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1. A system, comprising:
a plurality of wagering gaming machines playable by a plurality of players, each of the wagering gaming machines including an acceptor device which accepts physical media associated with a monetary value to establish a credit balance, a display device for displaying a game, a random number generator, a non-transitory memory device having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, and a processor configured to receive a signal indicative of a wager from a player via the input device, adjust the credit balance as a function of the wager, and initiate the game, the wagering gaming machine configured to receive a wager amount from a respective player and responsively initiate a game; a database, the database including: a table comprising a community awards list including a plurality of total award records, each total award record including a corresponding number of players, a predetermined total award amount associated with the corresponding number of players, and a total award probability including award probabilities associated with each player included in the corresponding number of players, each total award record including a different total number of players and a different predetermined total award amount and each total award probability representing a probability that the total award will be awarded to any of the players, wherein the total award probability increases as the number of players increases; and a plurality of player tracking accounts, each account associated with at least one player; and a system controller coupled to each of the gaming machines and the database, the system controller configured to: track the gaming activity of a player on at least one of the plurality of wagering gaming machines; detect a triggering condition on at least one of the plurality of wagering gaming machines as a function of the tracked gaming activity of a player, and in response to the triggering condition being detected from at least one of the plurality of wagering gaming machines, perform the following; determine a number of current players playing the plurality of gaming machines at the time of the triggering condition; access the community awards list and determine a single predetermined total award amount associated with the determined number of current players playing on the plurality of wagering gaming machines and the corresponding award probabilities associated with each of the number of current players; provide a community award to at least one of the number of current players as a function of the associated award probabilities and determine an amount of the community award as a function of the total award amount; and store the community award in the player tracking account associated with the player. |
