Microgaming’s Multi-Player & Tournament network hosts some great events throughout the year and throughout the month of December a total of 1,493 players battled it out in the Festive Frenzy slot tournament. The buy-in fee for this event was €10 (approximately £7.80) and entrants were competing for a share of the massive €125,000 prize pool (approximately £97,500). Players were limited to no more than 5 ‘continues’ per Re-Buy.
“2014 has been a year of growth for our multi-player platform. We've added plenty of content, both tournament slots and community games, as well as delivering numerous headline events! In fact, our network-wide tournaments combined with our operators' own tournaments have paid out a staggering €6 million to players in 2014,” said the Product Manager for Microgaming’s Multi-Player Games, James Ford.
Participants got to play on a Christmas themed slot machine called Santa’s Wild Ride and all they had to do was win as much cash as possible from this slot to climb the tournament leaderboard. 100 positions were paid altogether and the first place winner, username ‘petteriv’, walked away with a massive €10,000 prize. Second place ‘trevor_53’ netted himself €9,000 and third place ‘stivanakisd’ scooped €8,000.
“What better way to end the year than with a Festive Frenzy tournament. And there's no sign of us slowing down. 2015 will be another exciting year; we will continue to lead the way in multi-player online gaming,” added Ford. We obtained these comments from the official Microgaming website.
Some of the other events running now or coming soon include the Player Pot tourney, the €2k ‘3-Day’ Survivor, the Accumulator, the €10k Sure Win Cup, the €3k Survivor, the €250 ‘All Day’ One Shot, the €1,000 ‘All Day’ Reloader, the €10,000 Midweek Moolah and the €30,000 Monthly Monster. These events are only available to real cash players.
Santa’s Wild Ride is an online slot machine which has 5 reels and 243 ways to win per spin. This action & feature packed slot has three different Wild Symbols, including Trailing Wilds, Expanding Wilds and Stacked Wilds. It also has Free Gift Bonus Symbols which can land on reels 2 and 4, triggering a mini Bonus Feature which guarantees some kind of coin prize once triggered.
This extended event was only available from within the download client at most Microgaming powered casinos and two of the best UK online casinos which recently hosted this event included 32Red Casino and Betway Casino.
