Super Bingo participants can play and stay 5 nights for just $400!

Home to downtown Las Vegas’ only bingo room, the Plaza Hotel & Casino will hold Las Vegas’ first-ever New Year’s Eve Super Bingo event, Tuesday, Dec. 31 and Wednesday, Jan. 1.

For this inaugural New Year’s Eve $160,000 Super Bingo, participants can play and enjoy a 5-night stay from Sunday, Dec. 29 through Thursday, Jan. 2 for just $400, with no resort fees. Super Bingo players also receive as a bonus $20 in free slot play.

Upcoming Super Bingo event dates in 2025 are Feb. 3-5, March 3-5, April 7-9, May 5-7, and June 2-4.

Held in the Plaza’s ballroom, Super Bingo draws nearly 1,000 people from across the country and as far away as Hawaii and Canada for the opportunity to win big playing fun-filled games of bingo over two days, with a $50,000 super coverall both days while socializing with like-minded bingo players.

Rooms for the event are limited. Registration is available online at https://www.plazahotelcasino.com/bingo/super-bingo-registration/ or by phone at 702-386-2318.

All Super Bingo players receive one 6-on paper pack for both days, two daubers, free drinks via an open bar at all sessions, and boxed lunch both days.

The Plaza’s Bingo room offers six daily bingo sessions at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5A group of people sitting at tables Description automatically generated.

The Brazilian Ministry of Finance and the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) have signed a sports betting integrity cooperation agreement. It will allow both parties to share information concerning suspicious betting activity connected to Brazilian sport and collaborate on any investigations.

The agreement brings together the governmental body responsible for ensuring that the Brazilian market is legal, safe and reliable, and the largest international betting integrity monitor for private operators in the world. Leading industry data and intelligence company H2 Gambling Capital has forecast that IBIA will cover more than 70% of the Brazilian remote gambling market.

According to ‘The Availability of Sports Betting Products: An Economic and Integrity Analysis’ study published earlier this year, the new sports betting regulatory regime in Brazil is projected to create $34bn in sports betting turnover by 2028. With this increased growth comes a greater responsibility to protect customers, sports and betting operators from match-fixing.

A key element of the new Brazilian regulatory framework is the requirement that operators seeking a licence must join an independent sports integrity monitoring body. This licensing requirement is helping to strengthen IBIA’s capacity to monitor, assess and protect betting transactions in Brazil’s regulated sports betting market and maintain the integrity of Brazilian sporting events.

Regis Dudena, Secretary of Betting and Prizes, said: “Cooperation with IBIA will add to SPA’s work in combating the manipulation of sporting events. And together we will mitigate this problem on a global scale.”

Khalid Ali, IBIA CEO, said: “IBIA is delighted to have reached this agreement with the Brazilian Ministry of Finance and welcomes the government’s increased focus on creating a robust sports betting integrity ecosystem to tackle match-fixing. Collaboration and information sharing are key to the success of this ecosystem. Under this agreement IBIA will identify and report suspicious betting on Brazilian sporting events to the Ministry of Finance to support investigatory actions. That will include detailed customer account data that is only available to IBIA and its members.”

Frederico Alves Soares Justo, General Coordinator of Money Laundering at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, said: “For the Secretary of Prizes and Betting to sign this agreement with IBIA is the certainty that we are on the right path to curb the manipulation of results. We will make the most of the experience that IBIA has in monitoring the betting market to create mechanisms that curb this practice that undermines the credibility of sport and the betting market. It’s a partnership in which everyone wins.”

IBIA is a globally recognised non-profit organization that seeks to safeguard the integrity of the sports and betting sectors by fighting betting related match-fixing and fraud. It provides a free integrity monitoring service to sports governing bodies, regulators and law enforcement agencies that, importantly, is also free from potential conflicts created by the provision of competing commercial services, enabling all parties to efficiently and effectively cooperate in investigating, prosecuting and deterring sports betting related match-fixing.

IBIA monitors over $300bn per annum in betting turnover across more than 125 sports betting brands globally, making IBIA the largest betting integrity monitor of its type for private operators in the world. The association’s unrivalled access to detailed global customer transactional data has, and will continue, to play a pivotal role in protecting the Brazilian sports betting market and sporting events from corrupt activity.

• The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Turkey will be represented in this edition, which will have two phases.
• Meg is the ambassador for the UK and will be broadcasting the UK team’s matches on her Twitch channel.
• The competition, which is organised by GGTech Entertainment, is part of Riot Games’ official VCT OFF//SEASON event framework and is supported by Twitch.

Spike Nations, VALORANT’s VCT OFF//SEASON competition, is back with a new edition to bring together the best talents from the EMEA region. Professional players from VCT/VCL and Game Changers will represent the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Turkey to lead their respective countries to victory.

As with last year’s edition, Spike Nations will be split into two phases, one national and one international. Each participating team is headed by a famous content creator from their home country, who acts as an ambassador and broadcasts their team’s matches on their Twitch channel.

The aim of Spike Nations is to demonstrate mastery among six of the strongest VALORANT countries in the EMEA region. The competition is based on the central idea that esports has the power to unite people from different backgrounds and cultures through competitive spirit and camaraderie.

Spike Nations 2024, which will be played entirely online and is part of Riot Games’ official VCT OFF//SEASON event framework, is organised by GGTech Entertainment and supported by Twitch.

Who makes up the UK team

Meg is the UK ambassador for Spike Nations 2024. The British team, which has PAL as its coach, is made up of 6 players: ZachKappa, GlobeX, Sevire, Bobbie, Fluxxy, and Jademwah.

The UK clashes can be followed live on Meg’s official Twitch channel (twitch.tv/megsoundslikeegg).
Competitive format

The national phase will decide who will represent the countries at Spike Nations 2024. Following the publication of the lists of the 12 shortlisted players, which were revealed on 21 October, the teams are in the midst of a testing window to determine the final squad (with the exception of the UK, Spain and Italy, which have already confirmed their lists). On 31 October, all teams must submit their final rosters, which will consist of six players.

From 18 November, the international phase will take place. The six countries will play against each other in a Single Round Robin format until 27 November. A few days later, the top four teams will face each other in the Semi-Finals on Bo3 (1 December), with the ambition to qualify for the Grand Final, which will be held on Bo5 on 2 December.