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After a screening of Fanboys at Excelciers house, it was time for the Canadian exclusive beta of 1 vs 100 on Xbox. Why it's exclusive to Canada I'll never know, but my US Xbox LIVE account worked just fine on his Canadian Xbox for the "show," which was actually pretty fun, despite some hopefully beta phase issues such as dropouts and early endings. The show looks pretty slick, with hundreds of avatars (including yours) waving/booing/etc at the command of your Y button (hooray). The game randomly chooses "the one" who faces off against 100 randomly chosen "mob members" with the other players being assigned to the crowd. I can't be sure, but based on our consistent selection for "the crowd" I think the entire country only had one game to participate in, which meant of the 13,000+ people online only 101 got to compete for actual prizes. The game starts with a 3-choice trivia question that the one, the mob, and the crowd all answer simultaneously. "The one" can then answer or choose a "help" which consists of "trust the mob" - most popular answer, or "trust the brain" - answer from the mob member with most correct. Mob members that answer incorrectly are eliminated, but if "the one" answers wrong the mob splits the winnings among those that answered correctly. For every 10 mob members that drop out, the amount of xbox marketplace points up for grabs increases. The farthest we saw was 1 vs 3 which put the total at 5,800 points (about $50). "the one" can choose to take the money or the mob every 3 questions, which means leave with the cash or keep playing. The prizes must not have been real as the one almost always chose the mob, a route which consistently ended with the mob winning (even in the 1 vs 3 scenario). With 13,000 people playing, our odds of actually getting a chance to win any prizes was 128 to one. I'm guessing in full blown release it'll be closer to 200 to one, which means it's a fun game to play but not if you expect to walk away with any prizes, but for the low price of free it will definitely be worth the download.