A few weeks ago I was contracted to take part in building http://idolelimination.americanidol.com.

The object: Give someone the possibility of winning one million dollars if they could predict the exact elimination sequence of the final 24 American Idol® hopefulls.

The proccess is like this:

Person buys Nestlé candy bar with the American Idol® logo on it. Inside the wrapper is a game code.

Person goes to the site and signs up for a free account, logs in and enters the code into their codebank. There is no limit to the amount of codes they can store but can only create one new bracket per email address per code per day.

Person creates a new bracket in the American Idol® Elimination Flash Game and saves it. There is a time window in witch the person can come back and make edits to the bracket.

Proccess is simple enough. Developing, as you can imagine is a little more involved.

To skip forward a few weeks and a crap load of coding later, I am happy to say it is live and they are promoting the hell out of it. I had to take a few screen shots and post them. (See images below)

So off you go and buy some Nestlé candy bars and head over to http://idolelimination.americanidol.com to try and win a cool million.

Good luck.