{"id":38487,"date":"2020-07-06T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2637570"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:14:00","slug":"mrbeast-ends-finger-on-the-app-competition-by-telling-players-to-stop-after-70-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/06\/mrbeast-ends-finger-on-the-app-competition-by-telling-players-to-stop-after-70-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"MrBeast ends Finger on the App competition by telling players to stop after 70 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After watching contestants keep their fingers attached to a phone screen for more than 70 hours, YouTube creator Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson called an early end to a massive competition originally designed with one winner and a $25,000 prize in mind. The result? Four winners, each walking away with $20,000 in hand.<\/p>\n

Donaldson’s “Finger on the App” was a one-time game designed in partnership with internet collective MSCHF. The rules were simple: be the last person to take your finger off a phone screen, and win $25,000. The game kicked off at 3PM ET on June 30th, and ran until Donaldson called an end to the madness on Twitter at 1:15PM ET today.<\/p>\n

“Dear the four remaining contestants with your finger still on the app, I’m ending it here,” Donaldson tweeted. “Three days is insane! You ALL win and will ALL receive $20,000. CONGRATULATIONS!”<\/p>\n

Despite Donaldson’s calls for players to “go to sleep,” a couple contestants kept going. One player argued on a livestream that Donaldson’s tweet could be a trick; if three of the final four players removed their fingers, the last person standing could still stand to win $25,000. Another member of the final four had his game disconnected.<\/p>\n

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