Gameliorate.com offers competitions on various online games, that bear a specific end date.
People can compete either in Demo mode – where they deposit no real money and earn no money, only they are given 10,000 Euros in virtual money to test their skills and see how the website functions – or in Real mode, where subscribed users deposit money in their accounts and use that money to enter the contests, by paying the corresponding ‘entrance fee’.
Throughout any given contest, any game can offer various entrance fees for users to choose from and then compete in that particular competition. When the user makes that choice and enters that competition, the corresponding entrance fee is subtracted from his account plus a non-refundable commission equal to 1.8% of that entrance fee or 0.50 Euro, whichever is largest.
Then the user can play that game unlimited times and submit his scores without any further charge until the end date of the contest. Only his/her best submitted score counts in order to rank the user among his competitors on this game’s leaderboard for the specific competition. If the user ranks within the top 50% of his competitors upon on contest’s expiration date and time, he receives double his entrance fee back to his/her account, thus doubling his/her money.
If there is an odd number of competitors, the player in the middle of the leaderboard neither wins or loses; he just gets his entrance fee refunded back to his/her account.
Demo players for this particular game (distinguished by the suffix ‘-demo’ after their usernames) may also appear in this leaderboard, but they do NOT count for the ranking of Real competitors i.e. they are treated as ‘non-existent’ in the end.
Players can compete in as many games as they like during the course of any contest, by paying the corresponding entrance fee and thus entering that game’s competition as outlined above. They can even participate in all different competitions of any given game, by paying the corresponding different entrance fees for them. However, they are treated as ‘different entities’ in each competition of this game as far as high scores are concerned i.e. no submitted score from one competition can be ‘carried over’ to another where the player also participates.