Games24x7.com - 3 Lakh in Cash Prizes, 15K LIVE Tournaments, 1 Lakh Seats

Games24x7.com, India's 1st Online Tournaments Portal

has hosted over 15,000 LIVE Tournaments with over 1,00,000 Seats for players and given out over Rs. 3 Lakh in Cash prizes!

Online Games industry is so hot amidst recession and job lay-offs that daily over 1 Lakh online users visit Indian online games portals like Games24x7.com, Zapak.com, Games2win.com, Kreeda.com, Ace2three.com and more. On the online games front, recently India has seen various companies running championships and tournaments, however, only Games24x7.com hasIndia's 1st and the most unique knock out tournament format where they host LIVE tournaments everyday and give out daily cash prizes.

In the recent past thousands of players across India have joined Games24x7.com and players have started playing their favourite games of online chess and online rummy non-stop. It's so exciting to play on Games24x7.com because there are limited seats and real cash prizes as give aways. The best part is the knock out tournaments format which gives the feeling of playing next to each other, like people play social community games.

The uniqueness lies of Games24x7.com lies in the knockout tournament format which is identical to the skill-based competitions like Wimbledon, T-20 Cricket and French open tennis tournaments. Winners in one round move to the next round and so on till a final winner emerges. This allows players to match wits at multiple skill levels in fast paced competitions where winners earn actual cash prizes. Games focus less on manual dexterity and more on mental challenge, while at the same time requiring quick reaction and decision making.

I recently came across this article where Zapak Corporate Gaming Championship was held and over 4500 corporates and 50 organizations participated. The final participants included executives from Mindshare, Convergys, Hotel Le Meridian, Hotel Grand Hyatt, ICICI Prudential, NIIT, WNS Global Services, Group M, Aricent Technologies, Indigene Lifesystems, Cambridge Solutions, Mindtree, Hotel Royal Orchid Orchidaceae , Sparsh, Taj Wellingdon and Mindshare, across cities. It was full of fun and excitement and people took a deserving break from the mundance work routine and this also strengthened the social fiber of corporate bonding amongst employees.

The only dampner was was that people won some Holiday packages, Shirts, Flash Drives, Game CDs and Game Packs...un-fortunately no one still knows what to do with those packages and prizes. Also, why should you be given some gift and all if you can get real cash prizes and decide what you want to do with that cash. May be you want to Travel and you got a stupid flash drive, what on earth are you going to do with it? Another thing to look at is, you spent so much of your valuable time and what did it result in, some coupons and vouchers???

India's 1st Online Tournaments Portal, Games24x7.com offers real cash prizes for daily online tournaments in fast paced games like Online Chess Tournaments and Online Rummy Tournaments with monthly Cash prizes over Rs. 1 Lakh! I was super impressed by the way they have been hosting daily tournaments and the tournaments are joined by people all across India. They have done a fantastic job in reviving the social fibre of community games in a multiplayer knock out tournament format.

ICA and Games24x7.com successfully host 4th Annual Chess Championship 2008 in Bangalore

Mr. Sushruta Reddy, National Arbiter and Secretary, Innovators Chess Academy in association with Games24x7.com hosted the 4th Annual ICA Rapid Chess Championship 2008 and the 3rd Innovators Chess Academy Inter-School Chess Championship on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti in Bangalore.

The ICA Championship 2008 saw a massive response with nearly 350 players participating from the south of India including Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore and neighbouring cities. There was enthusiastic participation from people of all age groups. The open chess tournament saw a very strong response with the veterans and cream of the top talent participating.

Mr. Sushruta Reddy who is the ex. Jt. Secretary of United Karnataka Chess Association and a chess coach and founder of the Innovators Chess Academy has been a very active arbiter and a strong proponent of promoting the skill based game of chess and taking it to the masses. In recent times, people have shown active interest in participating in a completely new online blitz chess tournament model where people can play online tournaments for cash prizes and the game of chess is now spreading to the masses.

www.games24x7.com was the official sponsor for the ICA Championship 2008 where Mr. Reddy himself is an active player. Mr. Bhavin Pandya, co-founder and managing director of Games24x7.com said, “We have an active association with Mr. Sushruta Reddy right from the starting days of Games24x7.com and he has been an active player and a strong contributor to the development of the chess game on our website. We offer online chess and rummy tournaments catering to the needs of the Indian gaming enthusiast. When Mr. Reddy approached us with the opportunity for being part of ICA Championship, we were very enthusiastic and immediately confirmed our support in his noble initiative to expand chess tournaments in the southern part of India. “

Rahul Shandilya won the ICA Open Chess Championship 2008 when he defeated R Nagesh in the final round. Although Rahul tied with K.V.Sripad for the first place with 5.5 points apiece, the former finished ahead due to a higher tie breaker score.

About Games24x7.com – Games24x7.com is an Indian online games start-up founded by a group of entrepreneurs from IIT and IIM who have seen both eastern and western cultures and wish to bring the spirit of local Indian games to the masses. Games24x7.com is India’s first and only online games company to run daily skill based competitive tournaments with real cash prizes in rummy and chess.

About Innovator’s Chess Academy – Innovator’s Chess Academy (ICA) is one of the premier and most Active Chess Organizations in Bangalore. The Academy has organized nearly 50 Chess Tournaments since early 2005 besides providing Coaching to children in various parts of the City. The Academy also enjoys strong support from the United Karnataka Chess Association (UKCA). ICA founded by Mr. Sushruta Reddy, and supported by Vice Presidents, Mr. Durgesh and Mr. Karthik Shetty has now branched to Muscat and Oman.

List of Winners for ICA Chess Championship 2008

ICA Open Chess Championship
1st Place Rahul Shandilya (5.5 pts)
2nd Place K.V.Sripad (5.5 pts)
3rd Place R.Nagesh (5 pts)
4th Place Prachura P.P (5 pts)
5th Place Vinod V (5.5 pts)

ICA Under 7 Chess Championship (Boys)
1st Place: Vasishta (7 pts)
2nd Place: Avinash Raj (6 pts)
3rd Place: J Ashwin (5.5 pts)
4th Place: Prajwal Shet (5 pts)

ICA Under 7 Chess Championship (Girls)
1st Place: Ojasi Gopikrishna (4 pts)
2nd Place: Sai Bhavana (3 pts)
3rd Place: Tanisha Dighe (2 pts)
4th Place: Smrithi Suresh (2 pts)
5th Place: Pritha Jaipal (2 pts)

ICA Under 9 Chess Championship (Boys)
1st Place: L.S.Prabhanjan (6 pts)
2nd Place: Dushyanth Raju (5 pts)
3rd Place: Sanjeev (5 pts)
4th Place: T.Vikas (5 pts)
5th Place: Sachin Jajoo (5 pts)

ICA Under 9 Chess Championship (Girls)
1st Place: Prannita (6 pts)
2nd Place: Sharanya (5 pts)
3rd Place: Hanan Rouf (5 pts)
4th Place: H.K.Aditi (4.5 pts)
5th Place: Srishti Moorthy (4 pts)

ICA Under 11 Chess Championship (Boys)
1st Place: Arjun Govind (6 pts)
2nd Place: L Manas (5.5 pts)
3rd Place: Vijeth T.A.(5 pts)
4th Place: Chirag Ramesh (5 pts)
5th Place: R Parthasarathy (5 pts)

ICA Under 11 Chess Championship (Girls)
1st Place: T C Meghana (4 pts)
2nd Place: V Srilakshmi (3 pts)
3rd Place: Priyanka Bharadwaj (3 pts)
4th Place: Namratha G.M. (3 pts)
5th Place: Amrita Narayan (2.5 pts)

ICA Under 13 Chess Championship
1st Place: Sudhanshu Nath Mishra (5.5 pts)
2nd Place: Goutham S (5 pts)
3rd Place: Srikanth S (5 pts)
4th Place: V Uttej (5 pts)
5th Place: Sindhu Shekar (4.5 pts), Girls 1st Place

ICA Under 15 Chess Championship
1st Place: Augustine (4 pts)
2nd Place: K.S.Harikrishna (3 pts)
3rd Place: B S Swarnesh Rao (3 pts)
4th Place: Pallavi Bharadwaj (3 pts), Girls 1st Place
5th Place: Amrita Suresh (2.5 pts), Girls 2nd Place