Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) world, the challenge begins at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the top 10 new innovations progressing to the finals at Necker Island where Branson joins the judging panel along with technology figures and investors from Silicon Valley. The Necker Cup, an exhibition tennis tournament held at the end of the tennis season, has been held on the island annually since 2012. In February 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Necker as guests of Sir Richard Branson. On August 22, 2011, The Great House burned down in a blaze believed to be
Railroad Tycoon II than 1.5 million copies by August 2001. In the United States, the game and its "Gold" edition together sold 351,000 copies by October 2001. According to Franz J. Felsl of PopTop, much of "Railroad Tycoon II"s success came from European markets; he explained that it "did better in Europe than it did in the US, which is not the way things usually end up." By August 2000, "Railroad Tycoon II" had been released in 39 unique SKUs worldwide, including eight Windows versions in English alone. PopTop's Phil Steinmeyer wrote that roughly 33% of the game's sales derived from the "Gold"