Grab Tournaments!  They're almost ready for prime time.  In the next week or so you'll see them opened up for all Grab members, so let the games begin!

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

Brothers and Sisters,

In the next few hours today you will witness a new era in gaming on Grab.com.  No longer will you only be playing for fun or for high scores - you will also be able to play in Grab Tournaments.  Compete in your favorite games like Gold Miner, Shape Shifter, Speed, Flip Words, Text Twist, and many others - winners will take home handsome Grabble prizes and, of course, bragging rights.

Stay tuned...