Bingo, a highly popular gambling game, involved a lot of socialization when it was only played in the bingo halls and the casinos. Now days, online bingo has become equally if not more popular, and the websites have taken care to retain the element of socialization through chat rooms and chat windows.

The sense of socialization has continued into the online bingo tournaments; players make their own teams and participate in the tournaments which add further variety and enjoyment to the game. Most of the online bingo websites organize weekly or daily tournaments where players can compete with other players in a series of games, with the aim of winning the maximum bingos points within a limited time.

A bingo tournament and its intricacies are not difficult to grasp. In a tournament, bingo is played in a similar way as in conventional bingo, only instead of one game, there is a series of games that are played. The player collecting the maximum number of points in the series becomes the winner. Players get points for each of the games they win, and if a game has more than one winner, the points are divided between the winners.

A computer with Internet connection is all that are needed to participate in an online bingo tournament. A majority of the online bingo websites host frequent bingo tournaments for the members. A player has to pay a certain amount to gain entry into the tournaments. The tournaments offer cash prizes for winners. There are also a number of bingo tournaments which are free and players are allowed to join without having to pay any entry fee. Surprisingly, some of these free tournaments even give the winners cash prizes.

The regular bingo tournaments hosted by the online bingo sites offer attractive prizes which can be cash or free vacation trips or cruises! In some tournaments, the winners are even allowed to pick whatever prize they wish from an assortment of prizes.

To participate in the online bingo tournaments, the players need to meet the minimum criteria, like having to play a certain number of games to qualify for a bingo tournament, or having to be a fee paying member of the bingo website or to deposit an amount to participate in the bingo tournament.

However, anyone wishing to participate in online bingo tournaments should be familiar with the guidelines and the rules of the tournament before joining in them.