partitioning the set of real time or live event content into a plurality of content categories; generating a raw score for each of the content categories based on real time information obtained via the data network; receiving from the players in each player group a bid corresponding to at least one of the content categories; scoring each of the players in each player group based on their bids and the raw score of the content category corresponding to their bids; ranking each of the players in each player group based on their score; and enabling a pre-determined quantity of highest ranked players from each player group to advance to a next round.

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