The folks over at TheorySpark have given their take on Kingmaker. Some brief snippets:
Essentially, this is an election market, but you bet nothing and get a big prize if you win. It’s your chance to apply all that political game theory you learned to the 2008 primaries elections…
All in all, another neat political ‘game’.
Not only was one of my favorite words made the official 2007 word of the year, but it’s use will now describe the birth of our election game!
W00t!
Check out Kingmaker! Our really cool presidential primaries game that will hopefully change the way we think of political punditry and how we do office pools for the election.
A huge thanks to the folks at Politico- Dan Kunitz, Ryan Mannion, and Kim Kingsley- and especially John Harris and Jim Vandehei for taking a bet on our creativity. It’s not a guarantee that Kingmaker will be a hit, but we think that it’s an interesting and new way to “play politics.”
So, we here at Fantasy Congress generally receive two publications that we read from cover to cover (or at least is our obligatory bathroom reading)- Wired magazine and the Economist. Although we haven’t reached the annals of Wired, we were mentioned in the Economist! Here’s what they said (yes, the rest of the article has nothing to do with us…):
AS MANY as 18m American adults play fantasy sports leagues. Movie buffs play Fantasy Mogul and anyone who thinks politics is not already surreal enough can play Fantasy Congress.
Congrats to our friends over at Fantasy Moguls too for their mention in the Economist!