Here are the tournament results. I'll give them exactly as the game reports them, and then explain what everything means below.
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Results for $574 Bitcoin Tug Tournament

For Tug:
    For the BTC 1 Power-8 at 1/2 pool by Full Rank:
        IcePick won BTM 502
        Willem won BTM 188
        deviant won BTM 188
        shinjo won BTM 36.66
        Joes won BTM 36.66
        CryptoCuz won BTM 36.66
        jhackers won BTM 2
        Glutton won BTM 2
        tonyjung won BTM 2
        Kjell won BTM 2
        KriZ won BTM 2
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Ok, so first off, it lists the "Game Set" which in this case is Tug. (Sometimes a Tournament has multiple Game Sets, but this one had just one, and that consisted of only a single game type, Tug.)

It then describes a "Prize Hopper" and a "Distribution Mechanism." In this case the Prize Hopper held 1 BTC, which in Dragon's Tale terminology can also be expressed as "1000 BTM." The Distribution Mechanism was Power-8 at 1/2 by Full Rank. Power says to distribute the most to whoever came in first, and then a fraction of that amount to 2nd place, and then a fraction of the 2nd place amount to 3rd place, etc. The fraction used in this case is the "1/2." Power-8 says to try to make the distribution to 8 players, though in the case of a tie that number can increase. As long as at least 8 players participated and had some sort of win, it won't decrease.

First place got about half a Bitcoin as expected. There was a tie for 2nd and 3rd places, so the system pools those prize amounts (about 250 BTM + 125 BTM = 375 BTM) and splits that total among those that tied for 2nd.  Same with 4th, 5th and 6th places. Finally, there was a 5-way tie for 7th, so it takes the prizes for 7th and 8th place, sums them, and splits that among all 5 people that tied for 7th. Finally, it normalizes all those amounts to add up to 1 BTM, which is why first place got 502 BTM instead of 500 BTM. Decimal values less than 1 BTM are not shown above, but the total amount distributed was within a few satoshis of 1 BTC.

57 people participated in the tournament, and 10 of those got prizes. I recognize most of the names above, but not all, so I hope that at least some of the prize money went to new players. I had a great time running this tournament - I'd like to do more of these! If we did the next one when we hit $700, would that give everyone enough time to learn Tug?

Teppy