I Love Hits’ Brackets Are Here!
We were doing an episode of TE Live a few weeks ago and we started to discuss new features that people would like to see added to I Love Hits. There was a lot of great suggestions but one idea seemed to really stick and get everyone ‘talking’ about the possibilities…
Today is the day that those ideas came to be…With the introduction of the ILH Bracket Surfing. And just what is Bracket Surfing? Think of it like a huge weekly (and daily) competition where instead of surfing in teams like we are used to doing, you compete and surf against other individual surfers in I Love Hits.
We all surf, and go up against each other and after 7 days we tally up the results and the winner of each ‘division’ gets a chunk of the prize pot…And it’s not the same old, same old pot of prizes either…The sky is the limit…
Confused? Here is a detailed explanation courtesy of the man who programmed this kick butt idea, Austin Hallock;
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ILoveHit’s new bracket system works a lot like an NCAA bracket.
Each day you face a new opponent — the surfer who surfs the most pages in that day wins.
The next day you will have a new opponent, and by the end of the week, only one surfer will have won every game. This 1st place user is the winner, and gets 66% of the pot, while 2nd and 3rd place get 25% and 9% respectively. You can tell who is undefeated by the yellow border around their matchup.
The pot is based on how many pages ILoveHits users as a whole surf that week, the more surfing done, the higher the pot gets. Additionally, the total pot is split among the divisions with the higher divisions (1, 2, 3) getting the most credits in the pot
The division you are put in is based on the number of pages you surfed in the previous week. There’s a whole bunch of seeding involved too, but no need for you to worry about all that.
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This is only day one and we are constantly making tweaks to make sure this is something you have never experienced before but at the same time, are going to fall in love with. Check out the brand new surf bar, the new ‘chat system’ and all the other cool new features that go along with Bracket Surfing.
We hope you enjoy it and thank you so much to Austin, Tim Linden, Cat Heiter and all the folks at TE Live that made this new feature a reality!
Log in to start Bracket Surfing now!
Lynn McCutcheon
Hooray! Now whenever I feel like smacking somebody, I know where I can go take out all those frustrations… virtually of course hehe
Lynn McCutcheon
PS Austin ROCKS
Jeff Henshaw
A refreshing and different approach.
Why though: ” … This 1st place user is the winner, and gets 66% of the pot, while 2nd and 3rd place get 25% and 9% respectively.” – Rather than 65%, 25% and 10%, which seems more logical?
Regards,
Jeff.
Jon Olson
LOL Good question Jeff…I’m just going with what the programmer did. Austin is the man, he knows all. =)
Austin Hallock
It started out with 2/3 going to first, 1/4 going to 2nd, so 3rd got 9%. That was the thought process for that
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