Kountermove's UFC 191 free fantasy tourney

Good things come in small packages, and for this weekend's UFC 191 event, fans will be treated to some exceptional fights featuring the promotion's top two flyweights. Demetrious Johnson and John Dodson will clash for the second time in the Octagon for a headlining title bout that is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Then, the scales tip to the other end of the spectrum with the co-main event duel between heavyweight superstars, Andrei Arlovski and Frank Mir. Anthony Johnson makes his return to action against  Jimmy Manua and Paige Van Zant takes on Alex Chambers in a women's strawweight showdown.

As is customary, Crazy Aaron from Kountermove gets pretty excited with big events like this, and this week is no exception.He's slinging out yet another free game to Bloody Elbow readers to help ramp up fight day fun. Before I link you guys, I wanted to give you some standard information about Kountermove.

Players use a $25,000 artificial salary cap to draft 5 fighters from the card before each event begins. Eachfighter has a salary designated by Kountermove -- salaries range from $3,000 to $8,000. The winners are determined based on how the fight plays out rather than simply a fight's outcome (pick'em format). Kountermove calculates a fighter's fantasy score based on the number of strikes, takedowns, submissions, dominant positions, and rounds won. Scoring data from the fights flows into the site in near real-time, so players can monitor their teams as the event happens. The data used in calculating a fighter's score is provided by UFC's official stats provider, FightMetric.

The site was started with the idea that MMA in general must market "up and coming" fighters to become a truly mainstream sport. "There are many great fighters out there that no one knows about because so much of marketing in MMA is geared toward the top fighters" said Aaron Ard, a co-founder of Kountermove.com, "we wanted to create a game that would create interest and engagement in preliminary fights as well as the headliners." Statistics are bearing this out; over 85% of Kountermove players' teams have at least one fighter competing on the preliminary card. No Kountermove player has won a major tournament without a preliminary card fighter on their team.

Here's the link to the $100 tourney:

http://www.kountermove.com/join/46831-bloody-elbow-free-100-tourney-on-fantasy-mma-johnson-vs-dodson-2-95-T-free/

You can follow Kountermove via their Twitter account, @Kountermove

Disclaimer: Kountermove is not an advertiser on Bloody Elbow, nor are we being paid to advertise the contest. They offered to provide Bloody Elbow readers with the free tournament and are fully responsible for the contest and any associated prize payouts.