Brothers and sisters,

We held our first Tournament tonight, and it went pretty smoothly!  We chose our flagship web game, Gold Miner: Special Edition as our first Gold Member tourney game.  At t-minus 30 minutes, we had only 10 Grab staffers and 3 Gold Members entered, but by the time the tourney was ready to start, we had a full 25-person tourney, most of whom were not staff - pretty good for sending an email out 90 minutes before the tourney start!

So, I started playing and chatting with the Gold Members in the tourney...it was actually my best game of Gold Miner ever, which isn't saying a whole lot.  About five minutes into the tournament, a message appeared telling us "Tournament will start in five minutes."  Mental note: reset the system clock on the chat server.

I thought I had a pretty strong lead on the crowd when, 15 minutes to go, my score of 35,000 was holding.  But, taffy70 came along and soundly whooped us all with a whopping 82,831, and took home the 280 Grabble prize.  Well done taffy!

The first Grab.com Tourney