Microsoft announced this week that, beginning this Friday, July 10^th, Xbox Live Gold Members in the United States and Canada will be eligible to win up to 10,000 Microsoft Points ($125 USD value) and a new Xbox Live Arcade title in every round played during the 1 vs. 100 Live Beta. Microsoft estimates that during each two-hour episode of 1 vs. 100 Live features an average of about eight to 13 rounds of play, so there are quite a few possibilities for winning prizes.

If you get selected as The One, you could win Microsoft Points for each member of The Mob you knock out (or to be more specific, for each member of The Mob that knocks themselves out by answering a question incorrectly). You could win up to 10,000 Microsoft Points. If you're picked to be a part of The Mob, and if you manage to be one of the last 60 remaining and The One loses, you could “walk away” (spin around in your swivel chair in celebration perhaps?) with an Xbox Live Arcade title and your share of The Mob's bounty of Microsoft Points.

What if you're not selected as The One or The Mob? No worries. You still have the chance to win some great prizes. For instance, the top three scoring Crowd members can win an Xbox Live Arcade title. Plus, everyone who plays (aside from Silver members playing as guests or playing during open games) earns entries into the 1 vs. 100 Sweepstakes for every question they answer in 1 vs. 100 Live and 1 vs. 100 Extended Play. Those entries will go towards the chance to win a Zune or an entire HDTV home theatre system. So even if you're not selected as The One or The Mob, it can still be very worth playing, aside from simply being fun anyway.

There are a couple of small caveats though, and you can blame one of them on your province/state's government (depending on where you live that is). If you live in the province of Quebec or in the states of Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland or Vermont, you can't win any of the skill-based prizes, only the sweepstakes prizes. For more information on why that is, well, check your provincial/state laws. If you live in one of those provinces or states and would like to earn 1 vs. 100 Sweepstakes entries, you can do so by playing 1 vs. 100 Live or 1 vs. 100 Extended Play normally, or offline, via snail mail, by sending in 3x5 postcards to the Sweepstakes Administrator (bottom of the page). It is also possible to be ineligible for the skill-based prizes if you're playing a game from outside your region via an invitation from a friend in a different region (e.g. an American's Canadian friend invites him to play a special Canadian game). For the official 1 vs. 100 Prize Challenge rules, including things that can stop you from being eligible to win prizes, a full prize listing chart and more, click here.

1 vs. 100 is an exclusive value added game for Xbox Live Gold members only and is rated T for Teen. For more information, check out www.xbox.ca/1vs100 or www.xbox.com/1vs100.